Senior HR Consultant

Role

Senior HR Consultant - Permanent position based in Dublin, with significant travel including occasional UK travel as per business requirements.

Overview

This role supports TUPE/ARD transfers, Employee Relations, and HR Business Partnering across TCS Ireland. It partners with business leaders to deliver strategic HR solutions, manage complex organisational change, and ensure compliance with Irish employment law.

Key Responsibilities

• TUPE & Transitions
  • Manage end-to-end TUPE/ARD transfers, including insourcing activities
  • Partner with customers, HR teams, and suppliers during transfer processes
  • Support bids, transitions, workforce planning, and change programmes
  • Prepare and deliver stakeholder presentations and cost restructuring activities
• Employee Relations
  • Lead complex ER activities including restructuring, redundancy, and consultations
  • Provide expert advice on Irish employment law and risk mitigation
  • Manage individual and collective ER cases (disciplinary, grievances, investigations)
  • Develop and deliver ER strategies aligned to business needs
  • Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, unions, and external partners
  • Ensure all documentation is legally compliant and records are maintained
  • Train and support managers on ER matters and employment legislation
• HR Business Partnering
  • Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders on people strategy
  • Drive workforce planning, talent management, and organisational design
  • Lead engagement, culture, and change initiatives
  • Support transformation programmes and business growth
  • Use data insights to inform decisions and improve performance
  • Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion

Skills & Experience

• Strong knowledge of Irish employment law, TUPE/ARD, and restructuring
• Experience managing complex ER issues and stakeholder negotiations
• Ability to operate strategically and hands on
• Strong communication, influencing, and presentation skills
• Proven problem solving and decision making capability
• High emotional intelligence and ability to manage sensitive situations
• Resilient, pragmatic, and results focused

Special Working Conditions

• Travel within Ireland and sometimes UK including overnight stays
• Some working outside recognised office hours

Rewards & Benefits

Competitive salary package featuring pension, health care, life assurance, laptop, and access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network. Health and wellness initiatives and sports events are available, with support for events such as the London Marathon.

Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing

Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the Ireland Employment Equality Acts (as amended) and the Equal Status Acts (as amended). We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role. As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer an interview to applicants with disabilities or long term conditions who meet the minimum criteria for the role. Please email us at if you would like to opt in.