People Performance Manager

Challenge yourself to lead People initiatives that drive employee engagement and business success
- Together we'll achieve an engaged, high-performing workforce through strong leadership
- Permanent, full-time opportunity based at Melbourne Airport

Jetstar thrives on innovation. We're always looking for dynamic and proactive professionals to help our business work smarter and more efficiently. You will be encouraged to think innovatively whilst developing and maintaining best practice. What's more, this role will see you working as part of a broader group Jetstar and Qantas structure. Our team is consistently searching for new places to fly, new ways to add value and new ideas to improve performance.

Our People Performance Manager works closely with the Airport team to help set, drive and deliver local people initiatives. We have an unwavering focus on building a flexible and adaptable workforce, driving leadership capability, improving productivity and creating safe workplaces. We're a high performing team and we each have the opportunity to add value and make a positive impact on the business.

As a People Performance Manager, you'll lead a team of Airport employees to drive the execution of people activities across a diverse, customer-focused workforce. You'll ensure timely delivery of employee processes such as one-on-ones, performance reviews, development activities, recruitment and Airport change initiatives. From coaching frontline leaders and employees, to rolling out engagement initiatives - you'll play a vital part in shaping the culture and performance within the Airport.

You'll have
- Tertiary qualifications in Human Resources or related discipline.
- People leadership (3-5 years) within a large industrial environment.
- Experience in facilitating performance management, investigation and disciplinary processes.
- A customer-centric, proactive work ethic with a strong continuous improvement focus.
- Previous experience interpreting and carrying out functional activities in line with HR policy, procedures and Collective Agreements.
- Strong computer skills with demonstrated experience with various HR Information Systems (e.g. Workday).
- Exceptional stakeholder management with the ability to build strong working relationships
- Our Culture_
- Jetstar is alive with a sense of adventure. Day in and day out, our teams search for new places to fly, new ways to add value and new ideas to improve performance. If you love the road less travelled, you'll love working here because ours is a team who innovate every day, thrive on delivery, support each other and celebrate our successes. You'll be supported to challenge, anticipate and explore while you work will connect people and enrich lives. We encourage diversity and aim to create an environment where our employees feel valued, respected and enabled._
- Our Benefits_
- Team members have access to heavily discounted fares to destinations all over the world - not only for team members, but for their favourite travel companions too. Our staff travel benefit includes discounts on airfares, accommodation, car hire and travel insurance for both domestic and international travel. Discounts can be used within the Jetstar Group airlines, Qantas and other partner airlines._
- Inclusion and Diversity_
- Applications close: Wednesday 30th July, 2025_

About us

We're Jetstar. You may know us for our famous low fares, but did you also know that we've flown more than 400 million customers since we launched in Australia in 2004? In fact, each week we operate around 3,000 flights to nearly 40 destinations across Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific. We also operate a fleet of more than 80 aircraft, including state-of-the-art Airbus A320/21 NEO aircraft and the Airbus A320 family and Boeing 787-8s. Every day we enable more people to takeoff to more places, more often.