HR Business Partner

Posted:

20/08/2025

Closing Date:

19/09/2025

Job Type:

Permanent - Full Time

Location:

SA - Burton

Job Category:

People & Performance

We’ve been proudly bringing joy to tables and smiles to faces with the delicious food we’ve been crafting for over 100 years. A large part of our strong growth and success is because we're always looking for new ways to do things and thinking about how we can create a better, more sustainable future world together. Our success as an industry leader in providing deliciously good food means we can continue to invest in our future as we work towards becoming Australia and New Zealand’s first choice for poultry.

Job Description

Your opportunity to join our People & Performance team in SA!

As a HR Business Partner for South Australia, you will support the P&P Manager and partner with a broad leadership group across our SA business, covering multiple sites including our primary and further processing facilities, distribution centre, feedmill and farms.

You will play a key role in enabling leaders to develop their people whilst supporting Inghams’ culture journey across the sites.

This position will be required to support multiple sites and therefore a driver’s license is essential. The position can be performed on a full-time or part-time (4 days) basis.

Key responsibilities:

• Partner with stakeholders across multiple sites to provide advice on people-related matters, including employment relations, performance and conduct, people leadership, policies and procedures, change management, remuneration and diversity and inclusion
• Lead and support local enterprise agreement negotiations and foster productive union relationships
• Support leaders in the management of employment relations matters, including conducting workplace investigations
• Coach, support and influence leaders to develop and sustain a constructive culture
• Support governance initiatives and assist to standardise and simplify people processes
• Understand the people needs in areas such as talent and organisational development, diversity and inclusion, performance management and leadership development and work with the broader P&P team to develop and execute strategic people initiatives
• Work with the L&D team to build capability of front-line leaders
• Drive local implementation of people processes such as remuneration and performance reviews and talent and succession processes
• Contribute positively to the wider P&P team, fostering open communication and actively seeking feedback
• Partner with key stakeholders for recruiting and ensure new hires have a positive and seamless experience
• Develop an understanding of business priorities and connect them to people initiatives that support the business

Key requirements:

• Demonstrated business partnering experience within a large, complex operational environment, supporting a diverse, multi-site workforce
• Experience in the application of workplace relations legislation and frameworks
• Demonstrated experience working in a unionised environment, leading and assisting with negotiating Enterprise Agreements and building productive union relationships
• The ability to build strong relationships, develop trust and influence a variety of stakeholders
• A high level of proficiency in advising on all aspects of the employee life cycle
• The ability to develop, implement and embed new processes, policies and systems in a complex environment
• Excellent communication skills, with high level interpersonal and relationship management skills and strong written, verbal and presentation skills
• Highly effective time management and prioritisation skills and the capacity to build and maintain positive relationships with remote stakeholders
• Experience in the use of various HR / Payroll related systems in order to obtain and review data
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Tertiary studies in a HR or business-related degree preferred

We’re looking for people who are curious, caring, courageous and committed to join us; people who want to contribute their best work every single day and continue delivering deliciously good food that’s…Always Good!