Principal Employee Relations Specialist

Are you an experienced HR professional known for your sound judgement, technical expertise, and ability to navigate complex organisational challenges?

We're looking for a Principal HR Advisor to join the GSS HR Advisory UK & Ireland team. This is a senior advisory role for an individual who thrives on solving difficult people issues, influencing stakeholders, and driving high-quality, commercially focused HR solutions across the business.

As one of the most experienced members of the Advisory team, you will act as a trusted expert on complex employee relations, organisational change, and employment legislation, partnering with senior leaders and HR colleagues to support critical business decisions.

What you'll be doing

As a Principal HR Advisor, you'll lead on the most sensitive and high-risk people matters across DNV's UK & Ireland operations. You will:

• Provide expert advice and strategic guidance on complex employee relations matters
• Lead significant organisational change initiatives including restructures, TUPE transfers and harmonisation programmes
• Act as the escalation point for challenging and precedent-setting cases
• Partner with senior business leaders, BA HR and key stakeholders to enable business performance and effective decision-making
• Influence and coach leaders through complex people and organisational issues
• Support labour relations matters, employee representative consultations and union-related activity where required
• Drive continuous improvement of HR processes, governance standards and service delivery
• Lead or contribute to strategic HR projects and transformation initiatives
• Support capability development across the wider HR Advisory team through mentoring, coaching and knowledge sharing

About GSS

As the internal support organization for DNV and DNV owned companies, we deliver shared services within Human Resources, Finance, IT and Real Estate & Procurement to DNV globally. Our mission is to enable DNV to grow, succeed with its business goals and improve competitiveness. Customer experience is at the core of everything we do. GSS is responsible for many of the tools, processes and daily routines that create the backbone of DNV.