Strategic HR Generalist: Elevate People Ops & Data

Simpro Software; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Simpro Software in Melbourne seeks an HR Generalist to manage day-to-day HR operations, data integrity, and employee lifecycle activities. You will deliver commercially aligned HR services, partner with managers on people matters, and support workforce planning and change initiatives.

The role emphasizes leveraging automation and AI to streamline processes, improve speed, and scale HR impact across the organisation.

Qualifications

• End-to-end HR operations experience across the employee lifecycle.
• Solutions-focused approach balancing risk with business outcomes.
• Strong organisational skills with high attention to detail.
• Experience in growth, transformation, or organisational change environments.
• Leveraging technology, automation and AI to improve HR processes.

Responsibilities

• Own seamless, high-quality HR operations across the employee lifecycle.
• Provide clear, commercially minded guidance for managers' people decisions.
• Maintain accurate people data and HR systems, using automation to boost efficiency.
• Support workforce planning, change initiatives and talent processes.
• Drive performance cycle delivery: goals, reviews, and rewards.

Skills

HR Generalist experience

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decision making

Emotional intelligence

Automation/AI in HR

Tools

HRIS platforms

Reporting dashboards

Job description

Job

The HR Generalist helps to deliver an effective, commercially aligned HR services by managing core HR administration, operations, and coordination activities. Ensure the smooth running of day-to-day HR processes while contributing to a consistent, high-quality employee experience across the organisation.

Job

The HR Generalist helps to deliver an effective, commercially aligned HR services by managing core HR administration, operations, and coordination activities. Ensure the smooth running of day-to-day HR processes while contributing to a consistent, high-quality employee experience across the organisation.

What You’ll Do

• Own the delivery of seamless, high-quality HR operations across the employee lifecycle, ensuring every touchpoint drives a high-performance culture.
• Act as a trusted first point of contact, providing clear, commercially minded guidance that enables managers to make confident, effective people decisions.
• Maintain robust, accurate people data and HR systems, leveraging automation and AI to improve efficiency, reduce manual effort, and enhance data integrity.
• Support the execution of people strategies by enabling workforce planning, organisational change, and talent processes that directly impact business performance.
• Drive the operational delivery of performance cycles, including goal setting, reviews, and reward processes, reinforcing accountability and high standards.
• Embed global HR frameworks with a pragmatic, locally relevant approach, ensuring consistency, compliance, and business alignment.
• Partner with managers on day-to-day employee matters, providing practical guidance and supporting early-stage employee relations cases, while escalating and partnering closely with the Senior HR Business Partner on more complex issues.
• Translate HR data into meaningful insights, building dashboards and reporting that inform decisions, highlight trends, and unlock productivity.
• Continuously challenge and improve HR processes, using technology, automation, and AI to simplify workflows, increase speed, and scale impact.
• Build and maintain clear, scalable operating procedures that enable consistency, efficiency, and a best-in-class HR service.
• This job description is not an exhaustive list of duties and may be modified at the discretion of Simpro Group.
  
  
  

What You’ll Bring

• Proven experience in an HR Generalist, HR Advisor, or strong HR Administrator role within a fast-paced, commercially driven environment.
• Demonstrated ability to take a pragmatic, solutions-focused approach to people challenges, balancing risk with business outcomes.
• Experience delivering end-to-end HR operations across the employee lifecycle at pace and scale.
• Highly organised with strong attention to detail; consistently delivers accurate, high-quality work in a fast-moving environment.
• Experience operating in environments undergoing growth, transformation, or organisational change is highly desirable.
• Embraces technology, automation, and AI to drive efficiency, scalability, and continuous improvement.
• Strong working knowledge of HRIS platforms, with the ability to generate and interpret data, reports, and insights.
• Solid employment law knowledge, with the confidence to apply it in a practical, commercially aligned way.
• Demonstrates strong emotional intelligence, building trusted, respectful, and effective working relationships across the organisation.
• Effective stakeholder management skills, with the credibility and confidence to partner with managers on day-to-day people matters.
  
  
  

Our Core Values

While experience in the above areas will be highly considered, it’s important to note it will be secondary to the person with the right determination, attitude and compatibility. Our culture and core values are very important to us:

We Are One Team
We Are Customer Centric
We Are Growth Minded
We Are Accountable
We Celebrate Success

Simpro, AroFlo, BigChange & ClockShark are equal opportunity employers with a best-of-class onboarding program and supportive team environments. We embrace and support culture diversity and Equal Employment Opportunity. Aboriginals, Torres Strait Islanders and minority groups are encouraged to apply. .

Visit simprogroup.com/au/company/careers to learn more about us and our values.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all candidates for their application.

• Please note, no agencies will be accepted in the recruitment of this role.