Senior P&C Business Partner

HOBAN Recruitment; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

17% superannuation

Annual leave loading

Hybrid and flexible working

Salary packaging opportunities

Generous leave provisions

Job summary

The Senior People & Capability Business Partner role at a respected Australian university offers a strategic advisory position to executive and senior leaders, translating priorities into workforce, capability and culture outcomes. You’ll shape workforce planning, design, transformation and leadership capability to address complex people matters.

With hybrid and flexible working arrangements, you’ll influence workforce strategy at a national level and mentor the P&C team across governance

Qualifications

• Relevant HR qualification with extensive generalist experience across ER/IR, workforce planning, organisational design and complex people matters.
• Proven experience partnering with executive and senior leaders on strategic people, workforce and organisational matters.
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale change, transformation and organisational design initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Partner with executive and senior leaders to deliver strategic people and workforce solutions.
• Lead workforce planning, organisational design, transformation, talent and capability initiatives.
• Act as a trusted advisor on complex, sensitive and high-risk people matters.
• Use workforce insights and data to identify emerging trends, risks and talent needs, ensuring solutions align with legislation, enterprise agreements and governance frameworks.
• Coach and mentor P&C team members, strengthening capability and consistency across the function.

Skills

HR generalist

ER/IR

Workforce planning

Organisational design

Strategic partnering

Change management

Education

HR qualification

Job description

This respected Australian university is a nationally recognised education and research institution with seven campuses across Australia.

Combining national scale with a strong sense of purpose, the university delivers education, research and community initiatives that contribute to a fairer, more ethical and sustainable future.

The Opportunity

As the Senior People & Capability Business Partner, you’ll act as a trusted advisor to executive and senior leaders, translating organisational priorities into effective workforce, capability and culture outcomes.

You’ll provide strategic advice across workforce planning, organisational design, transformation, talent management, leadership capability and complex people matters, using workforce insights to identify emerging needs and shape proactive solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with executive and senior leaders to deliver strategic people and workforce solutions.
• Lead workforce planning, organisational design, transformation, talent and capability initiatives.
• Act as a trusted advisor on complex, sensitive and high-risk people matters.
• Use workforce insights and data to identify emerging trends, risks and talent needs, ensuring solutions align with legislation, enterprise agreements and governance frameworks.
• Coach and mentor P&C team members, strengthening capability and consistency across the function.

About You

You’ll be an accomplished senior HR/P&C professional with the credibility and commercial judgement to operate as a strategic partner to executive and senior leadership within a complex organisation.

You’ll bring:

• Relevant HR qualification with extensive generalist experience across ER/IR, workforce planning, organisational design and complex people matters.
• Proven experience partnering with executive and senior leaders on strategic people, workforce and organisational matters.
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale change, transformation and organisational design initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of employment legislation, enterprise agreements and governance, with experience across talent, succession and workforce capability planning.

Why Join?

This is a newly created senior position offering genuine scope to influence how People & Capability partners with leaders across a complex national university.

• 17% superannuation + annual leave loading
• HEW 9 level
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements
• Salary packaging opportunities
• Generous leave provisions
• Fitzroy, Melbourne or North Sydney location
• Exposure to executive and senior leadership
• Opportunity to influence workforce strategy, organisational design and transformation at a national level

Ready to make an impact?

Bring your strategic HR expertise, commercial judgement and partnering capability to a role where you can help shape the workforce, capability and culture of a major national university.

At HOBAN we encourage applications from people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people of all genders, LGBTI people, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

We provide reasonable adjustments; including alternate formats to the recruitment process for individuals with disability. If you require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process, please email our Adjustments Coordinator at [e-mail] or visit www.hoban.com.au/adjustments for additional contact details.