Senior Employee Relations Manager, Monzo

• You have experience in managing a high volume caseload of varied and complex ER cases , including sickness absence, disciplinary, grievance, performance and appeals
• You have a detailed understanding of employment law and ER best practice
• You’re confident managing conflict and giving advice that others may disagree with
• You’re able to build strong, trusting relationships with multiple stakeholders at various levels of seniority
• You’re highly organised, able to multitask, and comfortable working with changing priorities
• You’re passionate about providing empathetic, kind people experiences even in the toughest of circumstances
• You love problem solving and getting to the root of problems in a fair, consistent, and timely manner
• You have experience handling a variety of complex employee relations issues and have up-to-date knowledge of policy development and employment legislation
• You're passionate about providing empathetic, kind people experience even in the toughest of circumstances
• You have experience of leading and motivating teams, building strong team capability and fostering an environment of empowerment
• Audit and review quality of case management including documentation, delivery, timescales, decision making and risk management
• You have experience of upskilling and continuous improvement of line managers and stretch thinking to consider implications of decisions taken
• You love problem solving and getting the root of problems in a fair, consistent, and timely manner
• You continually seek opportunities that reduce the number of escalated cases
• You can use data to find root causes and develop short, medium and long-term plans
• You're able to build strong, trusting relationships with stakeholders of all levels
• You have experience with works councils and employee forums is desirable but not essential
• Your used to working in fast paced environment for a medium to large sized company 2000+ employees

Desirable

• The Senior Employee Relations Manager (known internally as Employee Relations Manager) will own the employee relations strategy for Monzo.
• It will be a strategic partner to People Partners and business leaders, providing thought leadership, advice and counsel on performance management and employee relations matters.
• The Employee Relations Manager also leads a team of People Advisors who support our business leaders and will be responsible for setting goals for the team as well as engaging and developing the people within it
• Our internal community is core to achieving our mission. The Employee Relations Team is focused on providing efficient, proactive, knowledgeable and timely support to enable leaders to make good People decisions.
• We want to ensure that all of our people policies are focused on the employee experience and are built with respect and empathy at their core
• Acting as an escalation point for our most complex employee relations cases. Collaborating with senior stakeholders, internal employment lawyers and People Partners
• Developing our managers and leaders competency in goal setting, wellbeing support and mental health support
• Partnering with Senior Leaders, the wider People Collective and various stakeholders across the business to develop and implement Employee Relations policies, procedures and programs
• Provide leadership, support and development to the People Advisors, in order to increase knowledge, foster continuous growth and share best practice
• Develop, review and update People policies and procedures to ensure best practice and legal requirements
• Provide management information on employee relations cases at Monzo and own the action plans to proactively address trends and root causes of people issues in collaboration with People Partners

• Application questions
• Recruiter call
• Role specific and Values interview
• This process should take around 2-3 weeks, however due to festive holidays this may be longer - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible!