HR Employment Law Assistant Team Manager

Summary

£41,800up to £51,700* This isn’t an ordinary job. This an extraordinary experience. 

An opportunity has arisen within our dynamic and growing organisation to join our Employment Law team based in our Head Office in Tolworth as an Assistant Team Manager. 

This is a great opportunity and an exciting and diverse role covering a wide range of legal matters.  You’ll support and manage a team of administrators, ensuring a high level of administrative support to the business.  You will work closely with our inhouse Employment Lawyers to provide first line support to stakeholders in matters of Employment Law and support in the development of policies and procedures that ensure our ongoing legal compliance.

You will hold an integral role in coordinating compliance and ensuring adherence to Laws and Regulations, and company internal regulations

With your highly professional approach, you will demonstrate a common-sense approach and will have the knowledge, confidence, and skill to lead, influence and advise a range of stakeholders.

We have moved to a hybrid working model with a recommended 2 days in the office per week for appropriate Head Office and Regional roles, empowering our teams to choose how and where they work best. We feel it is important that, where possible, we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible and trust our teams to determine the right environments that work most effectively for them.

What you'll do

• Providing first line advisory support to Line Managers
• Overseeing our Case Management Tool (CMT) and creating and interpreting the data, presenting the team with key statistics to support the department strategy
• Tracking and updating head office open cases via the Case Management Tool 
• Supporting Line Managers with letter templates, proofing and issuing correspondence on behalf of Head Office managers
• Supporting in the development of new and existing, policy, procedure and mgmt. tools
• Identifying, creating and reviewing standard letter templates and department letters
• Supporting the team with the administration of ACAS and employment tribunals
• Representing Employment Law in regional HR administration meetings
• Supporting in the upskilling of your team and our regional HR teams
• Overseeing HR compliance Management for Employment Law and the wider HR Department
• Collaborate and support the HR department in the identification and mitigation of risk, both laws and regulations, including Company internal regulations
• Reviewing occupational health requests prior to issue, reviewing reports and providing recommendations for next steps for Line Managers to action
• Supporting on HR compliance audits
• Ad-hoc tasks as and when required.

What you'll need

• Experience in Employment Law / HR mgmt. (Legal dept, HR Business Partner or where you have CIPD level 5 or above)
• Experience leading/supervising a team to deliver high performance
• Experience in offering first-line employee relations support for Line Managers
• Experience of analysing data trends and identifying training needs
• Demonstrated policy and procedure development, ensuring stakeholder end user acceptance and compliance
• Strong work ethic and ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to influence stakeholders, with strong communication and influencing skills
• A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Word)
• Strong attention to detail
• Experience within a retail or hospitality environment would be advantageous

What you'll receive

This isn't getting by. This is getting what you deserve. Working at Lidl is rewarding, in every sense, because we give you the extensive training to succeed in your role and plenty of opportunities to progress your career here. We're proud to offer a competitive salary starting from £48,100 with the potential to earn up to £51,700* (depending on experience) with 30 days’ holiday per year (pro rata). We also recognise that different people value different benefits, based on different lifestyles and needs, which is why we offer arrange of additional benefits including but not limited to: