About the role

Are you ready to be at the heart of a vibrant and dynamic team? As a People and Culture Business Partner, you'll collaborate with key clients across all facets of Human Resources, providing comprehensive, end-to-end People & Culture (P&C) services to a team of approximately 220 members within our Vocus Consumer and Legal teams.

We are looking for someone with strong influencing and collaborative skills, who can work closely with business leaders to shape, develop, and implement our people strategy, driving growth and success across the team.

This permanent hybrid position offers the flexibility to be based in either Melbourne or Sydney, with a minimum of two days per week at our Melbourne CBD or North Sydney Office.

What you’ll be doing day-to-day

• Expert Guidance: Offer sound advice to your business portfolio, ensuring compliance with legislative requirements.
• Collaborate for Success: Partner with your business portfolio to achieve business objectives.
• Leadership Development: Coach and guide managers on all aspects of leadership and performance management.
• HR Process Management: Lead and manage HR processes, including recruitment, performance reviews, learning, and remuneration.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify and implement areas for improvement within HR processes.
• Recruitment Support: Assist the Talent Team and Business Leaders with recruitment as needed.
• Policy and Reporting: Advise leaders on HR policies, review and update policies as required, and complete monthly and ad-hoc reports for the HR team and business.
• Health & Safety Management: Manage health and safety (H&S) and workers' compensation (WC) matters for your business portfolio.
• Training & Education: Provide training and education sessions for managers on all HR matters where required.

What you’ll bring to this role

HR Experience and Leadership: 5 to 7 years’ experience in Human Resources, with prior experience in growing businesses, and partnering with senior leaders within an organisation.

Project Execution and Adaptability: Proven track record of executing projects and programs, with the ability to move quickly, juggle multiple work streams, and solve problems across the team.

Change Management and Impact: Comfort working in complex, multi-layered environments with changing priorities, and demonstrating the ability to lead change and create measurable impact.

Relationship Building and Communication: Expert ability to build relationships, earn trust, gain confidence, and influence others, with excellent written and oral communication skills.

Technical and Analytical Proficiency: Proficiency in the use of MS Office Suite, strong analytical skills, and the ability to align human resources strategies with business goals.

Employment Law and Employee Relations: Understanding of the Australian Industrial Relations landscape with the ability to apply to the business

Employee Lifecycle: Experience in facilitating the employee lifecycle – Talent, Rem Review, Performance Review, Goal Setting

What We Offer

Working at Vocus will give you rewarding experiences and the opportunity to do extraordinary work. You will enjoy:

• Diverse and dynamic teams with a supportive and inclusive culture.
• Supportive career development plans with comprehensive ongoing training, support, and development opportunities.
• Flexible hours and a hybrid working environment
• Generous discounts to over 400 retailers.
• Competitive leave benefits, including anniversary leave, purchased leave, parental leave, volunteering leave, study leave, and much more. We also offer a fifth week of annual leave when you hit five years of service!
• Study assistance programs to excel your personal growth, learning and development.
• Health and wellness offerings, including access to our wellbeing initiatives that can help you from a financial, psychological, and physical perspective.

Working at Vocus is never just a job – it’s personal. We’re crazy about our customers and believe our people are the difference. Our wonderfully diverse team and a vibrant culture define us. We care about the impact we have on our people, our customers, and our communities and are committed to operating as a responsible, ethical business.

We pride ourselves on setting audacious and ambitious goals and believe that we can play our part in changing the Australian telecommunications landscape and make a fundamental difference to people’s lives.

With us, you’ll have the opportunity to lead and inspire teams, work on projects that are shaping the future of telecommunications and become part of a culture that thrives on creativity, encourages new ideas, and provides a collaborative and inclusive environment.

About Us

As Australia’s specialist fibre and network solutions provider, we own and operate 25,000km of secure, high-capacity fibre connecting people, businesses, governments, and communities across Australia to the world. Through our well-known retail brands, we deliver simple and affordable broadband, mobile, voice and energy services with the purpose of Building Critical Connections. Enabling Better Possibilities.

Ready to take the next step?

If you like the sound of this role and think you’d do a great job, but are worried you don’t tick every box, we encourage you to back yourself – we know that diverse groups are less-likely to apply for roles they’re not 100% qualified for, but just as likely to succeed at them!

We are a proud equal opportunity employer committed to providing a safe, diverse, and inclusive working environment where all our team members feel like they belong. We know diversity makes us stronger and we encourage applications irrespective of background, age, origin, gender, sexual orientation, identity, or ability.

If you feel comfortable, please let us know if you have any accessibility requirements upon application, so we can make any adjustments required to support you throughout our recruitment process.