HR Manager

Your new role

National Highways are currently recruiting for an experienced HR Manager to join our Employee Relations (ER) team within HR in Birmingham. Within this role, you will be supporting managers with high risk ER matters, providing advice, guidance and solutionsto difficult situations and complex employee relations cases, including ACAS conciliations and Employment Tribunals. You will ensure that National Highways are legally protected and comply with National Highways policies and procedures. You will also be workingwith Senior HRBPs to lead on embedding ER initiatives and enable people managers to take ownership of all people and ER activities.

There will also be the opportunity to projects and HR policy review.

What you'll be doing
- Leading on a variety of escalated ER cases and issues, using your knowledge in ER and employment law.
- Managing multiple complex ER cases, using and updating the case management system effectively, from receipt of a case through to its conclusion.
- Deliver a high quality, customer and business focused and professional advice on all ER matters including reasonable adjustments, disciplinary, grievance, performance, attendance, flexible working and partial retirement cases, ACAS and Employment Tribunalclaims and ER concerns.
- Take an active role in the delivery of the ER Strategy and plan throughout the business, acting as ER lead in assigned workstreams.
- Proactively represent ER and support Senior HRBP’s within directorates acting as role models for the organisational values and behaviours.
- Working collaboratively with Senior HRBP’s by coaching and mentoring people managers, helping them understand how best to deliver ER s services to all employees.
- Directly support in the implementation of new policies and processes and towards effective working relationships with Trade Unions.
- Lead on Employment Tribunal cases, contributing towards submissions and actively managing cases to deadlines to ensure that National Highways is protected.

To be successful
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in HR, business administration, or a related field, or commensurate professional experience (Desirable)
- Qualified up to Level 7 CIPD (Desirable)
- A good understanding of employment law legislation
- Excellent stakeholder management skills
- Knowledge of governance guidelines, compliance and regulatory requirements
- Excellent communication, advisory and coaching skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with people managers and employees within the business

A bit about us

Our role in Human Resources is to support, develop and nurture our people so that we can all achieve our full potential. By providing our people with the right skills and knowledge we are enabling the business to meet the daily demands we face supportingdelivery of our corporate plan and connecting the country. We champion our values of safety, integrity, passion, ownership and teamwork

**About Us** At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to dobetter and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.

Our benefits package

Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus, and employer pension contributions of up to 10%.

We also offer:

- Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
- Flexible hours and blended working between base location/home
- Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
- Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
- A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
- Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience

And we are:

- Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
- Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme

Community friendly - offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year plus an extra 3 days to support the national Covid effort

So if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it - then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation

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