Culture & Engagement Manager

**Description**

**Who We Are**

Hitachi Rail is a fully integrated, global provider of rail solutions across rolling stock, signalling, service & maintenance, digital technology, and turnkey. With a presence in 38 countries across three continents and over 14,000 employees, our mission is to contribute to society through the continuous development of superior rail transport solutions.

**About the Position**

As part of Cross River Rail, a new world class ETCS signalling system will be delivered by a collaboration between Cross River Rail Delivery Authority, Queensland Rail and Hitachi Rail through the Sequence Alliance.

A Culture and Engagement Manager is required to provide high level strategic and functional oversight and management of people, culture, and stakeholders within this Alliance, including workforce capability and performance and organisational and behavioural change.

**Key accountabilities**:

- Lead and facilitate business and cultural change to meet Sequence Alliance collaboration expectations through exceptional employee experiences.
- Build organisational capability to support the achievement of short and long-term business objectives for sustainable growth.
- Lead the delivery of internal engagement activities for Sequence providing the Alliance Management Team (AMT) with timely and accurate advice on significant people risks and issues to support decision making.
- Build a competitive advantage with talent; develop a robust pipeline of internal and external talent through strategic workforce planning to ensure organisational vitality, continuity and continuous upgrading of skills and abilities.
- Design and set the people experience and culture improvement strategy to harness the disruptive change to fast-track the up lift in culture, engagement and leadership outcomes that can be enabled through a future workplace program.
- Work closely with the Sequence Communication Manager and Sequence Improvement Manager to deliver strategic initiatives for stakeholder engagement and Alliance culture and behaviours.
- Set the internal voice, tone, and language for Sequence collaboration to enable the desired cultural change and determine the most effective channels to deliver this.
- Develop contemporary HR programs and processes for employee engagement, talent and performance management, diversity and inclusion, health and wellbeing, and support HR generalist activities.
- Function as a strategic business partner and advisor to the AMT regarding key organisational and management issues.
- Provide leadership for strategic investigative research and/or benchmarking projects which will contribute to the promotion of continuous improvement and innovation in delivering people-related strategies and services.
- Role model collegiate and collaborative behaviours to achieve the greater good for the community, celebrate a diverse workforce, create an environment where people can create and thrive, and support people's wellbeing.

**Key knowledge and experience**:

- 10+ years of firsthand experience of engagement or management roles.
- Demonstrated leadership experience, guiding and inspiring teams with a strong understanding of organizational and or alliance behaviours.
- Proven ability to plan, execute, and manage various initiatives including experience in coordinating and implementing employee engagement programs or events.
- Familiarity with data analysis and metrics to assess the effectiveness of engagement initiatives through the gathering of employee feedback.
- A track record of promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion within the workplace. Experience in developing and implementing strategies to enhance organizational culture.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a diverse cultural organization with multiple key stakeholders displaying highly polished interpersonal and communication skills.
- Knowledge of current trends and best practices in employee engagement and workplace culture.
- Strong experience in culture and engagement within organisations and projects including marketing and stakeholder activities.
- Experience in management of projects within rail highly desirable.

**Key qualifications and skills**:

- Bachelor's degree in human resources, organisational development, or a related field.
- Initiative-taking, with excellent leadership, organisational, communication and people skills.
- Ability to lead and inspire teams, fostering a positive and collaborative work environment.
- Ability to coach leaders to overcome tension points.
- Ability to work and lead in a multicultural environment.
- Strong project management skills to execute initiatives successfully.
- Agile mindset, able to take prompt decisions in a challenging environment.
- Ability to analyse data and draw insights to inform decision-making.
- Familiarity with diversity, equity, and inclusion principles.
- Problem-solving and conflict resolution abilities with the ability to support leaders through idea generation to im