Competitive salary with an excellent bonus plan

We offer two bonuses (personal performance paid quarterly and company performance paid annually) with private healthcare and dental cover and a generous pension scheme.

For over three decades our purpose hasn’t changed: we are here to make a positive difference to the lives of all. Through the exceptional products, services and value we offer, we are proud of how far we’ve come as a business, now we want to see you grow with us.

This is a remote based role with ad hoc travel to connect with the team occasionally face to face.

Your purpose

As the ER Manager you will lead a team of HR Advice & ER business partners, who will be committed to providing a highly responsive, commercial first line ER service, building leader and manager skill sets, driving pragmatic employee relations solutions and strategies by delivering advice, identifying high-level trends, recommending innovative solutions and partnering with leaders and Functional HR Business Partners on execution.

Your role

• Developing, coaching, advising and managing a small team of employee relations specialists, functional managers and senior business leaders to resolve people challenges through best practice, supporting the development of people management skills and knowledge within the leadership population.
• Acting as a trusted partner to all business areas and programmes, ensuring that advice and guidance provided by the team is commercially focussed and manages risk for stakeholder groups.
• Developing and facilitating development activities and communications to upskill leaders and provide recommendations for proactive HR and policy revision and/or improving employee relations management.
• Articulating and optimising people data, insight and metrics to identify trends to inform future process, culture and performance.
• Owning and driving individual projects and activities focused on reducing HR and ER issues whilst developing a culture of manager self-sufficiency.
• To act as an internal escalation, point for, and subject matter expert on, complex or high-risk ER cases; overseeing investigations and appeals and communicating appropriately with relevant senior stakeholders, building effective relationships with these individuals in support of an effective ER offer

What you’ll bring

• You will have experience of operating as an employee relations expert with relevant business partnering experience an advantage.
• You will have a thorough understanding of employment law and the ability to apply this knowledge to any HR or employee relations situation with tact, influence, good judgement and/or negotiation skills.
• Ability to manage relationships and influence key senior stakeholders, making an immediate impact
• Experience of being able to navigate through complexity and ambiguity with a coaching mindset
• Experience of developing and managing people
• Thinking strategically and creatively with a down to earth and pragmatic approach to HR and employee relations solutions

Happy to talk about flexible working! #LI-GM1

Our people ambition is to be the place we are all proud to belong. We want all our colleagues to feel listened to, included, valued, and motivated. To help start us on this journey networks and communities are being established by our colleagues across Specsavers so far, we have PRISM which represents our LGBTQ+ community, MenoTalk to help support and drive our menopause in the workplace agenda, Empowered Together, our women’s network that is in place to rally for women’s equality in and out of work, EmbRACE to provide a voice for minority ethnic colleagues and our Neurodiversity Network (NDN) to help remove any barriers preventing neurodiverse colleagues from reaching their full potential.