Travis Perkins plc
Junior Employee Relations Specialist
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Are you looking for a new challenge to utilise your current HR/Employee Relations experience?
Do you take pride in being able to collate information and advise accordingly?
Are you highly motivated in prioritising and organising crucial Employee Relations matters?
We, at Travis Perkins Plc have an exciting and varied Junior Employee Relations Advisor opportunity within our highly engaged HR Shared Service Employee Relations team, based in Lodge Farm - Northampton.
You will assist in managing ER cases and provide effective, efficient, responsive and commercial Employee Relations advice and support over the phone to all businesses within the Group, with a continuous improvement mindset.
This role will be working from our Northampton office 3/4 days a week, with 1/2 days a week working from home.
Key Accountabilities
- Work towards providing first class advice and guidance on all Employee Relations matters over the telephone to Colleagues, Managers and Senior Leaders, logging advisory calls on a CRM tool. Ensuring advice given is commercial, impartial, consistent, legally compliant and in line with company policies and procedures. Analysing and advising of any risks and/or costs to the business.
- With support effectively and efficiently provide end-to-end case management support to managers of a low volume of dispute resolution case load (gross misconduct disciplinaries, appeals, grievances).
- Supporting the Employee Relations Specialists, providing professional administrative support with a range of activities, e.g. medical referrals, letters, document collation for Subject Access Requests.
- Assist with Employee Relations related business projects as and when required.
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This role is a full time position (37.5 hours per week Monday - Friday). It will enable you to take ownership of cases and will utilise your previous ER or HR experience within a fast paced environment. You’ll be utilising your strong communication skills via telephone to multisite internal stakeholders, with various cases.
Is this you?
- Minimum of 2 years experience in working in a similar HR role
- Hold excellent communication skills
- Ability to multitask and work under pressure
- Hold up to date knowledge of employment legislation and good understanding of data protection principles
- Ability to handle difficult or complex situations
- Confident and a strong influencer to respectfully challenge and be challenged at all levels
- Hold a driving licence and mode of transport
What’s in it for you?
You’ll be supported by some of the best training and development in the industry. Our impressive internal succession programme means, whatever it is you do with us, it will be easy for you to learn, grow and develop across the Travis Perkins Group.
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We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:
- Business performance related bonus
- Contributory pension scheme
- Colleague discount and a platform of discounts and offers with over 1,000 retailers
- Private medical insurance
- Life insurance
- A range of other voluntary and company funded benefits including; Employee Assistance Programme, a financial wellbeing app and legal and mortgage advice
- Save-as-you-earn scheme
- Buy-as-you-earn scheme
A Bit About Us
As the largest distributor of building materials in the UK, Travis Perkins has been helping to build Britain for over 200 years.
With over 5 businesses, 19,000 colleagues and more than 1,200 branches, stores and sites around the UK we believe we have the best people and the best place to work. Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, have some fun along the way!
We’re driving to become a truly inclusive employer. We want everyone to be at their best and it’s our ambition that everyone within our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves.
You be you, it makes us, us!
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