People Business Partner

**Job Type**: Full-time

**Salary**:$110,000.00 to $150,000.00 /year

**Location**: Sydney

**ABOUT US**

Ogilvy is an award-winning creative company that inspires brands and people to impact the world. We’ve been harnessing the intersection of talent and capabilities to create iconic, culture-changing, value-driving ideas that drive impact for clients since David Ogilvy founded the company in 1948.

Supporting the Ogilvy People team, this role will predominantly consult and partner across Ogilvy Network Business Units, working closely with the senior leadership teams. Effectively building strong relationships, whilst helping develop and drive/deliver innovative people initiatives and solutions that will complement and mirror the current and future strategic business objectives of Ogilvy and deliver both personal and organisational improvements.

**ABOUT THE ROLE**

We are looking for an experienced Business People Partner (BPP) to join our team in a business-facing strategic HR position that requires strong commercial and HR expertise to provide insight and challenge business leaders on all strategic people-related matters. It will be a key driver of operational and advisory HR, providing the effective and efficient delivery of employment relations, performance management, and reward, as well as dedicated expertise in the planning and implementation of effective organisational design development and change management.

Supporting the Director of People, this role will also consult and partner with the senior leadership team, effectively building strong relationships, whilst helping develop and drive innovative people initiatives and solutions that will complement and mirror the current and future strategic business objectives of the Ogilvy Network and deliver both personal and organisational improvements in performance and efficiency.

For our business to work, you will be required to spend time on certain areas of the business, in particular supporting the Director of People on operationalising the people strategy (in line with the business strategy) for the company and designing and delivering/implement any change and transformation initiatives.

**COMPETENCIES**
- Culture & Engagement - Design and delivery of innovative HR solutions that create and foster a productive and sustainable organisational culture; knowledge of the drivers and enablers of engagement; ability to assess management practices and behaviours and their impact on the employee experience; awareness of the factors which impact well-being at work and how to create well-being interventions for employees.
- Strategic Business Partnering - Works with leadership on the short and long-term goals planned organisational changes; achieves business objectives by offering workable, best-fit HR solutions in the context of the organisation’s operating environment; strives to influence the direction of organisational strategy; engages regularly with key stakeholders to understand their preferred approach and needs.
- Ethical & Credible Practice - Trustworthy, ethical, and personally credible; operates with integrity and demonstrates professionalism and consistency; challenges decisions and actions which are not ethical, make responsible choices about work, applies professional principles and values; provides explanations and reasons for the choices made and advice provided; considers the purpose and implications of actions, decisions and people practices for all stakeholders.
- Interpersonal Influence - Challenges the status quo, resilient, assertive, and has the necessary authority to negotiate outcomes as required; has the capacity to develop relationships and exercise influence on others to affect the actions, behaviour or opinions of others; demonstrates the use of models of influencing and stakeholder management in a range of situations; knows how and when to communicate ideas, considering potential reactions and resistance; contributes to discussions and respond to questions in an informed and confident way.
- Change & Organisation Design - Participates in change initiatives by helping implement new directions; offers ideas for improving work and team processes; experiments with new approaches and improves productivity through trial and error; assists with the implementation of changes to the organisation’s structure in low-complexity situations.
- Workforce & Talent Planning - Understands and demonstrates knowledge of business strategy and HR concepts, principles, and practices to effectively align the needs of the organisation and its workforce; collaborates with management to develop/aggregate workforce needs (i.e., emerging areas of work, potential competency gaps) and to develop strategies to ensure a sufficient pipeline to meet business needs; informs and educates managers about organisational competency gaps and how to develop their employees to meet them; advises leadership on rewards options based on the likelihood of enhancing d