I'm hoping to see if anyone here can help me with this. Sorry if it's a long one but it's hard to summarise essentially:
I've just been made redundant from a role I was in for 9 months after a male colleague was promoted above me.
There have been rounds of redundancies in my function the last 9 months but I was the only one this time, although more were let go in other functions. I was moved into this role 9 months ago as part of a new team due to restructuring. I'm in the UK but it is a global role reporting to the US. I've been at the company just under 2 years.
It was a senior manager role. 2 more junior roles were added a few months after me into the team, we all reported to the same manager though. My new manager asked me to guide the more junior roles and act as her right hand man and set up our team infrastructure which I did.
2 months ago a male colleague, also in the UK, with much less experience, but considerable bullshitting and political skills, who was at the same level as me previously in a parallel team convinced our new senior managers (above my manager) to create a new role managing the 3 of us. My manager had no say in this but admitted to me it was shit for me. He has considerably less experience than me in our field and industry, although he's been at this particular company longer (5 years), it's his first time in this sort of role whereas I've got 15 years in this specific industry and field and I was previously head a similar department at a competitor. I took an individual contributor role coming back off maternity leave, whereas my last roles have been more senior and managing teams.
The new role created for him was not advertised and nobody in our team was consulted. I found out that it was almost not approved due to our head of department flagging it for lack of compliance but some how it got positioned as an internal promotion and signed off. If advertised I definitely would have applied and had considerable experience for it from my roles previous companies and in my current role at the company. The role also wasn't really necessary as my manager in situ didn't have that many direct reports and putting him there has kind of created a duplication of work of what I was doing. I immediately became concerned for my role as I knew he'd throw me under the bus if he got a chance as he's all about self promotion and preservation.
Working for him has been really shit as he's not used to managing senior people and micro managed us and was very patronising (I.e. using AI to send me a 15 step guides on how to do a basic parts of my job on a daily basis, also attempting to gate keep strategic projects that are supposed to fall under my remit).
I was told on Friday my role was being made redundant because they're consolidating roles to the US. But then they admitted not all roles were being redundant from our team in the UK, which means only I got made redundant and he got to keep his role. I don't understand how this whole situation has been allowed to happen.
As it happens I was anticipating this so had been doing interviews and already got an offer the same morning - but I felt forced out. My current company offered me redundancy pay of 2.5 months including one months notice but I'm left feeling like this is a highly unfair situation and possibly even sex discrimination considering that a male colleague was given a non advertised role which has caused my role to be made redundant.
Also worth noting I got a really good performance review and a rise 4 months ago so this wasn't performance related.