HR Business Partner
Location: London | Hybrid Working (3 days on-site)
Morgan Philips is partnering with a fast-paced, operationally driven organisation to appoint an experienced HR Business Partner with deep expertise in high-volume employee relations, TUPE, and unionised environments.
This role is ideally suited to a resilient and commercially minded HR professional who thrives in complex, high-risk settings. You will play a critical role in managing large-scale ER activity, navigating union relationships, and leading TUPE and change programmes, acting as a trusted advisor to operational leadership.
The Role
This is a hands-on, high-impact position in a demanding environment where ER volume, risk management, and stakeholder engagement are central to success.
Key responsibilities include:
- Managing a high volume of complex ER casework end-to-end, including disciplinaries, grievances, absence, capability, and dismissals, often within tight operational timeframes
- Acting as the key point of contact for trade unions and employee representatives, leading consultations and maintaining effective working relationships
- Leading and supporting TUPE transfers, including due diligence, consultation with unions and employees, risk assessment, and post-transfer integration
- Advising senior operational leaders on complex and high-risk employee issues, balancing legal risk with commercial realities
- Supporting organisational change activity, including restructures, redundancies, and collective consultations
- Coaching line managers to confidently handle ER matters, particularly in unionised and high-pressure environments
- Ensuring full compliance with UK employment law, minimising legal exposure and financial risk
- Driving consistency and improvements in ER processes, policies, and governance across the business
About You
- Proven HR Business Partner experience within unionised and operational environments such as construction, engineering, logistics, manufacturing, or infrastructure
- Extensive experience managing high-volume ER caseloads, with clear ownership and accountability for outcomes
- Strong experience working with trade unions, including negotiations and formal consultation processes
- Demonstrable expertise in TUPE, with the ability to clearly articulate your involvement and impact across multiple transfers
- In-depth knowledge of UK employment law, with the ability to apply it pragmatically in fast-paced, high-risk situations
- Comfortable operating in environments where multiple ER cases, TUPE activity, and union engagement run concurrently
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with confidence to influence and challenge senior leaders
- Highly resilient, practical, and solutions-focused
- CIPD qualified (or equivalent experience)
What Will Set You Apart
- Experience managing large-scale ER case volumes in unionised settings
- A strong track record of leading or supporting TUPE programmes involving union consultation
- Experience handling collective ER issues and overlapping risk scenarios
- The ability to balance legal compliance with operational urgency in demanding environments
- A proactive approach to improving ER frameworks and ways of working
Why Apply?
- High-impact role with a strong focus on ER, TUPE, and union engagement
- Opportunity to work closely with senior operational leadership on business-critical challenges
- Fast-paced, complex environment where your expertise will be relied upon daily
- Significant scope to shape and strengthen ER and HR delivery
Interested?
- For a confidential discussion, please apply via Morgan Philips.
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