Workplace Relations Leader

**The opportunity**

We are looking for a Workplace Relations Leader to join our high-profile, collaborative team on a 12-month parental leave cover contract. You will be a strategic leader, providing technical industrial relations advice and driving operational excellence.

The role will involve providing timely, pragmatic and technically accurate workplace relations and compliance advice across the business and deliver on workplace relations programs of work.

You’ll have extensive experience in leading bargaining negotiations and managing disputes and be comfortable to manage complex relationships with stakeholders internal and external to Bupa.

This is a hybrid, flexible role which can be based in any major Australian city.

**How will I help?**

Key accountabilities include:

- Collaborate with senior leaders in implementing a strategic and consistent Workplace Relations approach across Bupa Australia & New Zealand
- Identify and focus on key priority aspects of issues involving workplace relations and drive such matters to their completion, such as enterprise bargaining
- Project management and leadership of enterprise projects, such as enterprise bargaining and policy renewal
- Anticipate areas of high industrial risk and take steps to proactively mitigate these, by working in close partnership with senior stakeholders
- Analyse and interpret detailed information, such as regulations, legislation, awards and enterprise agreements, and provide clear and concise advice on workplace relations and compliance issues
- Involvement in Bupa’s compliance initiatives, leading aspects directly related to Workplace Relations and engaging with employee and unions where appropriate
- Provide leadership and advice to the Bupa leadership team on workplace relations issues
- Participate in oversight of industrial case management systems and analytics as relevant to workplace relations.

**What’s in it for me?**

As well as a competitive salary, a range of Bupa benefits and flexible working/ work from home arrangements, you’ll be challenged and encouraged to innovate. You will partner with colleagues who are dedicated to delivering exceptional experiences.

**Perk highlights**:

- Discount on our health insurance, travel, car, home, contents and pet insurance products
- A dedicated internal wellbeing team provides you with a range of services, such as a global resilience program, regular training opportunities on a range of wellbeing topics and access to a variety of wellbeing discounts.
- An additional wellbeing day to treat yourself

**What do I need?**
- Senior level consultancy, advisory and/or management experience, inclusive of a demonstrable set of achievements in workplace relations in a large and complex organisation
- Proven track record in workplace dispute prevention and settlement
- Demonstrable and significant experience in negotiation and end-to-end enterprise bargaining
- Strong stakeholder management skills (including Exec members), emotional intelligence and resilience
- Deep knowledge and understanding of management policies and procedures and experience in delivering practical commercial HR/WR solutions
- Demonstrable experience in the successful coaching of workplace relations specialists with a focus on collective agreement and Award management
- Proven ability to convert information and data into knowledge, and to communicate that knowledge in a meaningful and useful way
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**About Bupa Asia Pacific**

Bupa is an international healthcare group which has been committed to a purpose of helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world for more than 70 years.

Bupa Asia Pacific operates in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong, supporting about 6.5 million customers through a broad range of health and care services including health insurance, aged care, dental, medical, optical and hearing services. Employing more than 20,000 people in the region, we believe that we can make a real difference to the lives of customers through our values, purpose and the way that we deliver personalised care.

Since 2002, we have reinvested approximately $6 billion in the region, with the Bupa Foundation investing more than $34 million to support 130+ health and care projects.

Our people reflect the diversity of our community. At Bupa, your wellbeing, identity and own story is respected and valued.