People & Culture Business Partner (Finance & Sales)

Company Description
**Life at Nine**

Nine is Australia’s largest locally owned media company - the home of Australia’s most trusted and loved brands spanning News, Sport, Lifestyle, and Entertainment. We pride ourselves on creating the best content, accessed by consumers when and how they want - across Publishing, Broadcasting and Digital.

Nine is a people business. Being part of our team means you’ll be in a culture that promotes creativity and innovation, diversity and inclusion, and enables you to have true impact on business and commercial outcomes.

The People and Culture Team at Nine is a thriving and passionate team in Australia’s leading media company. As true partners to the business, we are highly regarded for delivering a best-in-class service, shaping both people and business strategy across all of Nine’s assets.

**Job Description**:
The People and Culture Business Partner will work within our Finance and Sales areas, reporting into the Head of People and Culture. You will play a critical role in delivering strategy and business transformation, supporting Executive leadership teams, building capability, and managing high impact change - ultimately driving business outcomes through our people initiatives.

**Finance **(75%)
- Sitting on the Finance Leadership Team and partnering with our CFO, you will be the voice of our end-to-end People Strategy within Nine Finance. This will include the development and implementation of a People plan and initiatives in line with Business Strategy.
- In conjunction with the Finance Leadership Team and Director of Transformation - lead the Finance business through a program of change and transformation over the next 12 months from a people perspective
- Partner with Finance people leaders to implement our Future Finance People Initiatives already in place - based around talent development, Career planning and Wellbeing
- Develop relationships with Finance people leaders to partner and provide daily advice, support and guidance around people

**Sales** (25%)
- Be responsible for driving key people initiatives across the Sales business including initiatives such as Sales Academy L&D, Development plans, Talent & Succession, Leadership Assessments, and reward & recognition programs
- Provide day-to-day advice and support to Senior Sales People Leaders (e.g., coaching, counselling, career development, disciplinary actions).
- Assistance with Nine commission scheme to ensure business outcomes across Nine
- Working with the Head of People and Culture and two other BPs, developing and implementing an innovative people strategy across Sales, Radio & Finance that enables us to attract, develop and retain key talent
- Actively support the COE’s in the P&C team to provide input into their initiatives and support roll out where needed - Play an active role in the Finance, Sales & Radio BP team - including pro-active development of new people initiatives, team collaboration and support to the team coordinator

**General**
- Working with the Head of People and Culture and two other BPs, developing and implementing an innovative people strategy across Sales, Radio & Finance that enables us to attract, develop and retain key talent
- Actively support the COE’s in the P&C team to provide input into their initiatives and support roll out where needed
- Play an active role in the Sales, Finance & Radio BP team - including pro-active development of new people initiatives, team collaboration and support to the team coordinator.

**Qualifications**:
**What we need from you**
- An engaging communication style that can adapt between Sales and Finance
- A strong ability to influence senior stakeholders to drive business outcomes
- Experience developing leaders and driving culture in collaboration with a leadership team
- Resilience and drive - a passion to drive outcomes in sometimes challenging circumstances
- Be prepared to switch between strategy and hands-on business partnering

**Essential experience & skills**
- Solid previous experience as a HR Business Partner - partnering with senior stakeholders (experience with Finance teams preferable)
- Demonstrated experience negotiating with and influencing Senior
- Managers ensuring proactive and commercially focussed HR solutions that align business needs and people strategy
- Strong understanding of strategic role of HR in the business and demonstrated capacity to align actions with bigger picture
- Knowledge of best practice people practices including employee relations, recruitment, reward, performance management, talent development and engagement
- Demonstrated experience in leading change initiatives and managing
- complex people projects
- Confident presenter and written communicator - able to adapt style and influence culture through communications
- Tertiary qualifications in Human Resources or a related discipline is desirable

Additional Information
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