PX Business Partner (12 month fixed term)

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PX Business Partner (12 month fixed term) at Xero is a true partnership role in a global SaaS setting, onsite in Sydney, focusing on driving strategic people initiatives, supporting senior leaders, and aligning the people strategy with business goals. You’ll coach senior leaders, manage complex employee issues, lead change programs, oversee remuneration guidance, succession, career development, workforce planning, and collaborate with PX CoEs to iterate programs. Success hinges on credible stakeholder management, deep HR expertise across remuneration, ER, performance, and employment law, and the ability to influence and build trust across global teams. To apply: tailor your CV to show global scale experience, quantify outcomes, demonstrate cross-functional collaboration, coaching senior stakeholders, and readiness for a 12-month fixed term; highlight metrics and outcomes from prior programs.

How you’ll make an impact

This role will work in a true partnership model, by creating and driving strategic people initiatives for a global/business portfolio in Xero and being the primary support to relevant senior leaders and leadership teams. You will work with your PX colleagues across all our regions and centres of excellence teams, to drive the success of our PX OKRs and strategic people programs. You will do this by ensuring consistent and impactful people programs are rolled out effectively, aligned to the global people strategy. This role will also incorporate a broad spectrum of HR advisory responsibility, including advice and support to senior leaders on all people matters.

What you’ll do

• Provide coaching and generalist PX support to senior leaders across a global portfolio with a strong focus towards people capability, leadership and organisational design

• Communicate our people strategy and position on issues with credibility and influence

• Participate in team planning sessions across your portfolio to be the voice of People Experience and to provide advice on how the people strategy aligns with business strategy

• Play a pivotal role in managing and resolving complex employee issues

• Provide meaningful and accurate HR advice and guidance across the full spectrum of HR; including strategic alignment, legislative requirements, recruitment, on-boarding, performance management, organisational design, employee development, change management, remuneration, HR systems, benefits, retention and departures.

• Play a role in driving forward key people programs & initiatives such as succession planning, career development, performance management and recruiting strategies; ensuring the portfolio leadership teams have visibility and understanding; embedding new programs within teams; working with PX CoEs to iterate & improve on programs & initiatives

• In collaboration with senior stakeholders, analyse trends and metrics to develop and execute on a strategic people plan for your portfolios

• In partnership with the Talent & Finance teams along with senior leaders, contribute to workforce planning efforts to ensure your portfolio has the needed skills & experience to deliver; ensure recruitment priorities are met

• In partnership with the OD team, develop programmes that support the ongoing professional development of your stakeholder group

• Provide remuneration advice and guidance, guiding the Annual Salary Review process for your portfolio

• Identify and take action on coaching opportunities, sharing uncomfortable information in a clear and helpful manner when required, engaging in challenging conversations with stakeholders and team members

• Support and coach PX Advisors as they provide support within your portfolio on a particular case or initiative and when other opportunities arise (ie they seek mentoring from BP)

• Collaborate with the PX leadership team as required on PXP initiatives and participate in global PX projects and working groups, as needed

• Build a positive employee experience that leads to improved business performance and increased levels of customer engagement

• Strive to work across the function to test, experiment and improve how we work inline with our scaling and evolution

What you'll bring with you

• Proven experience in a fast paced PX role, covering the broad generalist spectrum of HR along with partnering with senior leaders and leadership teams, ideally in a mid-large size global SaaS company

• Exposure to a complex / global environment

• Deep understanding of multiple HR disciplines, including remuneration practices, employee relations, diversity, performance management, and employment legislation

• Experience leading and managing significant change programmes

• Senior stakeholder management experience with the ability to influence senior leaders and quickly develop credibility and trust

• Experience working with and coaching senior stakeholders on complex people issues

• Experience building or reinforcing a high performance culture