StepStone Group
Senior Manager Employee Relations
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Senior Manager Employee Relations
Company Description
At The Stepstone Group, we have a simple yet very important mission: The right job for everyone. Using our data, platform, and technology, we create opportunities for jobseekers and companies around the world to find a perfect match in a fair and equitable way. With over 20 brands across 30+ countries, we strive for fair and unbiased hiring.
Join our team of 3,000+ employees and be part of reshaping the labour market and becoming the world’s leading job platform.
Job Description
The job at a glance
Working in the People Team, you will partner closely with our senior leaders, exec team, and the wider People function to:
- Navigate complex employment challenges,
- Lead on disputes and organisational change, and
- Ensure our policies, processes, and practices are fully aligned with UK legislation and evolving regulatory requirements.
Join our team and you’ll be responsible for providing:
- Deep, specialist expertise in UK employment law, and
- Commercially focused, pragmatic advice across complex and high-risk employee relations matters.
You will play a key role in protecting the business while enabling confident, well-informed decision-making across a wide range of sensitive people issues.
You will play a vital role as we reimagine the labour market to make it work for everybody.
Your Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted, proactive advisor to executive leadership, providing clear guidance on:
- Complex employee relations matters,
- Organisational change, restructures, and
- Legal risk, ensuring alignment with UK employment law.
- Lead high-risk ER cases and disputes end-to-end, including:
- ACAS processes,
- Tribunals, and
- Settlement negotiations, while mitigating risk through:
- Early, proactive intervention, and
- Data-led decision making.
- Design, implement, and continuously evolve:
- UK People policies, and
- ER frameworks, ensuring:
- Full compliance with legislation, ACAS guidance, and case law, and
- Driving consistency and best practice.
- Partner closely with People Team Centres of Excellence to deliver:
- Seamless, end-to-end case management,
- Sustainable outcomes (including return to work), and
- Strong governance across the employee lifecycle.
- Use insight, coaching, and collaboration to:
- Build regional ER capability, translating:
- Data into proactive strategies, and
- Supporting the EMEA markets,
- Embedding preventative, high-impact ER practices across the organisation.
- Build regional ER capability, translating:
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Qualifications
- Qualified solicitor or equivalent legal background, with:
- Deep, current expertise in UK employment law and legislation,
- Broader EMEA exposure (highly advantageous).
- Extensive experience managing:
- Complex, high-risk employee relations matters,
- Litigation, investigations, restructures, and
- DSARs, with expert application of ER best practice.
- Strong commercial and legal judgement, able to:
- Balance risk with business priorities, and
- Deliver pragogmatic, business-aligned solutions in fast-paced environments.
- Proven ability to:
- Operate effectively in a complex, matrix organisation, partnering across functions such as Technology, Product, GTM, and corporate teams, and
- Influence senior and executive stakeholders.
- Outstanding communication, stakeholder management, and capability-building skills, with a track record in:
- Translating complex legal concepts into clear guidance,
- Embedding inclusive ER practices, and
- Contributing to policy development and governance frameworks.
Additional Information
Benefits
We’re a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when you’re with us. Because your job shouldn’t take over your life, it should enrich it. Here are some of the benefits we offer:
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- 29 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
- Private medical and dental healthcare
- Matching pension contribution:
- 4% or 5% (after 3 years of service up to 10%)
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
- Life Assurance Cover
- Cycle to work scheme
- Hybrid working model (3 days working from the office)
- Volunteering days
- You can bring your dog to the office on Mondays and Fridays!
Our Commitment
- Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to:
- Recruit,
- Develop, and
- Retain the best talent.
We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of:
- Background,
- Gender identity,
- Sexual orientation,
- Disability status,
- Ethnicity,
- Belief,
- Age,
- Family or parental status, and
- Any other characteristic.
Global DEI & Sustainability Recognition
As a global business, we further our DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) and sustainability progress by working with national and international bodies and are proud to have been recognised for our work—both locally and internationally:
- Armed Forces Covenant: Silver Award, Employer Recognition Scheme
- EcoVadis: Bronze Award
- Fertility Friendly Employer, accredited by Fertility Matters at Work
- RIDI (Recruitment Industry Disability) Awards: Inclusive Technology Award 2024
- Stonewall: Gold Award
- Stonewall: Top 100 Workplace Equality Index (85)
Legal Entity & Compensation
- Legal Entity: The Stepstone Group UK Ltd
- Compensation: GBP 0 – GBP 0 (yearly) (Note: Figures appear suppressed in the source text.)
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