Plan, direct, or coordinate human resources activities and staff of an organization.
Employee Relations Manager Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Employee Relations Manager to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- All other duties as assigned that are relevant to the role and support the goals of the ER CoE;
- Promote and contribute to diversity initiatives;
- Support appeals that arise from the disciplinary or grievance process;
- Manage the UK redundancy process by advising and on occasion leading on the Consultation process;
- Provide guidance on the application of employment law;
- Track, analyze and interpret key metrics;
- Provide performance management support and coaching to managers using the Company Performance Improvement Plan process;
- Represent Covance in response to employment tribunal complaints and assist legal firms assigned to represent the Company;
- Revise and continuously improve existing processes, tools and guidelines;
- Support the provision of conflict resolution for employee/manager and employee/employee issues;
- Contribute and lead employee relations projects/initiatives;
- Function as a change leader in support of the organization ‘s initiatives;
- Advise and support managers on internal investigations;
- Support managers with probationer’s performance;
- Support dismissals and disciplinary decisions for fairness, consistency and potential legal liability.
Requirements:
- BA/BS degree or equivalent experience;
- Excellent MS Office skills;
- Previous experience in ER, knowledge of employee legislation in Retail or similar field is desirable. Multi-site experience is an advantage;
- Ability to work collaboratively with teams as an individual contributor;
- Superior problem-solving skills;
- Able to manage personal workload in a fast paced environment, ability to prioritise whilst ensuring quality results is essential;
- Ability to prioritize and manage issues that are time-sensitive and highly confidential;
- Proven experience in ER processes such as disciplinary, grievance and redundancy;
- Excellent documentation compliance skills;
- Up to date UK employment law knowledge;
- Significant and demonstrable experience in employee relations;
- Proven Experience in leading complex, high risk employee relations issues;
- Experience of coaching front-line leaders on having difficult conversations, managing poor performance, investigations and disciplinary issues, etc.