- Coach and support stakeholders to build sustainable high-performing teams across the groups through talent management and development initiatives, with a focus on the engagement and retention of our people.
- Act as the first point of contact for key stakeholders regarding employee relations.
- Collaborate with teams to plan and deliver mechanisms aligning people with group goals and objectives, including talent, performance, and remuneration reviews.
- Identify changes and improvements to HR policies and practices and ensure effective communication and implementation within each team.
- Partner with firm leadership to drive HR initiatives that support business objectives and promote a positive work culture.
- Collaborate with HR centres of excellence to ensure consistency in the employee experience.
- Contribute to the implementation of initiatives for realising the firm's strategic plan (Ambition
- Demonstrate experience gained as a generalist HR professional, including strong advisory, coaching, and facilitation skills and proven leadership capability.
- Demonstrate strong internal stakeholder service focus, relationship management, and influencing skills, alongside proven commercial acumen and the ability to work collaboratively and communicate effectively across all levels of the firm.
- Experience gained in legal or professional services is desirable.
- Experience using Workday is desirable.
- We're a world leading international law firm with a global team of over 5,000 professionals. As the market leader in Australia, we are committed to high performance, collaboration, diversity and digital innovation. We are client-centred, commercially driven, and renowned for our solution-focused expertise. We will align your growth with our ambitions.
- We make your personal and professional growth our business. And as part of the team, our ambition is yours too. Wherever you are in your career: grow and help the firm grow with you.
- We will provide opportunities to learn on the job as well as a mix of learning opportunities tailored to you. Daily experiences, supportive challenges, team collaboration, mentors, and structured learning opportunities help you to expand your knowledge and reach your goals.
- We value your wellbeing, both at home and work and we place a strong emphasis on mental health. If you need support, you'll have it and we'll empower you to harness your personal strengths, navigate uncertainty, embrace opportunities, and effectively manage things within your control.
- For more benefits on offer such as our 26 weeks paid parental leave, holistic wellbeing fund or home office allowance please click/ copy this link into your browser -
- Join us to be part of a human, bold and outstanding team at Australia's market leading law firm.
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HR Manager - Sydney, Australia - Herbert Smith Freehills
Description
JOB DESCRIPTION About Herbert Smith Freehills
As one of the world's leading law firms, we advise many of the largest and most ambitious organisations across all major regions of the globe. With over 5,000 people, including 3,100 lawyers and over 2,000 business services professionals, operating from our global network of offices across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and North America, Herbert Smith Freehills is at the heart of the new global business landscape providing premium quality, full-service legal advice.
We recognise that the success of our business and our clients relies on the skills, knowledge and ideas of all our people. Our environment is one in which high performance is expected, in return, we will provide you with rewards and opportunities tailored to your personal and professional goals.
The Opportunity
We are seeking a dynamic HR Manager to join our national HR team based in our Sydney office. This is a maximum term contract until February 2025.
You will play a pivotal role in providing strategic HR guidance and support to the firm's leadership and employees. This position offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to the success and growth of our firm by implementing HR initiatives that align with our organisational goals and values.
Your role will include but not be limited to:
To be successful in this role, you will:
The Team:
Our competitive advantage is our people and our culture. Our Human Resources team works closely with leaders and people across the business to recruit exceptional people, nurture their development and guide their careers. As a member of our HR team, you will be working in a supportive and collaborative regional and global team of professionals that deliver HR business partnering, graduate and lateral recruitment, HR operations and compliance, global mobility, reward and remuneration, organisational development and diversity and inclusion.
Herbert Smith Freehills is ranked as the Number 1 'Attraction Firm', Lawyers Weekly Legal Firm of Choice
What you can expect from us:
We encourage applications from individuals of diverse backgrounds, including but not limited to First Nations, LGBTIQA+ and neurodivergent individuals, as well as individuals of all ages, cultures, genders, and abilities. We're a safe, inclusive, and equitable workplace and celebrate the diversity of our people.
Team
Human ResourcesWorking Pattern
Full timeLocation
SydneyContract type
Maximum Term ContractDiversity & Inclusion
At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus and highly engaged people are our differentiator. People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to their work with us. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means you feel valued and able to perform at your best by being your authentic self at work. We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling highly engaged in meaningful work.
We understand that you have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to create a working environment based on mutual trust and respect, in which you can perform at your best whilst maintaining sustainable balance across your life.
