HR Manager

Our client is a global corporate, market-leading organisation that is undergoing stable, steady growth and it is planning to continue over the next few years. It has multi-site locations, operating with various brands across Australia and New Zealand. The head office is located in Sydney's CBD, with a hybrid WFH model in place.

This role is a HR Manager position, reporting to the HR Director, and within a team of other HR Managers, you will be responsible for NSW/ACT/NZ as your client group. There will be some frequent travel to the Sydney sites and infrequent travel interstate or to New Zealand as required.

The role currently oversees a Senior HR Advisor as a direct report. You will be supported by a shared team of HR coordinators and will be working autonomously with the various site leaders, and national senior leaders, and will lead the provision of expert advice, support, and HR services to meet business needs and enable the achievement of business strategy in accordance with company values.

The role is broad, working across the employee life cycle, and all cyclical calendar HR activities, and is suited to a true generalist who is outcomes-focused whilst creating a supportive, collaborative, and people-centric environment. Recruitment is site leader led, so there isn't much operational hands on recruitment, but rather advising on talent acquisition strategy and managing resourcing requirements and matters.

More specifically this role will see you:

- Manage and deliver the full spectrum of responsibilities within the employee lifecycle, including the development, engagement, retention, and separation, ensuring clear and efficient processes for all stakeholders that are aligned with legislation, policy, and company values.
- Maintain an up-to-date working knowledge of employment-related legislation and lead in the provision of advice and implementation for operational HR matters, providing guidance and advice to Senior Managers and leadership team to ensure appropriate organisational resourcing, Award interpretation and compliance, remuneration levels, capability development, performance management, and employee engagement.
- Ensure HR operations adhere to all employment-related legislation; industry codes of conduct; Equal Employment Opportunity requirements; privacy legislation; and operational regulations as adopted by the business in order to minimise organisational risk and protect organisational reputation.
- Undertake activities that support workforce engagement, regularly measuring advocacy or engagement and subsequently assisting managers to identify key insights and responding with relevant actions.
- Manage a variety of employment relations, performance and change management interventions and initiatives to ensure employees feel well-supported and receive effective and fair outcomes.
- Develop, implement, and oversee HR policies, processes, and procedures that add value, are legislatively compliant, are contemporary, encourage productivity and drive customer and employee outcomes.

**To be considered for this role**:

- You will be an experienced generalist HR professional having worked across all areas of HR.
- You will have senior advisory, HR Business Partner, or HR Management experience, working in large, complex, multi-site, qualified workforce.
- You are comfortable in managing various IR/ER issues and Award interpretation/compliance and have current knowledge of HR practices and employment legislation
- You genuinely care about others. You are attuned to the people's impacts of business decisions.
- You are efficient and effective in task delivery.
- You will be excited about having a positive impact on a business through the implementation of people-related initiatives.
- You naturally build trusted relationships by being knowledgeable, genuine, confident, and authentic in your approach.
- Excellent organisational, planning, time management skills, influencing, and negotiating skills.
- A tenacious mindset, drive to succeed and desire to do the right thing.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.

This is an exciting organisation with a great people-focused culture. You will be a critical member of the team, implementing positive change across the business.