HR Director

4 weeks ago


Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Kerry Full time

Requisition ID 50966
Position Type FT Permanent
Recruiter #LI-CO1
Posting Type LI

About Kerry:

Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

About the Role:

This role will lead the ANZ people agenda, partnering to develop a culture of high-performance, delivery of our 5-year plan and the sustainable, profitable growth of our business.

To be successful in the role you will be proactive, solution-focused and deliver best practice, commercially astute people solutions. As a key member of ANZ Leadership team, the successful candidate will establish themselves as a trusted advisor & strategic partner and will role model collaboration and effective stakeholder management.

The HR Director ANZ will join our APMEA HR leadership team, and our global senior HR community in Kerry.

The role is Sydney based and will require travel within ANZ to our manufacturing sites based in Brisbane, Adelaide & Auckland.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Develop and execute the ANZ People Plan in line with our regional priorities, to support business growth
  • Support and enable an aligned, engaged, cohesive and high performing ANZ Leadership team
  • Partner with the ANZ leadership team to ensure we have the required capabilities, behaviours and ways of working to deliver our growth plan
  • Identify current & future critical roles and talent requirements, ensure there are pipeline succession plans in place to sustain the future business
  • Drive and support the development of key talent, including through robust onboarding and integration, career management
  • Drive and support key organisational change and communications initiatives for the ANZ business
  • Ensure our Integrated Operations agenda is supported – structure, resource allocation, learning & development agenda, employee relations
  • Partner to build our commercial capability in ANZ, working with our leaders and regional/global stakeholders to progress our learning agenda
  • Equip ANZ leaders to optimise our employee experience, proactively leveraging Kerry programmes and resources to build our people leader capability
  • Champion and activate our Diversity & Inclusion plans to build a more inclusive workplace and culture, anchored in our Kerry values
  • Lead and engage a capable HR team that delivers valued business partner support to the ANZ leaders and teams
  • Collaborate and partner with our regional HR Centres of Excellence (COE) on Reward, Talent & Succession, Talent Acquisition programmes and processes
  • Partner regionally to review and implement future payroll fit for purpose model and deployment in ANZ
  • Build and leverage internal and external networks, access external environment & industry trends and best practices to support delivery of our people plans
Desired Background and Qualifications:
  • Degree Qualified (HR, Business) with a track record of professional development
  • Minimum 10 years' solid HR Business Partnering experience
  • Well-developed understanding of the Australia / New Zealand legislative context and markets, including industrial relations & employment law
  • Experience working in manufacturing organization (any industry) required to be successful in the role
  • Previous matrix management experience, ideally within global organization, and experience leveraging shared business desirable
Skills and Capabilities:
  • Exceptional communication and collaboration skillset, with track record of building strong relationships and trust across all levels of the organisation
  • Commercial acumen and proven ability to influence stakeholders
  • Strong strategic thinking and analytical skillset, proven ability to translate business objectives into tangible people actions
  • Highly energized, proactive with proven experience working in fast paced dynamic environments, managing and delivering multiple priorities
  • Passion for driving organizational change, fostering a culture of inclusion, and enabling an optimized experience for our employees
  • Authentic personal style, empathic, adaptive
  • Pragmatic, solution oriented – curious, prepared to challenge the status quo
  • Digitally savvy with experience leveraging data to drive decision making

Beware of scams online or from individuals claiming to represent us. A Kerry employee will not solicit candidates through a non-Kerry email address or phone number. In addition, Kerry does not currently utilise video chat rooms (e.g., Google Hangouts) to conduct interviews. Refuse any request that asks you to provide payment to participate in the hiring process (e.g., purchasing a "starter kit," investing in training, or something similar). Kerry will not ask you to pay any money at any point in the hiring process with the exception of reimbursable travel expenses. In addition, any payments made by Kerry will be from official firm accounts bearing the Kerry name.



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