About this role
<div style="display:flex;list-style:none;padding:0.0px;width:100%;margin:0.0px"> <div style="width:45%"><img style="width:75%;margin:10.0px -5.0px" src="https://dmscdn.successfactors.com/f073963110f18a2a1734b96ba316f4020b945b2258aee69e565a8851f4c8eeac/static_content/a4c0c56f046e496abe49/Muller_Milk_and_Ingredients_Corporate_Logo_26_Dropshadow.png "></div> <div style="text-align:right;width:50%"><img style="width:100%;margin:10.0px -25.0px" src="https://dmscdn.successfactors.com/f073963110f18a2a1734b96ba316f4020b945b2258aee69e565a8851f4c8eeac/static_content/25d7788b95c74c05a698/Muller_UTM_Corporate_Logo_26_Dropshadow.png "></div> </div> <hr><p style="text-align:center;background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:red">We're Hiring: Employee Relations Partner </span></u></strong></p> <p style="line-height:13.8pt;background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:black"> </span></strong></p> <p style="line-height:13.8pt;background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:black">Location: Bridgwater or Stroud / Hybrid – 2-3 days per week on site.</span></strong></p> <p style="line-height:13.8pt;background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:black">Contract: Full-Time, 1 x permanent role and 1 x 12-month fixed term contract role available</span></strong></p> <p style="line-height:13.8pt;background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:black">Hours: Monday–Friday (40 hours) </span></strong></p> <p style="line-height:13.8pt;background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:black">Part-time working arrangements considered</span></strong></p> <p style="line-height:13.8pt;background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black">Benefits for the role:</span></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;background-color:white;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;color:black">Competitive salary, generous annual bonus, Life Assurance, Private Medical Insurance, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising with service), Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Family Leave, Enhanced Bereavement Leave, Pension Employer Contribution Scheme (matched up to 8%), Exclusive access to Müller Rewards, offering a variety of online and in-store discounts and development opportunities. </span></p> <p style="line-height:13.8pt;background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify;background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">If you are ready to unleash your potential and build an exciting career with Britian’s most chosen dairy brand, Müller UK & Ireland, part of the renowned Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller, invites you to apply for our <strong> </strong> <strong>Employee Relations Partner</strong> position. </span></p> <p style="text-align:justify;background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify;background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">With over 31,000 employees across Europe and a long-standing commitment to excellence, Müller is a family-owned business known for its dedication to quality, innovation, and growth. In the UK alone, we produce a wide range of leading branded and private-label dairy products, from yogurts and desserts to butter and flavoured milk</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify;background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify;background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:#333333">As an Employee Relations Partner, you will </span><span style="color:black;background-color:white">provide managers with professional support to resolve people related matters, such as long-term absence, disciplinary, grievance, and performance management cases, with the focus on gaining the best outcomes for both the business and employees. Acting as the subject matter expert you will provide advice and support, drive best practice and ensure compliance with all company policies and procedures in line with UK employment legislation. </span></p> <p style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:black;background-color:white">Based on the needs of the partner group, you must be prepared to travel based on the region of sites allocated to build relationships, knowledge and a deep understanding of your partner group.</span></p> <p style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><u><span style="color:black;background-color:white">What you’ll do:</span></u></strong></p> <p style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:black;background-color:white">Case Management:</span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:black;background-color:white">Advocate a culture which is resolution-focused to improve business outcomes.</span></li> <li style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:black;background-color:white">Work closely with the Site HRBP and internal Legal Counsel to ensure alignment on key ER issues.</span></li> </ul> <p style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:black;background-color:white">People Manager Development:</span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:black;background-color:white">Coach, guide and influence people managers on people related matters and the best approach to dealing with people related topics, developing their knowledge, capability and confidence.</span></li> <li style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:black;background-color:white">Support the training of people managers on their roles and responsibilities in delivering ER processes.</span></li> </ul> <p style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:black;background-color:white">Escalation:</span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:black;background-color:white">Escalate and advise Head of HR / HRBP and Legal Counsel of any complex high-risk cases or disputes and determine together solutions, course of action, mitigating the risk and any PR exposure.</span></li> <li style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:black;background-color:white">Provide support to Legal Counsel in the preparation for any employment tribunal cases.</span></li> </ul> <p style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:black;background-color:white">Data insights and Trend Analysis:</span></strong></p> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:black;background-color:white">Proactively support the business with data insights both external and internal on people trends and issues. Work collaboratively with the business to develop improvement strategies and deliver successful people relations program/interventions in support of organisational change.</span></li> <li style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:black;background-color:white">Develop and apply people policies which improve the people experience and employer brand and mitigate risk to the business.</span></li> </ul> <p style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><u><span style="color:black;background-color:white">What you’ll bring:</span></u></strong><span style="color:black;background-color:white"> </span></p> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm" type="disc"> <li style="background-color:white;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Experience in managing employee relations matters of all levels, cradle to grave case management </span></li> <li style="background-color:white;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Proven excellent stakeholder management with the ability to adapt to different styles and approaches, quickly building strong and effective working relationships, delivering service excellence</span></li> <li style="background-color:white;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Experience of analysing data, providing data insights to support engagement and positive employee relations</span></li> <li style="background-color:white;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Deep and up to date understanding of UK employment legislation and best practice and keeping up to date on changes</span></li> <li style="background-color:white;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Relevant specialist employment law qualification and or CIPD Associate/Chartered member</span></li> </ul> <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0cm;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Passion for CI with experience of working on own initiatives to implement change and operational process improvement</span></li> </ul> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm" type="disc"> <li style="background-color:white;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Strong communication and influencing skills with the ability to interact across all levels of management </span></li> <li style="background-color:white;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Strong customer focus</span></li> <li style="background-color:white;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Strong attention to detail, problem solving ability and ability to deliver results to deadlines</span></li> <li style="background-color:white;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Good interpersonal and written communication skills</span></li> <li style="background-color:white;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Previous experience of working to challenging SLAs/KPIs</span></li> </ul> <p style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><span style="color:black;background-color:white">The Process:</span></strong></p> <p style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="color:black;background-color:white">If you are interested in applying for the role of Employee Relations Partner and have the necessary skills and experience, then we'd love to hear from you. Please apply at </span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.mullercareers.co.uk"><span style="background-color:white">www.mullercareers.co.uk</span></a></span></p> <p style="background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="line-height:15.0pt;margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong>At Müller, we’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels they belong. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and encourage people to apply even if they don’t meet every requirement listed. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know - we’re happy to support you.</strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><em><span style="color:black;background-color:white">#hiring</span></em></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"> </p><hr> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Ariel, sans-serif"><strong>You can find out more about Müller and what it’s like to work for us by clicking here <a href="https://careers.muller.co.uk/#c3046" target="_self">Careers at Müller UK & Ireland</a></strong></p>