Strategic People & Culture Partner — Build Leaders & Culture

Arb Australia; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

ARB Australia is seeking an experienced People & Culture Business Partner to join our People, Culture & Safety team in Melbourne. You’ll partner with leaders, delivering commercially focused people advice and building leadership capability across a dispersed workforce.

You’ll balance strategic thinking with practical execution, handling employee relations, workforce planning, performance and change initiatives to drive strong business outcomes in a hands-on role.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a P&C Business Partner or senior generalist role.
• Strong employee and industrial relations capability.
• Knowledge of Fair Work Act, NES, Modern Awards and enterprise agreements.
• Experience managing complex employee matters and workplace investigations.
• Able to coach and influence leaders at different levels.
• Strong commercial judgement and ability to challenge constructively.
• Experience using workforce data to inform decisions.
• Change management and stakeholder management skills.
• HR qualification completed.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with leaders and provide practical, commercially focused people advice.
• Coach and challenge leaders to strengthen leadership capability and team performance.
• Manage complex employee and industrial relations matters, including investigations and grievances.
• Support workforce planning, organisational design and capability planning.
• Lead performance, talent, succession and remuneration processes for your business group.
• Use people insights and workforce data to identify trends, risks and opportunities.
• Partner with leaders to improve engagement, retention and the employee experience.
• Support recruitment and onboarding for leadership and critical roles.
• Guide leaders through organisational change.
• Partner with the HSE team on wellbeing and risk management.
• Contribute to People & Culture initiatives to continually improve practices.

Skills

Leadership

Employee relations

Stakeholder management

Change management

Coaching

Data-driven decisions

Commercial acumen

Problem solving

Influencing

Workforce analytics

Education

Tertiary qualification in Human Resources or related discipline

Job description

ARB Australia is seeking an experienced People & Culture Business Partner to join our People, Culture & Safety team in Melbourne. You’ll partner with leaders, delivering commercially focused people advice and building leadership capability across a dispersed workforce.

You’ll balance strategic thinking with practical execution, handling employee relations, workforce planning, performance and change initiatives to drive strong business outcomes in a hands-on role.