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About the Role
The Employee Relations Lead – Projects supports key people-related activity arising from mergers, acquisitions, transfers, and organizational change. This role also provides expert guidance and end-to-end employee relations case management across multiple business segments, ensuring legally compliant and commercially balanced outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Support and lead ER input into key mergers, acquisitions, divestments, transfers, and integration activity.
- Partner with Legal, Compliance, HR, Payroll, Reward, Talent Advisory, business leaders, and external advisers to ensure M&A activity is delivered compliantly and effectively.
- Plan and manage consultation activity, including collective and individual consultation.
- Manage and provide escalation support for complex, high-risk, or sensitive employee relations cases.
- Identify employee relations risks, trends, and themes, translating insight into preventative action and process enhancements.
- Support the development and embedding of repeatable, defensible, and scalable ER processes, templates, guidance, and governance standards.
- Prepare documentation and support litigation readiness for employment tribunal claims.
- Act as a point of escalation for potential regulatory breaches, conduct issues, or wider governance concerns.
- Contribute to wider HR and business projects, including policy development and organizational design.
Requirements
- Significant experience in Human Resources with a strong focus on employee relations, employment law, policy application, manager coaching, and complex case management.
- Strong working knowledge of UK employment law and best practice.
- Proven experience supporting organizational change, restructures, mergers, acquisitions, transfers, integrations, or other complex people-change activity.
- Ability to lead small-scale collective consultation exercises.
- Ability to assess people-related risk in M&A and change activity.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong judgment, discretion, and resilience when handling sensitive, confidential, or high-pressure matters.
- Highly organized and able to manage competing priorities, complex timelines, and ambiguous situations.
- Analytical mindset with the ability to use ER data and insights.
- Knowledge of regulatory frameworks relevant to HR processes and programmes (e.g., GDPR, SMCR) is advantageous.
- CIPD qualification or equivalent HR, employment law, or business experience is preferred.
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in human resources, business, or a related field is preferred.
Skills
- Employee Relations
- Employment Law
- Policy Application
- Manager Coaching
- Complex Case Management
- TUPE
- Collective Consultation
- Employment Tribunal Claims
- Stakeholder Management
- Influencing Skills
- Written Communication
- Verbal Communication
- Risk Assessment
- Organizational Change Support
- Data Analysis
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Significant experience in Human Resources
- Senior level
Education Level
- CIPD qualification or equivalent preferred
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent preferred
Benefits
- 25 days of annual leave plus an extra WTW day
- Private healthcare
- Life insurance
- Group income protection
- Regular health assessments
- Defined contribution pension scheme with matched contributions up to 10%
- Hybrid working options
- Employee assistance programme
- Fully paid volunteer day
- Electric vehicle car scheme
- Share scheme
- Cycle-to-work programme
- Dental cover
- Optical cover
- Critical illness protection
About the Company
- WTW is committed to equal employment opportunity.
Equal Opportunity
- We’re committed to equal employment opportunity and provide application, interview and workplace adjustments and accommodations to all applicants.
- If you foresee any barriers, from the application process through to joining WTW, please email candidatehelpdesk@wtwco.com