pladis Global
Employee Relations Advisor
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Why Join Our Team?
Join a highly respected and dynamic Employee Relations team at the heart of one of the UK's leading FMCG businesses.
As an Employee Relations Advisor, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping fair and consistent people practices across a diverse and complex UK workforce. Working within our fast-paced HR Operations team, you'll partner with managers, HR colleagues, and senior stakeholders to navigate challenging people issues, lead high-profile investigations, and ensure our approach to employee relations is both commercially focused and legally compliant.
This is an opportunity to develop deep expertise in employment law while working on a varied portfolio of cases spanning disciplinary, grievance, performance, capability, absence, conduct, and workplace culture matters.
Our Employee Relations team supports over 7 manufacturing sites and 3 corporate locations across the UK, providing exposure to both unionised and non-unionised environments. No two days are the same, and you'll have the opportunity to influence outcomes that genuinely impact both our people and our business.
The HR team is based in Liverpool, operating on a hybrid model. However, as a remote-first team, we are open to considering alternative working arrangements depending on location.
What Will This Role Achieve?
As a trusted ER specialist, you will:
- Lead and advise on a diverse range of complex employee relations matters, ensuring fair and balanced outcomes.
- Conduct and support investigations into disciplinary, grievance, dignity at work, conduct, and workplace concerns.
- Coach and develop managers to confidently handle people matters and make sound employment decisions.
- Build capability across the business through expert guidance and practical employment law advice.
- Help create a positive employee experience while protecting business interests and minimising risk.
- Drive consistency, compliance, and best practice across our UK operations.
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What Will Be Your Key Deliverables?
- Provide expert advice across the full spectrum of employee relations matters, including disciplinary, grievance, capability, performance, attendance, conduct, and organisational change.
- Support and, where appropriate, lead complex investigations, ensuring thorough fact-finding, balanced decision-making, and legally compliant outcomes.
- Partner with managers and HR teams to navigate sensitive and high-risk cases from initial concern through to resolution.
- Prepare managers for investigations, hearings, and appeal meetings, providing coaching and practical guidance throughout.
- Develop strong relationships with stakeholders across manufacturing and corporate functions, becoming a trusted advisor on ER matters.
- Act as a subject matter expert and escalation point for complex employee relations cases.
- Support performance management activities, including performance reviews, capability processes, and Performance Improvement Plans.
- Work collaboratively with Trade Union representatives and employee forums to build constructive working relationships.
- Ensure accurate case management and reporting through effective use of ER systems and data.
- Keep up to date with changes in employment legislation and emerging ER trends, translating these into practical business solutions.
- Support site-based activity when required, travelling occasionally across the UK for significant investigations, hearings, or complex cases.
Bring Your Experience
Essential
- Proven experience managing complex employee relations cases, including disciplinary, grievance, capability, and performance matters.
- Experience supporting or conducting workplace investigations, hearings, and appeals.
- Strong working knowledge of UK employment law and its practical application within a commercial environment.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to challenge, influence, and coach managers at all levels.
- Confidence handling sensitive and high-risk cases with professionalism, objectivity, and sound judgement.
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to explain complex issues clearly.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to prioritise multiple competing cases in a fast-paced environment.
- A genuine passion for employee relations and a desire to make a meaningful difference to colleagues and business outcomes.
- A continuous improvement mindset with a commitment to personal and professional development.
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Desirable
- CIPD Level 5 qualified (or equivalent experience).
- Experience within FMCG, manufacturing, or a unionised environment.
- Exposure to complex organisational change programmes, collective consultations, or trade union engagement.
- Experience of coaching managers through investigations, disciplinary hearings, and grievance processes.
Why You'll Love This Role
- Exposure to a broad range of complex and interesting ER cases.
- The opportunity to develop specialist employment law expertise.
- Significant autonomy and ownership of your caseload.
- Collaboration with experienced ER professionals in a supportive team environment.
- The ability to make a real impact on employee experience, organisational culture, and business performance.
- Flexible and remote-first working, with opportunities to connect with colleagues and sites across the UK.
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