About the Role
We are seeking an experienced TUPE Project Consultant to lead and coordinate complex employee transfer and post-transfer integration activity across multiple organisations within an unionised environment for our client.
The role will be responsible for managing the end-to-end TUPE process, ensuring legal and procedural compliance, maintaining constructive employee and trade union relations, and delivering effective post-transfer integration across people, processes and policies.
The successful candidate will be confident navigating complex stakeholder relationships, differing terms and conditions, legacy employment arrangements and organisational priorities, while ensuring employee engagement and operational continuity throughout the transition.
Key Responsibilities
- TUPE project leadership: Lead the planning, coordination and delivery of complex TUPE transfers involving multiple transferring organisations, receiving entities and stakeholder groups.
- Pre-transfer planning: Coordinate due diligence, employee data validation, establishment of transferring employee populations, risk assessments and transfer readiness.
- Trade union engagement: Work closely with recognised trade unions, employee representatives, HR teams and management to support meaningful consultation, manage concerns and maintain constructive industrial relations.
- Post-transfer integration: Develop and deliver integration plans covering HR policies, employment practices, systems, processes and workforce arrangements, taking account of applicable TUPE protections.
- Terms and conditions: Assess and manage differences in contractual terms, collective agreements, policies and working practices, ensuring changes are appropriately reviewed and legally compliant.
- Stakeholder management: Build effective relationships across multiple organisations, senior leadership teams, HR, legal advisers, operational managers and employee representatives.
- Risk and issue management: Maintain project plans, risk registers, decision logs, dependencies and escalation routes, proactively addressing legal, employee relations and operational risks.
- Employee communications: Coordinate clear, consistent and timely communications to transferring employees and affected stakeholders throughout the transfer and integration lifecycle.
- Governance and reporting: Provide robust project governance, progress reporting, milestone tracking and assurance to senior sponsors and steering groups.
- Operational continuity: Ensure transfer activity is delivered in a controlled manner, minimising disruption to services and maintaining workforce stability.
Essential Experience
- Demonstrable experience leading complex TUPE transfers in a large, multi-site or multi-organisation environment.
- Proven delivery of post-transfer integration involving employees transferring from different employers or organisational entities.
- Ideally experience working in an unionised environment, including engagement with recognised trade unions and employee representatives.
- Strong understanding of TUPE legislation and the employment implications of organisational change.
- Experience managing differing terms and conditions, collective agreements, legacy policies and employment practices.
- Proven ability to coordinate cross-functional teams across HR, legal, operations, finance and employee relations.
- Strong project management, planning, risk management and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Excellent communication, negotiation and problem-solving capabilities, with the confidence to operate at both strategic and operational levels.
Personal Attributes
The ideal candidate will be a pragmatic, resilient and highly organised project leader who can bring structure to complex transfer arrangements.
You will be comfortable operating with different Stakeholders and balancing delivery pressures with employee engagement, legal compliance and constructive trade union relationships.
This is an opportunity for an experienced TUPE professional to lead a complex, transition programme, bringing together multiple organisations, protecting employee interests and enabling successful post-transfer integration.