At a glance
- Location
- Melbourne
About the role
- This role puts you right where the fast-moving decisions get made, partnering with leaders across some of our most technical and innovative teams.
- You'll have the autonomy to understand complex business challenges, shape people strategy and drive meaningful outcomes in a business growing at pace.
Responsibilities
- Build deep business context for your portfolio and be a trusted advisor to leaders and their teams.
- Co-create people plans with your leaders, grounded in data, that set out the problems to solve and opportunities to chase.
- Partner with senior leaders on organisational design, workforce planning, talent strategy and performance, helping build effective team structures and leadership capability as the business scales.
- Use data and insights to diagnose root causes, coach leaders and orchestrate delivery through the right centres of excellence.
- Lead the delivery of cyclical people programs across your portfolio, so every area gets a consistent experience.
- Make cyclical programs count as real data and feedback loops, not compliance checkboxes.
- Work with centres of excellence to keep improving how these programs run.
- Give pragmatic guidance on ER matters, from performance management to separations, keeping outcomes fair and compliant.
- Coach leaders to handle people matters themselves, reducing day-to-day reliance on HR over time.
- Lead formal investigations and complex ER matters end to end.
Requirements
- Proven senior partnering experience, owning and delivering business outcomes through a people lens.
- A track record of coaching and influencing senior leaders, holding a position and landing tough messages without losing the relationship.
- Building and executing people plans grounded in data and measurable against commercial outcomes.
- Managing the full spectrum of ER matters, from performance management to complex separations, across Australian employment law.
- Leading cyclical people programs like performance cycles, remuneration reviews and workforce planning, on time and to a high standard.
- Strong commercial acumen and data literacy, talking business numbers first and turning workforce insights into a compelling story.
- Experience partnering with leaders across technical, product or similarly complex business functions, with an understanding of the workforce challenges, talent dynamics and organisational structures that support high-performing teams.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience across centres of excellence, knowing what TA, L&D, Reward, Talent, Work Ex, Internal Comms and People Ops do and how to orchestrate them.
- Familiarity with people tech platforms, engagement and performance tools.
- Tertiary qualification in HR, Business or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- Market-synced pay that respects your craft and location.
- High-value referral bonus.
- 18 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers.
- Smooth Parental Return including 12 weeks of transition support with fully paid Fridays off during your first three months back.
- Access to Employee Assistance Program.
- Wednesday massages.
- In-house baristas serving free coffee, fresh juices and smoothies.
- Daily catered breakfast and regular company-wide events.
- Snack walls and drink fridges on every floor.
- Fun, modern office spaces with pool tables, table tennis, gaming consoles and an F1 simulator.
Workplace
- Based at the Melbourne office.
