Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller
ER Partner - 12 month FTC
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We're Hiring: Employee Relations Partner
Location: Bridgwater or Stroud / Hybrid – 2-3 days per week on site.
Contract: Full-Time, 12-month secondment / Fixed-term contract
Hours: Monday–Friday (40 hours)
Part-time working arrangements considered
Benefits for the role:
- Competitive salary
- Generous annual bonus
- Life Assurance
- Private Medical Insurance
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising with service)
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Family Leave
- Enhanced Bereavement Leave
- Pension Employer Contribution Scheme (matched up to 8%)
- Exclusive access to Müller Rewards, offering a variety of online and in-store discounts and development opportunities.
If you are ready to unleash your potential and build an exciting career with Britain’s most chosen dairy brand, Müller UK & Ireland, part of the renowned Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller, invites you to apply for our Employee Relations Partner position.
With over 31,000 employees across Europe and a long-standing commitment to excellence, Müller is a family-owned business known for its dedication to quality, innovation, and growth. In the UK alone, we produce a wide range of leading branded and private-label dairy products, from yogurts and desserts to butter and flavoured milk.
As an Employee Relations Partner, you will:
- Provide managers with professional support to resolve people-related matters, such as long-term absence, disciplinary, grievance, and performance management cases, with the focus on gaining the best outcomes for both the business and employees.
- Act as the subject matter expert, providing advice and support, driving best practice, and ensuring compliance with all company policies and procedures in line with UK employment legislation.
- Be prepared to travel based on the needs of the partner group to build relationships, knowledge, and a deep understanding of your partner group.
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What you’ll do:
Case Management:
- Advocate a culture which is resolution-focused to improve business outcomes.
- Work closely with the Site HRBP and internal Legal Counsel to ensure alignment on key ER issues.
People Manager Development:
- Coach, guide, and influence people managers on people-related matters and the best approach to dealing with people-related topics, developing their knowledge, capability, and confidence.
- Support the training of people managers on their roles and responsibilities in delivering ER processes.
Escalation:
- Escalate and advise Head of HR / HRBP and Legal Counsel of any complex high-risk cases or disputes and determine together solutions, course of action, mitigating the risk and any PR exposure.
- Provide support to Legal Counsel in the preparation for any employment tribunal cases.
Data insights and Trend Analysis:
- Proactively support the business with data insights both external and internal on people trends and issues. Work collaboratively with the business to develop improvement strategies and deliver successful people relations program/interventions in support of organizational change.
- Develop and apply people policies which improve the people experience and employer brand and mitigate risk to the business.
What you’ll bring:
- Experience in managing employee relations matters of all levels, cradle to grave case management.
- Proven excellent stakeholder management with the ability to adapt to different styles and approaches, quickly building strong and effective working relationships, delivering service excellence.
- Experience of analysing data, providing data insights to support engagement and positive employee relations.
- Deep and up-to-date understanding of UK employment legislation and best practice and keeping up to date on changes.
- Relevant specialist employment law qualification and/or CIPD Associate/Chartered member.
- Passion for CI with experience of working on own initiatives to implement change and operational process improvement.
- Strong communication and influencing skills with the ability to interact across all levels of management.
- Strong customer focus.
- Strong attention to detail, problem-solving ability, and ability to deliver results to deadlines.
- Good interpersonal and written communication skills.
- Previous experience of working to challenging SLAs/KPIs.
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The Process:
If you are interested in applying for the role of Employee Relations Partner and have the necessary skills and experience, then we'd love to hear from you. Please apply at www.mullercareers.co.uk.
At Müller, we’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels they belong. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and encourage people to apply even if they don’t meet every requirement listed. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know - we’re happy to support you.
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You can find out more about Müller and what it’s like to work for us by clicking [here](http://Careers at Müller UK & Ireland)
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