About This Role
This People Manager role is an opportunity to join a national business partnering team, focusing on strategic people initiatives and enhancing the employee experience within a high-performance organization. The position involves reporting to a Senior People Manager and playing a key part in the development of junior team members.
Responsibilities
- Partner with key stakeholders to drive strategic people initiatives aligned with the firm's vision, focusing on talent, capability development, and enhancing the employee experience
- Coach leaders to build high performing, engaged teams, with a strong focus on talent development, retention, and long-term success
- Deliver cyclical People processes with precision and excellence, ensuring accuracy and consistency
- Collaborate with Resource Managers to optimise team resourcing, balancing workloads and enabling mobility across groups and offices
- Empower and mentor junior team members, fostering growth through active knowledge sharing and support
- Champion a culture of respect by managing people matters with empathy and integrity
- Interpret and apply people policies with clarity, ensuring alignment with business goals and values
- Support recruitment efforts, offering strategic advice and hands-on involvement where needed
- Work closely with People Centres of Expertise to deliver a seamless and consistent employee experience
- Proactively manage WHS matters, including psychosocial risks, workload management, and wellbeing initiatives
Requirements
- Tertiary qualifications in Human Resource Management or equivalent
- A minimum of 7 years' experience in a HR business partnering role, ideally within a law firm, large corporate or professional services environment
- A collaborative approach with the ability to independently advise, coach and support senior stakeholders, balancing legislative as well as commercial considerations for the firm
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders
- Experience leading cyclical processes in a complex, matrix organisation
- Hands on management of ER issues (i.e. investigations and performance management)
- A can-do attitude and an ease with building relationships with colleagues across the centres of excellence (Business Partnering, Operations, Resourcing, Recruitment and L&OD)
- A strong client service focus, and commitment to upholding ethics and confidentiality
- An innovative mindset, curious about AI and emerging technologies
Benefits
- Opportunities for personal and professional growth
- Learning opportunities tailored to you, including daily experiences, supportive challenges, team collaboration, mentors, and structured learning
