People Partner

**The opportunity**

Bupa is looking for an experienced People Partner to join our Health Insurance business on a permanent full-time basis.

As a People Partner in Health Insurance, your main focus is to enable business leaders to effectively manage and deliver the people strategy. To succeed in this role, you need strong business partnering experience with excellent stakeholder management, the ability to look at all people-related matters from a holistic point of view, coach and enable leaders to be successful people leaders and have an empathetic approach to HR.

The role can be based in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane or Adelaide with flexible work arrangements available.

**How will I help?**

Key accountabilities include:

- Truly business partner with our stakeholders and take accountability for the effective delivery of people strategies including aligning performance, capability, engagement and talent initiatives to the business.
- Provide guidance and advice to line managers based on in depth understanding of the area you are supporting and the broader business strategy
- Partner with leaders to develop engagement initiatives with a commercial mindset and passion for continuous improvement and innovation
- Effective management of employee relations cases
- Actively support leaders with all People cyclical initiatives such as the annual review process and People Pulse
- Support the Head of People to deliver people plans which address the strategic and operational business needs and aligned to the overall people strategy

**Why work at Bupa?**

We keep our people smiling by helping them improve their lives in and outside of the office.

We’re a welcoming lot, no matter who you are or where you’ve come from. We welcome all talents and backgrounds and embrace our differences, so you can bring your true self to work.

We support our people to be the best version of themselves, physically and mentally. With a healthy work/life balance, leadership support, reduced private health cover, study leave, volunteering options and a commitment to promoting from within.

Our employees can access wide range of benefits: from our own products (incl. health insurance subsidies) to many other products and services via our partnerships program (like Apple, Samsung, JB Hi-Fi, plus gym and spa discounts to name a few). We reward our people and celebrate their success, provide initiatives that develop careers and look after our people’s health, wellbeing, and futures.

**What do I need?**
- Extensive HR business partnering experience partnering with a variety of stakeholders
- Demonstrated experience in managing complex end to end ER cases
- Strong operational experience with a hands-on approach to HR but also the ability to think strategically and be proactive in providing tailored solutions to your client groups
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with a customer-focused mindset and the ability to connect with people to understand their issues and problem solve accordingly
- Experience in generalist HR including but not limited to leadership capability, operational HR delivery, employee retention, talent management etc.

**About Bupa Asia Pacific**:
Bupa is an international healthcare group which has been committed to a purpose of helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world for more than 70 years.

Bupa Asia Pacific operates in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong, supporting about 6.5 million customers through a broad range of health and care services including health insurance, aged care, dental, medical, optical and hearing services. Employing more than 20,000 people in the region, we believe that we can make a real difference to the lives of customers through our values, purpose and the way that we deliver personalised care.

Our people reflect the diversity of our community. At Bupa, your wellbeing, identity and own story is respected and valued.