Head of People Business Partnering

Founded over 22 years ago Grilld started with a simple idea - to create healthy burgers that taste good and do good. Since then weve grown from a single Melbourne restaurant into one of Australias most loved hospitality brands with 180 restaurants nationwide and exciting growth still ahead.

Grilld is about more than burgers. From sustainability initiatives and community partnerships to innovation and restaurant growth were passionate about creating experiences and making a positive impact for people and the planet AND we have fun while doing it.

As we continue to evolve were looking for a Head of People Business Partnering to join our People Leadership Team and help shape the next chapter of Grilld.

Reporting to the Chief People Officer this is a pivotal leadership role within Grillds People Team.

Leading a team of HR Business Partners & People Services Advisors youll partner closely with senior leaders across the business to drive people strategy organisational effectiveness workforce planning and business performance. Youll play a key role in ensuring our people practices support both current and future growth while helping leaders navigate the opportunities and challenges that come with a national dispersed workforce of more than 4000 team members.

This role is not purely strategic. While youll help shape the future of our people agenda youll also bring the pragmatism and confidence to guide complex employee and industrial relations matters coach leaders through difficult decisions and ensure great execution across the People function.

Youll thrive in this role if youre equally comfortable influencing executive stakeholders leading change and rolling up your sleeves to solve real business challenges.

Lead the People Partnering Team: Provide strong leadership to a highly capable team to identify and deliver value to the Operations Teams across the country

Be a Trusted Advisor: Lead the People Partner Team to provide expert coaching and advice to senior leaders on leadership effectiveness organisational design workforce planning succession planning and team performance.

Employee & Industrial Relations: Oversee complex employee relations matters investigations performance management and workplace risk. Provide guidance on employment legislation Fair Work obligations and Grillds Enterprise Agreement while helping leaders make sound balanced decisions

Drive Organisational Change: Lead organisational design change management and workforce planning initiatives that support Grillds continued growth and evolution.

Improve How We Work: Drive continuous improvement across people processes systems reporting and operational effectiveness. Leverage data technology and emerging tools to help simplify and enhance the employee experience.

Make a Business Impact: Use people insights reporting and analytics to influence decisions identify opportunities and help improve restaurant and business performance.

Youll also spend time working alongside our restaurant teams as part of your onboarding giving you first-hand insight into the operations people and culture that drive Grillds success.

Strategic and Hands-On HR Leader: Youve successfully operated in senior HR leadership roles and know how to balance long-term thinking with practical execution.

Employee & Industrial Relations Expert: You bring strong ER and IR capability with deep knowledge of Australian employment legislation workplace relations and Enterprise Agreements. Youre comfortable navigating complex matters including investigations misconduct performance management terminations and Fair Work matters.

Distributed Workforce Experience: Ideally youve worked in environments such as hospitality retail manufacturing logistics supermarkets or other large dispersed workforces where pace complexity and frontline leadership are part of everyday life.

Commercially Minded Leader: You genuinely enjoy developing others and have a track record of building high-performing HR teams. You understand that great people outcomes and strong business outcomes go hand in hand.

Culture Add: Youre pragmatic resilient collaborative and down-to-earth. You enjoy operating in a fast-moving environment and bring a solutions-focused approach to everything you do.

Join a values-led Australian success story with exciting growth plans ahead

Play a key leadership role shaping the future of our people strategy

Lead a talented and passionate People team

Work closely with executive leaders and make a genuine impact across the business

Flexible working arrangements including 1 day WFH per week

Epic Support Office culture including social events connection activities and community initiatives

Genuine career growth opportunities as Grilld continues to grow

Oh and free burgers every month

If youre an experienced HR leader who thrives in fast-paced environments and enjoys balancing strategy with execution wed love to hear from you.

Apply now to start the conversation.

Successful candidates joining Grilld must have full-time Australian working rights on an ongoing basis.