About Workforce Change & Restructuring
Employee Relations Workforce Change & Restructuring (‘ER WFC&R’) manages the global change and restructuring portfolios across all employing entities, supporting the shaping of the workforce to meet long‑term objectives and achieve optimum business performance, optimise costs, and comply with legal and regulatory obligations.
Location: London
Hybrid: 3 days a week in office
Length: 6 months
PAYE only
Overall Purpose Of The Role
The role holder will support the Workforce Change and Restructuring delivery model across Barclays and will be allocated projects across the entities. The role holder will drive and support allocated change programmes and lead the HR workstream for programmes such as restructuring, LEE transfers, outsourcing, in‑sourcing, new site set‑up, pan‑entity and global locations, leveraging in‑country HRBP, ER and other specialist HR functions as required.
Key Accountabilities
- Project Initiation
- Due Diligence
- Consultation
- Implementation
- Communication Plan
- Governance and Risk
- COE
Key Skills
- Strong and numerous examples of Workforce Change / Restructuring (must be shown throughout your CV)
- Experience handling/liaising with unions & union representatives or conducting WFC in heavily unionised environments
- Experience leading Union/works council consultations
- Employee/Workforce consultations and/or redundancies experience
- Experience working on Tupe projects/programmes
- Experience leading large‑scale/multiple change programmes
- Experience delivering change programmes outside the UK
- Good understanding of current employment legislation
- Project management, change management and stakeholder management skills
- Experience working in a highly matrixed organisation
- Recognition of cultural and geographic sensitivities
- Excellent analytical and data skills; confident with data
- Intermediate Excel skills – merging sheets, data management, pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, handling large data sets, and using formulas for data quality checks
Essential Experience
- Technical skills – consultancy, unions, redundancy and relevant legal requirements
- Project management skills
- Show in your CV how you structure and run a programme, and track everything
- MS Excel – experienced in merging sheets, data management, data manipulation, pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, and handling large data sets
Your Benefits
As a contract employee of Randstad Sourceright, you’ll receive a wide range of financial and personal benefits. This includes a pension plan after 12 weeks on assignment, holiday pay, 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme, and discounts at a variety of shops, restaurants and entertainment venues.
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