HR Services Manager – Pacific

Job Description:

Now Hiring: HR Services Manager – Pacific (Maternity Cover)

Location: Adelaide

Contract Type: Fixed-Term (December 2025 –September 2026)

We're seeking a capable and collaborative HR Services Manager – Pacific to join our team on a fixed-term basis to cover maternity leave. This role is ideal for someone with experience in HR operations, payroll, or business partnering and who's ready to lead a team and shape the way we deliver HR services across Australia and New Zealand.

Based in Adelaide, you'll lead the delivery of high-quality, compliant, and people-centred HR services, while implementing a pre-determined strategy.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead end-to-end delivery of HR services across payroll, operations, systems, and immigration
• Ensure services are accurate, efficient, compliant, and aligned with local legislative requirements
• Collaborate with HR and business leaders to meet evolving workforce and organisational needs
• Support process improvement and system enhancements, with a focus on automation and self-service adoption
• Provide clear leadership and coaching to the Pacific HR Services team
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement

About You

We welcome applicants with diverse experience across HR, payroll, or operations. You may currently be in an HR operations or shared services role or working as an HR Business Partner or Payroll Manager looking to expand into broader HR leadership.

You'll bring:

• Experience in HR operations, HR partnering, or payroll, ideally within a mid-to-large organisation
• Understanding of employment legislation in Australia (and ideally New Zealand)
• Familiarity with HR systems and platforms (e.g. Oracle, ServiceNow)
• Experience leading people or projects, or a readiness to step into a leadership role
• Confidence working with stakeholders across functions, locations, and levels
• An interest in improving systems, processes, and employee experiences
• Experience working within a global or matrixed environment is valued but not essential

Why Join Us?

This role offers the chance to lead a capable, purpose-driven team, contribute to ongoing transformation in the HR function, and play a key role in enhancing employee experiences across the Pacific region. You'll be supported by a collaborative HR community and have the opportunity to influence how we deliver services locally and globally.

This isn't your typical contract role. You'll be trusted to lead, and empowered to make real change happen. Apply now to shape the future of HR at Schneider where your work truly makes a difference.

All applicants must have working rights in Australia at the time of application and will be required to provide documented evidence if selected for interview.

Schneider Electric does not accept unsolicited resumes/candidate profiles from external agencies or suppliers via any method. If any candidates are submitted in an unsolicited manner, we will consider this as a direct candidate application to Schneider Electric and no fee will be payable.

About Our Company:

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IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.

We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.

Become an IMPACT Maker with Schneider Electric – apply today

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