HR Business Partner
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Description
You will provide commercially focused HR guidance across employee relations, performance management, workforce planning, talent, remuneration, engagement, and organisational change. You will advise leaders, manage investigations and formal HR processes, support restructures and separations, develop policies and remuneration frameworks, and partner with Payroll and HR Operations. You will also allocate and review HR work, coach team members, monitor service quality and operational risks, and improve HR systems and processes.
Responsibilities
- Build trusted relationships with leaders and employees and provide HR advice across the employee lifecycle
- Identify workforce risks and capability gaps and develop people strategies and HR initiatives
- Support workforce planning, organisational design, succession planning, restructures, and business integrations
- Prepare and analyse workforce reporting to inform recommendations
- Advise on conduct, performance, attendance, grievances, workplace conflict, and disciplinary matters
- Manage workplace investigations and formal HR processes
- Support consultation, redeployment, redundancy, and separation processes
- Identify and escalate employee-relations, legal, and reputational risks
- Develop and maintain HR policies, procedures, templates, and remuneration frameworks
- Ensure HR practices align with employment legislation and internal requirements
- Advise on salary reviews, promotions, incentives, benefits, benchmarking, and internal equity
- Partner with Payroll and HR Operations to process employee lifecycle changes accurately
- Improve HR systems, automation, and service standards
- Allocate work, review complex HR advice and case management, and coach HR team members
- Monitor workload, service quality, and operational risks
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Employment Relations, Business, Law, or a related discipline
- Five to eight years of progressive HR experience, including four to five years in HR generalist, HR business partnering, or employee relations roles
- Experience advising Australian managers and business leaders on employee relations, investigations, performance, restructures, and employment separations
- Knowledge of Australian employment law, modern awards, general protections, procedural fairness, and workplace-risk principles
- Experience leading or coaching HR team members, influencing stakeholders, and supporting cross-functional or multi-entity initiatives
- Experience preparing employment documentation and HR recommendations
- Commercial HR judgement and workplace-risk management
- Workforce planning and organisational design
- Stakeholder influence and decision-making
- People leadership, coaching, and development
- Quality assurance and operational oversight
- Written communication, reporting, and analysis
Benefits
- Performance-based bonuses
- Health and wellness benefits
- Flexible working arrangements
