ER Specialist - Organisational Change

We are seeking an experienced Employee Relations Lead to provide expert guidance on organisational change, including restructures, re-organisations, and redundancies. This critical role involves ensuring effective consultation with staff and trade unions while supporting leadership and project teams in delivering change and transformation.

Client Details

You will be joining a public sector organisation with office across the UK. We are seeking an experienced Employee Relations Lead to provide expert guidance on organisational change, including restructures, re-organisations, and redundancies. This critical role involves ensuring effective consultation with staff and trade unions while supporting leadership and project teams in delivering change and transformation.

As a subject matter expert, you will have in-depth knowledge of employee relations, employment law, and trade union engagement. You will play a key role in managing our relationship with trade unions during times of change, advising on national and local agreements, collective bargaining, and dispute resolution. You will also lead individual consultation meetings with staff and senior managers impacted by change, managing any resulting employee relations issues.

Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead organisational change and transformation projects, ensuring the effective delivery of restructures, realignments, and process implementations.
• Manage complex casework, including grievances related to change, mitigating financial and legal risks.
• Oversee redeployment, realignment, and redundancy processes, ensuring compliance with employment law and company policies.
• Lead consultation with staff and trade unions, ensuring that proposals are carefully considered and management responses are clearly communicated.
• Represent the People Directorate at relevant boards to provide advice, influence decision-making, and ensure that people impacts are fully considered.
• Work with senior management and trade unions to ensure that changes are communicated effectively and staff are supported throughout the process.
• Develop and present reports on organisational change for the management board and People & Culture committee.
• Collaborate with project teams to ensure smooth implementation of changes, supporting staff transitions and well-being throughout.

Profile

• Extensive knowledge of employment law, change management, and transformation principles.
• Proven experience leading organisational change, restructures, and employee relations issues, particularly in relation to redundancies and redeployment.
• Experience consulting and negotiating with trade unions, ideally within the public, civil service, not-for-profit, or charity sectors.
• Strong experience working with senior managers and leadership teams to influence decision-making and deliver transformation.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to manage complex stakeholder relationships.
• Willingness to travel regionally to meet with staff and senior management.

Job Offer

This is a unique opportunity to lead on significant organisational change projects, making a lasting impact on the organisation and its people. You will work collaboratively with senior leaders, project teams, and trade unions, ensuring that change is delivered effectively and in line with best practice.

Minimum requirement of one day a week in the office, this will move to 2 days in April 2025. There might be the odd travel required to carry out face to face consultations.

If you are passionate about employee relations and have the expertise to manage large-scale transformations, we would love to hear from you