Address Crawley
Competitive
25-03-2024
Job Details
Salary: Competitive
Hours: Full Time- Hybrid working with 3 days week in the office (days dependent on operational coverage)
Location: Crawley
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 25th March 2024
In a nutshell
Join our people operations team as an Employee Relations Specialists, accountable for providing leaders with expert, trusted and comprehensive advice supporting on all Employee Relations issues/cases. You will be advising and coaching leaders clearly and effectively on Employee Relations processes, considering the legal, financial and PR risks, along with the needs of the Company.
In addition, you will be responsible for delivering change projects, (restructures, redundancies, TUPE and changes to terms and conditions) following the design approval by the Organisational Effectiveness team.
Day to day
- Building and managing positive working relationships with leaders of all levels.
- Identifying legal, financial, PR and Company risks and providing options and recommendations.
- Evaluating data to review, enhance and create Employee Relations processes, letters, articles, products and workshop material proactively and continuously.
- Advising and coaching leaders clearly and effectively on the delivery of restructures, redundancies, TUPE and changes to terms and conditions, including individual and collective consultation, taking into account the legal, financial and PR risks, along with the needs of the Company and being Most Loved.
- Managing of the Company's income protection process (IPS).
- Identifying trends in opportunity to upskill leaders by delivering Company wide and bespoke Employee Relations workshops.
- Supporting the international assignments process and ad hoc people team projects, including conducting exit interviews.
- Managing settlement agreements.
- Always ensuring confidentiality and sensitivity.
About you
You will have significant experience of providing advice, guidance and support to leaders on a range of Employee Relations issues/cases, including change projects, in a large commercially focused organisation. Effective case planning experience, taking ownership of multiple and varied employee relation cases timely and efficiently to assimilate and analyse information from difference sources quickly and accurately. With proven experience demonstrating adaptivity in a busy and fast paced environment.
In addition, you will be confident in having difficult and sensitive conversations with leaders of all levels and being able to question, challenge and influence. Demonstrable delivery of people projects along with knowledge of employment law and Level 5 CIPD (desirable).
So, if effective people practices and partnering with the business Is your passion, we would love to hear from you!
Be yourself
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That's why we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.
To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you'd like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, (recruitment@fly.virgin.com) feeling confident that we've got your individual considerations covered.
