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ER and Policy Manager

Employer
CMS
Location
Scotland, Edinburgh / Glasgow, Scotland / England, South Yorkshire, Sheffield
Salary
Negotiable
Closing date
19 Jul 2022

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Vacancy Type
Human Resources
Contract Type
Permanent
Experience Level
Manager
Role Classification
Other Professional

Job Details

We are looking for the Employee Relations and Policy Manager to lead on ER cases and provide specialist employee relations, employment law and change management advice and guidance to HR and business stakeholders.

This role can be based in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Bristol or Sheffield, a combination of home and office based, with some travel between offices in line with business demand.

About CMSCMS is a Future Facing firm. With 79 offices in 45 countries and 5,000+ lawyers worldwide, we combine deep sector understanding with a global overview, giving us the ability not only to see what's coming, but to shape it.

CMS is well equipped to help our clients face the future with confidence. We are driven by technology and readily embrace the possibilities it opens up for developing new and better ways of delivering legal services. Our bold approach to a changing future ensures that we nurture our employees and recruit top talent.


About the RoleThis role holder will;

* Lead on all disciplinary, grievance and appeal cases by managing the overall process, determining roles and responsibilities when other HR/local involved and engaging external support if needed.
* Lead on investigations
* Maintaining records of case management.
* Deliver support, advice and guidance on a wide range of areas including investigations, discipline and grievance hearings, TUPE, sickness and policy
* Guide and coach Line Managers, Partners and Senior Leaders.
* Provide advice which is commercial and pragmatic whilst balancing risk.
* Provide advice to HR teams on complex sickness and disability cases.
* Lead on redundancy cases and projects alongside HR team.
* Support the Senior ER Manager in creating new policies
* Advise HR Team and Line Managers on ER issues to ensure they are consistently applied across the business
* Work with the Senior ER Manager to deliver training on ER Issues
* Develop best practice ER and constantly keep up to date with employment law and HR policy changes.
* Demonstrate exemplary judgement, ensuring balanced advice that manages risk but drives end results that are right commercially and / or appropriate to our CMS values.
* Utilise your extensive ER experience to continuously drive improvement for the service.


About You* Deep technical employment policy and employee relations expertise.
* Sound judgement to balance risk with commercial solutions.
* Exceptional stakeholder management.
* Excellent people management skills: you will demonstrate how you have been a force for good - driving improvements in performance, development and engagement of teams.
* Highly effective verbal and written communication skills; the ability to break down complex information and communicate simply across a range of stakeholders.
* Ability to prioritise, influence and operate as a coach/mentor to mangers and individual members of staff
* Practice of leading, evolving and driving forward people related or change projects.
* Collaborative and proactive in seeking opportunities to work with colleagues to co-create solutions that meet needs of multiple client groups.

Equal OpportunitiesAt CMS, a next-generation mindset is woven into all we do. We're diverse, supportive and inclusive, embracing our corporate social responsibility and creating a culture of sustainability in which every one of our people, whatever their background, can maximise their potential and thrive.

For further information about CMS' diversity initiatives and programmes, please click here to view the diversity pages on our website.

Please apply online or contact a member of the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions. For information regarding our competitive range of benefits please visit our Rewards & Benefits page on our website.

Please note that CMS have a preferred agency panel in place. Only applications submitted via the portal at the point of instruction will be accepted.

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Company

CMS is a future facing international law firm. With 74 offices in 44 countries and 5000+ lawyers worldwide, and home to business services colleagues across everything from Information Technology, Human Resources and Innovation to Finance, Diversity & Inclusion and Communications.  The firm’s core purpose is to build rewarding futures for its clients, people, and communities.

We’re a global law firm. We focus on the big and the small. We look to the future and embrace agility and challenge. We are experts in our sectors and have the rankings to back that up.  But it’s not all sectors and rankings. We focus on relationships. We’re a community. We look out for each other, encourage everyone to be themselves, and the best version of that. We’re friendly and go-getting. We act with purpose and find passion in what we do. We seek out different ways of thinking and doing. We don’t want everyone to be the same.  We know the best route forward is with the most diverse group of colleagues as possible. We’re here to build a better future.

In a world of ever-accelerating change where technology is increasingly important in the deployment of global strategies, every team at CMS is empowered to operate and innovate in ways that best meet clients’ needs. We encourage ideas from every corner of our business. We are also committed to addressing our own impact on the environment and approach to sustainability, as well as advising clients with their related legal needs.

We strive to spend more time looking at our clients’ world than inwards at ours.  That’s what makes our approach different. Being able to see things from our clients’ perspective means our people are approachable and accessible. And this means we have a genuinely supportive, open culture you won’t find everywhere. 

Our culture

It’s all about relationships. Our relationship with you, your relationship with us, and the relationships we have with clients and the communities around us. We want you to thrive and show your personality. Foster community, work together, listen, be open, and help each other succeed. Act with purpose and find passion. Strive for progress and embrace challenges. Seek out different ways of thinking and doing. We value trust over rules.

At CMS, a next-generation mindset is woven into all we do.  We're diverse, supportive, and inclusive, embracing our corporate social responsibility and creating a culture of sustainability in which every one of our people, whatever their background, can maximise their potential and thrive.  

Whatever your specialism, and whether you’re a lawyer or a business services professional, a career at CMS gives you huge scope to carve out a brilliant career as you help us, and our clients, to face the future with confidence.

Company info
Website
Telephone
+44 (0) 20 7367 3000
Location
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom

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