About the Role:
We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Lead – Workplace Relations to join our People & Culture team and lead critical, organisation-wide initiatives across workplace relations.
This is a high-impact role focused on delivering key programs of work including workplace wage assurance and the overseeing of Enterprise Agreement negotiations. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring compliant, sustainable and contemporary workplace practices across a large, complex and nationally dispersed organisation.
Working closely with senior leaders and subject matter experts, you will translate strategy into practical outcomes—balancing technical excellence, stakeholder alignment, and business impact.
Your Impact:
In this role, you will:
- Lead end-to-end delivery of major Workplace Relations projects, including:
- Wage assurance, compliance and remediation programs
- Enterprise agreement bargaining and implementation
- Drive the development and execution of project strategies, plans and governance frameworks
- Partner with Industrial Relations specialists, legal advisors, payroll and operational leaders to ensure robust and compliant outcomes
- Manage complex stakeholder environments, ensuring clear, timely and effective communication across all levels of the organisation
- Translate industrial and legislative requirements into practical, operationally viable solutions
- Anticipate, assess and manage risks, including regulatory, financial and reputational impacts
- Lead business engagement and change activities to support adoption of new agreements, frameworks and ways of working
- Ensure alignment between workplace relations initiatives and broader organisational strategy, systems and processes
About You:
You are a commercially minded and outcomes-driven leader who thrives in complex environments and can confidently lead high-profile, high-risk Workplace Relations programs.
You will bring:
- Demonstrated experience leading large-scale Workplace Relations or Industrial Relations projects, ideally including wage compliance/remediation and enterprise bargaining
- Strong technical understanding of Australian employment legislation, Modern Awards and Enterprise Agreements
- Proven ability to draw on and coordinate specialist expertise (IR, legal, payroll, systems) to deliver integrated outcomes
- Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, including experience working with executive leadership and unions
- Strong project leadership capability, with experience managing multiple workstreams, competing priorities and tight timeframes
- Ability to balance technical WR requirements with commercial, operational and people considerations
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distil complex issues into clear and actionable insights
- Experience working in complex, multi-site or highly regulated environments (aged care, health, community services or similar highly regarded)
Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as applications may be reviewed prior to the closing date. The closing date is subject to change without notice
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