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Senior People & Culture Business Partner

Coates Group· Business Operations – People and Culture - Group
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Hybrid (Sydney, Australia)Full-time, PermanentPosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior People & Culture Business Partner responsible for executing the Global People strategy within the Corporate segment (Bizops, Product and Technology Core Technology, Strategy) to enhance organisational performance, leadership capability, workforce effectiveness and employee experience. Role includes workforce planning, organisational design, talent management, leadership coaching and change leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Acts as a trusted advisor to the ELT leaders and SLT member on people, workforce and organisational matters.
  • Influences leadership decisions through data, insights and commercial understanding.
  • Builds strong partnerships with leaders to proactively identify opportunities and address organisational challenges.
  • Balances enterprise priorities with functional business needs to deliver practical people solutions.
  • Develops and executes clear, measurable segment people plans aligned to achieve the Global People Strategy.
  • Partners with leaders to identify priorities that improve business, team and leadership performance.
  • Utilises workforce intelligence to track progress and impact.
  • Leads workforce planning activities to identify future workforce requirements — headcount, skills mix and capability needs and puts plans in place to address gaps and opportunities.
  • Designs and delivers talent management programs, succession planning and leadership pipeline development.
  • Coaches' senior leaders to build high-performing, accountable and inclusive teams.
  • Supports leaders to improve employee engagement, culture and performance outcomes using enterprise culture and engagement frameworks
  • Builds leadership capability through focused development and coaching initiatives. Strengthens collaboration, alignment and accountability across leadership teams.
  • Leads organisational design initiatives that improve effectiveness, scalability and performance.
  • Assesses organisational impacts, risks and readiness for change.
  • Partners with leaders to successfully implement and sustain change initiatives.
  • Leads the implementation of enterprise people programs and frameworks within the segment.
  • Partners with Corporate to embed talent, performance, reward, engagement and capability initiatives.
  • Ensures consistent application of people policies, frameworks and practices. Identifies opportunities to improve adoption and effectiveness of enterprise programs.
  • Provide expert guidance to leaders on employee relations matters, ensuring fair, consistent and legally sound outcomes
  • Manages employee relations matters and escalate high risk matters to the CPO

Qualifications

  • 8+ years' experience in Human Resources, including significant HR Business Partnering experience in a complex organisation.
  • Proven experience partnering with senior leaders and executive stakeholders.
  • Experience leading workforce planning, organisational design and change initiatives.
  • Strong background in talent and performance management, succession planning and leadership development.
  • Strong generalist HR knowledge
  • Sound working knowledge of relevant employment legislation and employee relations practice
  • Proven ability to build credible, trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and to influence at a leadership level
  • Demonstrated experience in working with people data and analytics to inform recommendations and decisions

Skills

Required:Strategic partnership with senior leadershipWorkforce planningOrganisational design and change management

Benefits

  • Annual market competitive bonus program
  • Thrive Program including flexible work options, health and wellbeing initiatives, Global Wellness paid day off and Give Back Day
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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