People and Culture Business Partner

We are looking to speak with a talented People and Culture (P&C) Business partner to join our high-performing team for a parental leave cover based in our Sydney Head Office on Castlereagh Street. Stockland is one of the largest diversified real estate groups in Australia. We are Australia's largest community creator covering whole of life housing solutions. We own, manage, and develop retail town centres, workplace and logistics assets, and residential communities. Now is a truly exciting time to join Stockland as we accelerate our growth strategy.

The Opportunity

Join our team as a People & Culture Business Partner on a contract. In this pivotal role, you will work across the full employment cycle to support the implementation of strategic people plans, driving business growth, accelerating talent, and fostering an inclusive and unique employee experience. Collaborating with the Centres of Excellence and the People & Culture Leadership team, you will be part of the leadership team for your group. You will coach and partner with the General Managers and their teams to optimise culture, enhance engagement, and build high-performance teams.

Key responsibilities:

- Trusted Advisor: Act as a confidant and sounding board to the General Managers on people & culture matters.

- Strategic Alignment: Participate in business planning and align workforce strategies with business objectives.

- Leadership Development: Enhance leadership capability through coaching and building leadership effectiveness.

- Collaboration: Partner with Centres of Excellence to design and implement best practice people & culture solutions.

- Program Delivery: Support the delivery and embedding of enterprise people & culture programs (e.g., performance management, remuneration, leadership development).

- Workforce Planning: Shape the future workforce through strategic planning and organisational design.

- Transformational Initiatives: Participate in people & culture workstreams for transformational change initiatives, including M&A and structural optimisation.

About you

With a bachelor's degree in social sciences, economics or psychology, you're recognised as a trusted,  credible and collaborative People & Culture Business Partner, with experience across a large complex organisation or professional services organisation. With the ability to communicated with impact, and establish trust with leadership at all levels, you will demonstrate technical HR skills across the full suite of the employment lifecycle including:

- Case Management across ER/IR environments

- Proven transformational change program participation

- People Strategy & capability development

- Leadership Coaching

About us:

At Stockland we are a community delivering outcomes that benefit the community at large. We work collaboratively and inclusively, building strong working relationships. Our portfolio is diverse and so are the opportunities for professional and career development. We are committed to providing our people with broad experiences to build a successful career.  

We recognise the importance of flexibility and work life-quality and over 80% of our employees have informal or formal flexible work arrangements. Additionally, Stockland has a strong commitment to achieving the best outcomes through an inclusive and collaborative culture. Our customers come from diverse backgrounds and we want our teams to reflect this.  

We offer competitive remuneration and benefits. Benefits include free to access or subsidised lifestyle, health, well-being and financial services products.  

Due to the fixed term nature of this role, we can only accept applications from Australian Citizens, Permanent Residents or Open Work Visa holders with more than 12 months validity from their role start fix date.  

Apply today – Stockland – it's your place. 

Agencies should note that unsolicited resumes will not be accepted for this position and Stockland will not pay any fees related to resumes that are submitted directly to hiring managers and not through our approved process. Where appropriate, the Careers @ Stockland Team will work with our preferred panel of agencies to source candidates for roles. Please submit any queries relating to the approved process of submitting candidate resumes or Stockland's preferred agency panel to ************************

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