Senior Industrial Relations Lead
Birmingham
Paying up to £85,000 + Excellent Benefits
I’m currently partnering with a leading national organisation to appoint a Senior Industrial Relations Lead to join its People function at an exciting time of organisational change and transformation.
This is a strategically important appointment, offering the opportunity to lead industrial relations across a complex, highly unionised environment. Working closely with senior business leaders and Trade Union representatives, you’ll play a key role in shaping industrial relations strategy, supporting business transformation and fostering collaborative employee relations that enable long-term organisational success.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading strategic engagement with recognised Trade Unions, building trusted and constructive relationships across the organisation.
- Developing and delivering the Industrial Relations strategy, ensuring alignment with wider business objectives and transformation programmes.
- Leading complex collective negotiations, consultation activity and dispute resolution, balancing commercial priorities with positive employee relations.
- Providing expert advice to senior stakeholders on collective bargaining, employment legislation and industrial relations best practice.
- Identifying, assessing and mitigating industrial relations risk while ensuring compliance with legal and organisational frameworks.
- Working in partnership with operational leaders, HR and executive stakeholders to influence outcomes and support organisational performance.
- Building leadership capability by coaching and advising managers on effective industrial relations practices.
The successful candidate will bring:
- Extensive Industrial Relations experience gained within a large, unionised organisation.
- A proven track record of leading complex negotiations and managing relationships with multiple Trade Unions.
- Strong commercial awareness with the ability to balance organisational priorities alongside positive workforce engagement.
- Exceptional stakeholder management, influencing and communication skills, with the credibility to operate at senior leadership level.
- A sound understanding of UK employment legislation, collective bargaining frameworks and organisational change.
- Experience gained within transport, logistics, manufacturing, utilities, infrastructure or another operationally complex environment would be highly advantageous.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Industrial Relations professional looking to join a business where Industrial Relations is central to organisational performance, workforce stability and the successful delivery of strategic change.
If you would like to discuss this opportunity in confidence, please send me a direct message or email your CV to Nathan.Smith@LHH.com.
Please note that, due to the confidential nature of this assignment, further details will be shared with shortlisted applicants.
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