This is a senior HR leadership role focused on driving strategic people and performance initiatives across ANZ, supporting business growth through organisational design, cultural integration, and workforce optimisation. Partnering closely with executive leadership, the role will act as a performance coach and strategic advisor, embedding commercial thinking into all aspects of people strategy.

Client Details

Our client is a high-growth, fast-paced FMCG business undergoing rapid expansion through a combination of strategic M&A and international market entry. With a bold ambition to become a global leader in wellness, health, beauty and consumer brands, the organisation blends entrepreneurial energy with the rigour of large-scale enterprise.

Currently operating across Australia, New Zealand, the US and UK, the business has grown to over 350 employees and is on track to exceed 400 in the coming year. Headquartered in Sydney, the company operates with an agile, founder-led culture but is evolving quickly into a structured multinational, underpinned by strong commercial ambition and operational excellence.

The company culture is bold, innovative, and performance-driven - a true "billion-dollar startup" environment. Values of accountability, adaptability and learning from failure underpin everything they do, and the leadership team is deeply invested in creating a high-performance culture that is both commercially astute and people-first.

With several recent acquisitions and more in the pipeline, this is an exciting time to join an organisation that is redefining its people strategy to support scale, capability and sustainable growth.

Description

This newly created position will act as the People & Performance Lead across Australia and New Zealand, supporting approximately 350-400 employees and partnering directly with a highly capable senior leadership team.

The core mandate is to elevate HR from a generalist function into a strategic performance engine - enabling leaders to build high-performing teams, embed culture, and drive capability uplift in line with commercial goals.

Key responsibilities include:

• Acting as a trusted partner and performance coach to senior leaders, helping drive productivity, optimise workforce design, and embed commercial acumen into people strategies.
• Leading cultural integration across acquired businesses, aligning legacy structures and behaviours with the organisation's values and operating model.
• Driving strategic organisation design and workforce planning, including structural optimisation, capability mapping, succession planning, and talent frameworks.
• Partnering on M&A integration - onboarding new businesses into the group's way of working, supporting change leadership and people strategy harmonisation.
• Supporting capability building through leadership development, coaching, and targeted performance uplift programs.
• Working closely with the CEO and General Manager of People & Performance to define and deliver key strategic initiatives across ANZ.
• Managing a small HRBP team (Sydney and Melbourne), while leveraging a newly created Central People Ops function for admin, compliance and governance.
• Collaborating cross-functionally with SLT to support international rollouts and harmonise people frameworks across regions.

This is a highly strategic yet hands-on role that requires strong commercial thinking, high emotional intelligence, and the ability to operate as both an advisor and delivery partner.

Profile

This role is suited to a senior HR professional who thrives in high-growth, change-heavy environments and brings a track record of building strategic people functions that directly support business performance.

You may have worked in startup, scale-up or transformation-heavy corporate environments - either way, your strength lies in creating structure from ambiguity and partnering with leaders to translate people strategy into commercial impact.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate:

• A strong background in organisational design, performance frameworks, workforce planning and change management.
• Experience working through M&A integration, particularly cultural alignment and capability uplift.
• A commercial mindset and the ability to link people initiatives to business outcomes - including financial KPIs, productivity, and performance measures.
• High emotional intelligence and stakeholder engagement skills, with the confidence to influence C-suite executives and coach senior leaders.
• A deep understanding of leadership capability, employee experience, and behavioural science - a background in psychology or organisational development is highly regarded.
• A flexible and grounded approach - you're equally comfortable in the boardroom and rolling your sleeves up with your team.
• A passion for driving cultural change, employee engagement, and high-performance ways of working.
• A confident communicator who can challenge thinking constructively and guide business leaders to better decisions.

Above all, you'll be a people-first, commercially driven operator who can act as the strategic right-hand to a forward-thinking executive leadership team.

Job Offer

• Base salary of circa $180k to $220k + 20% STI + super
• Five-day onsite working model in beautiful new offices in Sydney CBD
• High-impact, high-visibility role with succession pathway
• Opportunity to shape and build a strategic people function in a high-growth, acquisitive environment
• Work closely with a dynamic, visionary leadership team in a values-led, entrepreneurial business
• Access to cutting-edge wellness programs, including genetic testing, health tracking tools (e.g. Oura rings), and optimisation strategies
• Be part of a business where innovation meets purpose - with a strong focus on future health, biohacking, and productivity-led employee experience
• Collaborate across regions and influence global people strategy from the ANZ hub
• Lead the shift from generalist HR to true People & Performance partnering - and make a tangible commercial difference

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