People & Culture Generalist

**Job ID**: 280303

**Date posted**: 27/02/2025

**Our team within IKEA**
At IKEA, our vision is to create a better everyday life for the many people. We believe that everything we do comes with the responsibility to create a positive impact on people, society and the planet. We are passionate about home furnishing, creating a positive life at home and sharing our tasty responsibly sourced food with the many people across the world.

We are guided by our cultures & values, creating a great place to work.
We stand for equality, diversity and inclusion.
We care about people & planet and promote health & wellbeing.
We nurture your development and provide career opportunities to unlock your potential.
**What you need to know**
- 5 weeks’ Paid Annual Leave, Paid Parental Leave, Family & Community Leave and much more
- 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Program for health and wellbeing support
- 15% Co-worker discount
- Low-cost nutritious meals including complimentary drinks in our Co-worker restaurant
- Free Co-worker parking
- Free benefits membership (savings and discounts on everyday expenses, entertainment, retail and well-being offers across hundreds of retailers and service providers).
- Bonus programme (where eligible)
- Co-worker Loyalty programme (extra contribution to your superannuation fund where eligible)

Additional information
- This role is Temporary, Full-time, 76hrs/fortnight until March 2026.
- The location for the role is Service Office, Tempe NSW, where hybrid working including a minimum of 3 days in the Service Office is required.
- Applications close Friday 28 March 2025.

**About this work area**
As People & Culture Generalist your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

- Business partnering with the various functional and senior leadership teams within the Service Office to develop and drive the people agenda to support the Country business objectives.
- Executing all operational People tasks related to human resources within your portfolio of functions to deliver an excellent co-worker experience, including recruitment, employment relations, learning and development, succession planning, workers compensation, performance management and people analytics.
- Securing engagement and retention by understanding the conditions of our co-workers and working on bridging the gaps.
- Supporting the building of individual and team competence & performance working with relevant People goals.
- Ensuring and executing delivery of learning & training at the country level.
- Implementing a co-worker relations plan that effectively manages all local interactions with co-workers, including performance management, and ensures that all areas in the unit work with the labour relations principles and uphold local policies, procedures and laws.

As People & Culture Generalist you are:

- Passionate about people and unlocking their potential to contribute to business results.
- A highly experienced HR generalist with a keen eye for detail, comfortable working across the full range of HR topics.
- Enjoy working in a vibrant and changing environment and have an appreciation of the mix of strategic, operational and administrative tasks.
- Highly developed communication skills with the ability to lead, develop and influence others; strong coaching and mentoring techniques that support your genuine interest in people.
- Proven ability to be able to build and strengthen key relationships to compliment and support our collaborative and inclusive culture.
- An advocate of change and transformation, with an ability to compliment communication channels through the development of tailored People plans with a down-to-earth yet strategic approach to growing the business.
- A degree in human resources and/or proven experience as a human resource generalist, you are looking to take your next step to grow your career

**We need people like you**
At IKEA, work is so much more than a job. Come join us