Employee Relations Partner

Sysco GB

2d•Remote

About The Position

Sysco GB is recruiting for two Employee Relations Partners on a full-time, permanent basis. The role is primarily home-based, with flexibility to travel up to two days per week to locations such as London, Manchester, and other UK depots. Reporting to the Head of Employment Relations, the Employee Relations Partner will lead complex employee relations initiatives, manage intricate cases including tribunals, and partner with leadership to develop and implement strategies for a positive, productive, and legally compliant work environment. This role serves as an expert in employee relations, supporting policy development, handling sensitive issues, and providing guidance to leaders. A full clean driving license is required.

Requirements

Highly skilled Employee Relations Partner who thrives in complex environments and can confidently navigate challenging employee relations issues from diagnosis through to resolution.
Strong analytical capability to identify root causes and implement solutions that strengthen organisational culture while balancing commercial priorities and reputational risk.
Trusted expert in conflict resolution, managing sensitive and complex cases with fairness and integrity, influencing positive, sustainable outcomes.
Experience in Employee Relations.
Minimum CIPD Level 5 qualification.
Operated within large-scale organisations (circa 5,000+ employees).
Experience across both blue-collar and white-collar populations.
Significant experience with trade unions, including collective bargaining, wage negotiations, and wider industrial relations (IAR and target unions).
Strong stakeholder management.
Partner with senior leadership teams and work autonomously across multiple priorities.
Experience working with external partners such as occupational health providers, legal advisors, and ER triage services.
Strong understanding of employment law.
High ethical standards.
Passion for developing others in best practice employee relations.
Full clean driving license.

Nice To Haves

Ideally, you will be located within the Reading or London area, or the Warrington or Manchester region.
Ideally, experience across retail, distribution, or manufacturing sectors.

Responsibilities

Named contact for Addleshaws, HR and senior leadership in a geographical area of the business.
Providing both practical as well as strategic guidance on complex employee relations issues and ensuring adherence to company policies, legal compliance, mitigation, reputational and minimizing commercial risk.
Lead in the development and implementation of programs, initiatives along with supporting material that improve employee and industrial relations, and overall workplace culture.
Lead with complex cases which require multi departmental approach including HR, H&S, legal and line management teams to resolution, ensuring fair and consistent outcomes. This would include legal cases such as tribunals, judicial mediation or ACAS claims.
Lead the review and development of employee relations policies, procedures, standard operating process to ensure they are up to date with current legal standards and reflect best practices.
Facilitate the communication and implementation of revised policies, process and best practices across the organization, ensuring broad understanding and consistent application.
In conjunction with Head of ER, design training programs and supporting materials for line managers on best practices in employee relations, conflict resolution, and workplace behavior and working with 3rd parties such as Unions and Occupational Health.
Develop resources and tools to support managers in effectively handling day-to-day employee relations issues and foster an inclusive work environment.
Support the head of ER when working in partnership with the leadership team, our legal providers identify potential areas of high risk related to employee relations and advise leadership on preventive measures to mitigate risks such as litigation (Tribunals, judicial mediation & ACAS).