Job Title: Employee Relations Partner

Location: Macclesfield UK

Competitive salary and benefits apply

Introduction to Role:

Join AstraZeneca, a global leader in the pharmaceutical industry, where we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. We are seeking an Employee Relations Partner to join our team. This role is a unique opportunity to contribute to our mission by building a positive and safe work environment for employees through implementing global policies and processes in partnership with Legal, Compliance, HR colleagues and employee representative groups. If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you’re our kind of person.

Accountabilities:

As an ER Partner, you will manage your own complex ER caseload, providing high-quality consistent advice to stakeholders. You will lead and participate in a range of business change projects, ensuring that all ER considerations have been understood. You will present information relating to highly complex and sensitive cases to managers and leaders, including attendance at Employment Tribunals. You will also undertake formal investigations, manage AstraZeneca’s relationship with its UK employee consultative bodies, and design and deliver a range of training to managers on people management issues, ER policy and processes.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Degree or equivalent

• HR/ER related qualification and previous experience in Employee Relations, Legal or Compliance departments

• Extensive experience of UK and Global business change projects

• Experience of working with employee consultative groups and trade unions

• Excellent understanding of employment law and good practice

• Ability to work collaboratively while managing key stakeholders

• Able to influence decisions by persuasion, negotiation, facilitation

• Well-developed written and verbal communication skills

• Flexibility to meet changing business demands and manage evolving priorities

• Independent approach to leading own workload

• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to develop innovative approaches to achieve a resolution

• An understanding of human behaviour and handling difficult conversations

• Developing others in employment relations matters

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Law degree

• Pharmaceutical Industry experience

• Accreditation in mediation techniques

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That's why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we're not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

At AstraZeneca, we're the global team that helps to make excellence and breakthroughs possible. Here, you can apply your skills and abilities to genuinely impact patients' lives. Join us at an exciting time of growth through innovation for AstraZeneca. Shape this journey by reimagining the way we work. Every single person plays a part in our story. Speak up, take the initiative and make it yours. Be a trusted partner in a fast-growing organisation, and make an even bigger impact on patients.

Are you ready to make a difference? Apply today and join us in our mission to improve the health of millions worldwide!

Date Posted

23-Jul-2024

Closing Date

06-Aug-2024

Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion, starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of characteristics. We offer reasonable adjustments/accommodations to help all candidates to perform at their best. If you have a need for any adjustments/accommodations, please complete the section in the application form.