Employee Relations Consultant Edinburgh/Glasgow

Employee Relations Consultant

12-month FTC | £55,000-£60,000
Location: Edinburgh or Glasgow (hybrid)

We're working with a large UK Utilities company to recruit an Employee Relations Partner on a 12-month fixed-term contract. This role is suited to an experienced ER professional who specialises in relationship-based employee relations within a unionised environment, rather than high-volume case management.

This is a strategic, advisory role focused on building effective working relationships between the organisation and its recognised trade unions, and on strengthening how the business approaches employee relations more broadly.

You'll play a key role in shaping and maintaining constructive relationships with trade unions and internal stakeholders.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Managing and supporting ongoing relationships with recognised trade unions
• Working with unions on existing arrangements, including:
  • Collective agreements
  • Facilities and partnership arrangements
• Facilitating and supporting joint meetings, forums, and partnership discussions
• Drafting and refreshing terms of reference, tools, templates, and guidance to support effective joint working
• Advising on best practice approaches to employee and industrial relations
• Upskilling managers and the wider business on working effectively with unions and handling ER matters in a consistent, collaborative way
• Acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders on ER/IR strategy and engagement

We're keen to speak with candidates who can demonstrate:

• Strong Employee Relations experience in a unionised environment
• Proven experience of relationship management with trade unions
• Exposure to collective agreements, partnership working, and consultation frameworks
• Confidence in facilitating meetings and influencing a wide range of stakeholders
• Experience creating or improving ER frameworks, templates, or governance arrangements
• A pragmatic, collaborative approach focused on long-term relationship building

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.