Head of People

The Role

Head of People & Capability – Fisher & Paykel Australia

Fisher & Paykel is one of New Zealand's best-known brands, a global company with a strong heritage and ambitious plans. Our New Zealand origins, curious nature and passion to develop luxury products designed around people are core elements that make us unique.

Driven by our brand values of being trusted, innovative, generous, curious and sustainably minded, as a team we take a collaborative approach, have a culture where ideas are heard, and are united in our leading goal to be the world's most human-centred, #1 premium appliance brand.

The Opportunity

As the Head of People & Capability Australia you will be the strategic partner to the Chief Operating Officer and the Australian Senior Leadership Team. You will be responsible for implementing, enabling and delivering initiatives and practices that contribute to achieving both short and long-term goals, playing a critical role in ensuring Fisher & Paykel Appliances achieves number one market position for F&P and Haier brands in Australia.

You will implement talent, leadership and culture initiatives aligned to the Global P&C shared imperatives. Act as a coach to business leaders to create a culture of high performance and lead sustainable change. The role requires you to work collaboratively with our internal People & Capability Centres of Excellence in New Zealand to ensure effective and consistent delivery of globally aligned strategies and practices.

This is where you come in

The role requires the ability to understand and translate strategy into key, actionable goals, providing opportunity for strategic influence and practical hands-on execution, partnering with leaders to shape and deliver impactful people strategies to drive business success.

Being immersed in what the future of work looks like, means your agility to meet the needs of our people and the demand of the business is imperative. We are changing fast, and the market is changing with us, so you will need to have a forward-thinking approach to be at the forefront of engaging our people.

So, who are you?

You'll be a focused leader with broad experience across people and culture roles; you will be a strategic positioner who is able to think and act from the outside/in and is able to translate external business trends into internal organisational actions.

You will lead a small but mighty local team to ensure alignment to the global strategy execution. You will clearly understand how to translate leading goals into business and health plans and initiatives, apply system thinking to solve business and change problems and be an excellent communicator, able to convey messages appropriate to the context.

You will be able to perform at a very high level both strategically and operationally, with a passion for driving strategy, putting structured plans in place to achieve our strategic imperatives and have a strong financial understanding and analytical skills.

You will be able to influence behavioural change in self and others aligned to our values and behaviours and be able to effectively facilitate organisational design and workplace planning to address key capability needs. You will be recognised by other leaders as a key contributor and influence and is sought out for advice.

What we offer

We can give you the rare opportunity to move into a large, complex global organisation, part of the global Haier parent company, where you will gain wide exposure across the business. This role has diverse and exciting challenges and the chance to continually learn and develop.

Along with a competitive salary, flexible working, ongoing development, as a valued member of our team you'll enjoy generous discounts on Fisher & Paykel and Haier products, life & disability insurance, discounted medical cover, access to our leading Whanau/Family leave offering and free onsite parking.  All this, coupled with great leadership and backed by a world leading heritage brand that is consistently ranked as one of New Zealand's most Trusted Brands… year after year.

Apply now to be considered for this rare opportunity to work with Fisher & Paykel Appliances here in Australia and with global markets around the world.

From the grandest of ideas to the smallest of details, every day we're turning our passion into performance and improving life through good design.

Here at Fisher & Paykel we're passionate about our customers and we care about the details. It's this passion that inspires us towards reaching our goal - to become the most human-centred appliance brand in the world.

#LI-SF1

Fisher & Paykel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.