Senior People and Culture Manager

Title:

Senior People and Culture Manager

Senior People & Culture Business Partner

Location: Flexible across Australia

About the Role

We’re seeking an experienced Senior People & Culture Business Partner to join our national team, partnering closely with leaders to shape, influence, and deliver people strategies that drive business performance.

In this strategic and hands-on role, you will play a critical part in building leadership capability, enhancing culture, and delivering impactful people initiatives aligned to our organisational goals.

What You’ll Be Doing

As a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, you will:

Strategic Partnering

• Partner with leaders to translate business strategy into actionable people plans
• Provide guidance on workforce planning, organisational design, and capability uplift
• Contribute to business planning and key transformation initiatives

Talent & Workforce Management

• Drive workforce planning, succession strategies, and talent pipeline development
• Facilitate talent and performance discussions with leadership teams
• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition on recruitment strategies for critical roles

Performance & Development

• Embed high-performance practices including goal setting and development planning
• Coach leaders on managing performance, including high-potential and underperformance cases
• Promote a culture of continuous development and accountability

Employee Relations & Advisory

• Provide expert advice on employee relations matters including conduct, conflict, and performance
• Support leaders through complex and sensitive people matters
• Ensure compliance with legislation and best-practice HR approaches

Culture & Engagement

• Champion initiatives that strengthen engagement, inclusion, and belonging
• Support employee surveys and drive meaningful action planning
• Promote organisational values and employee value proposition

People Programs & Cycles

• Lead key people processes including performance reviews, talent calibration, and remuneration cycles
• Ensure consistency and quality across all HR programs

About You

You are a strategic, commercially minded HR professional who thrives in a fast-paced, stakeholder-driven environment. You bring:

• Proven experience as an HR/People & Culture Business Partner, ideally in a complex or consulting environment
• Strong knowledge of employment legislation and contemporary HR practices
• Demonstrated ability to influence and partner with senior leaders
• Ability to form strong working relationships with Key Stakeholders
• Ability to operate as a genuine partner to the business providing expert advice that balances commerciality, strategy and legislation.  
• Highly developed coaching, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills
• A degree in HR, Business, or related discipline

Why Join Us?

• Work as part of a highly collaborative national P&C team
• Influence business outcomes through strategic people initiatives
• Flexible work location across Australia
• Be part of an organisation committed to inclusion, engagement, and high performance
• Play an instrumental role in shaping a continuously evolving business
• Be part of a genuinely people centric company. 

Apply Now

If you’re ready to make a meaningful impact and help shape our people strategy, we’d love to hear from you.

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