Senior Manager, People Enablement
Akaysha EnergySydney, New South Wales
Contract
Posted March 20, 2026
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Job Description
A senior, hands-on role responsible for strengthening and scaling people practices within a fast-growing renewable energy company, focusing on leadership support, policy implementation, workforce planning, and employee relations to enable organizational growth and effectiveness.
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 make grounded recommendations.
- Partner on workforce planning, goals, 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 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 partnering on workforce planning, goals, and remuneration cycle execution, bringing commercial judgement to people decisions
- Ability to operationalise and execute people risk, compliance, and governance frameworks through disciplined follow-through across People Partnering
- Ability to apply employee relations, industrial relations, and judgement when needed to strengthen capability and confidence across the function
- Experience leading, coaching, and enabling the People Partnering function to lift consistency, judgement, and pace across the team
- Experience acting as the primary escalation point for complex, sensitive, or ambiguous people matters
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment with the ability to operate at pace and make decisions quickly
- Experience working in a hybrid work environment, with the ability to work effectively both in-office and remotely
- Experience working from either Melbourne or Sydney is preferred
- Demonstrated ability to design and implement human-centred, practical, usable, and scalable people practices
- Ability to reflect, learn, share, and connect meaningfully as part of a collaborative People team
- A pragmatic, calm style, with clear, kind, and accountable communication when working with leaders and teams
Benefits & Perks
competitive compensation with performance-based bonuses and long-term incentives
professional development support including an annual development allowance and internal academy courses
additional paid time off
wellbeing allowance benefits
parental leave
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