Head of People & Culture Australia

About the role

Enero is a group of boutique marketing communications agencies with hubs in Sydney, London, New York and San Francisco. Its three Australian agencies are growing, adopting AI and bringing offshore and onshore teams together, and are looking for a commercially minded Head of People & Culture. Based in the Sydney office, the role partners closely with the agency CEOs, tackles people challenges as they arise and helps drive transformation over a contract of up to 12 months.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with the CEOs of the three Australian agencies on org design, workforce planning, performance and culture
• Drive responsible AI adoption by building skills and capability and reshaping roles, workflows and policy
• Integrate offshore teams with onshore teams, from onboarding and ways of working to performance and culture
• Work with the Global Chief People Officer and global P&C team to standardise, simplify and automate P&C programs
• Lead employee relations, talent, performance and reward cycles that are objective and merit-based
• Champion culture, DE&I and wellbeing
• Lead and develop a small P&C team

Required profile

• Significant experience as a Senior P&C Business Partner or Head of P&C in an agency, creative or professional services business, working directly with CEOs
• Demonstrated experience driving or enabling transformation, both with the business and within the P&C team
• Hands-on with AI, having used it directly and driven AI adoption, process improvement or automation in P&C
• Experience integrating or working with offshore and distributed teams across time zones is ideal
• Strong Australian employment law and ER skills, comfortable getting into the detail
• Commercial, calm and credible with CEOs and creative leaders, and a natural coach who can lead a small team while doing the work