Employee Relations Partner
// Role Summary
Rolls-Royce is seeking an experienced Employee Relations Partner to join their UK team in Derby. This role involves collaborating with managers, unions, and employee representatives to support business change and provide expert ER guidance.
// Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Line Managers, People Partners, Trade Unions, and Employee Representatives.
- Support, influence, and execute business change with ER guidance.
- Develop and deliver the ER plan for the UK.
- Align workplace practices with company, employee, business, and legislative requirements.
- Provide pragmatic workplace practice solutions to improve working arrangements and productivity.
- Advise on statutory consultation relationships and collective engagement activities.
// Role Specification
Employee Relations Partner
Derby, United Kingdom
Permanent, Full Time
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Employee Relations Partner to join the UK Employee Relations team. You will collaborate with Line Managers, People Partners, Trade Unions, and Employee Representatives to support, influence, and execute business change by providing expert ER guidance. This role involves ensuring the planning and delivery of ER strategies and advising on ER approaches for both groups and individuals.
What you will be doing:
- Working as part of the UK Employee Relations team to develop and deliver the ER plan for the UK, in conjunction with business leadership teams, people teams, and Trade Union representatives.
- Collaborating with other VP Employees, ER Partners, and the Head of ER.
- Aligning workplace practices with company, employee, business, and legislative requirements to maximise performance and productivity improvement.
- Providing business-focused, pragmatic workplace practice solutions to enhance working arrangements, boost productivity, support standardization, and foster a diverse and inclusive workplace environment within a transforming organization.
- Working with Trade Union representatives to support the change agenda.
- Providing advice on activities requiring collective engagement and liaising with relevant legal representatives to minimize risk.
- Advising and supporting statutory consultation relationships to ensure good employee relations and legal compliance.
- Working closely with people teams across the Bristol site to understand their requirements and provide support on issues within their client groups.
Who we are looking for:
- Strong experience operating on the front line of trade union relations, with a history of successfully driving change within unionized environments.
- Demonstrated drive and ability to move the business forward and achieve results.
- Excellent relationship-building, consultative, and advisory skills, complemented by an awareness of HR generalist issues.
- Well-developed customer and relationship management skills, including credibility and influencing abilities across all levels.
- Broad change management skill set, combined with the ability to apply project management principles to deliver and support organizational change.
- Ability to operate independently and work collaboratively within a regional and UK team.
- Capacity to support multiple activities simultaneously and understand the impact of Employee Relations/employment law on the wider HR and business agenda, operating with a pragmatic, commercial, and results-oriented approach.