Employee Relations Partner
Location: London
Length: 6m
Rate: £43.27 per hour (Inside IR35)
Hours: 9am – 6pm
This client is a top 5 tech giant and one of the world’s most popular search engines.
This is a hybrid role, so you will split your time between home office and the clients’ offices in central London. On-site you will be able to access their amazing facilities and quirky working spaces, as well as free breakfast/ lunch/ dinner, on-site gyms, outdoor spaces and roof gardens, wellness rooms and sleep pods.
Knowledge & Skills:
- Ability to interact confidently with senior leaders of the organization in order to present/defend/clarify concerns or issues regarding an existing project, program or solution. This includes the ability to confidently address difficult questions, handle push back from a high-level audience, and maintain an executive demeanor while engaging in difficult or sometimes high-pressure situations.
- Ability to understand stakeholder needs through dialogue before conducting analysis and making recommendations.
- Ability to establish and maintain collaborative relationships with a range of teammates, clients, and stakeholders. This includes the ability to effectively set goals across relationships and collaboratively work to accomplish goals.
- Ability to effectively communicate across audiences, situations, and contexts in both a written and oral format to effectively communicate compensation plans, policies, and practices. This includes understanding when one’s communication style needs to change or adapt to increase effectiveness and influence.
- Ability to act as a liaison or intermediary between employees and managers, focusing on conflict resolution and either creating or advising on the creation of policies around employee issues like fair compensation, useful benefits, proper work-life balance, reasonable working hours, and other employment matters.
- Ability to understand and deal with business situations in a manner that will lead to a good outcome, able to balance people and business needs appropriately.
- Knowledge of organizational effectiveness, including workforce planning and organizational design.
- The ability to anticipate, assess, and manage risk (e.g., operational, product, team health) by identifying or developing strategies to mitigate the risk or the negative effect of the risk.
- Ability to stay abreast of legal issues, regulations, and compliance relating to employment and employees with thorough understanding of performance management, employee relations and data analytics/reporting.
- Knowledge of dispute resolution processes other than traditional methods of formal adjudication, which can be used to informally prevent, manage, and resolve conflict.
- Ability to conduct thorough investigations, as well as using analytical skills to identify trends and recommend solutions that increase employee engagement and mitigate risk.
- Ability to develop, understand, and apply domain-specific technical knowledge to complete assigned work, tasks, and support others in the organization.
Responsibilities:
- Leverage metrics to identify employee relations trends and diagnose organizational effectiveness.
- Execute projects to generate impact and solve scaled operations problems, partner with relevant teams on project scoping, execution, and management.
- Apply employee relations expertise and employment law knowledge to successfully identify issues, risks, trends, gaps, and challenges, execute solution-focused strategies and processes to mitigate risks.
- Evaluate, correct, and enhance job performance and other workplace behaviors, assuring overall fairness and consistency to maintain a positive workplace environment.
- Provide guidance on policies and processes to ensure compliance with regulations, and consistent application of practices.
- Provide one-on-one and group coaching and development feedback to managers around how to handle employee relations issues.
- Work in conjunction with partner groups, including employment, legal, other investigations teams (e.g., E&C, RIT, GI), Employee Engagement, People Consultants and People Partners, countries or regions, and other groups in the broader POps organization to ensure a positive and effective employee experience.
- Conduct investigations concerning allegations of inappropriate conduct in violation of the company policy.
