State P&C Business Partner (Coles Liquor) - VIC & WSN

About the role

Coles is looking for an experienced People and Culture (P&C) Business Partner to join its P&C Operations Partnering team, following an internal promotion. Reporting to the P&C Manager Liquor, you will partner with senior operational leaders across large, complex and geographically dispersed Coles Liquor portfolios, helping them navigate people and organisational challenges. Through the Liquorland banner, the team supports more than 950 stores nationally, partnering with State Managers across Victoria and Western Australia. The role covers workforce planning, organisational design, leadership, capability, engagement, talent, performance and change.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to understand business priorities, identify people and organisational challenges and provide commercially informed advice and solutions.
• Coach and constructively challenge leaders so they can test assumptions, consider different options and make sound decisions on complex people matters.
• Use people, workforce and business data to identify trends, underlying issues, risks and opportunities, and turn them into clear recommendations.
• Translate business needs into practical P&C solutions across talent, performance, capability, leadership, engagement, culture and workforce planning.
• Help leaders identify capability needs, address performance issues, develop talent and build stronger teams.
• Shape and deliver people and change initiatives across the portfolio, supporting planning, stakeholder engagement, communication and implementation.

Required profile

• Experience as an experienced Business Partner who enjoys working with senior leaders and solving complex problems.
• Strong track record of turning business priorities into practical people strategies and solutions, and of working with leaders to implement them.
• Broad experience across workforce planning, organisational effectiveness, talent, performance, capability and change, with the ability to link people activity to broader business priorities.
• Strong judgement, commercial awareness and the confidence to challenge thinking when needed, while building trusted relationships with stakeholders.