Team Leader, People Consultants

It starts here. With Bendigo Bank… and you.

As the Team Leader, People Consultants your role's primary responsibility is coaching and leading a team of generalist HR Consultants to deliver outstanding service, timely and accurate advice. The Team Leader will focus day to day on team coaching and development whilst also ensuring a culture of team engagement, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement. The new team are spread across various states and therefore leadership will predominately be facilitated remotely.

With an experienced background in HR you will bring your generalist knowledge and passion for developing people. You'll be able to impart your previous success and learnings to embed a culture of innovation, up-skilling, and continuous improvement - a genuine opportunity to make a real impact within our People & Culture community. Using reporting and analytics to derive meaningful insights, you will inform and influence key stakeholder groups with recommendations for improvements within People & Culture.

Join a People & Culture function whose vision is to grow a community where we want to work, where we are valued and where we belong. You'll be part of a professional and collaborative team that provide you with ownership, will value your input and ideas, and will challenge you to grow and develop your career with us.

This is a permanent, full time opportunity and Bendigo, Melbourne, Adelaide or Sydney are the preferred locations. We prioritise our people with a hybrid model based out of our Head Office locations.

As the Team Leader, People Consultants you will:

• Coach individual team members to achieve high performance, uplift capability and act quickly to address underperformance concerns
• Ensure advice provided to leaders/staff is accurate, delivered consistently, within agreed service response times, and the customer experience is outstanding
• Conduct regular reviews and audits of advice provided by team members to inform coaching and development conversations/plans
• Complete monthly reporting for the PAC Consultant stream, highlighting the number of requests received per month by category type, commentary, and insights
• Demonstrate a strong personal interest in your own performance and the performance and brand reputation of the team

To be successful in the role, you'll have:

• A relevant tertiary qualification or diploma in Human Resources, Employee Relations, Workplace Health & Safety, or a related discipline desirable, or currently completing a relevant tertiary qualification/diploma
• Demonstrated high performance and experience in a similar role leading a team of HR Advisors/People Consultants in a large complex organisation
• Experience coaching people to upskill capability to achieve high performance
• Proven capability providing advice on people policies, processes, industrial instruments, and systems
• Intermediate skills in MS Office suite and experience with HR systems
• Excellent attention to detail, ability to set priorities and meet deadlines, and outstanding customer service skills

Still in two minds? 

Research suggests 60% of women and underrepresented groups might stop here, even after getting as far as drafting an application. We believe that diversity makes every team stronger, so even if you don't tick every box we still want to see your application

We're making better, bigger. And we'll get there with you.

We believe a diverse workforce supported by an inclusive culture is central to our success, and we actively encourage applications from those who bring diversity of thought to our business. We support candidate requests for adjustment to accommodate an illness, injury or disability to equitably participate in the selection process.

We are committed to responding to all candidates. Please note shortlisting and interviews may take place prior to the advertised close date, so don't delay: apply now

Internal Applications

Please note, all internal candidates are required to notify their immediate leader when applying for a new career opportunity and will be asked to acknowledge they have done so upon submission of your application.

For more information, check out the Application Process for Internal Candidates page.

A position description is enclosed for this role  Team Leader, People Consultants -

Applications close COB Wednesday 19 November 2025