🧗🏽‍♀️ Drive the elevation

• Circa $168,000 inc. super
• Permanent Full-time
• Sydney | Hybrid

🗒️ What’s the brief?

This is not a “keep the wheels turning” People & Culture role.

An evolving prof services business is entering a completely different phase of growth. The foundations are solid. The reputation is strong. Now the focus shifts to levelling up the people function in a way that sharpens performance, builds leadership capability and supports scale - without losing the culture that made the business successful in the first place.

This newly created People & Culture Manager role has been designed for someone who naturally moves between strategy, execution and people connection without missing a beat. You’ll work closely with senior leadership to elevate capability, tighten up people practices and build the kind of infrastructure that helps a business scale properly instead of creating unnecessary layers and bottlenecks.

The vibe? Fast-moving, commercially sharp and genuinely collaborative. Close enough to the action that your ideas actually go somewhere. No endless red tape.

You’ll have real ownership, visibility with leadership and strategic input on the horizon.

🥰 Is this your perfect match?

If you’re someone who loves being embedded in the business, naturally brings high energy and builds trust easily with leaders - you’ll thrive here.

Forget the traditional prof services stereotype. This isn’t suits, hierarchy and corporate fluff.

You’ll suit this role if you:

• get energised by momentum and growth
• like being close to decision-making
• enjoy balancing people experience with commercial outcomes
• naturally bring ideas instead of waiting to be told what to do
• want your work to actually influence the direction of a business

This is the type of role that suits someone who still loves being hands-on, but is ready to step into bigger influence and broader impact.

⛷️ Your role in action:

• Develop and drive a 6-12 month People & Culture roadmap aligned to business growth
• Roll out and embed an existing capability framework across the business
• Create clearer development pathways and stronger learning rhythms
• Elevate performance, probation and governance processes
• Partner closely with leaders to strengthen accountability and consistency
• Improve HRIS capability across workflows, reporting and performance tools
• Bring a more future-focused lens to workforce planning as roles evolve with technology
• Support some hiring activity across early-career talent

🫱🏽‍🫲🏽 What you bring to the table:

• 8ish years’ experience across the People & Culture space
• Strong capability across performance, coaching and governance
• Experience building or embedding frameworks in growing businesses
• Confidence partnering directly with senior leaders
• Commercial thinking with a genuinely people-first approach
• Exposure to workforce planning and organisational design
• Curiosity around growth, scale and smarter ways of working
• Experience improving HR systems beyond basic admin
• The ability to bring structure and accountability without killing culture