Hicksons | Hunt & Hunt | Holman Webb is an Australian law firm operating across multiple offices and practice areas, following a recent period of growth and strategic acquisitions.

About the role

A period of parental leave within the People & Culture team has created an opportunity for an experienced People & Culture Manager to join the firm during an important period of growth, change and capability building.

Working closely with the Head of People & Culture, you will help drive a broad range of people initiatives, annual people cycle activities and strategic projects across the firm.

This is a role for someone who enjoys taking ownership, identifying opportunities and turning ideas into outcomes. We're looking for someone who enjoys building, not maintaining, and who gets energy from creating momentum and making a visible contribution.

You will work closely with leaders, lead projects, contribute to the evolution of our people practices and help build capability across the People & Culture function.

Alongside business partnering and employee relations, you will play a key role in delivering performance, remuneration, talent and workforce planning activities, organisational change initiatives, governance uplift, process improvement, capability building and the firm's upcoming rebrand.

This is an opportunity to make a meaningful contribution during a period of transition and growth, while helping strengthen the long-term capability of the People & Culture function.

What you'll do

- Build trusted relationships with Partners, Business Unit Leaders and operational leaders, providing practical and commercially informed People & Culture advice.
- Lead the annual people cycle, including performance, remuneration, promotions, talent and workforce planning.
- Lead projects from concept through to implementation, including governance uplift, process improvement, capability building and the firm's upcoming rebrand.
- Identify opportunities to strengthen people practices, simplify ways of working and improve the effectiveness of the People & Culture function.
- Build capability and succession within the team through coaching, guidance and practical development opportunities.
- Lead complex employee relations matters and support leaders through significant people decisions and organisational change.

About you

You are an experienced People & Culture professional who combines strong judgement, initiative and delivery capability.

You enjoy building, improving and moving things forward. You are naturally curious,



comfortable working with autonomy and motivated by creating momentum and delivering outcomes.

You will bring:

- Significant experience in a senior HR business partnering, People & Culture Manager or broad senior generalist role.
- Strong employee relations capability and confidence supporting senior stakeholders.
- Experience leading projects, organisational change, restructures or systems and process improvements.
- Demonstrated ability to identify issues, shape solutions and drive implementation with limited direction.
- Commercial judgement and practical problem-solving capability.
- Experience influencing stakeholders and navigating competing priorities, particularly during periods of change.
- A collaborative approach and genuine interest in developing the capability of others.
- Comfort operating in a hands-on environment where not every process, system or answer is immediately clear.
- Excellent communication skills, sound judgement and strong follow-through.
- Experience in professional services, legal, financial services, consulting or similarly complex environments is highly regarded.

Why join us?

This is an opportunity to join the firm at a genuinely interesting point in our evolution.

Working closely with a refreshed Business Services leadership team that is helping shape the firm's next chapter, you will have the opportunity to lead meaningful work and contribute to how the firm supports its people, leaders and clients into the future.

Over the course of the contract, you will help drive a broad range of strategic and operational initiatives, including annual people cycle activities, organisational change, capability building, leadership support, governance uplift, process improvement and the firm's rebrand program.

For the right person, this is an chance to make a visible contribution, broaden your experience, develop new capability and leave the function stronger than you found it.

Life at Hicksons | Hunt & Hunt | Holman Webb

Hicksons | Hunt & Hunt | Holman Webb fosters a diverse and inclusive environment,



we capture innovative ideas from our people to build on our business; we welcome your creative ideas to optimize the way we work. We offer a range of advantages and social opportunities to support growth, development and internal networking and collaboration within the firm, collectively celebrating our success through recognition and reward programs.

Supporting you:

- Potential unearthed – We pride ourselves on enabling you to achieve your career aspirations. Offering tailored 1:1 mentoring, access to our E-learning platform with role base training, internal and external workshops and complete transparency around our promotional pathways program.
- The right resources – Our workplace is supported by smart technology, paper-light processes, collaborative teams and a healthy values-based culture that will see you perform at your best.
- Flexi-work options – We understand life is not 1 size fits all. Explore options for hybrid work, part time hours, compressed working weeks, and more.
- Performance based rewards and incentive bonuses – our incentive program is designed to reward our employees and support our high-performance culture.
- Hicksons| Hunt & Hunt + Benefits – 16 weeks paid parental leave for eligible employees, education assistance, Employee Assistance Program, milestone leave after 3 years of service, plus access to everyday discounts through our corporate discount schemes, and novated leasing.
- Life at Hicksons| Hunt & Hunt | Holman Webb – Contributing to our community is part of our Vision; the firm provides you with the opportunity to contribute to the firm’s corporate social responsibility activities through our pro-bono program.
- Awards – The 2024 AFR Partnership Survey named Hicksons as the industry leader with the highest proportion of Female Partners for the second year running. In addition, Hicksons has been recognised ABA employer of choice winners (2020,2023,2024).

To have a confidential discussion on the role and our offering, please contact the People & Culture Team, ••••@hicksons.com.au

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Please note pre-employment screening checks will be conducted on all successful applicants including a national police check.

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