ER Specialist (Maternity Cover

C&C Group plc is a premium drinks company which owns, manufactures, markets and distributes a unique portfolio of beer and cider brands in its home markets and across the globe. You probably know us best from brands like Bulmers, Magners and Tennent’s.

In this role, you will be working as part of a collaborative team of ER Specialists supporting the diverse organisational functions within the C&C Group plc across the UK and Ireland. The ER Specialist will champion best practices and foster positive employment relationships between our colleagues and the organisation through inclusive, proactive and pragmatic employee relation practices including organisational policies and procedures.

An expert in the wide range of legal provisions that apply across the UK & Ireland in managing employee relations, ensuring the continuous development of policies and procedures to maintain compliance with employment legislation. Harness trusted relationships with people managers across the organisation, providing confident advice on the resolution of employee relation matters in end to end case management.

Accountable for communicating key legislative changes to people managers, supporting their development through coaching and the facilitation of training enhancing capability and minimising risk. Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement working closely with the HR Business Partnering Team and other HR Functions, focusing on partnership, delivery and shared learning.

Employee Relations Case Management

• Provide accurate and consistent advice and guidance to managers across a range of employee relations matters.
• Take ownership of casework from initial report through to completion, coaching managers to achieve good solutions.
• Minimise risk to the organisation by ensuring employee relation practices are accordance with legislation and company policies whilst balancing operational requirements.
• Provide direct and in person support for complex and high risk cases where necessary.

Organisational Change

• Support HR Business Partners with Organisational change projects including; reorganisation, redundancy and TUPE programmes.
• Provide guidance to ensure the organisation engages in meaningful consultation with colleagues and compliance with legislative requirements.
• Aligned to the HR Strategy, support other key projects within the wider HR Team.

Policies and Procedures Development

• Contribute to the development, engagement and implementation of policies and procedures to support the organisations compliance with external legislation and regulations.
• Responsible for maintaining and revising current documentation including; policies, procedures, contracts and guidance that pertains information relating to employment legislation.
• Develop guidance and internal resources to support managers and the wider organisation in the application of policies and procedures.
• Identify risks and instances of noncompliance with the organisation's policies and procedures addressing this directly or escalating issues as appropriate.

Internal Relationship Engagement

• Build effective working relationships within the internal stakeholders, delivering high-quality professional services.
• Coach and support managers in all aspects of people management including; performance management, disciplinary, absence management, capability and grievance processes to ensure compliance to both company policy and employment legislation as well as mitigate risk.
• Adopt a continuous improvement approach and encourage managers to identify and implement key learnings and improvements.
• Host regular stakeholder engagement conversations with key business functions to discuss HR metrics, trends and current employee relations matters.
• Contribute to the development and facilitate people management training enhancing capability and knowledge.
• Build collaborative relationships with HR Business Partners, identifying trends within their organisational areas and providing timely updates on high risk and sensitive matters.

External Relationship Management

• Liaise with ACAS, WRC, Employment Tribunal and/or external legal counsel regarding dispute resolution matters, collaborating with HR Business Partners and Stakeholders at each stage of the process.
• Collaborate with third party providers such as Occupational Health and other medical services to support Manager in seeking information and guidance.

Documentation, Data and Analysis

• Maintain accurate up to date records on all employee relations matters within the case log.
• Accurate administration and recording of documentation to support employee relation case work.
• Support the review and analysis of key ER metrics

Legislative Expertise

• Keep abreast of changes to UK and Irish employment legislations and best practice supporting the organisation to maintain legal compliance and enhance the employment relationship.
• As a subject matter expert, share knowledge during interactions with Managers and contribute to distributing key legislative…