Hr Business Partner - Growth & Intergration

The Next Step; Melbourne; Vor Ort; AUD 120.000 - 160.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

The Next Step is partnering with a fast-growing, purpose-led organisation in the community sector seeking an experienced HR professional to support post-acquisition integration across multiple sites in Australia. You will provide governance, workforce compliance oversight and strategic people support to newly integrated businesses while aligning with group standards.

In this role, you’ll partner with acquisition, transition and operational leaders, navigate complex modern awards (SCHADS), and

Qualifikationen

• Commercially minded HR professional with experience in complex, regulated workforce environments.
• Proven ability to interpret modern awards, especially SCHADS.
• Experience supporting acquisitions, integration and growth initiatives.
• Strong employee relations and investigations capability.
• Data-led approach with systems/automation to improve efficiency.

Aufgaben

• Leading people-related acquisition and integration activities
• Workforce compliance, awards, contracts and governance alignment
• HRIS, employee data and payroll transition projects
• Change management and stakeholder engagement
• Identifying organisational capability risks and opportunities
• Oversight of employee relations frameworks, investigations and grievances
• Culture, retention and engagement initiatives
• Workforce reporting and people insights
• Supporting leaders through organisational growth and transformation

Kenntnisse

HRBP Experience

SCHADS Award

Change Mgmt

Stakeholder Mgmt

Data-driven HR

PM

Jobbeschreibung

Most HR Business Partner roles focus on supporting the business - This one helps build it.

We’re partnering with a fast-growing, purpose‑led organisation in the community sector that is undertaking an ambitious acquisition strategy, with plans to welcome multiple new businesses into the group each year. As growth accelerates, they are seeking an experienced HR professional who can help integrate newly acquired organisations, establish consistent people standards, and provide trusted guidance during periods of significant change.

This is a unique opportunity for someone who enjoys building while scaling, thrives in complexity, and is energised by the challenge of bringing people, systems and cultures together.

About the role

Working within a high-performing corporate People & Culture team, you’ll partner closely with acquisition, transition and operational leaders to support newly acquired businesses through post‑acquisition integration.

This is not a traditional operational HRBP role.

The acquired businesses retain ownership of their day‑to‑day people management activities. Your focus is to provide governance, guidance, workforce compliance oversight and strategic people support, ensuring alignment to group standards while helping leaders navigate change successfully.

With acquisitions ranging from 50 to 500 employees and new opportunities emerging regularly, no two months will look the same.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading people‑related acquisition and integration activities
• Workforce compliance, awards, contracts and governance alignment
• HRIS, employee data and payroll transition projects
• Change management and stakeholder engagement
• Identifying organisational capability risks and opportunities
• Oversight of employee relations frameworks, investigations and grievances
• Culture, retention and engagement initiatives
• Workforce reporting and people insights
• Supporting leaders through organisational growth and transformation

About you

You will be a commercially minded HR professional who enjoys working in environments where priorities shift, timelines move quickly and solutions need to be practical. You will have experience in operated in complex, highly regulated workforce environments and can confidently navigate modern awards, workforce compliance and employee relations risk.

You’ll bring:

• Strong HR Business Partnering or Senior HR Advisory experience within complex, multi‑site organisations
• Demonstrated experience interpreting and applying complex modern awards, with particular interest in candidates who have worked extensively with the SCHADS Award
• Experience supporting organisational change, acquisitions, integration activity, transformation or growth initiatives
• Strong employee and industrial relations capability, including investigations, grievances and performance matters
• A data‑led and technology‑focused approach, using systems and automation to improve efficiency and scalability
• Strong project management skills and the ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing capability, particularly where outcomes must be achieved without direct authority
• The confidence to operate in an environment that is fast paced, evolving and often ambiguous
• Play a key role in a significant acquisition and growth journey
• Influence people outcomes across multiple businesses nationally
• Work closely with senior leaders on strategic initiatives
• Join a values‑led organisation making a meaningful impact in the care sector
• Broad exposure across integration, change, culture, workforce strategy and governanceGenuine opportunity to shape how a growing organisation scales