People & Culture Manager

An exciting opportunity has become available for an experienced People & Culture Manager to join an established organisation in Melbourne's northern suburbs.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is passionate about people, enjoys building genuine relationships and wants to play an important role in shaping workplace culture, strengthening leadership capability and driving meaningful change.

We're looking for someone who brings a strong combination of strategic thinking, hands-on HR experience and emotional intelligence. Someone who can confidently partner with senior leaders, connect with employees at all levels and identify opportunities to make the business an even better place to work.

The Opportunity:
As the People & Culture Manager, you'll take ownership of the People & Culture function, working closely with senior leadership to support business objectives while creating a positive and engaging employee experience.

While the business has established HR processes in place, there's a real opportunity for the successful person to take a more proactive approach, introduce new ideas and help shape the future direction of the people function.

This is a role where relationships, communication and the ability to influence will be just as important as your technical HR knowledge.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Building strong, trusted relationships with senior leaders, managers and employees across the business.
• Developing and delivering People & Culture initiatives that strengthen engagement, workplace culture and employee retention.
• Partnering with leadership to identify opportunities for improvement and support business growth.
• Coaching and guiding managers across leadership development, performance management and employee relations.
• Leading proactive initiatives that improve the overall employee experience and strengthen the employee value proposition.
• Supporting organisational change and ensuring employees understand the purpose and benefits of new initiatives.
• Managing complex employee relations matters, workplace investigations, grievances and performance concerns.
• Overseeing workforce planning, recruitment, onboarding, talent development and succession planning.
• Reviewing and improving HR policies, procedures, systems and processes.
• Ensuring compliance with relevant employment legislation.
• Using people insights, employee feedback and reporting to identify trends and drive continuous improvement.
• Supporting operational HR requirements while maintaining a strong focus on longer-term people strategy.

About You:
We're looking for an experienced People & Culture leader who genuinely enjoys working with people and understands the importance of building relationships before driving change.

Ideally, you'll bring:

• A tertiary qualification in Human Resources or a related discipline.
• Approximately eight years or more of generalist HR experience, including experience in leadership positions.
• Strong knowledge of employee relations, industrial relations, performance management and employment legislation.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders and influencing business decisions.
• A demonstrated ability to build relationships with employees across different functions, backgrounds and levels of seniority.
• Experience developing or implementing employee engagement, culture, retention or organisational development initiatives.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to adapt your approach to different audiences.
• Experience supporting organisational change and improving existing HR processes.
• A proactive and commercially minded approach, with the confidence to identify opportunities and put ideas into action.
• Experience supporting multi-site operations.

Most importantly, you'll be someone who is approachable, emotionally intelligent and genuinely interested in understanding people.

You'll know how to balance being a trusted advisor to senior leadership with being someone employees feel comfortable approaching. You'll also understand that great HR isn't just about policies and processes, but about creating an environment where people feel supported, engaged and valued.

What's on Offer?

• A senior People & Culture leadership opportunity with genuine scope to influence.
• Responsibility for the people function.
• The opportunity to partner closely with senior leadership and contribute to business strategy.
• A broad role combining strategic people initiatives with hands-on HR leadership.
• The ability to introduce new ideas, strengthen culture and improve the employee experience.
• An established organisation with a strong focus on its people and future development.
• Melbourne's northern suburbs location.

Interested?
If you're an experienced People & Culture professional looking for an opportunity where you can genuinely make a difference, we'd love to hear from you.

For a confidential discussion, please contact Sarah Wilkinson at Morgan Consulting or apply directly through SEEK.

All applications and enquiries will be treated with the utmost confidentiality.