About the job you’re considering
The Employee Relations Specialist - UK, plays a crucial role in supporting the smooth management of employee relations issues. In this position, you will work alongside the Head of ER and other HR Business Partners, ensuring compliance with employment legislation. As a hands-on member of the team, your day-today tasks will include analysing current employee relations processes, offering insights for improvements, and supporting HR policy and process development. You will also play a role in managing relationships with stakeholders across various departments, ensuring effective collaboration between HR, management, and legal teams. Your contribution will help the organisation maintain its standards in HR best practices, with a focus on maintaining smooth employee transitions, fostering communication, and ensuring that the company's actions align with overall business objectives.
Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.
If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including: identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)
Your role
1. Act as an SME advising HR and the business on complex/high risk cases and matters such as dismissals, restructuring, ethics and compliance issues, and settlement agreements, reducing and mitigating risk, and identifying commercial and pragmatic ways to resolve ER claims or potential claims.
2. Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of ER policies, procedures and tooling, incorporating innovation and creative thinking, ensuring policies are fit-for-purpose, up-to-date with legislation, and promote best practice.
3. Develop and update UK employment contracts to reflect Group or UK legislative changes.
4. Lead and support on critical projects and contribute to ongoing improvement initiatives in ER processes, supporting efficiency and consistency.
5. Facilitate and support the upskilling of the wider HR Team in relation to ER and Legal updates, to include restructuring training, etc.
6. Develop and use data and insights to identify trends and recommend changes that enhance employee relations strategies.
7. Act as an SME in relation to change management, providing operational support during organisational change initiatives, such as restructures and redundancies, assisting in planning and effective consultation processes, ensuring compliance with all legal obligations.
8. Promote a culture of early dispute resolution and informal resolution to avoid escalation of formal procedures.
9. Work closely with CWC managing monthly meetings, capturing notes, elections, engagement with key stakeholders for attendance and training.
10. Partner with UK ECOs to manage and support ethics and compliance cases aligned with Group approach.
11. Coordination and review of survey / bid responses / audits to ensure accuracy of information provided and compliance with GDPR.
12. Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring alignment between ER practices and broader HR goals.
You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini building an inclusive future is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We have built a representative and welcoming environment, for everyone.
Your skills and experience
13. Proven experience in Employee Relations, with a focus on managing casework and resolving issues proactively.
14. Demonstrable knowledge of current employment legislation and best practice in managing ER policies, principles and procedures.
15. Experience in dealing with change management, including business restructuring such as headcount reduction.
16. Ability to work in partnership with HR teams and key stakeholders to deliver pragmatic and business focused solutions.
17. Strong problem-solving skills, with a focus on informal resolution and preventing the escalation of disputes.
18. Good stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence decision-makers and promote best practices in employee relations.
19. Attention to detail and strong Excel skills for data reporting and case tracking.
20. Commercial awareness with the ability to articulate how ER processes benefit the business.
21. Experience of using and interpreting data for reporting purposes and to identify trends to inform our priorities.
22. Ability to prioritize and manage multiple cases or projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
Your security clearance
To be successfully appointed to this role you will need to undergo Baseline Personnel Security Standard checks.
There are no nationality or residency restrictions, although if you have resided outside of the UK within the last 3 years, further checks may be required.
There are other criteria and check required for BPSS, and throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.
What does ‘Get The Future You Want ‘ mean for you?
Competitive total reward package
We realise a Total Reward package should be more than just compensation. At Capgemini we offer range of core and flexible benefits and have a Peer Recognition Portal called Applaud.
Your wellbeing
You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.
To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
Why you should consider Capgemini
Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.
About Capgemini
Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.