Employee Relations Manager

Job Description

We are Centrica! We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising a cleaner, greener future. Working here is #MoreThanACareer - we’re powered by purpose. Together we can make an impact that will truly change tomorrow. Whether you’re developing cutting-edge green tech, helping customers on the front line or simplifying operations behind the scenes.

Your work here isn’t job – it’s a mission. We all play a vital role in energising a greener, fairer future.

Location

With our Flexible First working arrangements we empower our colleagues to work in a way that best suits them – meaning location doesn’t need to be a barrier. You will be expected to travel to your local office once a week, but the role is primarily based from home.

Our Team and Environment

At Centrica we recognise that building a diverse workforce is critical to the success of our business. We strongly encourage applications from a diverse talent pool and welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility requirements and workplace adjustments with all our applicants.

We have tailored our well-being & benefits package around our employees as follows:

• Competitive salary and bonus potential.
• Employee Energy Allowance at 15% of the government price cap.
• Pension scheme.
• Company Funded Healthcare Plan.
• 25 days holiday allowance, plus public holidays, and the option to buy up to 5 additional days.
• Excellent range of flexible benefits, including technology vouchers, electric car lease scheme & travel insurance.

Employee Relations Manager

Accountabilities

• Manages Employee Relations cases, in line with ER policy.
• Provides specialist and technical expertise through ER case management.
• Provides ER input to key projects and business initiatives as required.
• Escalates complex cases to Senior ER Managers or the Head of UK Employee Relations as appropriate.
• Establishes strong working relationships with leaders at all levels of seniority across the business, providing valuable insight into ER matters in their business areas.
• Monitors own performance against service standards.
• Coaches Line Managers on management of ER issues, ensuring complete understanding and developing their knowledge, confidence and capability.
• Works in collaboration with other support functions and external partners (e.g. Legal, Compliance, Health & Wellbeing) to ensure effective and timely delivery of ER services.
• Proactively uses case management technology to record and maintain accurate records of all referred ER cases.
• Identifies and updates knowledge management articles and content for access by ER colleagues, HR Community and Line Managers.
• Ensures compliance with legal or regulatory changes.
• Leads Early Conciliation cases by working with ACAS to reach satisfactory resolution and support legal partners and the business in preparing for Employment Tribunals.
• Shares lessons learnt from all employment tribunals and complex ER cases with the team.
• Works in collaboration with our recognised Trade Union colleagues.

Competencies and Qualifications

• An established HR professional with a passion for ER and a strong background in the specialism.
• Clear focus on customer service, ensuring we are delivering in line with business requirements and expectations.
• Strong track record in helping leaders through performance management, driving cases to the best outcome.
• Excellent stakeholder management with the ability to adapt to different styles and approaches, quickly building strong and effective working relationships, delivering service excellence.
• Knowledge of relevant UK employment legislation and best practice, with an appetite for keeping abreast of change.
• Proactively seeks to understand both external and internal ER trends and issues, to inform continuous improvement strategies.
• Expertise providing ER support, coaching and case management to all levels in the organisation.
• Experience working in a shared service organisation.
• Can operate in, and lead activities in a project environment, working closely with colleagues across the HR function and wider business to deliver successful ER interventions in support of organisational change.
• Works independently and demonstrates sound judgment with little day-to-day supervision.
• Passion for continuous improvement, with experience of working on own initiative to implement change.
• Experience of analysing information to resolve complex and challenging problems, applying logic and experience.
• The ability to assess consequences and risks, making well balanced decisions.
• Tenacious, and enjoys working in a fast paced, and sometimes ambiguous, environment.

Education ​

• Bachelor’s degree preferred in an HR-related field.

Work Experience

• Experience providing ER support either as an HR generalist or ER specialist.
• Experience partnering with all levels of an organization in the successful delivery of ER services.
• Previous experience of working with Trade Unions is preferred.
  

Certifications

• CIPD qualification preferred.

At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!

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This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.