Employee Relations Specialist

ER Specialist - Workforce Change & Restructuring

• 6 Month Fixed Term Contract (potential extension)
• Location: Glasgow, Hybrid Working
• Salary: up to £75,000

Oakleaf Partnership are partnering with a highly successful global financial services organisation with a collaborative culture. They are looking for an ER Specialist to support the delivery of complex organisational change programmes. You will be a technically strong HR Change or ER professional with deep expertise in workforce restructuring within complex organisations.

This role sits at the heart of large-scale workforce transformation activity and offers the opportunity to operate as a subject matter expert within a highly collaborative, matrixed environment.

The Opportunity

As part of a specialist Workforce Change function, you will take full ownership of the HR workstream across a portfolio of restructuring and organisational change initiatives. Acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, you will translate business strategy into structured, compliant workforce change plans while ensuring an excellent colleague experience throughout.

Projects will span restructures, redundancies, TUPE transfers, senior exits and settlement agreements, outsourcing and insourcing activity, site closures, and M&A programmes across UK and global populations.

This is a hands-on delivery role suited to someone confident managing detail, complexity, and pace within a regulated financial services environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end HR delivery for workforce change and restructuring programmes
• Own people impact assessments aligned to legal, policy, and governance requirements
• Design and deliver consultation strategies, including engagement with unions, works councils, and employee forums
• Develop structured communication plans and consultation materials, briefing leaders to support colleague conversations
• Partner with HR Operations, Legal, ER, and business stakeholders to ensure seamless programme execution
• Manage programme governance, controls, risk identification, and escalation throughout the project lifecycle
• Analyse complex colleague-level workforce data to inform decision-making and due diligence activity
• Support redeployment, career transition planning, and change implementation timelines
• Provide expert guidance on employment legislation, redundancy, and TUPE processes

Skills and Experience

• Strong UK employment law expertise including redundancy, consultation, unions, and TUPE
• Proven delivery of end-to-end workforce change programmes with minimal supervision
• Advanced Excel and data analysis capability (pivot tables, v-lookups, large datasets)
• Confidence influencing senior stakeholders and navigating complex change environments
• Highly desirable:
• Financial services experience
• Exposure to global or multi-country restructuring programmes
• Strong collaboration with HRBPs, Legal, ER, and business leadership teams

Why This Role?

This is an opportunity to join a respected global organisation during a period of significant transformation, where you will operate as a key Workforce Change SME delivering high-impact programmes that shape the future organisation.