Description
We are seeking an Employee Relations Business Partner to join our team in Ireland. As an Employee Relations Business Partner, you will play a critical role in designing, delivering, and leading employee relations, colleague listening, and business change strategies and plans.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing and maintaining effective working relationships with Unions to create a proactive partnership that delivers business benefit and positive colleague engagement
- Working closely with key stakeholders to develop and deliver toolkits, training interventions, and upskilling strategies that raise line manager ER capability and confidence
- Providing expert employee relations advice and input into business change programmes
- Developing and simplifying ROI people policies and processes to ensure they are legal, competitive, practical, and meet future business needs
- Partnering with subject matter experts to ensure policy-related system change requirements and dependencies are fully understood
- Monitoring and interpreting changes to ROI employment legislation and undertaking external benchmarking to ensure M&S remains compliant and a best practice employer
- Leading projects and acting as the ROI's subject matter expert on policy, employee relations, and colleague engagement and listening matters
- Managing and providing expertise to line managers on complex casework
- Fostering a culture of continuous improvement by seeking feedback, designing and developing metrics, and incorporating insights and learning
- Creating and maintaining effective working relationships with M&S's UK Policy and ER specialists and other UK CoEs
- Working effectively with the rest of the Ireland People Team to contribute ideas and expertise and act as a fully participative team member