Employee Relations Manager

Interim Inclusion & Employee Experience Specialist

Contract: 3 months (inside IR35)

Rate: £500 per day

Location: Hybrid - Central London (2-3 days onsite)

Start Date: Immediate starters only

About the Company

Our client, a leading UK retail giant, is seeking an experienced Interim Inclusion & Employee Experience Specialist to deliver a high-impact programme of work across Inclusion, Wellbeing, Engagement, and Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fast-paced, values-driven organisation at a critical point in their colleague engagement and inclusion journey.

Role Overview

Reporting into the senior HR leadership team, you'll play a key role in shaping inclusive culture, developing employee engagement initiatives, and ensuring continuity of wellbeing programmes while permanent hires are finalised.

This is a hands-on delivery role, ideal for a strategic thinker who is equally comfortable getting stuck into the detail.

Key Deliverables

• ERG (Employee Resource Group) Foundations
• Develop ExCo sponsorship guidelines, onboarding packs, and governance toolkits.
• Communications & Reporting
• Partner with Comms & Change teams to create impactful updates for ExCo, Board, and wider colleagues.
• Inclusion & Diversity Calendar
• Lead internal engagement for the International Day of People with Disabilities (3rd Dec).
• Data & Insights
• Support creation of diversity dashboards and narrative insights.
• Engagement & Wellbeing
• Review survey results, wellbeing plans, and oversee campaigns, events, and communications.
• Handover
• Prepare a structured pack for incoming senior team members.

Candidate Profile

• Proven experience in Inclusion & Diversity, Colleague Experience, or Employee Engagement roles.
• Strong background in HR projects within large, complex organisations
• Track record of delivering ERG frameworks, engagement strategies, or wellbeing initiatives.
• Confident in stakeholder management at senior leadership and ExCo level.
• Highly organised, resilient, and comfortable working at pace with immediate impact.
• Able to commit to an immediate start.

ImWhy Apply?

This is a fantastic opportunity to bring your expertise into a household-name retail brand, influence culture at scale, and deliver meaningful outcomes across inclusion, wellbeing, and colleague engagement.

InterQuest Group is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy. InterQuest Group is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, religion/belief, race, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, sex or sexual orientation. Please make us aware if you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.