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Role: HR Partner Lead

Location: Melbourne

Management level: Senior Manager

Job summary

Being part of Human Resources at Accenture is an opportunity to become a HR Practitioner, at the frontlines of our talent strategy, helping accelerate Accenture’s ability to create high touch and personalized experiences for our people.

If you love solving complex challenges at the intersection of our business and our people, then Human Resources at Accenture is the right place for you. You’ll be joining a diverse group of individuals with unique experiences, backgrounds, and ideas. Together, we’ll bring both our hearts and our minds to work each day to help our people be their best and deliver human-centered insights and solutions at speed and scale for our business.

Becoming a HR practitioner doesn’t happen by chance. We invest in capability development in a big way and our aspiration is to develop and grow world-class, future-ready HR professionals who are compassionate, innovative, agile, and continuous learners.

HR Partner Leads partner with and are the single point of contact for business leaders. They connect with business leaders to understand the business/practice strategy and partner on all strategic HR leadership matters. Additionally, they play a key role managing HR people metrics for their area, collaborating with other Corporate Function leads (as necessary), and supporting key escalations. HR Partner Leads supporting Avanade will be fully focused on providing HR support for Avanade.

Key responsibilities

• Lead a team of HR Partners and provide guidance to ensure the team is aligned with business needs and talent strategies.

• Provide coaching, learning and career guidance to ensure the HR Partner team is aligned with business needs and Avanade talent strategies.

• Support key escalations across the HR Partner team working with executive stakeholders.

• Connect with Practice Leaders to understand the business/practice strategy and use that knowledge to coach our people, while also coaching Practice Leaders based on knowledge of our people.

• Responsible and accountable for HR metrics, including sharing with business leads (ex. Attrition, I&D, etc.) targets, using data and storytelling to deliver insights to the business around key talent related metrics.

• Provide leadership coaching and guidance

• Manage critical path, process dependencies, and milestone compliance

• Partner with Leadership to drive commitment & focus on I&D and wellbeing across the organization

• Have a strong pulse on employee engagement and the employee experience of the practice, leveraging the employee listening strategy and action planning to support employee engagement and strategic people programs

• Work closely with the Talent Strategist and Business Leadership on the development of talent strategy for area

• Work with WF Planning Lead to drive the delivery of the talent plan (i.e. Prioritize and monitor recruiting plan, Exits, Pyramids etc. in line with strategy/demand/chargeability)

• Work with WF Planning Lead to share talent priorities and understand impact on Supply Demand balance, attrition updates, and provide insights on impacts to chargeability

• Manage and lead key HR processes for a practice – for example, performance management.

• Collaborate with other HR teams to understand talent priorities and to develop and execute strategies and actions around inclusion & diversity, employee experience, and learning / up-skilling.

• Assist in managing complex work efforts – including employee relations matters – while providing coaching and advice to leaders.

Job requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in human resources, business Administration, psychology, related field or equivalent professional experience.

• Minimum of 10 years of prior experience in Human Resources, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.

• Proven experience in strategic HR management and business partnering.

• In-depth understanding of HR best practices, employment laws, and regulations.

• Strong leadership, team management and coaching skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to develop and implement strategies human resources initiatives

• Strong analytical skills to assess metrics and drive data-informed decisions

• Ability to build ad maintain strong relationships with business leaders and stakeholders

• Familiarity with talent management, organizational development and change management

• Ability to take initiative and drive HR projects forward

• Flexibility to adapt to changing business needs and environments

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