Senior People Business Partner

About the role

Grill'd, a national Australian hospitality brand with 180+ restaurants, is looking for a Senior People Business Partner to join its People team on a 12-month fixed-term contract. The role partners with leaders across Restaurant Operations and Support Office to build people plans that drive performance, strengthen leadership capability and create a great employee experience, combining commercial partnering with generalist HR and ER/IR expertise.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to understand their business priorities and turn them into practical, commercially focused people plans.
• Use workforce data, commercial insights, employee feedback and external trends to identify people risks and opportunities.
• Own key HR initiatives from concept to implementation, including process improvements, PPR updates, reporting enhancements, HR technology and automation.
• Advise on complex employee relations, industrial relations and workplace investigation matters, and support organisational change and redesigns.
• Improve core processes across performance, remuneration, reward and recognition, contracting and other employee moments.
• Coach leaders, simplify workflows and remove low-value manual activity, and guide the People Partnering team so outcomes are consistent and legally compliant.

Required profile

• Significant experience in a Senior HR Business Partner, People Business Partner or similar senior generalist HR role.
• Ability to link people initiatives with business performance and influence senior operational leaders.
• Experience managing complex employee relations, industrial relations and workplace investigations, with knowledge of Australian employment legislation, modern awards and industrial frameworks.
• Comfortable partnering across a fast-moving, multi-site environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading HR projects, organisational change, process improvement or people technology initiatives.
• Confident with people data and reporting, and interested in HR technology, automation and responsible AI.
• Relevant tertiary qualification in Human Resources, Business, Law, Industrial Relations or a related discipline highly regarded.

What we offer

• Recognition experiences, including Hall of Flame trips and the Company conference.
• A values-led culture where leaders are encouraged to make an impact.
• Local community support through Local Matters and City Support initiatives.
• Monthly burger benefits and wellbeing support through an EAP.

Candidates need ongoing Australian working rights and must pass a National Police Check. Shortlisted candidates are invited to an initial phone interview.