HR Manager

Telstra

HR Manager enhancing leadership effectiveness and driving people strategies for Telstra Consumer. Partnering with executives for organisational design and talent development in a dynamic environment.

Posted 7/21/2026full-timeSydney • 🇦🇺 AustraliaMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates strong stakeholder engagement and consultative skills to influence executive-level leaders while providing strategic input on workforce planning and talent management. Exhibits a progressive mindset towards organizational design, DEI initiatives, and the integration of digital solutions in HR practices.

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Stakeholder EngagementCommercial JudgementCore HR KnowledgeTeam LeadershipOrganizational Design

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Hard Skills

Employee RelationsRecruitment ProcessesRedundancy PoliciesTalent ManagementRemuneration Frameworks

Soft Skills

Consultative SkillsInfluencing SkillsProactive ApproachNatural CuriosityLeadership Capability

Industry Keywords

DEI InitiativesTalent Succession PlanningWorkforce PlanningOrganizational DesignChange Management

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Ensure Telstra Consumer leaders and teams are set up and supported to deliver with the right organisational structures, capability, and partnering in place.
Act as a partner to key executives across and offer coaching and leadership, while challenging the status quo.
Drive senior leadership and executive talent succession planning and talent reviews to nurture careers and mitigate risks.
Provide strategic input to functional workforce plans – desired shifts, and capability needs now and future.
Partner with GE and Executive Talent teams to attract and retain the right talent to lead, inspire and engage our people and grow the business.
Drive sustainable org design and M&A projects aligned to Telstra’s design principles and planning teams to provide a consistent employee experience and achieve prioritised outcomes.
Champion and integrate DEI initiatives into Functional strategies, operations and decision making.
Collaborate with GE/SLT and Corporate Comms Lead to develop and execute measurable Function specific People Plans that are aligned and integral to the business strategy.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Demonstrated astute stakeholder engagement and consultative skills, with the ability to influence, guide and challenge executive-level stakeholders who are overseeing a large workforce.
Strong commercial judgement, using data, insights and business context to shape practical people solutions.
Natural curiosity and a proactive approach to understanding the business, its people priorities and emerging opportunities.
Progressive mindset, including openness to AI, digital ways of working and the shifts these create for people, leaders and organisations.
Strong core HR knowledge within employee relations, recruitment processes, redundancy policies/processes, talent principles and management, remuneration principles/frameworks
Depth of experience supporting leadership effectiveness, organisation design, talent planning, culture and change.
Strong team leadership capability, with the ability to inspire, align and hold People Partners together around shared priorities.
An ability to represent PC&C credibly with senior leaders, balancing strategic advice with hands-on delivery.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Performance-related pay
Access to thousands of learning programs so you can level-up
Global presence across 22 countries; opportunities to work where we do business.
Purchased annual leave scheme
Additional Telstra day off
Additional 30% off Telstra products and services
Toolkit provided (laptop + mobile phone + plan paid for)