Senior Manager, People Enablement
Akaysha EnergyCremorne, Victoria
Contract
Posted March 17, 2026
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Job Description
A senior management role responsible for leading and scaling the People Partnering function to ensure effective, fair, and scalable people practices that support the company's growth and global energy transition mission.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and enable the People Partnering function to ensure consistency, judgment, and pace.
- Act as the primary escalation point for complex, sensitive, or ambiguous people matters.
- Translate policy intent into practical processes, tools, systems, and ways of working for leaders.
- Use data and qualitative insights to identify patterns and develop clear recommendations.
- Partner on workforce planning, goal setting, and remuneration cycle execution with commercial judgment.
- Operationalize and execute people risk, compliance, and governance frameworks.
- Apply employee relations judgment to strengthen capability and confidence within the team.
Requirements
- Senior People or HR partnering experience, with sound employee relations judgement
- Strong cognitive agility, with the ability to connect dots quickly, pull signal from noise, and communicate a clear point of view
- Experience in translating policy intent into practical processes, tools, systems, and ways of working that leaders can use
- Ability to use data and qualitative insight to spot patterns early and form clear, grounded recommendations
- Experience in partnering on workforce planning, goals, and remuneration cycle execution, bringing commercial judgement to people decisions
- Experience in operationalising and executing people risk, compliance, and governance frameworks through disciplined follow-through across People Partnering
- Ability to lead, coach, and enable the People Partnering function to lift consistency, judgement, and pace across the team
- Experience in acting as the primary escalation point for complex, sensitive, or ambiguous people matters
- Experience in applying ER IR judgement to strengthen capability and confidence across the People Partnering function
- Proficiency in designing and implementing practical, usable, and scalable people practices using a human-centred lens
- Ability to operate at pace, making sense of complexity, and helping systems work better in a fast-moving environment
- Strong communication skills to clearly articulate recommendations and decisions
- Experience working with leaders and teams in a collaborative, respectful, and accountable manner
- Experience in a senior, hands-on role with meaningful scope to influence and scale people practices during a critical growth and planning phase
Benefits & Perks
competitive compensation with performance-based bonuses and long-term incentives
annual development allowance
additional paid time off
wellbeing allowance benefits
parental leave
internal academy courses
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