People and Culture Manager

Flexible work arrangements
- Attractive salary package
- Leading InsurTech company with lots of opportunities

**BizCover who?**
You haven’t heard of us? We dominate the SME business insurance market by having an online platform that makes comparing and buying business insurance a super easy process. Not to toot our own horn but we have been recognized in Deloittes fast 50 companies as one of the fastest growing technology companies and Westpac’s top 20 businesses of tomorrow - #killingit

**So what?**
We are looking for our New People and Culture Manager to join our dynamic and fun P&C team.
The **People & Culture Manager** will deliver a seamless experience for all employees through recruitment, onboarding, engagement, performance management, retention, and succession planning. The role will seek to achieve organisational outcomes by designing, developing, and implementing workforce strategies that foster a positive, high performance work culture, engage employees, and build capability. The People & Culture Manager will be required to oversee ER/IR functions, and compliance-based requirements, employer obligations, policies, and processes.

*BizCover has some strong P&C foundations already in place. This role provides the opportunity to build on these foundations.
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**Your day to day responsibilities will include -**
- Driving high performance across the group through appropriate frameworks and strategies to increase engagement and retention.
- Developing, implementing, and managing the performance framework processes, including but not limited to:

- quarterly/annual reviews
- performance ratings, ratings calibration, and related bonus’s
- annual market salary reviews
- career development frameworks, and
- associated training opportunities for employees and managers with clear alignment to our group strategic goals.
- Overseeing the development of a customised leadership program for all levels of the company.
- Staying abreast of changes to employment legislation and update the business accordingly
- Identifying opportunities to improve P&C policies and procedures and implementing changes in a seamless and transparent experience for employees.
- Further developing the BizCover EVP, nurture and grow the existing strong culture
- Analysing and reporting to the Executive Management on HR metrics
- Managing an end-to-end P&C environment from policy development to recruitment, talent, performance, culture, and workplace relations
- Working collaboratively with our broader team to deliver solutions to retain, promote and reward our employees.
- Overseeing the design and delivery of employee learning and development programs and initiatives that support performance management and succession planning strategies.
- Assisting in the management of workplace issues, provide all parties with necessary support and advice on approach and resolution.
- Overseeing annual performance review reporting.
- Be an active member of the Executive Management Team who focuses on whole of organizational leadership and outcomes. BizCover has offices in Australia, NZ and the US so you will need knowledge around the complexity of working across multi-national jurisdictions
- Project Management: this role has a strong focus on the planning, prioritization, and delivery of key P&C projects. By using agile methodologies, you will look at ways to continual improve and build on our strong foundations, as you move closer to what great looks like.
- Managing the People & Culture team, which currently has 5 direct reports (Learning & Development, Talent Acquisition, HR Business Partner, and Office Management) all of whom are very capable and autonomous. As a manager you will need to provide support and coaching for the team.
- Encouraging the focus on wellbeing of all employees through inhouse activities and initiatives.
- Assisting with our ER/IR program so employees feel fully accepted and supported as part of the BizCover family

**About you -**
- Operational and strategic P&C expert with a passion for people
- Demonstrated experience in managing all facet of a P&C function
- Performance Management, Talent Management, Learning and Development, Succession Planning, Employee Wellbeing and Diversity & Inclusion programs
- Extensive experience delivering measurable people outcomes across all aspects of the employee lifecycle
- Experience in reporting on HR metrics to Senior Leaders
- Experience in managing a small high-performing team
- Demonstrated business partnering skills at senior leadership level
- Strong ability to build relationships and communicate effectively across all levels of the organisation
- Agile Project Management mindset
- Innovative and entrepreneurial with a continuous improvement mindset
- A real ‘customer fanatic’ by collaborating, adapting, and improving existing processes and projects
- A strong connection with our company values: Customer Fanatic, Finisher, Drumbeaters and Advancers
- Fun and enthusiastic