Your role

You'll be a part of our People & Development (P&D) Consulting Team who are an integral part of our broader People & Development Department at Allens.

You will work to create consistently positive employee experiences through effective business partnering and you will engage stakeholders to achieve our business outcomes and strategic goals.

Your role could typically include:

• Supporting the diagnosis of people issues, proactively recommending solutions and supporting  Partners and people leaders on implementation of strategies.

• Leading and managing a team of P&D professionals to support business and people strategy.

• Taking the lead on strategic projects, influencing stakeholders and coaching junior members of the team, in order to achieve objectives.

• Developing and delivering people strategy and initiatives.

• Supporting our leaders through delivering annual performance, talent and remuneration activities.

• Driving and implementing change initiatives in line with firm strategy.

• Developing initiatives to drive employee engagement, retention and talent development and coaching and influencing leaders to embed best practices.

• Coaching and empowering leaders to balance high performance, wellbeing and risk and to shape culture.

• Using business, workforce and people data to inform solutions.

• Identifying and proactively managing and escalating people risks and employee relations issues.

• Collaborating with other departments across the firm including Commercial Managers (Finance) and Business Development Managers.

This is a full time, 12 month maximum term contract opportunity. Flexibility matters at Allens, so if you are looking for flexibility in your work, we would be happy to discuss what arrangements would work best for you.

Hybrid working (60% in the office) is how we work across the business.

About you

You will have:

• Experience in a similar senior business partnering role, preferably in a professional services environment or within a complex organisation.  Experience in a legal industry would be valuable but not essential.

• Strong partnering and collaboration skills, with demonstrated experience in driving change.

• Experience leading and managing a team to support business and people strategy.

• Familiarity with people strategy and change management.

• Strong problem solving and influencing skills.

• Experience in managing employee relations and wellbeing issues, including identification and mitigation of risks, investigations and report writing.

• A flexible, proactive style and a willingness to take ownership.

• A focus on adding value, continuous improvement and process optimisation.

• Highly consultative approach with exceptional stakeholder engagement capabilities, across multiple stakeholders at once.

• Experience of coaching and influencing senior leaders.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• A desire to learn, grow, network and mentor others.

Your development

In joining Allens, you will receive unparalleled learning and development opportunities. You will be challenged, supported and guided as you learn and develop, and will be encouraged to grow. We foster greatness, and will coach and support you to meet your goals and aspirations.

Our unique Career Deal allows you to take control of your career and provides a transparent approach to career development. Our international alliance with Linklaters means we are able to support secondments all over the world.

Our perks

Our benefits include:

• Financial: market competitive fixed remuneration; salary continuance insurance, employee recruitment referral program, discounts at hundreds of suppliers including retail outlets, health and travel insurance, charity matched funding program.

• Health and wellbeing: fully subsidised gym memberships, annual flu vaccinations, skin checks, in-house snacks and catered meals, subsidised sporting and social activities, Employee Assistance Program including confidential counselling, wellbeing coaching and financial coaching for employees and their families and regular wellbeing sessions with our in-house consulting Psychologist.

• Flexibility: hybrid and flexible working arrangements to support you in your work and life commitments and passions, equipment to support working from home.

• Leave: ability to purchase additional annual leave, access to an enhanced, inclusive and flexible parental leave policy and high quality executive coaching to support the transition.

• Recognition: team based recognition including social activities and contribution based recognition activities, and annual Allens Values Awards to nominate and recognise the incredible contributions of our people.

Allens is also proud to invest in our communities, giving you the opportunity to make a difference through our work on reconciliation, the environment and other social justice issues as well as our workplace giving and volunteering programs.

How to apply?

We'd love to hear from you so please click "apply now"! If you would like to find out more, please visit "This is Allens" or listen to our Allens Confidential podcast to hear real stories from real people about life at Allens. Alternatively, for a confidential discussion, please phone Thomas Wigglesworth, National Manager Talent Acquisition.

At Allens, our culture is made up of unique backgrounds and varying life experiences. We celebrate our people's differences across gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, cultural backgrounds, First Nations communities, and family and caring arrangements. If you require adjustments to fully participate in our application process, please contact us at [email protected]. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align, please express your interest by emailing us at [email protected]. The right role for you might be just around the corner!