A genuine HR Business Partner role with flexibility and variety.

$145,600 inc. super

12 month FTC

Melbourne

Hybrid – typically 1 day per week in the office

What's the brief?

This is an HR Business Partner role built around relationships, influence and commercial judgement.

You’ll partner with senior leaders across a portfolio of six businesses, each with its own culture, history and level of HR maturity. Some already see HR as a trusted partner, while others are more accustomed to operating independently.

Your role is to understand the business, build credibility and provide practical advice that works. You’ll know when to coach, when to challenge and when to take a pragmatic approach.

You’ll inherit strong stakeholder relationships that have taken time to build, so maintaining that trust and continuing to strengthen the credibility of HR will be significant from day one.

There’s also plenty happening beyond the day-to-day. With several acquisitions potentially on the horizon, you’ll work closely with senior People leadership across due diligence, workforce planning, integration and onboarding newly acquired businesses.

It’s broad, commercially focused HR partnering without the high-volume ER case load that can dominate other HRBP portfolios.

Is This Your Perfect Match?

You’re someone who builds strong relationships and knows how to adapt your approach to different stakeholders.

You can partner with established senior leaders, challenge thinking when needed and provide practical advice without making things more complicated than they need to be.

You’re commercially minded, pragmatic and comfortable working across businesses that don’t all operate in exactly the same way.





Perhaps you’re an experienced HRBP looking for greater flexibility, or you’re a high-performing Senior HR Advisor ready to step up. Either way, it’s your judgement, stakeholder capability and maturity that will matter more than the number of years you’ve held a particular title.

You’ll enjoy variety, appreciate autonomy and understand that great business partnering is about building trust and influencing the decisions that matter.

Your Role in Action

- Partner with senior leaders across a diverse portfolio of six businesses
- Build on established stakeholder relationships and continue strengthening HR's credibility across the group
- Coach and influence leaders across people, performance and organisational matters
- Provide pragmatic, commercially balanced HR advice across the employee lifecycle
- Navigate businesses with varying levels of organisational and HR maturity
- Support organisational change and broader people initiatives
- Work closely with senior People leadership on upcoming acquisitions and integrations
- Contribute to acquisition due diligence, workforce planning and people-related risk assessment
- Support the onboarding and integration of newly acquired businesses
- Review employment arrangements, benefits and people practices as part of integration activity
- Balance corporate People frameworks with the practical needs of individual businesses




- Support employee relations matters where required, escalating more complex issues appropriately
- Build relationships across a broad and geographically dispersed senior stakeholder group

What You Bring

- HR Business Partner, Senior HR Advisor or strong senior generalist experience
- Exceptional stakeholder management and relationship-building capability
- The confidence and maturity to influence established senior leaders
- A commercial and pragmatic approach to HR decision-making
- Strong coaching skills and the ability to challenge constructively
- Sound generalist HR and employee relations capabilityThe judgement to adapt your approach across different stakeholders and business environments
- Comfort working with ambiguity and managing multiple priorities autonomously
- Experience supporting organisational change or complex business environments
- Acquisition, M&A;, due diligence or business integration experience will be highly regarded but isn't essential
- Experience within healthcare, professional services or a house-of-brands environment would be advantageous

Why This Role?

- Genuine flexibility with typically only one office day per week
- Work directly with experienced senior People leadership
- Gain meaningful exposure to acquisitions, due diligence and business integration
- Partner with senior stakeholders across six distinct businesses
- Enjoy a broad HRBP remit without an overwhelmingly high-volume ER portfolio
- Join a large and diverse organisation with exposure to multiple businesses and broader career possibilities

If you're available immediately or within the next couple of weeks, even better. They're ready to move quickly.

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📌 Human Resources Business Partner (Melbourne)
🏢 SAMUELS DONEGAN
📍 Melbourne