Employee Relations Lead

Job description

About Legal 500 Legal 500 is a global legal market research, data and intelligence business. Our research helps corporate clients make informed decisions about legal representation and gives law firms insight into their market position, performance, and clients. Beyond research, we’re building a growing data, benchmarking, market-intelligence and subscription service offering. We bring the legal market together through a global programme of events - awards ceremonies, conferences and roundtables that convene leading law firms, in-house teams and their advisers. And through Legal Business, our journalistic title, we deliver independent news, analysis and commentary on the business of law and the strategy, performance and leadership of the world’s leading law firms. We are a growing, multi-site organisation, with colleagues working across research, data, technology, product, journalism, commercial and events in London, Leeds and Bristol. About the Role This is a senior specialist role within our People & Business Operations team. You will be the organisation's expert on employee relations, providing guidance and directly managing complex people matters, maintaining effective working relationships with union representatives, including regular engagement and the resolution of collective issues, supporting business change and ensuring our people frameworks remain effective, practical and legally compliant. Alongside complex casework, you will take ownership of key people frameworks, ensuring decisions relating to progression, promotion and employee relations are applied consistently and fairly. This role offers the opportunity to shape how Legal 500 approaches employee relations, people governance and organisational frameworks over the coming years. What you'll do Employee Relations & Advice Lead on complex employee relations matters, providing expert advice and guidance to managers and senior stakeholders Support the management of investigations, disciplinary, grievance, performance, capability and absence cases where senior specialist input is required Monitor emerging employment law developments and ensure organisational policies and processes remain compliant People Frameworks & Governance Maintain and continuously improve frameworks that support consistent people decision-making across the organisation Oversee job description governance, ensuring role profi…