Senior Employee Relations Manager

Role: Senior Employee Relations Manager Contract Length: 12 months Location: Aldermaston 3 days in office IR35: Inside Minimum Requirement: • Lead and manage a personal case load and/or projects, drawing on rele-vant expertise to resolve complex issues and manage business risk. • Lead, coach and develop a diverse team to consistently provide high quality, timely and effective HR/ER advice and support to the business in line with the company people plan. • Deliver a company wide HR service line including associated data management, pro-vider management, legal compliance and delivery of supporting employee communi-cations. • Lead the consistent delivery of high-quality HR/ER advice to customers, working to agreed SLAs and driving a customer centric service and culture of continuous im-provement and process optimisation. • Setting direction and developing a shared understanding of individuals’ roles in de-livering the AWE vision and strategy. • Enabling the performance and results of the team. Making sure that team members have the capabilities to get the work done now and in the future. • Manage demand from business and identify resources • Lead and deliver a defined HR service to support the needs of the business; work with each Head of HR CoE’s to ensure that at all times they are legally compliant, relevant and timely, and reflect AWE’s needs and industry best practise. • Provide data, undertake expert analysis, research and make recommendations on HR solutions. • Facilitate the creation and management of reports to track our key measures of suc-cess. • Align AWE process, policies and practices to keep in line with best practice, legal re-quirements etc. to delivery improvements and build momentum for change, and challenge existing processes if they inhibit improvement. • Build relationships with external related organisations in order to maintain legal and regulatory compliance and best practise. • Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, secu-rity and quality and be a great team player. Key Responsibilities: • Build and inspire a team; ensuring that capabilities and solutions represent good practice and deliver business need. • Embed a coaching style across the team, enabling and driving great peo-ple leadership in the business. • Regularly review individual and team performance to identify and resolve issues and drive improvements in line with expectations. • Support business and HR projects as a dedicated specialist ensuring provision of creative expert advice and guidance. • Be the expert and escalation point for your area of specialism for the HR function. • To understand and maintain contractual and template documentation (T&C’s) to a legally compliant and commercially focused way. • Participate in and manage discussions and negotiations with the Trade Unions (TUs) as required, and build the necessary relationships with local TU representatives. • Provide expert support to the Heads of HR and HR Operations Team. • Anticipate legal updates, ensure they are interpreted for our business and take ac-tion to maintain the service. • Support and train colleagues to manage and maintain HR policy in the specialist ar-ea. • Represent the organisation, where appropriate, on external forums and working groups. Support business and HR projects as the dedicated lead for HR policy ensuring pro-vision of creative and specialist advice and guidance. • Ensure HR related documentation (hard copy and electronic) is appropriately han-dled, managed and retained in compliance with data privacy regulations, including the archiving process; and ensure all correspondence and documentation produced is accurate, using approved templates. • Ensure local work instructions are followed to maintain process compliance and quality. • Ensure confidentiality is maintained at all times and that the appropriate Company classifications are applied. • Maintain understanding of up to date employment regulations, applicable laws and Company policy. Essential: • Strong Employee Relations experience with a proven track record in a previous HR role, in particular experience of dealing with numerous and high-ly complex Employee Relations cases, • Chartered member of the CIPD or a relevant degree/NVQ level 7 equivalent in Hu-man Resource Management or similar • Experience of working within a Unionised environment. • Demonstrates strong commercial approach and understanding of business needs. • Experience of development and delivery of manager up-skilling both individually and through workshops/formal development interventions. • Up to date Employment Law knowledge and practical application of legislation. • Passionate about customer service and delivering professional HR support to the business. • Capability to establish professional credibility quickly. • Experience of coaching and influencing line managers and senior business leaders. • Strong time management, organisation and prioritisation skills and the ability to work under pressure and to deadlines. • Strong analytical and diagnostic skills. • Experience of working within a Unionised environment. • Resilient, Adaptable and Flexible. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate ef-fectively across a broad spectrum of managers with varying levels of capability.