Team Experience Partner

New Opportunity to stand up a new business
- 6 month Fixed term contract based in Erskine Park
- Amazing company benefits on offer

Exciting times with Primary Connect, working in a new business unit with a focus on a 3PL, new sheds, new people, new processes and a great opportunity to be part of our Cold Chain Logistics operations.
This is a unique opportunity to impact this new business build performance through your exceptional partnering ability and talent in identifying opportunities to enhance organisational effectiveness. Your expertise in driving new outcomes through strong relationships, working together with business leaders you will focus on building and implementing strategies in alignment with business plans. This role requires you to work on-site at Erskine Park.

**About Primary Connect**

In October 2020, Woolworths Group Supply Chain rebranded to become Primary Connect - an end-to-end supply chain partner within Woolworths Group. Our team of more than 9,500 continues to support our Woolworths, Countdown, and BIG W stores across the country, providing them with our customers’ favourite food, drink, and everyday needs items.

Becoming Primary Connect gives us the opportunity to keep growing so we can become the next generation supply chain whilst remaining an essential part of Woolworths Group. There has never been a more exciting time to join our team as we develop our cold chain capabilities.

**About the Opportunity**

Partnering with the Operations Managers and the broader leadership team, you will provide strategic & operational HR support and guidance to this new business, enabling us to meet our business objectives. In this role, you will also be responsible for:

- Partnering with senior stakeholders for the effective delivery of people strategies, including aligning performance, capability, engagement and talent initiatives
- Partnering with leaders to develop engagement initiatives with a commercial mindset and passion for continuous improvement and innovation
- Providing actionable insights to leaders on trends in people data and providing support and coaching to act on this data
- Managing the implementation of people change initiatives

Working in an agile environment, you will be supported by a flexible and adaptive, high performing People team. You will have great exposure to large scale people initiatives through participation in people tribes and squads. Please note that this role requires you to have face to face interactions with key stakeholders hence you will be required to work on site with flexibility to work from home from time to time.

**About you**

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We’re looking for a resilient and relationship driven Business Partner who has demonstrated experience in a blue collar environment and experience in standing up a new business would be highly regarded. This role will suit someone with strong HR foundations and excellent communication, stakeholder management and relationship building skills.

You will be supporting a highly unionised workforce, including permanent and contract / labour hire team members, so experience dealing with unions is highly desirable. You must also have IR & ER experience, ideally gained from a large, highly matrixed organisation. You will possess strong employee relations (ER) expertise as well as the ability to think and plan for the long term, and the capability to diagnose issues and use data/insights to influence successful outcomes.

As an inclusive, team-first company, our people are at the core of everything we do. As our Group continues to evolve, innovate and support our communities, we encourage our team members to do the same with their own careers, by providing ongoing opportunities to grow and make a real difference. We value diversity and aim to create a vibrant and inclusive workforce which reflects the communities we serve.

**Grow with the Group
As an inclusive, team-first company, our people are at the core of everything we do.

We care deeply about creating a workplace where our team members feel valued, respected and empowered. We are committed to providing equal opportunity regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or life stage. We are proud to be recognised as a Gold Tier Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQ+ inclusion and as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.

As our Group continues to evolve, innovate and support our communities, we encourage our team members to do the same with their own careers, by providing ongoing opportunities to grow and make a real difference.

We value flexibility, and encourage our team members to work in ways that meet their work/life commitments and support their wellbeing.

We work hard to create a safe and inclusive environment for all, and most importantly, we're all about creating better experiences - for our customers and