Senior Safety & Business Partner (Operations & Strategy)

Australia Post; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Australia Post is seeking a Senior Safety Business Partner to influence senior leaders and solve complex operational and customer challenges. You will partner across the Parcels, Post & eCommerce Services portfolio, spanning Customer Success, Sales, eCommerce Growth, Customer Transformation and International Product & Operations.

You’ll identify risks, coach leaders, translate safety strategy into practical solutions, and drive governance across a national portfolio while collaborating with

Qualifications

• Significant experience partnering with senior leaders in a large, complex organisation.
• Strong business and commercial acumen.
• The judgement and confidence to influence and constructively challenge senior stakeholders.
• Broad experience across physical safety, psychosocial risk, wellbeing and operational risk.
• The ability to navigate ambiguity, transformation and competing priorities.
• Strong analytical, communication and stakeholder engagement capability.
• Relevant tertiary qualifications in Occupational Health & Safety or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders across a complex national portfolio.
• Use data, operational insight and professional judgement to identify emerging physical and psychosocial risks.
• Coach, challenge and influence leaders to strengthen HSW capability and decision‑making.
• Translate enterprise HSW strategy into practical solutions that work for the business.
• Partner with customer‑facing teams on tenders, customer requirements and safety challenges.
• Support transformation and change, embedding HSW into new ways of working.
• Lead and contribute to HSW governance, risk and wellbeing initiatives.
• Connect the business with specialist expertise across our broader HSW function.

Skills

Senior leaders partnership

Business acumen

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical ability

Communication skills

Education

Occupational Health & Safety qualification

Job description

Australia Post is seeking a Senior Safety Business Partner to influence senior leaders and solve complex operational and customer challenges. You will partner across the Parcels, Post & eCommerce Services portfolio, spanning Customer Success, Sales, eCommerce Growth, Customer Transformation and International Product & Operations.

You’ll identify risks, coach leaders, translate safety strategy into practical solutions, and drive governance across a national portfolio while collaborating with