People Partner, Operations

Tandem Partners; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Tandem Partners in Melbourne is seeking an experienced HR Business Partner to own the people agenda for a large, operationally complex national workforce. You will partner with three senior business leaders, support about 4,000 employees across multiple sites, and lead a team of three People Advisors to manage day-to-day people partnering.

This senior role focuses on workforce and succession planning, organisational design and change, leadership capability, engagement and talent strategy, using

Qualifications

• Senior business partnering experience within a large, complex and multi-site operating environment.
• Experience supporting high-volume or frontline workforces.
• Previous responsibility for leading and developing HR Business Partners, HR Advisors or similar.
• Strong executive-level stakeholder management and the confidence to challenge, advise and influence.
• Experience across workforce planning, organisational design, change and talent.
• Sound employee and industrial relations knowledge, ideally including exposure to multiple awards or enterprise agreements and union relationships.
• The ability to work with autonomy, establish priorities and operate effectively through change.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior operational leaders on their people, workforce and capability priorities.
• Lead, coach and develop a team of three People Advisors.
• Develop workforce plans and strengthen succession and talent pipelines.
• Lead organisational design, restructuring and significant change activity.
• Identify leadership capability gaps and support the development of stronger people leaders.
• Use workforce and business data to diagnose issues and build evidence-based recommendations and business cases.
• Maintain appropriate oversight of employee and industrial relations matters, working alongside specialist workplace relations capability.
• Help mature a recently introduced people partnering model in an environment undergoing significant change.

Job description

An opportunity for an experienced HR Business Partner to take ownership of the people agenda for a large, operationally complex national workforce.

Partnering closely with three senior business leaders, you will support an employee population of approximately 4,000 across a geographically dispersed, multi-site environment. You will also lead and develop a team of three People Advisors who manage much of the day-to-day people partnering activity within their respective business areas.

This is a senior partnering role with a strong focus on understanding business challenges, using workforce and business data to identify priorities, and translating these into practical people strategies. Key areas include workforce and succession planning, organisational design and change, leadership capability, engagement and talent strategy.

The Role

• Partner with senior operational leaders on their people, workforce and capability priorities.
• Lead, coach and develop a team of three People Advisors.
• Develop workforce plans and strengthen succession and talent pipelines.
• Lead organisational design, restructuring and significant change activity.
• Identify leadership capability gaps and support the development of stronger people leaders.
• Use workforce and business data to diagnose issues and build evidence-based recommendations and business cases.
• Maintain appropriate oversight of employee and industrial relations matters, working alongside specialist workplace relations capability.
• Help mature a recently introduced people partnering model in an environment undergoing significant change.

About You

You will be an experienced HR Business Partner or People Partner who has previously led and developed HR/People team members. This is not intended as a first step into people leadership.

You will bring:

• Senior business partnering experience within a large, complex and multi-site operating environment.
• Experience supporting high-volume or frontline workforces.
• Previous responsibility for leading and developing HR Business Partners, HR Advisors or similar.
• Strong executive-level stakeholder management and the confidence to challenge, advise and influence.
• Experience across workforce planning, organisational design, change and talent.
• Sound employee and industrial relations knowledge, ideally including exposure to multiple awards or enterprise agreements and union relationships.
• The ability to work with autonomy, establish priorities and operate effectively through change.