Employee Relations Manager - Projects (6 month FTC)

Job Description :

Title: Employee Relations Manager - Projects (6 month FTC)

Location: London

Reporting to: Head of HR Commercial

Must be on short notice or immediately available

About us  

Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray and Guinness. Our purpose – Celebrating life, every day, everywhere – has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value. 

About the role

This role will report to the GB Head of HR and will support the GB HR team by supporting people /organisation transformation and advising / leading on end to end case work related to performance, grievances, disciplinaries, and other ER matters. The role will support line managers and HRBPs in responding to and managing change/individual cases balancing risk and business need. Hybrid working/part time schedule is possible.

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting transformation projects (organisation design, re-structures TUPEs etc) through building and delivering robust and pragmatic ER plans to manage the people impact and deliver optimal outcomes in line with business strategy
• Managing case work end to end covering settlements, PIPs, absence management and all aspects of grievance and disciplinaries (investigations, hearings, mediations, appeals, terminations) in line with legal requirements and company policy
• Advising/supporting/coaching partners (line managers, HR team, internal legal counsel) in the management of broader change and individual cases balancing risk with business need
• Counselling and providing guidance and support to employees and line managers to help resolve conflict and avoid critical issues
• Developing, adapting and improving ER processes and documentation to provide an easy, simple and standard toolkit for HRBPs and line managers
• Building ER capability/skill within the HR team

Key Functional/Professional Experiences required

• Established and proven work experience/expertise as an Employee Relations Specialist or similar role
• Relevant training and/or certifications as an Employee Relations Specialist
• Experience of a fast moving/agile sector eg Retail, FMCG
• Experience of working with site based/field based/manufacturing employees (desirable)
• Demonstrated, recent and sound knowledge of UK employment law
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Exceptional written and verbal communication
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Ability to juggle competing priorities
• Strong problem-solving ability, pragmatism and commerciality
• Strong collaboration skills

Diversity statement

Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo’s purpose of “celebrating life every day everywhere”. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.

 

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.

Be you with us!

Worker Type :

Fixed Term Contract (Fixed Term)

Primary Location:

1HQ

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2024-02-19