About The Organisation & Role

With almost 1000 people across the globe, this organisation is trusted by its clients to manage and grow their investments with a focus on expert insight, active decision-making, and responsible investment principles.

This position offers hybrid working (3:2), flexible working hours to accommodate for global time zones, and a tight-knit group of P&C teammates based in modern office facilities in Sydney CBD.

This role presents an Employment Relations Specialist or Manager the chance to create strategy & leave a legacy. This is more of a strategic role, and less of a ‘doing’ role, allowing you creative freedom and ownership. This is a rare role in the Sydney market offering a career defining project and achievement you can be proud of. You will work in a People & Culture team of 35, and be responsible for enhancing existing policies, processes and reporting but ultimately define the organisation’s global employment relations strategy.

Your role will like this

• Reconstructing the global ER strategy and framework including policy design, templates, escalation pathways and decision-making structures;
• Creating risk-based and trauma-informed investigation models and reporting protocols;
• Establish a case taskforce for managing the potential impact of serious employee relations matters, with clear roles and responsibilities for P&C, Legal, Risk, IT, Communications, Senior Executives, and other roles across the regions;
• Designing training and resources to uplift ER capability across the P&C function and broader organisation and embed a speak-up culture through systems, education and cultural assessments;
• Enhancing psychological safety through Respect at Work training, embedding a trauma-informed approach, with clear guidance on technical aspects an obligations; and
• Leading the resolution of complex and high-impact ER matters in alignment with the organisation’s values and global governance standards.

About You

• You enjoy tackling complex problems and bringing structure to ambiguity;
• Extensive experience in designing and implementing global employee relations frameworks, policies, processes, resources, reporting and oversight models;
• Strong project and process management capability and ability to identify patterns and trends to implement appropriate actions;
• Tertiary qualifications in human resources, employment relations, employment law or related business discipline; and
• Demonstrated experience managing and resolving complex employment relations matters within a global matrixed and regulated environment, preferably within asset management or financial services.

How to Apply

For more information or a confidential discussion please call Haylea Smith at u&u on 0411 666 265 quoting reference number 41778.

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