We’ve been proudly bringing joy to tables and smiles to faces with the delicious food we’ve been crafting for over 100 years. A large part of our strong growth and success is because we're always looking for new ways to do things and thinking about how we can create a better, more sustainable future world together. Our success as an industry leader in providing deliciously good food means we can continue to invest in our future as we work towards becoming Australia and New Zealand’s first choice for poultry.
Your opportunity to join our People & Performance team in VIC!
As HR Business Partner for Victoria/Tasmania, you will partner with a broad leadership group across multiple sites spanning our operations and farming businesses. Based largely at our Somerville primary processing facility you will play a key role in enabling leaders to develop their people whilst supporting Inghams’ culture journey across the state.
This is a part-time position working 3-4 days a week (flexible hours) predominantly supporting our large Somerville site with occasional travel to other sites.
This is a hands-on operational role requiring expertise in IR/ER. The successful candidate will be adept at Enterprise Agreement bargaining across large workforces and supporting leaders with performance management, investigations and grievance handling.
Key responsibilities:
- Partner with stakeholders across multiple sites to provide advice and support on people-related matters including employment relations, performance and conduct, policies and procedures
- Lead local enterprise agreement negotiations and foster productive union relationships
- Develop EA strategies, conduct pre-bargaining work, attend bargaining meetings and ensure a smooth voting process, maintaining effective communication to employees, unions and leaders throughout
- Support leaders in the management of employment relations matters, including conducting workplace investigations
- Coach, support and influence leaders to develop and sustain a constructive culture
- Support governance initiatives and assist to standardise and simplify people processes
- Work with the L&D team to build capability of front-line leaders
- Drive local implementation of people processes such as remuneration and performance reviews and talent and succession processes
- Contribute positively to the wider P&P team, fostering open communication and actively seeking feedback
- Develop an understanding of business priorities and connect them to people initiatives that support the business
Key requirements:
- Demonstrated business partnering experience within a large, complex blue-collar/operational environment, supporting a diverse, multi-site workforce
- Demonstrated experience working in a unionised environment, leading, interpreting and negotiating Enterprise Agreements and building productive union relationships
- Experience in the application of workplace relations legislation and frameworks and exposure to Fair Work
- Flexibility to be site-based at Somerville 3-4 days a week with occasional travel required
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to build strong relationships, develop trust and influence a variety of stakeholders
- Highly effective time management and prioritisation skills
- Tertiary qualifications in HR preferred
We’re looking for people who are curious, caring, courageous and committed to join us; people who want to contribute their best work every single day and continue delivering deliciously good food that’s…Always Good!
