General Manager People and Culture

**About us**

Sportsbet's purpose is to bring excitement to life for its customers and we do this by over-delivering on excitement through serious fun, disrupting the status quo and living our values. We’re a flexible, progressive, open-minded, and inclusive employer with over 7000 cool, clever and curious people around the world. We’re a global player, but in Melbourne, Sydney and Darwin we’re tight knit, with 800 of us bringing excitement to life every day.

**The Opportunity**

We are excited by this opportunity and know the right person will be too. You’re a leader who thrives in an environment that champions people to be their best. You’re a true strategic leader and partner who builds authentic relationships with proven experience at executive leadership level.

As our culture thought leader you will reshape and enable scale, with a focus on our mission of customer delight. You will develop and lead best in class teams, whilst driving an effective and consistent approach to organisation design across Sportsbet.

**How will you accomplish this?**
- Design and lead the delivery of the Sportsbet people strategy, including thought leadership to continue the growth of the best talent in Australia. Contribute to annual organisational alignment process including strategy development, communication, and individual objective alignment
- Determine long term people strategy, defining and delivering on culture aspiration and EVP to enable strategic alignment and attraction of the best talent
- As a member of our Sportbet extended leadership team (ELT), you will head the People and Culture function by providing long term thought leadership and coaching and development of the P&C team
- Ownership of HR Budget including Property and Labour
- Measure and drive key people metrics (attrition, engagement), HR reporting and insights to inform key business decisions
- Identification of organisational changes with impact on people, culture, or environment that enable us to achieve our strategic business objectives
- Ensure that all organisational changes enable the strategy, are consistently planned, effectively executed and drive employee engagement
- Lead an effective and consistent approach to organisational design across Sportsbet to reshape and enable scale
- Provide organisational development thought leadership, shaping the organisation to successfully achieve future scale and growth, in alignment with budgets.

**Your background**:

- Authentic and adaptive leadership style with a passion for culture development
- Non-traditional thinker - driving commercial outcomes enabled by people rather than policy
- Self-driven with the ability to inspire and mobilise others to action
- Ability to flexibly scale strategy and execution depending on short
- and long-term objectives
- Proven experience in partnering with executive leaders in a digital or other progressive business with developing people practices
- Proven ability to influence and present concepts/ideas to senior executive teams
- A well-rounded HR player with knowledge of both generalist and specialist HR disciplines including reward, OD, Internal comms, Talent, and LD
- Proven ability to identify innovative and fit for purpose solutions
- Proven experience engaging stakeholders in developing and implementing change programs
- Passion for Talent and driving practical real talent and succession outcomes throughout the organisation
- Fast thinker and learner. Must be able to operate in ambiguity in a very fast paced environment
- Strong organisational, written and verbal communication skills

**The Perks**

We don’t expect you to do all this for free, so along with a very competitive salary we will also provide you with:

- 25 days annual leave (a whole extra week of holidays)
- Tailored career development programs, as well as a commitment to developing Thought Leader and Specialist Talent programs
- Genuine flexible working and remote working policy
- Discounted gym memberships, free breakfast and loads of event and conference tickets and many more
- Best in class Parental Leave program with six months paid leave for Primary Carers

We’re a flexible, progressive, open-minded, and inclusive employer who welcomes you for who you are, as you are.