Job Description

Job Purpose

• Provide dedicated support to the Fee Earners and Business Services departments (client groups) and manage the day-to-day operational HR issues that arise.
• Support the HR Business Partners and their client groups to design and deliver effective HR solutions.
• Take ownership of smaller groups/populations/processes/programmes and lead on supporting them and actively create a consistent approach to HR business advisory.
• Coordinating and lead HR projects.

Key Responsibilities

Employee Relations

• Acts as a go-to for ad hoc HR queries as they arise, providing advice and mediation for employee relation issues.
• Carrying out end of probation review meetings, monitoring probation periods including follow up performance reviews and managing termination meetings where necessary.
• Advising Partners, Managers and employees on policies and procedures, with the ability to influence, challenge and navigate difficult conversations.
• Leading on disciplinary, capability and grievance meetings, and where appropriate running the grievance/disciplinary/capability investigation/hearings and creating performance improvement plans.
• Coaching line managers across all aspects of the employee lifecycle.
• Conducting new joiner catch up meetings and exit interviews.
• Supporting the HR Business Partners, and leading where necessary, with restructures and change management.
• Advising on parental leave processes.
• Absence Management - proactively monitoring absence levels and dealing with long term sickness.
• Managing internal and external secondments across the client groups.
• Working with the wider HR team to communicate and share expertise. Providing support, feedback, and guidance. Acting as a point of consistency, ensuring that processes and outputs by peers are carried out consistently.
• Acting as a mentor for the HR Coordinators to assist with their continuous professional development.

Talent Management

• Work with L&TD and HRBPs to drive the talent management process.
• Working with the HR Business Partners to manage the annual promotions process.

Salary Review

• Support the HR Business Partners with the annual salary review process working as a project team with the HR Business Partners and Head of HR.
• Manage the co-ordination and preparation of salary review documentation.

Projects

• Working with the HR Business Partners, Head of HR and the business on various change-management projects within the firm. Taking the lead on either part of a larger project or all of a smaller project.
• Coordination of HR related projects, ranging in size and content, to ensure deadlines are met. Creating project plans, tracking progress, and following up with stakeholders in a timely manner to ensure deadlines are met, taking ownership and being responsible for outcomes.

General

• Working with the HR Coordinators to ensure that the client groups' organisational charts and data is kept updated to enable accurate analysis.
• Leading the Global Associate Programme.
• Coordinate Fee Earner and Business Services CDF sessions with L&TD.
• Assist with ad hoc projects and tasks.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience working at advisor level, ideally gained in a professional services environment.
• A strong understanding of Employment Relations & Labour Law, particularly with regard to employee relations issues.
• Able to establish good relationships with stakeholders, whereby queries will come directly to them, and they will act as a back-up to the HRBP when appropriate.
• Good understanding of the different needs and styles of stakeholders and able to adapt appropriately.
• Proven track record of building key stakeholder relationships with the Partnership and Senior Management Team.
• Experience of HR systems/databases and advanced user of Excel with the ability to manipulate and analyse data.
• Evidence of strong project management skills.
• Must possess a relevant degree applicable to Human Resources.
• Proactively manages workload and has the ability to prioritise, meet deadlines and multitask in a fast-paced professional environment.
• Able to use initiative and flexible in thinking and approach. Has the confidence and trust to find appropriate solutions, handle situations or escalate where appropriate.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Good judgment and decision-making skills.
• Proactive and resilient, seeking more exposure and raising their profile with key stakeholders.
• Integrity and discretion.
• Strong team player, a good ambassador for the HR team. Volunteers to help and get involved.
• Commercially astute and solutions driven. Shows a good grasp and interest in the commercial factors/considerations and risks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong influencing skills.
• Ability to inspire confidence and respect at all levels.

Clyde & Co

With over 5000 people operating from over 60 offices and associated offices across six continents, Clyde & Co is committed to creating successful outcomes for our clients. Our globally integrated teams of disputes, regulatory and transactional lawyers provide a comprehensive range of legal services and advice to businesses operating at the heart of global trade and commerce.

Our success in the past 90 years has been built on our vision of a single global partnership, providing a platform that offers rapid access to expertise, wherever you operate in the world.

As our clients have evolved, so have our core values. We believe that these values reflect our firm, our strategy and our commitment to delivering commercially-minded legal advice, client-focused services, and innovative technological solutions to support our clients.

Aligned with these values is Clyde & Co's commitment to being a responsible business. We take responsibility for the impact we have on the environment, seeking to reduce it as much and as quickly as possible. We strive to be a positive contributor to the communities in which we operate across our entire global network. We take steps to foster a truly diverse and inclusive workplace, that allows all of our people to flourish, for the benefit of our colleagues, the firm and our clients.

Clyde & Co, MEA

With over 30 years' experience in the region and the largest presence of any international law firm, we pride ourselves on being able to help clients recognise and overcome the challenges of doing business in the Middle East and Africa.

In terms of our Middle East foot print, our more than 40 partners and 150 legal professionals work from four offices located in the region's major commercial hubs, enabling us to support our clients across the full spectrum of their corporate and commercial needs throughout the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) and wider Levant.

In Africa, Clyde & Co is one of the largest international law firms operating on the continent, with over 120 lawyers helping clients to enter and operate in Africa.

We have been active in the region for over 20 years, advising on complex multi-jurisdictional transactions that include some of the continent's largest infrastructure and energy projects. Our experience extends to more than 50 different African markets across South, West, East, Central and North Africa.

Our deep sector knowledge covers insurance, energy, transport, infrastructure, marine and trade as well as aviation, education, defence, finance, healthcare, hospitality and technology.

Clyde & Co