Employee Relations Consultant Edinburgh/Glasgow
Posted Today by Lorien
£60,000 Per year
Fixed-Term
Hybrid
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Summary: The Employee Relations Consultant role is a 12-month fixed-term contract focused on fostering effective relationships between a large UK Utilities company and its trade unions. The position requires an experienced professional specializing in relationship-based employee relations within a unionized environment. The consultant will provide strategic advisory support and enhance the organization's approach to employee relations. This role emphasizes collaboration and long-term relationship building with internal stakeholders and trade unions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Managing and supporting ongoing relationships with recognised trade unions
- Working with unions on existing arrangements, including:
- Collective agreements
- Facilities and partnership arrangements
- Facilitating and supporting joint meetings, forums, and partnership discussions
- Drafting and refreshing terms of reference, tools, templates, and guidance to support effective joint working
- Advising on best practice approaches to employee and industrial relations
- Upskilling managers and the wider business on working effectively with unions and handling ER matters in a consistent, collaborative way
- Acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders on ER/IR strategy and engagement
Key Skills:
- Strong Employee Relations experience in a unionised environment
- Proven experience of relationship management with trade unions
- Exposure to collective agreements, partnership working, and consultation frameworks
- Confidence in facilitating meetings and influencing a wide range of stakeholders
- Experience creating or improving ER frameworks, templates, or governance arrangements
- A pragmatic, collaborative approach focused on long-term relationship building
Salary (Rate): £60,000 yearly
City: Edinburgh
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: fixed-term
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: HR
Employee Relations Consultant
12-month FTC | £55,000-£60,000
Location: Edinburgh or Glasgow (hybrid)
We're working with a large UK Utilities company to recruit an Employee Relations Partner on a 12-month fixed-term contract. This role is suited to an experienced ER professional who specialises in relationship-based employee relations within a unionised environment, rather than high-volume case management.
This is a strategic, advisory role focused on building effective working relationships between the organisation and its recognised trade unions, and on strengthening how the business approaches employee relations more broadly.
The RoleYou'll play a key role in shaping and maintaining constructive relationships with trade unions and internal stakeholders.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Managing and supporting ongoing relationships with recognised trade unions
- Working with unions on existing arrangements, including:
- Collective agreements
- Facilities and partnership arrangements
- Facilitating and supporting joint meetings, forums, and partnership discussions
- Drafting and refreshing terms of reference, tools, templates, and guidance to support effective joint working
- Advising on best practice approaches to employee and industrial relations
- Upskilling managers and the wider business on working effectively with unions and handling ER matters in a consistent, collaborative way
- Acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders on ER/IR strategy and engagement
What We're Looking For
We're keen to speak with candidates who can demonstrate:
- Strong Employee Relations experience in a unionised environment
- Proven experience of relationship management with trade unions
- Exposure to collective agreements, partnership working, and consultation frameworks
- Confidence in facilitating meetings and influencing a wide range of stakeholders
- Experience creating or improving ER frameworks, templates, or governance arrangements
- A pragmatic, collaborative approach focused on long-term relationship building
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
