Employee Relations Business Partner - Specified Purpose Contract
- Team
- Support Functions
- Location
- Dublin 1, Dublin
- Position type
- Full Time
- Contract type
- Temporary
- Contract end date
- Contract end date: 31/12/2027
- Salary
- Competitive + Benefits
How We Hire
Everyone is welcome at M&S. No exceptions. It’s your background, abilities and differences that make you, uniquely you. And when you’re part of M&S, that individuality has the potential to make waves.
About the role
This section tells you all you need to know about the position and its responsibilities, outlining everything we hope to see in a successful candidate.
Summary
Manage Employee Relations and Industrial Relations issues within the Organisation. The Employee Relations Business Partner will have the opportunity to participate in significant HR projects and initiatives.
All the details
- Help design, deliver and, when required, lead the ROI’s employee relations, colleague
listening and business change strategies and plans - Develop and maintain effective working relationships with Unions (by
leading or supporting, as appropriate, with the communication, consultation, or
negotiation between parties) to create a proactive partnership with each union which,
at its heart, jointly delivers business benefit and positive colleague engagement. - Work closely with key stakeholders, to develop and deliver toolkits, training
interventions and upskilling strategies which raise line manager ER capability and
confidence to ensure policies are applied correctly; colleague experience is enhanced;
business change is implemented appropriately; and trade union partners are properly
engaged. - Provide expert employee relations advice and input into business change
programmes. This includes partnering with ROI People Partners and M&S UK CoE’s
as necessary to ensure the effective delivery and end- to-end management of
operational or transformational change which can include, when required, assisting
or leading trade union negotiations/consultation. - Develop and simplify ROI people policies and processes to ensure they are legal,
competitive, practical, meet future business needs, and enhance the M&S brand and
colleague experience. This includes ensuring that ROI policies and processes are
communicated effectively, and their delivery is supported, when required, with
appropriate training. - Partner with subject matter experts to ensure any policy related system change
requirements and dependencies are fully understood, resource-effective, will be
supported by robust user acceptance testing and, if necessary, launched with user
training to ensure successful deployment. - Monitor and interpret changes to ROI employment legislation and undertake external
benchmarking to ensure M&S remains compliant and a best practice and innovative
employer. - Lead (from design to post implementation review) projects as required and act as
the ROI’s subject matter expert by providing guidance and support to HR colleagues,
line managers, and colleagues on policy, employee relations and colleague
engagement and listening matters. - Manage and provide expertise to line managers on how complex casework should
be handled and progressed (working with Legal and other specialists) to the case’s
successful conclusion. - Foster a culture of continuous improvement, by seeking feedback, designing and
developing metrics and incorporating insights and learning to refine policies and
processes and to measure their effectiveness. - Create and maintain effective working relationships with M&S’s UK Policy and ER
specialists (and other UK CoEs) to ensure ROI and UK policy and people strategies
are (when appropriate) congruent and jointly promote the M&S brand whilst
minimising any ER risks or issues across the company’s island of Ireland operation. - Work effectively with the rest of the Ireland People Team, by contributing ideas and
expertise and acting as a fully participative team member to assist colleagues in the
delivery of all elements of the People Plan and to be a high-performance team.
Meet the Team
Being an in-person business
We're at our best when we're close to customers, and for many of us at M&S, that means working in store every day.
To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected. It also means we can solve problems as soon as they arise, learn and grow as a team, build trust, and get closer to our colleagues.
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Make Your Mark
Opportunities to be heard
Your voice and your ideas matter here. Our 8 colleague networks are places to find support, listen to each other and encourage debate. You can pitch ideas ‘Straight to Stuart’, our CEO, or get involved in our BIG (Business involvement Group).
Experience the business
You’ll spend 7 days each year helping in store and getting closer to our customers. We also organise Insight Days, so you can learn more about specific business units, like Foods.
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Benefits
How to Apply
Here’s what to expect at each stage of the application process. This can change depending on the role you’ve applied to. If you need any reasonable adjustments made at any stage, let us know and we can help.
Send us your application
Fill in our short application form and hit submit.
Online assessment
Depending on the role, you may be invited to take part in an online assessment. Should you be invited to an online assessment your Talent Acquisition Partner will be more than happy to support you with any questions.
Interview
We'll invite you to join us for an interview. This could be remote or in person. Here, we'll ask you some role based technical questions and examine the behaviours we're looking for.
Decision
After we’ve decided, we’ll be in touch. If you’ve been successful, we’ll officially invite you to join the team and let you know the next steps.
Employee Relations Business Partner - Specified Purpose Contract
- Team
- Support Functions
- Location
- Dublin 1, Dublin
- Position type
- Full Time
- Contract type
- Temporary
- Contract end date
- Contract end date: 31/12/2027
- Salary
- Competitive + Benefits
- Reference: 128137