Employee Relations Advisor

3 weeks ago


Bristol, United Kingdom Arcadis Full time

At Arcadis we focus on attracting, retaining and developing people who share our passion and commitment to improve quality of life. In return we offer you the opportunity to transform your world and the world around you, that could be through client work, upskilling yourself, championing equality and inclusion or getting involved in charity work, to name just a few. Our people value different perspectives, they care about the sustainability of our planet and dare to shape the future.

One of our core values is ‘people first’, and supported by our Lovinklaan foundation, we invest in you for the long term, to ensure you reach your full potential. You’ll have the opportunity to own your career and work on industry-defining projects, finding solutions to real challenges that make a difference to people’s lives. You’re encouraged to have a growth mindset and are given the space to develop personally and professionally, building a flexible career that works for you.

Role description:
Responsible for delivering a timely, high quality employment relations advisory service to the business. Whilst supporting the delivery of the People Services UK&I People plan, improvement of employee experience, and interventions to help the business achieve its strategic objectives.

Role accountabilities:

- Coach line managers through end-to-end case management for all employee relation cases.
- Work closely with the People Services team in the GSSC to ensure employees receive an efficient and high-quality experience.
- Own the development and maintenance of People Policies and processes.
- Support the People Business Partners where required on change initiatives, including acquisitions, restructures, redundancies, TUPE, redeployment, and office closures
- Share knowledge and best practice with the wider People team to build capability
- Member of the People Services Team UK&I, providing professional People advisory support on all people related issues.
- The role holder will be expected to work across different sectors.

Qualifications & Experience:

- A generalist HR background and a proven track record of delivering.
- Strong employee relations experience gained in high volume, transactional environments with complex disciplinary, grievance, performance management and sickness absence management cases.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to build solid working relationships.
- Exposure to diverse and complex matrix businesses in an HR generalist role is an advantage.
- Experience of working within a HR Shared Services & Centres of Excellence model is an advantage.
- Experience of managing multiple ER cases at the same time.
- Capacity to understand how people issues impact the business and how HR can create value for the business.
- Ability to provide both verbal and written information clearly, succinctly, and persuasively, as well as ability to influence others.
- Strong organisation skills are important, as well as strong attention to detail, an ability to multi task and see work through to full implementation.
- Ability to adapt in a changing environment.
- Ability to use research methods effectively, including data collection, diagnostic, and analytical skills.
- Good working knowledge of employment laws and practices.
- CIPD qualified / working towards chartership or relevant experience

Why Become an Arcadian?

Our work with clients has a direct impact on people’s lives and on the planet. We make moving, living and belonging in cities safer, more resilient and more sustainable. By partnering with our clients as responsible custodians of our earth's resources, we can create a sustainable planet.

We continue to think of new ways to make positive impacts and create better experiences for people; data driven and digital solutions have become part of the Arcadis DNA. Working together with clients and using techniques like design thinking, we can get to the heart of our clients’ most pressing challenges and work together to solve them.

As a global business, we have committed to support five of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that our projects contribute to a better and more sustainable future for all. But it’s not just the work that we do on client projects that benefits communities and our planet. As a global business, we are committed to making a positive impact to society by supporting local communities where we operate.

To help protect our planet, we monitor and measure non-financial information to inform business decisions and reduce our own environmental impact as part of our commitment to be net zero carbon as a global company by 2035.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:
We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe tha



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