Commercial People

1 week ago

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Private Advertiser Full time

Be the influencer. Be the challenger. Be the change.

We're searching for a Commercial People & Culture Business Partner who thrives at the intersection of strategy, influence, and commercial decision-making. This is a role for someone who wants to shape, challenge, and elevate how leaders think about people, performance, and culture.

You won't just support the business — you'll help elevate it. You'll be a trusted advisor, a courageous influencer, and a partner who drives capability, clarity, and momentum across our teams.

What you'll be doing

  • Partner closely with senior leaders to develop and implement people strategies that strengthen performance, engagement, and commercial outcomes.
  • Act as a true thought partner — challenging assumptions, reframing problems, and elevating the quality of decision-making.
  • Build powerful, trusted relationships at every level by being present, supportive, commercially aligned, and solutions-focused.
  • Lead and deliver change initiatives that reshape how we operate, including leadership capability, workforce planning, organisational design, and culture uplift.
  • Translate ambiguity into clarity: diagnosing issues, identifying root causes, and providing practical, actionable solutions that move the business forward.
  • Collaborate deeply with the P&C team, contributing to team priorities, supporting colleagues, and strengthening how we show up collectively.
  • Role-model our values and act as an advocate for a high-performing, high-care culture.
  • Bring data, insights, and trends to leaders to enable strong, commercially-minded decision making.
  • Build tools, frameworks, and processes that empower leaders to lift capability and deliver consistently across their teams.

You will thrive in this role if you are:

  • Commercially minded – you instinctively connect people decisions to business performance and customer outcomes.
  • Influential – you know how to shift thinking, challenge respectfully, and coach leaders toward better solutions.
  • A challenger – curious, direct, thoughtful, and unafraid to question assumptions or propose a better path.
  • Solutions-oriented – you don't just identify problems; you bring clarity, options, and action.
  • A team player and team advocate – you support your colleagues, share knowledge, collaborate openly, and help create a strong P&C team brand.
  • A relationship builder – you build trust quickly through delivery, honesty, and authenticity.
  • A builder – you enjoy creating new processes, frameworks, and ways of working, rather than inheriting a finished system.
  • Calm in ambiguity – you bring structure where there is none and clarity when things feel complex.

This role is not for you if:

  • You prefer to follow "what we've always done."
  • You avoid challenging leaders or find it uncomfortable to influence upwards.
  • You rely on others to set your direction rather than shaping it yourself.
  • You are a "yes person" who prioritises agreement over impact.
  • Problem-solving, solution-building, or navigating ambiguity drains you.
  • You prefer a transactional HR role over strategic, commercial partnering.

If you're ready to influence, build, challenge, and create meaningful change — we'd love to meet you.

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