Senior Employee Relations Partner

Bring more to life. Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology? At Cytiva, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact. You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life. Working at Cytiva means being at the forefront of providing new solutions to transform human health. Our incredible customers undertake life-saving activities ranging from fundamental biological research to developing innovative vaccines, new medicines, and cell and gene therapies. At Cytiva you will be able to continuously improve yourself and us – working on challenges that truly matter with people that care for each other, our customers, and their patients. Take your next step to an altogether life-changing career. Learn about the Danaher Business System which makes everything possible. The Senior Employee Relations Partner will be accountable for designing, owning and executing the Labour and Employee Relations strategy for the United Kingdom and Ireland, ensuring alignment with business objectives, workforce planning priorities, risk mitigation, and Cytiva’s long-term organisational design. While the primary focus of the role is employee relations matters across the United Kingdom and Ireland, the successful candidate must also bring demonstrable experience of working on employee relations matters in other European jurisdictions and/or a strong working understanding of European employment law frameworks. This wider European experience is essential for supporting European-related matters, but it is intended to complement, rather than replace the primary focus of the role which is the UK and Ireland remit. The role will include hands-on case management and will provide strategic direction, governance and thought leadership across the UK&I employee relations landscape. The role will support the wider HR teams across the United Kingdom and Ireland and areas of Europe, ensuring that employee relations practices are aligned and undertaken in accordance with applicable legislation, company policies and Cytiva’s values. This role will have primary responsibility for employee relations strategy across the United Kingdom and Ireland and will be responsible for handling casework across Cytiva’s UK&I non-manufacturing and corporate workforce. The role will report into the Labour and Employee Relations Director for the UK and Ireland and will be an on-site role based at our offices in Amersham, Buckinghamshire or Portsmouth, Hampshire. On-site presence (5 days a week) is an essential requirement of the role due to the need to partner directly with senior People Leaders, support sensitive and confidential employee relations matters, attend leadership discussions, manage urgent escalations, and provide advice on matters affecting our non-manufacturing workforce.

ER Governance and Risk: establish and maintain UK&I ER governance frameworks, ensuring consistency, legal compliance, appropriate escalation and defensible decision-making across complex and high-risk matters. European ER and Employment Law Awareness: apply experience of employee relations practice and/or employment law frameworks across other European jurisdictions where relevant, including recognising when matters require local legal input, regional consistency, or additional escalation, and to support on matters relating to the European Workers Council, while maintaining the primary focus on UK and Ireland employee relations matters. ER Casework and Advisory: manage a broad and varied employee relations caseload across the UK&I non-manufacturing and corporate workforce, including routine, moderate, complex and sensitive matters. Provide