Workplace Relations Partner

**Workplace Relations Partner
- Lead major enterprise bargaining negotiations
- Flexible work options, including home base locationPartner with Woolworths Group businesses and departments to provide strategic advice, guidance and support on all matters connected to industrial and workplace relations

**About Woolworths Group
Woolworths Group is a food and everyday needs retailer united by the shared purpose of creating better experiences together for a better tomorrow. With more than 1,400 stores across its Woolworths Supermarkets, Countdown Supermarkets (New Zealand) and BIG W brands, and fast-growing eCommerce businesses, Woolworths Group is Australia and New Zealand’s largest retailer. A top 10 company on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Woolworths Group employs more than 180,000 team members and serves more than 20 million customers a week.

**About us
**The Workplace Relations Team sits within the Group Culture & People Team, and is made up of three smaller, connected teams: Workplace Relations, Employee Relations and ER Advisory. The Workplace Relations team is responsible for providing strategic advice, guidance and support on workplace relations matters that affect the Woolworths Group as a whole; whole businesses or business units or entire employee cohorts.

**The Opportunity
**As the Workplace Relations Partner you will lead the end-to-end enterprise bargaining process. You will also provide strategic advice, guidance and support in relation to all matters connected to iworkplace relations, with the aim of ensuring a consistent approach across the Woolworths Group that enables our businesses to put customers and teams first.

This role will see you:

- Leading and managing the end-to-end retail enterprise bargaining process (including planning, negotiating, lodgment and implementation) to ensure high-quality agreements that serve business objectives and fit with Woolworths values.
- Advising, influencing, listening, coaching and supporting the business on a diverse range of matters relating to workforce compliance, employment conditions and other complex workplace relations matters.
- Contributing to the design of innovative solutions in response to risk issues, and identifying organisational risks and opportunities for process and system changes to better manage future risk on a sustainable and collaborative basis.
- Establishing strong working relationships with unions, employee representatives and key business stakeholders (locally and globally) to positively influence business decisions and enhance existing workforce processes and practices.

**Who we’re looking for:
- You will have significant senior-level experience in workplace relations with a strong understanding of employment laws and employee relations issues
- You have negotiated multiple enterprise agreements (ideally covering a large workforce) and played a lead role in bargaining and execution
- You have a deep understanding of the Fair Work Act and Fair Work Commission practice and procedure
- You can balance legal/compliance issues with commercial business needs and practical implicationsYou are a strong communicator, influencer and negotiator who can translate complex legal issues into straightforward language

**What’s in it f **or you?
- The opportunity to deliver industry-leading change
- Take your career to the next level, supported by a highly respected leader
- Join Australia’s largest retail organisation where there is ample opportunity to develop and grow your career for lifeHaving a career with us means you are joining one of LinkedIn’s Top 25 Companies Australia 2021 and we are recognised as a WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality, Work180 Endorsed Employer for all women along with Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQ workplace inclusion

**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 for each other.

**We’d love to hear from You