Employee Relations Manager  

Luton

Team

The Employee Relations (ER) team provides specialist advice, guidance, and coaching to help managers handle employee relations cases and understand people policies across all levels of the business. With a focus on supporting managers, they offer training, practical toolkits, and easy-to-access resources to ensure fair and consistent outcomes while managing risks effectively. As part of the People Service Delivery function, the ER team is committed to delivering excellent support, encouraging manager self-service, and continuously finding ways to improve processes. They assist with a range of cases, including investigations, disciplinary issues, grievances, whistleblowing, discrimination, and performance management. The team also plays a key role in managing change projects like TUPE, redundancy, and redeployment, providing guidance, updating documentation, and supporting meetings to ensure everything runs smoothly.

What youll be doing

Reporting to the Head of People Service Delivery, the Employee Relations (ER) Manager will play a key role in building and maintaining strong employee relations across the UK network. You’ll look for opportunities to improve our approach, find innovative ways to deliver better support, and ensure we’re consistently meeting the needs of our stakeholders and customers. Working closely with HR Business Partners, you’ll help develop strategies to strengthen employee engagement and build confidence in our management teams by ensuring they’re supported by a skilled and knowledgeable ER team.

In this role, you’ll also handle complex and sensitive employee relations cases, step in during crisis situations, and manage escalations from senior leaders. Using data and insights, you’ll identify trends, drive improvements, and ensure the team delivers meaningful outcomes. You’ll oversee team development, lead training plans, contribute to policy updates, and manage employment tribunal cases. Collaboration will be key, whether it’s engaging with unions, consultative groups, or wider teams, and you’ll ensure clear, thoughtful communication underpins every aspect of your work.

What you'll bring to the team

You’ll have solid experience in Employee Relations, with a background in advising on complex and high-risk cases, as well as leading teams through challenging situations. You’re confident managing large-scale business changes that have significant ER impacts and comfortable working with stakeholders at all levels, including unions and consultative groups. You’ll be able to draw on experience applying employment law changes to real-life scenarios and know how to communicate clearly and adapt your style to influence others effectively. Organised and detail-focused, you can juggle competing priorities while using data and insights to drive improvements. You’re also familiar with MS Office and HR systems, have a strong knowledge of UK employment law, and are willing to travel across UK base locations when needed.

What we offer in return

• Competitive base salary
• Up to 20% bonus
• 25 days holiday
• BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes
• 7% pension
• Life Assurance
• Flexible benefits package
• Excellent staff travel benefits
• Private healthcare

Location & Hours of Works

This full-time role will be based in Luton and will be 40 hours per week. Hybrid working with 3 days in the office. Will need to be able to travel 50% of the time.

About easyJet

At easyJet our aim is to make low-cost travel easy – connecting people to what they value using Europe’s best airline network, great value fares, and friendly service.

It takes a real team effort to carry over 90 million passengers a year across 35 countries. Whether you’re working as part of our front-line operations or in our corporate functions, you’ll find people that are positive, inclusive, ready to take on a challenge, and that have your back. We call that our ‘Orange Spirit’, and we hope you’ll share that too.

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We encourage individuality, empower our people to seize the initiative, and never stop learning. We see people first and foremost for their performance and potential and we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates.

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