OSW Group operates quick-scaling businesses across renewable energy, technology and e-commerce, with leading positions in solar and storage, SaaS-enabled energy solutions, digital commerce platforms and embedded finance. The distribution business is supported by a network of 19,000 installers, engineering capacity is based in China, and the group has a multi-continental presence spanning Australia, Europe, the UK, the US and Mexico, with further markets planned.

OSW Group is scaling at pace across multiple continents, and the People agenda now carries direct commercial consequence: market entry speed, retention in established markets, and the cost of capability across both. The function today operates market by market, built for local delivery rather than group-wide leverage. We are appointing a Chief People Officer to bring it under unified global leadership and to give People a decisive voice in how and where the group grows, what capability it requires, and how it organises to deliver.

The Chief People Officer is accountable for the group People agenda and sits as a strategic partner to the Group CEO and the leadership of every OSW business. The mandate is to build a People function with genuine group leverage: one architecture for how the group levels, pays, assesses and develops its people, applied consistently across every market while respecting what each business needs to operate.

The role leads a global team of approximately 9 and owns the judgement calls that determine whether the group can grow at the pace it intends - how each market is structured and staffed, where capability is built or bought, what the workforce costs, and where the employment risk sits. It carries both the strategic weight of an executive seat and the operational discipline required to run a distributed function well.

Based in Sydney, operating across multiple time zones.

Key responsibilities

- Act as strategic People partner to the Group CEO and business leaders, contributing to commercial and growth decisions and advising on their organisational, capability, cost and risk implications
- Develop and lead the group People strategy,



aligned to the group’s expansion plans and business priorities
- Lead, mentor and develop a global People team of approximately 9, including regional HR managers across Australia, Europe, the US, Mexico, China and APAC, ensuring consistent execution of group policy and practice
- Provide the People framework for entry into new markets e.g. employment models, hiring approach and establishment of local teams and ensure ongoing compliance with international employment law across all operating markets, including contractor, mobility and employer-of-record arrangements
- Lead organisation design and workforce planning across the group’s distribution, software, commerce, finance and engineering businesses, including structure, spans of control, role clarity and headcount governance
- Establish and maintain a group job architecture, levelling framework and reward philosophy, benchmarked against relevant market data and developed in partnership with the CFO
- Own performance management, calibration, succession planning and leadership development across the group’s senior population
- Lead global talent acquisition strategy, including oversight of senior and executive recruitment and a consistent, defensible selection process
- Harmonise People systems across jurisdictions and ensure accurate global payroll, reliable reporting and analytics on headcount, people cost and attrition to support executive decision-making
- Own the group culture and engagement agenda: measurement and follow-through that leaders act on, and the integration of founder-led, newly established and geographically distributed teams into a coherent group culture

Candidate profile

Essential

- 15+ years of progressive HR leadership, including a group,



global or multi-region People leadership role with regional teams reporting in
- Experience leading a People function of comparable size across multiple countries
- Demonstrated experience operating as a strategic partner at executive level, with influence over commercial decision-making
- Experience scaling an organisation into new countries, including local employment models and establishing teams in new markets
- Experience developing job architecture, levelling and reward frameworks and implementing them across a business
- Strong track record in global payroll, international employment compliance and People systems standardisation
- Strong analytical capability, with ownership of headcount, people cost, productivity and attrition metrics
- Credibility and resilience in working with a CEO, CFO and founders
- Existing right to work in Australia, or eligibility for sponsorship

Desirable

- Tertiary qualification in HR, business or a related discipline; postgraduate qualification or international HR certification an advantage
- Experience in renewables, energy, technology or e-commerce, or another high-growth international sector
- Experience across mixed business models, such as distribution or supply chain alongside software, platform or financial services
- HRIS implementation or optimisation experience
- Exposure to AI and automation within HR operations
- Experience supporting distributed or offshore engineering teams

Why this role

- Build the group People architecture from a standing start, backed by a business with commercial proof already in market - 19,000 installers, live platforms operating across Australia, Europe and the Americas, and embedded finance at scale
- A genuine executive seat: reporting to the Group CEO, on the Executive Leadership Team and in the room for the decisions that set the group’s growth trajectory
- Breadth few People roles offer - renewables, SaaS, digital commerce, financial services and offshore engineering inside one group
- Competitive package with equity, giving direct participation in the value the group creates over the next phase of growth

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