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About the Role
This senior specialist role within the People & Business Operations team will serve as the organization's expert on employee relations. You will provide guidance, manage complex people matters, maintain relationships with union representatives, support business change, and ensure people frameworks are effective, practical, and legally compliant. This role offers the opportunity to shape the company's approach to employee relations, people governance, and organizational frameworks.
Responsibilities
- Lead on complex employee relations matters, providing expert advice and guidance to managers and senior stakeholders.
- Support the management of investigations, disciplinary, grievance, performance, capability, and absence cases requiring senior specialist input.
- Monitor emerging employment law developments and ensure organizational policies and processes remain compliant.
- Maintain and continuously improve frameworks that support consistent people decision-making across the organization.
- Oversee job description governance, ensuring role profiles remain accurate, consistent, and aligned to agreed standards.
- Support fair and transparent approaches to promotion, progression, and pay review activity.
Requirements
- Significant employee relations experience gained within a medium-sized or large organisation.
- Experience managing complex and sensitive employee relations matters.
- Strong working knowledge of UK employment law.
- Experience advising senior leaders and influencing decision-making.
- Experience leading or supporting formal collective consultation processes and building constructive relationships with employee representatives in a unionised or representative environment.
- Ability to balance legal compliance, commercial priorities, and employee engagement when handling complex organizational change.
- Excellent communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills.
- A pragmatic, solutions-focused approach balanced with sound judgement and attention to risk.
- Experience developing, implementing, or maintaining people frameworks such as grading, levelling, progression, or reward structures is advantageous.
- Experience working within professional services, publishing, media, or similar environments is beneficial.
Skills
- Employee Relations
- UK employment law
- Stakeholder Management
- Communication
- Influencing
- Relationship-building
- Judgement
- Risk Management
Location
- London
- Leeds
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Occasional travel
Experience Level
- Senior Specialist
About the Company
- Legal 500 is a global legal market research, data, and intelligence business.
- Our research helps corporate clients make informed decisions about legal representation and gives law firms insight into their market position, performance, and clients.
- We are building a growing data, benchmarking, market-intelligence, and subscription service offering.
- We bring the legal market together through a global programme of events, including awards ceremonies, conferences, and roundtables.
- Through Legal Business, our journalistic title, we deliver independent news, analysis, and commentary on the business of law.
- We are a growing, multi-site organisation with colleagues across research, data, technology, product, journalism, commercial, and events in London, Leeds, and Bristol.