People and Culture Consultant People and Culture Consultant

It starts with YES! 

At Optus, we have an ambitious goal to be Australia’s most loved everyday brand. 

We want Optus to be the right place for the best people to do their best work. Critical to our business strategy is that Optus is a highly sought employer and employment brand with a reputation for attracting and hiring the strongest talent across all sectors. 

We are seeking a People and Culture Consultant on a 12-month fixed term contract, who can work across a multitude of HR specialties and business areas. This role will suit someone who works well in ambiguity and complexity with direct organisational change experience, and is able to quickly reprioritise role focus or key activities. 

In this role you will work in partnership with your P&C colleagues (P&C Directors and Centre’s of Excellence) and senior business leaders to understand business needs and deliver value adding HR solutions to people related challenges and opportunities. 

Your day in the life at Optus, 

• Support P&C team to execute on initiatives that deliver strategic value and enable exceptional customer experiences aligned to the Annual Operating Plan.
• Provide coaching and support to leaders and challenge their thinking to build culture empowerment and leadership capability.
• Enable the business to drive change programs to ensure they result in sustained improvement in performance.
• Identify opportunities to drive efficiencies and improvements across P&C Professional Services that result in an enhanced employee experience.

Your skills to pay the bills,

• Four to seven years experience, with demonstrated ability in dynamic HR roles working in a matrixed organisation
• Undergraduate degree in HR Management, organisational psychology, business or related field or equivalent experience.
• Proven ability to establish relationships quickly with business stakeholders across all business areas.
• The ability to manage, lead and enable change, supporting others to deal with the uncertainty and ambiguity associated with change.
• Deep and broad knowledge of HR processes gained in a dynamic global organisation.
• Deep ability to understand and clarify stakeholder needs and where appropriate, provide solutions that add tangible value.

Perks we love at Optus, 

• 3 days in the office, 2 days remote – with flexible hours to suit!
• Inclusive paid parental leave, up to 14 weeks for the primary care giver
• All Optus employees have access to resources, webinars and support via the ‘Parents at Work portal’
• Own your own growth by accessing an extensive online and facilitator led learning catalogue – even earn a MBA micro-credential via OptusU (University)
• Connect at work through one of our employee-led volunteer groups: Culture Connect, Elevate Women, Disability Network, Express Yourself (LGBTQIA+), United Veterans and Yarn Network
• Vibrant campus life, variety of facilities including restaurants, cafes, gymnasium, GP, and post office
• Free Optus bus from Macquarie University Metro Station (every 6-8 minutes); morning and afternoon!

Keen to see what it’s really like to work at Optus? Search #OptusLife on LinkedIn to go behind the scenes! 

At Optus, we are strengthened by others and that means valuing diversity and saying ‘yes’ to embracing individual differences. We are committed to ensuring that our application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all job seekers, including individuals from diverse gender, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, individuals with a disability, individuals identifying as being part of the LGBTQIA+ community, individuals who may have served in the armed forces or who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. If you require any adjustments or accessibility support to participate fairly and equitably in the recruitment process, please email AccessibleRecruitment@optus.com.au or call 1800 309 170 and we will be in touch. 

For more information on Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging at Optus, please visit https://www.optus.com.au/about/inclusion-diversity. 

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