People Partner

FutureYou; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working arrangements

Competitive remuneration

Job summary

FutureYou is seeking an experienced HR Business Partner to join the People & Culture team in a genuine partnering role across a complex, transformation‑oriented environment in Western Sydney. You will work closely with senior leaders and people managers to shape people plans and drive capability.

In this hands-on role you will manage ER matters, workforce planning, leadership coaching and change programs, supported by data and HR systems.

Qualifications

• Significant HRBP experience with senior leaders.
• Experience partnering with executives and managing stakeholders.
• Strong employee relations and case-management capability.
• Experience supporting organisational change and transformation.
• Exposure to workforce planning, talent and capability development.
• Strong leadership coaching and influencing skills.
• Comfort with HR data, Excel and modern HR systems.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to translate business priorities into practical people plans.
• Coach leaders on performance, accountability and leadership capability.
• Support restructures, realignment and broader transformation activity.
• Challenge business requests to uncover underlying workforce issues before advising solutions.
• Provide practical HR advice across performance, conduct, engagement and retention.
• Manage day-to-day employee relations with specialist support for complex ER/IR matters.
• Support workforce planning and capability planning in growth and transformation.
• Contribute to talent, succession and leadership development initiatives.
• Use workforce data and HR systems to inform decision-making.
• Collaborate with People Services, Talent, ER and other P&C teams.

Skills

HRBP experience

Stakeholder management

Employee relations

Workforce planning

Leadership coaching

Data analytics

HR systems

Tools

Excel

HRIS

Job description

• Partner with leaders. Shape transformation. Build future capability.

• HR Business Partner
• Permanent | Hybrid |Western Sydney
• Partner with leaders. Shape transformation. Build future capability.

An established organisation with a formidable reputation in the construction and infrastructure sector is seeking an experienced HR Business Partner to join its People & Culture team. This is an opportunity to join a complex, operationally focused organisation undergoing significant transformation, with continued investment in its people, systems, operating model and future workforce capability.

Our client is looking for a commercially minded HR professional who can partner confidently with senior leaders while remaining hands‑on across employee relations, organisational change, workforce planning and leadership coaching.

About the Role

You will partner with a large portfolio, supporting corporate and business functions and working closely with senior leaders and people managers.

This is a genuine People Partnering role, broad enough to provide end-to-end HR partnering, with the depth and confidence to personally manage operational people matters.

You will:

• Partner with senior leaders to translate business priorities into practical people plans.
• Coach leaders on performance, accountability, leadership capability and effective people management.
• Support restructures, organisational realignment, consultation and broader transformation activity.
• Challenge and test business requests to understand the underlying workforce issue before recommending a solution.
• Provide practical advice across the employee lifecycle, including performance, conduct, engagement, retention, talent and capability.
• Manage day-to-day employee relations matters, with specialist support available for complex ER/IR matters.
• Support workforce planning and capability planning in response to organisational growth and transformation.
• Contribute to talent, succession, mobility and leadership development initiatives.
• Use workforce data and HR systems to support informed decision‑making.
• Work closely with People Services, Talent, Employee Relations and other specialist People & Culture teams.

About You

You will be an experienced HR Business Partner with strong generalist capability and demonstrated success working within a complex organisation.

You will bring:

• Significant HRBPexperience.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders and executives.
• Strong employee relations and case‑management capability.
• Experience supporting organisational change, restructures and transformation.
• Exposure to workforce planning, talent, succession and capability development.
• Strong leadership coaching, influencing and stakeholder‑management skills.
• The confidence to constructively challenge leaders and provide commercially grounded advice.
• Sound judgement in complex, sensitive and ambiguous situations.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving capability.
• Confidence working with Excel, HR data and contemporary HR systems.
• Experience withininfrastructure,engineering, transport, construction, resources or another operational/asset‑intensive environment will be highly regarded.
• Exposure to unionised workforces and industrial relations will be advantageous.

The Right Fit

We're particularly interested in HR professionals who have worked in environments where:

• There is a combination of corporate and operational workforces.
• Leaders are technically strong and require coaching around people leadership.
• Organisational structures and operating models are evolving.
• Workforce capability needs to keep pace with transformation.
• Employee relations matters need to be addressed early and practically.
• Processes and systems may still be evolving or being modernised.

You will be someone who can move comfortably between strategic workforce conversations and hands‑on HR delivery.

What's on Offer

• High-impact People Partner opportunity within a complex infrastructure organisation.
• Exposure to senior leaders and diverse business portfolios.
• Opportunity to influence organisational change, leadership and workforce capability.
• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Competitive remuneration aligned to experience and capability.
• Immediate contract/interim opportunities may also be considered for the right candidate.

Contact

***********@future-you.com.au