Industrial Relations Lead
| Posting date: | 21 May 2024 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 June 2024 |
| Location: | London, EC2M 4AA |
| Company: | NatWest Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | R-00233858-OTHLOC-GBR-5FLON311 |
Summary
Join us as an Industrial Relations Lead
- Take on an influential and leading role as you provide advice and guidance which supports an effective industrial relations strategy
- You’ll be helping to manage the relationship between the bank and its employee representatives, giving you excellent exposure for your work
- It’s a chance to provide thought leadership and insights across the bank, sharing external benchmarking, best practice and developments in the external industrial relations environment
What you'll do
As an Industrial Relations Lead, you’ll be regarded as a trusted adviser to HR colleagues and business units in relation to all aspects of industrial relations matters. We’ll look to you to understand issues, propose solutions and assist with implementation, working collaboratively with the relevant team and specialists where needed.
You’ll take a leading role in engaging with and helping to manage the relationship with our employee representatives, including our Trade Unions in the UK and Ireland and the European Employee Council. We’ll also look to you to coordinate the colleague advisory panel alongside the relevant business and help to provide HR input into this.
Other key aspects of your role will involve:
- Helping to manage risk by advising stakeholders of issues which need escalating, and developing and delivering responses and solutions
- Understanding developments in the external industrial relations environment and recommending actions
- Supporting and advising on our agreements with our employee representatives
- Making sure that a clear engagement protocol is in place in relation to industrial relation matters for HR and the business
The skills you'll need
To join us in this role, you’ll need knowledge of and experience in applying HR and industrial relations practices, models and theories within a global organisation. Along with a strong commercial focus and strategic outlook, you’ll bring excellent communication and organisational skills with the ability to cope with conflicting priorities in a demanding and fast moving environment.
You’ll also demonstrate:
- Significant expertise in industrial relations matters and knowledge of relevant policies, regulations and employment law
- Experience of managing relationships with multiple stakeholders at senior levels in a complex corporate environment
- A proven ability to challenge and influence stakeholders and build collaborative partnerships across business areas
- Experience of driving and managing the change and delivery of and embedding initiatives across diverse business units