We're seeking an experienced People Partner to join a high-performing People & Culture team, supporting a diverse and complex portfolio within a large, dynamic organisation. This role plays a key part in enabling leaders to effectively manage people's matters with confidence, consistency, and care. This is a two-year fixed-term contract with 2 days on site in Sydney CBD.As a trusted advisor, you'll provide strategic and operational HR support across the full employee life cycle, with a particular focus on complex casework, leadership capability, and organisational change initiatives.
Your new role
- Provide practical, solutions-focused HR advice across recruitment, onboarding, performance, conduct, and employee exits
- Lead and manage complex employee relations matters (including performance, conduct, and grievances) with professionalism and sound judgement.
- Partner closely with senior leaders to navigate people challenges and build leadership capability
- Support and implement workforce planning, organisational change, and people initiatives
- Act as a senior escalation point for complex matters and coach junior HR team members
- Collaborate across HR functions to ensure seamless service delivery and alignment to business priorities.
- Interpret workforce data and insights to support decision-making and continuous improvement
- Build strong stakeholder relationships and influence outcomes across varied business areas
- Proven experience in a senior HR/business partnering role within a complex environment
- Strong employee relations expertise, with the ability to manage sensitive and high-risk matters
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence at all levels
- Sound knowledge of HR frameworks, policies, and employment legislation
- A proactive, adaptable, and solutions-oriented mindset
- Experience coaching leaders and supporting capability uplift within teams.
- Comfortable working across both strategic initiatives and day-to-day operational priorities
- Opportunity to work in a collaborative, values-driven organisation
- Exposure to varied and meaningful people challenges
- Strong focus on professional growth and development
- Supportive team environment with a clear pathway for progression
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV to sophie.cronin@hays.com.au
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.
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About us
At Hays, we invest in lifelong partnerships that empower people and businesses to succeed. You are at the heart of everything we do. With over 50 years’ experience and a workforce of more than 10,000 people across 32 countries, we collectively put our customers, at the heart of everything we do.
Drawing on knowledge that’s unique to our scale, our commitment to understanding your needs and our ability to meaningfully innovate we are more than just a specialist recruitment business. By providing advice, insights and expertise on issues you face in today’s fast paced world of work, we’ll help you make the right decisions for tomorrow.
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