Employee Relations Partner

Overview

We’re looking for an Employee Relations Partner to join our team. You’ll play a key role in supporting our HR team and business leaders, ensuring fair and effective employee relations practices. This is your chance to make a real difference in a global organisation that values its people and their growth.

• Support the HR team in delivering employee relations programmes that meet business needs.
• Support our HR team with complex employee relations matters, including discipline, grievances, performance, and absence management.
• Collaborate on mergers and acquisitions, including due diligence and reviewing transactional documents.
• Coach and support HR teams and leaders to develop employee relations skills and manage risks.
• Manage employment litigation, including pre-conciliation and drafting legal documents.
• Provide guidance on complex settlement agreements and employment cases in the UK.
• Support consultation processes for business transformations, mergers, and acquisitions.
• Help design, update, and interpret HR policies.
• Deliver training on employment policies, legislation, and business change.
• Stay informed about changes in UK employment law.

• You’re a practising lawyer with a law degree and significant experience in employment law, either in-house or in private practice.
• You’ve worked with senior stakeholders in complex commercial environments.
• You’re skilled at building partnerships, influencing decisions, and challenging ideas constructively.
• You’re comfortable working with a dispersed workforce.
• You’re eligible to work in the UK.

On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.

Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:

• Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days
• Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to
• Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x
• Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up
• Health cash plan or Private medical insurance

Other benefits includes:

• Three fully paid volunteering days per year
• Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount
• Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan
• Critical illness cover
• Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally
• Season ticket loan
• Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase
• Emergency back‑up family care
• And many more…

Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.

Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long‑term health conditions or disabilities.

We understand that applicants may have disabilities, if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.

Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with  If you’d prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch.

Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.

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