fter clicking Apply, you'll be invited to create a profile on the Via website to complete your application. This doesn't guarantee you'll be matched to this specific role - Via reviews every application (AI first, then a human checks the fit) and shortlists the right candidates. Your profile also stays active for other relevant roles on the platform, and stays anonymous until you match. It takes just a few minutes.

Salary: £80,000–£100,000 + benefits (DOE)

Location: Milton Keynes

UK & Ireland remit

Full-time | Permanent

About the opportunity

Via is partnering with a major multi-site consumer business to recruit a Senior Employee Relations Manager to lead its Employee and Industrial Relations agenda across the UK and Ireland.

This is a senior People leadership position combining employee relations, industrial relations, employment law, trade union relationships and people leadership.

You'll take ownership of the ER strategy across a large, complex workforce, advising senior leaders on high-risk and sensitive matters while developing a more proactive approach to employee relations.

You'll also lead a team of ER specialists and advisers, helping managers become more confident handling people matters while ensuring employees receive a consistent and commercially balanced approach.

What you'll be doing

• Lead the Employee Relations and Industrial Relations strategy across the UK and Ireland
• Act as a senior adviser on complex and high-risk employee relations matters
• Manage and provide guidance around tribunal, litigation and other sensitive cases
• Build constructive relationships with recognised Trade Unions
• Lead negotiations and support wider industrial relations activity
• Partner with senior leaders on employee relations risks and business decisions
• Develop ER policies, processes, guidance and manager toolkits
• Ensure policies and practices remain compliant with evolving UK and Irish employment legislation
• Coach managers and leaders to handle employee relations matters confidently and consistently
• Lead and develop a team of Employee Relations specialists and advisers
• Oversee the quality and consistency of ER support provided across the organisation
• Use ER data to identify trends, emerging risks and opportunities for improvement
• Develop employee engagement initiatives, colleague forums and survey activity
• Support organisational change, transformation and other major people projects
• Provide specialist ER input during restructures and wider business change
• Balance employee experience, legal risk and commercial priorities when recommending solutions

What we're looking for

You'll need significant experience in Employee Relations within a large, complex or multi-site organisation.

We're particularly interested in candidates with:

• Extensive Employee Relations or Industrial Relations experience
• 
  

fter clicking Apply, you'll be invited to create a profile on the Via website to complete your application. This doesn't guarantee you'll be matched to this specific role - Via reviews every application (AI first, then a human checks the fit) and shortlists the right candidates. Your profile also stays active for other relevant roles on the platform, and stays anonymous until you match. It takes just a few minutes.

Salary: £80,000–£100,000 + benefits (DOE)

Location: Milton Keynes

UK & Ireland remit

Full-time | Permanent

About the opportunity

Via is partnering with a major multi-site consumer business to recruit a Senior Employee Relations Manager to lead its Employee and Industrial Relations agenda across the UK and Ireland.

This is a senior People leadership position combining employee relations, industrial relations, employment law, trade union relationships and people leadership.

You'll take ownership of the ER strategy across a large, complex workforce, advising senior leaders on high-risk and sensitive matters while developing a more proactive approach to employee relations.

You'll also lead a team of ER specialists and advisers, helping managers become more confident handling people matters while ensuring employees receive a consistent and commercially balanced approach.

What you'll be doing

• Lead the Employee Relations and Industrial Relations strategy across the UK and Ireland
• Act as a senior adviser on complex and high-risk employee relations matters
• Manage and provide guidance around tribunal, litigation and other sensitive cases
• Build constructive relationships with recognised Trade Unions
• Lead negotiations and support wider industrial relations activity
• Partner with senior leaders on employee relations risks and business decisions
• Develop ER policies, processes, guidance and manager toolkits
• Ensure policies and practices remain compliant with evolving UK and Irish employment legislation
• Coach managers and leaders to handle employee relations matters confidently and consistently
• Lead and develop a team of Employee Relations specialists and advisers
• Oversee the quality and consistency of ER support provided across the organisation
• Use ER data to identify trends, emerging risks and opportunities for improvement
• Develop employee engagement initiatives, colleague forums and survey activity
• Support organisational change, transformation and other major people projects
• Provide specialist ER input during restructures and wider business change
• Balance employee experience, legal risk and commercial priorities when recommending solutions

What we're looking for

You'll need significant experience in Employee Relations within a large, complex or multi-site organisation.

We're particularly interested in candidates with:

• Extensive Employee Relations or Industrial Relations experience
•