Senior HRBP

Woodforde Group; Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Woodforde Group is seeking a Senior HR Business Partner to partner with senior leaders across professional, design, product, finance and leadership teams. You will coach leaders, navigate ER challenges and help shape people strategies in a growing organisation.

In this role you’ll balance hands-on coaching with strategic guidance, supporting change initiatives, workforce planning, and leadership development while maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Requires credibility to work with senior leaders in a fast-moving business.
• ER knowledge to navigate challenging conversations.
• Able to coach and guide leaders while balancing reassurance and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with senior leaders and their teams.
• Coach managers through performance, ER, and challenging conversations.
• Guide workforce planning, organisational design, and leadership development.
• Support recruitment as needed and help implement change initiatives.

Skills

Relationship building

Coaching

Change management

Strategic thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HR or related field

Job description

Consulting and Generalist HR (Human Resources and Recruitment)

Full time

150000

Your Organization

Our client is growing an already high-performing People team and is looking to add another experienced Senior HR Business Partner.

This isn't a role where you'll spend your day applying rigid frameworks or waiting for work to land. They need someone who enjoys getting amongst the business, building relationships and helping leaders work through the people challenges that come with a growing and evolving organisation.

You'll partner across a portfolio that includes professional, design, product, finance and leadership teams. Some leaders will need a quick sense-check or reassurance. Others will benefit from more hands-on coaching as they build their confidence and capability.

This is a role where you can genuinely influence how leaders lead. You’ll provide the coaching, guidance and practical support that helps them build confidence, handle challenges and get the best from their people.

What you’ll be doing

• Building trusted relationships with senior leaders and their leadership teams


• Coaching managers through performance, ER and challenging conversations


• Helping leaders prepare for conversations, understand the \"why\" and develop their own capability rather than simply handing issues to HR


• Supporting change initiatives and potential restructures over the coming 6 to 12 months


• Developing clear, practical change plans and supporting implementation


• Guiding workforce planning and organisational design discussions


• Driving leadership development and capability uplift


• Supporting recruitment where needed


• Creating a proactive cadence with leaders so HR can get ahead of issues rather than continually react to them


• Helping leaders work out where work and responsibilities should sit


• Moving comfortably between day-to-day matters and bigger organisational priorities

About you

You know what good business partnering looks like. You’ve developed the credibility to work confidently with senior leaders, the ER knowledge to navigate challenging situations and the judgement to know when to coach, when to challenge and when to simply provide reassurance.

Now, you’re looking for a role where you’ll be trusted to use that experience, given autonomy and have the opportunity to make a genuine difference.

You’re someone who:

• Can operate effectively without extensive processes or collateral around you


• Is comfortable when the answer isn't immediately black and white


• Can context-switch without losing sight of priorities


• Builds credibility with capable, professional stakeholders


• Knows how to challenge while maintaining the relationship


• Enjoys coaching leaders and seeing them become more confident


• Can balance reassurance with holding leaders accountable


• Takes a practical approach to change and implementation


• Is comfortable trying an approach, learning quickly and changing course when needed

What's in it for you?

You'll be joining a strong team, delivering meaningful work ahead across change, leadership capability and organisational design, with the autonomy to shape how you partner with your portfolio.

You’ll also have hybrid working, standard working hours and genuine work-life balance, making this an opportunity to do interesting senior-level work without an expectation that work needs to consume everything else.