Human Resources Manager

Talent Acquisition & Employer Brand Director

People and Culture Manager – Oceania

Location: Melbourne, Australia

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time

At Nexans, we are committed to powering a more sustainable future through electrification. Our People and Culture function in Oceania plays a central role in shaping the culture, values, and employee experience that support this ambition. Reporting directly to the CEO – Oceania and working closely with the global HR community, you'll be joining an engaged and purpose-driven team where your leadership will help influence business outcomes and drive transformation across Australia and New Zealand.

Getting a Flying Start

As our People and Culture Manager – Oceania, you will serve as a strategic business partner to the Oceania leadership team while leading all aspects of the HR function across Australia and New Zealand. From organisational design to performance management, recruitment, industrial relations, and change leadership, you'll develop and deploy HR strategies that empower teams, embed our values, and support high performance across our manufacturing and corporate environments. You will also adapt and implement Nexans' global HR strategy and programs locally, ensuring alignment with business needs, compliance with legislation, and reinforcement of our company culture.

How You Make an Impact

• Lead and coordinate the HR function across Australia and New Zealand, building people strategies aligned with business objectives
• Act as a trusted advisor to the CEO and Executive Team, ensuring HR is a driver of performance and transformation
• Shape and deploy recruitment, onboarding, and talent development strategies that attract and grow great people
• Oversee performance management, compensation practices, succession planning, and workforce planning activities
• Manage key industrial relations processes, including union engagement and labour agreements
• Embed our desired organisational culture, ethics, diversity, and safety practices at every level
• Lead change initiatives and support transformation with clear communication and proactive planning
• Ensure compliance with local employment legislation and group policies
• Represent Nexans Oceania within the global HR community, sharing feedback and enriching group processes

Your Starting Points When You Join

• A degree or higher qualification in Human Resources, Business, or a related discipline
• Minimum 10 years' experience in HR, with strong leadership exposure and proven business partnering experience
• Experience in a manufacturing and unionized environment, ideally in a small to medium-sized organisation
• Demonstrated capability in leading transformation, organisational design, and change management
• Payroll oversight experience and strong understanding of employment law and industrial relations in Australia and New Zealand
• Ability to influence and engage senior stakeholders while building trust across all levels of the organisation
• Strong communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills
• Integrity, resilience, and a proactive, people-focused mindset
• A strong alignment with Nexans' values and belief in our sustainable future

At the individual level our growth-culture is built on trust and collaboration. We wish to welcome you as a valuable member of our team. To enable impact, we believe in freedom and autonomy at the individual level at same time as we encourage knowledge sharing, team-work mentality and can-do attitude amongst our team members.

At Nexans, we recognise the differences that make each employee valuable and unique. The diversity of experiences, origins, personalities, gender and disability are considered key to our global ambition to lead the world in energy transition towards a sustainable planet. This is why we encourage diversity in our recruitment - Bring yours to Nexans, it is welcome

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Human Resources and Strategy/Planning
• Industries: Renewable Energy, Semiconductor Manufacturing, Oil and Gas, and Telecommunications

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