Human Resources Business Partner

**Excellent flexibility, hybrid working, workcations, and pet-friendly offices,**:

- ** Close-knit and supportive HR and People team across the Sydney and Gold Coast Offices,**:

- ** Values-driven company in a worthy and rewarding industry**:

- ** Industry-leading Wellbeing and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives.**

VetPartners is a group of over 250 veterinary clinics in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. We are partnering with high-quality established veterinary clinics throughout the industry, with a focus on celebrating individuality, supporting excellence, and providing industry-leading continuous development for veterinary professionals to help them achieve their goals.

We have a 6-8 month fixed term opportunity for a** **Human Resources Business Partner** **to join our progressive and dynamic Culture and Engagement team, covering a period of parental leave, with potential for the role to become permanent.

We are seeking an experienced, confident individual who can show up as a leader and hit the ground running. You will need to be commercial, energetic, hands-on and innovative, and have a passion for helping people and business to achieve their goals through one another.

An individual with particular strengths in culture improvement and team interventions, retention initiatives and leadership capability development would suit the role and priorities perfectly.

**What you’ll be doing**

Your priorities will centre on making our clinics the best places to work in the industry. To achieve this you will work very closely with your operations team stakeholders to collate people insights, help develop targeted culture improvement plans, identify and mitigate flight risks, and generally support your operational partners to achieve their people objectives.
- Support your partners with all things ‘people’: help leaders make people-related decisions that support business outcomes, are in line with our values, and comply with legislation,
- Proactively identify key people issues impacting the business and determine practical and impactful solutions,
- Develop company leadership capability and confidence in employment relations issues,
- Provide advice, coaching, feedback and support to management to effectively manage the performance and development needs of the VetPartners workforce, and facilitate resolution of employment relations issues, including case management of ER, IR and performance management and conducting investigations in line with relevant legislation,
- Contribute to the development and review of HR policies, procedures and frameworks, position descriptions, behavioural and skill competencies and remuneration frameworks,
- Identify culture opportunities: coach leaders on change management, culture and communication initiatives, and deliver workshops and corrective actions,
- Support and develop HR coordinators with HR admin processes using our HRIS, ELMO,
- Support the payroll team with employee details, amendments, and remuneration advice,
- Reporting, analysis and insights such as turnover statistics and action plans.

**What are we looking for?**
- Solid employee relations experience and strong understanding of relevant Australian employment legislation,
- A tertiary qualification in HR or a related discipline, and/or at least three years’ experience in a similar field-based partnering role,
- The ability to build strong and effective relationships with remote colleagues, and exceptional stakeholder management skills,
- A formidable problem solver, always looking for and implementing innovative improvements to key stakeholders
- Positive, curious and empathetic individual, with an eye for the bigger picture
- Confidence in negotiation, coaching and influencing,
- A resilient, 'glass-half-full', approachable and warm personality,
- A proactive and goal-oriented approach, and
- Exceptional communication skills and strong ability with systems and software, including Excel.
- Experience in a large geographically spread workforce.

This is a great opportunity to join a high-performing team in a dynamic and progressive business. Reporting to the Human Resources Director and working closely within the HR and Payroll team, with the support of our Careers and L&D departments and an inspirational CPO who chairs the AHRI D&I Advisory panel, together we're going to build the best employee experience in the industry