HR Employee Relations Specialist

Up to £550 pd.day (Inside IR35)

Canary Wharf (Hybrid)

6-month DRC.

We’re hiring a seasoned HR Consultant to deliver high-impact Employee Relations support across the UK and Ireland. This is a hands-on, advisory role where you’ll partner closely with HRBPs, business leaders, and legal teams on a range of ER cases and projects.

In this role, you’ll:

• Advise on complex ER matters including performance, grievance, absence management, and conduct investigations

• Lead or support the management of TUPE processes and change management initiatives

• Work with Employment Legal teams to ensure compliance with evolving regulations

• Maintain and update HR policies in line with local laws and global standards

• Collaborate with Occupational Health and PHI providers on case resolution and early intervention strategies

• Coach and guide managers through sensitive people issues, promoting best practice and consistency

• Support ER case management across UK, Ireland, and wider EMEA region

• Contribute to global policy reviews, offering local insight and input

• Deliver training or briefings to HR teams and stakeholders on legal or policy changes

• Act as a key point of contact for escalated ER issues requiring nuanced judgment and risk assessment

You’ll be part of a regional ER team but also contribute to broader EMEA and global HR initiatives.

What you’ll need:

• Strong experience in Employee Relations, ideally within Financial Services

• In-depth knowledge of UK employment law (Irish law a plus)

• Excellent communication, analytical and case management skills

• Ability to work independently, with remote oversight

For more information, please apply below.

Reasonable Adjustments: We understand that there are a wide range of reasons that you may require reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process- please let us know in your application how we can best support you.

Procurement Manager
Reading / London / Cardiff / Manchester (Hybrid – 1 day per week in office)
6m DRC
Up to £650pd (Inside)

Our client, a leading financial services firm are seeking a IT procurement manager to come and support them on an interim basis. This will be an initial 6 month contract with the possibility of extension.

In this pivotal role, you will work across the business delivering across a range of technology sourcing projects. It requires a highly skilled Procurement professional, able to operate autonomously, build relations with senior stakeholders, and deliver on strategic sourcing activity with major technology vendors in a fast paced environment.

Key Experience:

• Extensive experience leading technology strategic sourcing
• Commercial and stakeholder management skills and proven track record of building strong internal business relationships
• A proven track record of delivering Category Management within a demanding, fast paced environment
• Leading and managing sourcing processes
• Developing and negotiating agreements
• Experience mitigating and managing risk throughout the procurement life cycle.
• A strong track record or savings.

For more information, please apply.

Reasonable Adjustments: We understand that there are a wide range of reasons that you may require reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process- please let us know in your application how we can best support you.

Senior Commercial Manager (Life Insurance)

Edinburgh (Ideally a few times a week in the office but open to candidates further afield)

£70k – £90k

We’re on the lookout for a passionate, forward-thinking Senior Commercial Manager who thrives on ownership and innovation. You’ll be the go-to expert for all things Life Insurance – from product development to P&L ownership, trading, reporting and performance. You’ll lead the commercial delivery of the product, build and manage the relationship with our underwriter partner, and drive long-term success for a brand-new proposition.

You’ll be the expert voice in a small but mighty cross-functional team across Propositions, Marketing, Finance, and Risk – most of whom don’t have Life Insurance backgrounds. That means you’ll be a motivator, a teacher, and a collaborator, bringing others along the journey while shaping the product from the ground up.

What you will bring:

• A genuine passion for insurance and a strong grasp of the protection space.
• Ideally, experience in Life Insurance, but we’d love to hear from you if your background includes Critical Illness, Income Protection, or Home Insurance.
• A commercial brain – someone confident managing P&L, setting budgets, and analysing trading performance.
• Experience working with external partners – especially underwriters – and managing contract delivery and governance.
• A natural leader who can inspire non-specialists, build bridges, and drive collaboration with warmth and confidence.
• Strategic thinking – with the ability to go from insight to action and deliver real value to customers.

This is more than just another commercial manager job. It’s your chance to launch something brand new, with the backing of a major brand, and build the role into what you want it to be.

If you’re driven, collaborative, and ready for your next big challenge – we’d love to hear from you.

Procurement Manager

Professional Services Category

Fully remote
6m DRC
Up to £650pd Outside IR35

Our client, a leading financial services firm are seeking an experienced Procurement Consultant to support them on an interim basis as they build maturity across the division. The focus of this role will be developing and implamenting a Professional Services Category Strategy with the ambition to transition this category to BAU by the end of tenure. This is a critical hire for our client and we are looking for individuals with prior experience in this space.

Though growing rapidly, this was until recently a greenfield environment and consequently there is a need to be flexible and add value to the wider team where possible whilst delivering against key deliverable.

Essentials to be Considered for the Role

• Have past experience building and implementing Professional Services Category strategies.
• Have experience in regulated, financial services environments
• An SME across Professional Services and ability to business partner with SME’s and be the sole point of contact.
• Excellent negotiation and problem-solving skills with experience in leading high value, complex negotiations
• Good working knowledge of contracts, with the ability to modify and negotiate the required changes in the spirit of the relationship and contract.
• Good data analytics skills with the ability to understand financial, economic, risk and contractual data
• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship building skills.

Desirable Skills/Experiences:

• MCIPs OR CIPs qualification
• Exposure to technology procurement would be an advantage, but only if complemented with extensive professional services sourcing.
• Understanding of EBA Guidelines on Outsourcing

For more information, please apply below.