Senior People Partner (12 Month Contract)
Tandem Partners ·www.tandempartners.com.au
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About the Organisation:
Our well-known, prestigious client is a highly regarded national organisation operating within a complex, regulated, and high-profile environment. With approximately 1,500 employees and a strong public purpose, the organisation has recently undergone significant transformation across governance, culture, leadership, and operating models. Following a major organisational review, the focus is now on embedding change, building leadership capability, strengthening organisational effectiveness, and supporting the next phase of transformation.
The organisation offers a collaborative, values-driven culture where integrity, accountability, sound judgement, and stakeholder partnership are highly valued. Employees are provided the opportunity to contribute to initiatives of genuine national significance while working in a sophisticated and intellectually stimulating environment.
About the Role:
This is an exceptional 12-month parental leave contract for an experienced Senior HR Business Partner seeking a highly visible and influential role.
Reporting to the Head of HR Business Partnering and leading 1 HR Advisor, you will support a diverse portfolio of approximately 400 employees across transformation, program management, technology, strategy, and change functions.
A key focus of the role will be partnering with leaders across a large-scale enterprise transformation program comprising approximately 200 employees operating within a complex matrix structure. As a trusted advisor, you will provide strategic and operational HR support across organisational design, workforce planning, talent, performance, employee relations, leadership effectiveness, culture, wellbeing, and change management.
You will work closely with senior executives and business leaders to navigate organisational complexity, support ongoing transformation initiatives, drive operating model effectiveness, and deliver practical people solutions that enable business outcomes. You will also play a key role in supporting workforce transition planning, capability development, and the successful embedding of organisational change.
This role requires a balance of strategic thinking and hands-on delivery, with the opportunity to influence organisational outcomes while remaining close to operational execution.
About You:
You are an experienced Senior HR Business Partner who thrives in complex and fast-moving, high-touch, high-impact change environments. You have a proven track record supporting senior leadership teams through large-scale transformation, organisational change, and business-critical initiatives.
You bring strong organisational design, workforce planning, leadership coaching, and stakeholder management capability, together with the confidence to influence and challenge constructively at executive level. You are equally comfortable providing strategic advice and rolling up your sleeves to deliver practical outcomes.
Your experience may have been gained within large corporate, infrastructure, technology, professional services, government, financial services, or other highly regulated environments where complexity, governance, and change have been constant themes.
To be successful, you will demonstrate:
Opportunities of this scale and visibility are rare within the HR market. This role offers the chance to contribute to a major transformation agenda while working alongside senior leaders within a respected and sophisticated, high-profile organisation. You will have the opportunity to make a genuine impact across culture, leadership, workforce capability, and organisational effectiveness while developing your experience within one of Australia's most complex operating environments.
How to Apply:
If you are confident that your experience reflects the above criteria, please apply online.
Should you have queries or would like to sense-check your alignment, please contact Matthew Saitta by email at matthew@tandempartners.com.au or call 02 8045 2923.
Tandem Partners is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Job Ref: 4072834
#SCR-matthew-saitta
Our well-known, prestigious client is a highly regarded national organisation operating within a complex, regulated, and high-profile environment. With approximately 1,500 employees and a strong public purpose, the organisation has recently undergone significant transformation across governance, culture, leadership, and operating models. Following a major organisational review, the focus is now on embedding change, building leadership capability, strengthening organisational effectiveness, and supporting the next phase of transformation.
The organisation offers a collaborative, values-driven culture where integrity, accountability, sound judgement, and stakeholder partnership are highly valued. Employees are provided the opportunity to contribute to initiatives of genuine national significance while working in a sophisticated and intellectually stimulating environment.
About the Role:
This is an exceptional 12-month parental leave contract for an experienced Senior HR Business Partner seeking a highly visible and influential role.
Reporting to the Head of HR Business Partnering and leading 1 HR Advisor, you will support a diverse portfolio of approximately 400 employees across transformation, program management, technology, strategy, and change functions.
A key focus of the role will be partnering with leaders across a large-scale enterprise transformation program comprising approximately 200 employees operating within a complex matrix structure. As a trusted advisor, you will provide strategic and operational HR support across organisational design, workforce planning, talent, performance, employee relations, leadership effectiveness, culture, wellbeing, and change management.
You will work closely with senior executives and business leaders to navigate organisational complexity, support ongoing transformation initiatives, drive operating model effectiveness, and deliver practical people solutions that enable business outcomes. You will also play a key role in supporting workforce transition planning, capability development, and the successful embedding of organisational change.
This role requires a balance of strategic thinking and hands-on delivery, with the opportunity to influence organisational outcomes while remaining close to operational execution.
About You:
You are an experienced Senior HR Business Partner who thrives in complex and fast-moving, high-touch, high-impact change environments. You have a proven track record supporting senior leadership teams through large-scale transformation, organisational change, and business-critical initiatives.
You bring strong organisational design, workforce planning, leadership coaching, and stakeholder management capability, together with the confidence to influence and challenge constructively at executive level. You are equally comfortable providing strategic advice and rolling up your sleeves to deliver practical outcomes.
Your experience may have been gained within large corporate, infrastructure, technology, professional services, government, financial services, or other highly regulated environments where complexity, governance, and change have been constant themes.
To be successful, you will demonstrate:
- Experience as a senior HR Business Partner with senior executives and leadership teams.
- Large, complex, top-tier, corporate sector experience.
- Great organisational change, organisational design and workforce planning capability.
- Demonstrated success supporting senior and executive leaders within high-impact transformation and organisational change programs.
- Excellent employee relations judgement and broad HR generalist expertise.
- Ability to influence and build credible, trusted partnerships with stakeholders across matrixed environments.
- Strong leadership coaching and capability development skills.
- Commercial judgement, resilience, professionalism, and integrity.
- A practical and hands-on approach to problem-solving and delivery.
- Relevant tertiary qualifications will be well regarded.
- 12-month parental leave contract with immediate commencement.
- Hybrid working model with 3 days in the office and flexibility to work from home.
- Opportunity to partner with senior leaders on a major enterprise transformation program.
- Exposure to complex organisational design, workforce planning, and change initiatives.
- Collaborative HR function supported by specialist Centres of Excellence and HR Operations teams.
- High-profile role with significant visibility and influence across the designated business units.
- Supportive and values-driven culture focused on learning, development, and employee wellbeing.
Opportunities of this scale and visibility are rare within the HR market. This role offers the chance to contribute to a major transformation agenda while working alongside senior leaders within a respected and sophisticated, high-profile organisation. You will have the opportunity to make a genuine impact across culture, leadership, workforce capability, and organisational effectiveness while developing your experience within one of Australia's most complex operating environments.
How to Apply:
If you are confident that your experience reflects the above criteria, please apply online.
Should you have queries or would like to sense-check your alignment, please contact Matthew Saitta by email at matthew@tandempartners.com.au or call 02 8045 2923.
Tandem Partners is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Job Ref: 4072834
#SCR-matthew-saitta
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