Role Highlights

Reo Group Executive Search has been exclusively retained to appoint a Chief People Officer for a well-established, privately owned organisation entering an exciting current phase of growth.

With ambitious expansion plans and the potential for external investment, this newly created greenfield CPO role offers the opportunity to build and shape the People & Culture function across a complex, multi-business and multi-site organisation, creating the capability and infrastructure required for its next chapter.

Reporting directly to the Managing Director, the CPO will join the Executive Leadership Team alongside the two Founder Managing Directors, CFO and CMO. With a Group-wide mandate across a portfolio of established operating businesses, the CPO will partner closely with the founders to translate their vision into an end-to-end People strategy that is commercial, scalable and performance-led.

Role Overview

While an established HR function and small team are already in place, the focus of this role is to develop and implement a new, end-to-end People strategy that will enable the organisation to deliver on its growth ambitions and long-term vision.

The CPO will have the opportunity to shape the People agenda across the Group, building the frameworks, capability and infrastructure required for a more scalable, commercial and performance-led organisation.

Working closely with the founders and Executive Leadership Team, the CPO will lead across organisational design, workforce planning, performance and reward, talent and succession, leadership capability,



culture and engagement, and HR operations.

Responsibilities

- Develop and execute an enterprise-wide People strategy aligned to the organisation’s commercial objectives.
- Lead organisational design, workforce planning, succession and capability initiatives to support future growth.
- Build contemporary performance, remuneration and benefits frameworks aligned to business objectives and KPIs.
- Strengthen accountability through clear performance expectations, underperformance processes and leadership ownership.
- Build leadership capability and succession pipelines across the Group.
- Shape a high-performance culture with clear accountability, strong engagement and an exceptional employee experience.
- Build scalable People systems, processes and governance to support increasing headcount, complexity and growth.
- Strengthen organisational maturity and People infrastructure to support future investment and capital readiness.
- Act as a trusted adviser to the Managing Director, founders and Executive Leadership Team.
- Translate the founders’ vision into practical People initiatives and ensure they are successfully embedded across the organisation.





Candidate Profile The successful candidate will be an accomplished senior People & Culture executive with significant experience operating within complex, growing organisations. You will bring strong commercial acumen and the credibility to partner effectively with founders, CEOs and Executive Leadership Teams.

You will have personally built or transformed a People function, with broad experience across organisational design, workforce planning, performance and reward, leadership capability, talent and succession, culture and employee engagement.

You will bring demonstrated experience leading organisations through growth, transformation and change, building the People systems, governance and capability required to support increasing scale and complexity.

Experience within a complex, multi-site or project-based environment is important, with exposure to property, construction, infrastructure, engineering or similarly operational sectors highly regarded. Strong employee and industrial relations capability will also be advantageous.

You will be a pragmatic, commercially minded and hands-on leader who can influence at an executive level while remaining close to the business and focused on delivering tangible outcomes.

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📌 Chief People Officer (Southern Sydney)
🏢 Reo Group Executive Search
📍 Southern Sydney