HR Business Partner - Organisational Design

About the role

Journey Beyond, Australia's leading experiential tourism group with 35 brands across Australia and New Zealand, is hiring a Human Resource Business Partner for organisational design. This is a 6-month fixed-term contract role, hybrid, based in the North Terrace corporate workplace. It supports organisational transformation by leading organisational design initiatives, supporting change programs and helping create future-state operating models.

Key responsibilities

• Help architect and execute structural changes with GM, HR and operational leaders, turning business strategy into future-state target operating models.
• Use workforce analytics, spans and layers analysis and workflow mapping to find structural bottlenecks and drive restructuring and change management.
• Act as an organisational development advisor, challenging legacy structures and guiding scalable, capability-led team designs.
• Co-design future-state structures and build phased transition plans that balance commercial goals with human impact.
• Design and deliver change communication packs that explain the rationale behind structural shifts.
• Project manage structural transitions from business case through consultation to implementation.
• Partner with Centres of Excellence so new designs are supported by aligned compensation, performance frameworks and talent pipelines.
• Turn organisational charts into role profiles and position descriptions.
• Help design a workforce plan that optimises labour spend and aligns with the target operating model.
• Deliver insights on spans and layers, headcount variances, vacancy rates and turnover trends.

Required profile

• Qualification in Human Resources or a related discipline.
• At least five years' experience as an HR Advisor or HR Business Partner, with demonstrated HR generalist experience.
• Proven employee and industrial relations experience and people change management practice.
• Experience delivering HR-related projects and managing competing priorities in a dynamic environment.
• Collaborative approach and ability to work across a matrixed organisation.

Required skills

• Organisational design, including McKinsey modelling.
• Strong communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills.

What we offer

• Discounts on travel and experiences, merchandise and private health.
• Study assistance, employee referral and parental leave programs.
• Purchased leave, Employee Assistance Program and flexible working.

Candidates must provide a current National Police Clearance. Applications are made through the company's online application process.