Employee Relations Project Consultant

Job Description

Tate are working in partnership with the Phoenix Group, to recruit an Employee Relations Consultant within their Edinburgh office.Phoenix are a FTSE 100 company who are responsible for looking after 14 million policies on behalf of their valued customers. The business is growing and evolving at an exciting time, seeing huge success and growth over the last two years,in turn making it a great place for career development and opportunity for its talented and diverse colleagues.This is a brand new permanent role where the successful candidate will join an already established People Consultancy and Organisation Design team. Youll be an expert in all areas of employment law but particularly in TUPE and all things consultationRole Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver the ER workstream of all assigned projects.
• As part of acquisitions, mergers and outsourcing, youll be the subject matter expert in all areas of TUPE where it applies.
• You will support and advise stakeholders along the entire TUPE journey: from identifying if TUPE applies, managing collective consultation, through to the successful transfer of colleagues into our out of our business
• You will lead Collective Consultations, working with our Phoenix Colleague Representation forum, Business stakeholders and external 3rd parties when relevant.
• Leading the project ER work streams, youll be responsible for the design, implementation, and ongoing governance of the ER project plan to ensure all elements are delivered in a timely manner.
• support the consultation of the harmonisation of terms and conditions onto our strong Phoenix Universal People Proposition.
• Working collaboratively with wider team, you will support and coach the team members also aligned to deliver the project, sharing your expert knowledge in order to further develop theirs.
• Support in any colleague consultation required to successfully deliver the changes.
• Review our existing collateral to make sure it is fit for each project as well as producing new collateral as part of continual improvements to our processes.
• Support in organisation design activity, youll guide, advise and review OD business cases, advising on the legal aspects of individual and collective redundancy consultation, selection and redeployment of colleagues.
• Manage settlement agreements process from start to conclusion: drafting agreements and liaising with colleagues chosen legal advisors to gain amicable agreement. Sometimes these may be tripartite agreements.

Experience

• Proven lead and delivery of TUPE and collective consultations as part of acquisitions, mergers, outsourcing and harmonisation of terms and conditions.
• Experience of putting employment law knowledge into practice in a commercial environment and being able to consider and apply not only Employment law, but ideally regulatory law as well, in all you do.
• Knowledge of how to acquire, analyse, interpret, and present data and other reference points to provide insight to others, inform decisions and help solve business issues.
• Ideally appreciation of trends within the life and pensions industry and working in a highly regulated environment under the FCA
• CIPD or equivalent Employment law qualification

If you are looking to join a reputable organisation where you want to make sure all your stakeholders have the best possible experience, apply today.Please be aware this advert will remain open until the vacancy has been filled. Interviews will take place throughout this period, therefore we encourage you to apply early to avoid disappointment.Tate is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.