The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced industrial relations (IR) leader to join our team in Melbourne. As the APAC IR Lead, you will define and drive our IR strategy across the Asia Pacific region. This is a senior leadership role where you will act as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert, shaping enterprise bargaining, union engagement, and industrial risk management, while ensuring business continuity and compliance.
You’ll partner closely with senior HR, legal and business leaders to build a forward-looking IR roadmap, influence workforce strategy, and foster a progressive, high-performing industrial relations environment.
Reporting to the Global Head of IR you will:
- Lead the IR APAC team
- Define and deliver the APAC industrial relations strategy aligned to business priorities
- Lead collective agreement strategy and negotiations, union engagement, and dispute resolution
- Provide expert industrial relations advice to senior stakeholders, HRBPs, and business leaders
- Proactively identify and mitigate industrial risks to ensure business continuity
- Build strong partnerships across regional leadership, HR teams, legal, and employee representative bodies
- Deliver consistent, high-quality industrial relations frameworks, tools, and insights
- Drive initiatives to strengthen industrial relations practices and enhance employee outcomes
- Ensure adherence to employment legislation across relevant markets
- Represent the organisation in key external forums when required
About You
You are a strategic and commercially minded IR leader with deep expertise in industrial relations and a proven ability to influence at senior levels.
Experience & Qualifications
- Degree in HR, Business, Psychology, or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
- Relevant tertiary qualification (postgraduate study desirable)
- 7–10+ years’ experience in industrial relations and significant experience leading an IR function
- Strong experience with end-to-end enterprise bargaining, unions, and workforce negotiations
- Deep knowledge of employment legislation
- Exceptional negotiation, influencing, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to coach, mentor, and uplift IR and HR capability
Why Join CSL?
- Opportunity to shape IR strategy at a regional level
- Work with senior leaders on high-impact, complex workforce matters
- Be part of a collaborative, globally connected HR function
- Drive meaningful outcomes for both employees and the business
Apply Now!
If you are a forward-thinking industrial relations leader ready to take on a strategic APAC role, we’d love to hear from you.
Applications Close on July 8, 2026
About CSL Behring
CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients’ needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.
CSL Behring operates one of the world’s largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.
To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.
Our Benefits
For more information on CSL benefits visit How CSL Supports Your Well-being | CSL.
You Belong at CSL
At CSL, Inclusion and Belonging is at the core of our mission and who we are. It fuels our innovation day in and day out. By celebrating our differences and creating a culture of curiosity and empathy, we are able to better understand and connect with our patients and donors, foster strong relationships with our stakeholders, and sustain a diverse workforce that will move our company and industry into the future.
To learn more about inclusion and belonging visit https://www.csl.com/careers/inclusion-and-belonging
Equal Opportunity Employer
CSL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit https://www.csl.com/accessibility-statement.
Skills Required
- Degree in HR, Business, Psychology, or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
- Postgraduate qualification (desirable).
- 7-10+ years' experience in industrial relations with significant experience leading an IR function.
- Strong experience with end-to-end enterprise bargaining, unions, and workforce negotiations.
- Deep knowledge of employment legislation across relevant markets.
- Exceptional negotiation, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to coach, mentor, and uplift IR and HR capability.
What We Do
CSL is a leading global biotechnology company with a dynamic portfolio of lifesaving medicines, including those that treat haemophilia and immune deficiencies, vaccines to prevent influenza, and therapies in iron deficiency, dialysis and nephrology. Since our start in 1916, we have been driven by our promise to save lives using the latest technologies. Today, CSL – including our businesses, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus, CSL Plasma and CSL Vifor – provides lifesaving products to patients in more than 100 countries and employs 32,000 people. Our unique combination of commercial strength, R&D focus and operational excellence enables us to identify, develop and deliver innovations so our patients can live life to the fullest. See our community guidelines: https://bit.ly/3Bs17Ra
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