Employee Relations Consultant

We are looking for an Employee Relations Consultant to join our Safe & Well team on a permanent basis.

Here's what you'll be doing

Join E.ON UK as an Employee Relations Consultant, partnering with the business to deliver expert ER guidance and create business-led solutions. You’ll shape strategies aligned with HR and business goals, manage complex cases including employment tribunals, and drive fair, cost-effective outcomes in line with employment law and company policy.

What you’ll do:
- Collaborate on Employee Relations, Occupational Health, and Policy strategy across departments.
- Provide specialist advice on people change projects and policy benchmarking.
- Local implementation support - Supporting opperational management to implement HR policy and procedures consistently at a local level
- Building and maintaining external network and understanding commercial challenges
- Analyse ER data to inform business decisions and performance.
- Build strong relationships with trade unions and stakeholders, supporting negotiation and tribunal management.
- Ensuring reputational risks are clearly considered and recorded.
- Lead settlement and COT3 agreement processes.
- Coach managers on ER processes including attendance, capability, disciplinary, grievance, and performance.
- Drive continuous improvement through digitisation and automation of ER tools and processes.
- Design and deliver ER learning interventions for people managers.

What we need from you

- CIPD Level 7 qualified or equivalent experience.
- Extensive knowledge of employment law, including TUPE, tribunals, and settlement agreements.
- Proven experience managing complex ER cases in diverse environments.
- Strong analytical skills to interpret data and develop practical solutions.
- Excellent influencing and relationship-building skills across all levels.
- Proficient on various HR systems & Digital tools
- Commercial mindset with balanced judgment and risk awareness.
- Effective multi-tasker with strong written communication skills.

Here’s what you need to know

• Award-Winning Workplace - We’re proud to be named a Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2025 and the Best Place to Work for 16–34-year-olds.
• Outstanding Benefits - Enjoy 26 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, a generous pension, life cover, bonus opportunities, and access to 20 flexible benefits with tax/NI savings.
• Flexible & Family-Friendly - Our industry-leading hybrid and family-friendly policies earned us double recognition at the Personnel Today Awards 2024. We’re open to discussing how flexibility can work for you.
• Inclusive & Diverse - We’re the only energy company in the Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers. We’re also proud winners of Best Employer for Women and Human Company of the Year—recognising our inclusive, people-first culture.
• Support at Every Stage of Life - We’re Fertility Friendly and Menopause Friendly accredited, with inclusive support for everyone.
• Accessible & Supportive - Do you consider yourself as having a disability? As a Disability Confident Employer, we ensure that disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria move forward to the next stage of our recruitment process, and will make any adjustments needed during the process.
• Invested in Your Growth - From inclusive talent networks to top-tier development programmes, we’ll support your growth every step of the way.

At a glance

Reference no.: 244267Closing date: 20/05/2026 Salary: £61,601 - £74,963

Get in touch

If you would like any more information, please get in touch with Ailsa MacQuillin on [email protected]

About us

E.ON is a privately owned international energy company. Our 75,000 colleagues in 15 countries work daily towards the improvement of technical innovations and user-friendly customer solutions for the new energy world. We are the first large energy company to focus more heavily upon the energy of the future through our three business areas of energy networks, renewable energies and customer solutions.

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