Growth-Focused People & Performance Leader

Elite Trades Australia; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Elite Trades Australia is growing and we are looking for a commercially minded, people-first People & Performance Manager to help us build the workforce and leadership capability needed for the next stage of growth.

You will work closely with our directors and leaders to make the people side of the business clearer, stronger and more consistent: better leaders, better performance conversations, practical training, useful workforce data, cleaner systems and a culture people want to be part of.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in senior HR roles focused on people and performance.
• Experience growing leadership capability in fast-moving businesses.
• Ability to translate growth plans into workforce plans.
• Strong data literacy and ability to act on insights.
• Excellent communication with directors, staff, and teams.

Responsibilities

• Partner with directors to translate growth plans into workforce and capability plan.
• Build leadership capability across supervisors and emerging leaders with practical behaviours.
• Create simple performance rhythms: clarity, KPIs, feedback, development check-ins, escalation paths.
• Design onboarding, training and development for office, field-support and trades.
• Strengthen culture with standards, recognition, accountability, safety, respectful communication.
• Improve people processes, systems and workforce data to scale with minimal friction.
• Coach leaders and know when to elevate or seek specialist advice.
• Use workforce insights to identify patterns and turn into action.

Skills

Senior HR leadership

People & Performance

Leadership development

Workforce analytics

Coaching & performance conversations

Change management

Strategy to delivery

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Elite Trades Australia is growing and we are looking for a commercially minded, people-first People & Performance Manager to help us build the workforce and leadership capability needed for the next stage of growth.

You will work closely with our directors and leaders to make the people side of the business clearer, stronger and more consistent: better leaders, better performance conversations, practical training, useful workforce data, cleaner systems and a culture people want to be part of.