People Consultant

Primary DetailsTime Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

• Location: Sydney or Melbourne

• Type: 9 and 12 Month Fixed-Term Contract

• Hybrid role: Full-time or 4 days a week

The opportunity

Join our Leader Assist team as a People Consultant, where you’ll be the first point of contact for leaders people management queries, issues and cases. You’ll act as a trusted advisor supporting leaders in managing their teams and developing their people management capabilities. You’ll have the opportunity to develop and build on your HR generalist skills.

Your new role

You will work on:

• Providing guidance, advice and coaching to support leaders with their people management queries, and enhance their leadership skills

• Supporting leaders with pragmatic, people-centric guidance on performance management cases

• Managing non-complex ER and health & wellbeing cases in partnership with leaders, and the broader people team

• Contributing to the development of internal resources, templates and knowledge bank content; share knowledge, expertise and collaborate within the Leader Assist team

• Providing administrative support on people projects, and cyclical HR activities as needed

• Building relationships with key stakeholders to support the people and business agenda

About you

You will Bring:

• Experience in a HR advisory role, ideally within a large corporate or complex environment

• Demonstrated experience supporting people leaders in managing performance, conduct and health & wellbeing cases

• The ability to influence and advise leaders to achieve positive outcomes

• Strong verbal, written communication, stakeholder engagement and influencing skills

• The ability to work at pace on a variety of complex HR matters, and able to effectively prioritise competing priorities

• A continuous learning mindset, and openness to new ideas and ways of working

• Comfortable working as part of a collaborative team environment

About QBE

We can never really predict what’s around the corner, but at QBE we’re asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future – helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage. We’re an international insurer that’s building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.

And our people will be at the centre of our success. We’re proud to work together, and encourage each other enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities. With more than more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, we’re big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate and kind.

We believe this is our moment – what if it was yours too? Your career at QBE — let’s make it happen!

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

• ‘Hybrid Working’ – a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance

• Our ‘Thriving at our Best’ wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice

• The ability to maximise retirement savings through voluntary super contributions and company matching

• Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums

• Additional leave and support through QBE’s Family Domestic Violence First Responder Network

• Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners

Rewards & Recognition

We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:

• 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice

• 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbeing at the Australian HR Awards

• Platinum employer on the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) – the definitive national benchmark on LGBTQI+ workplace inclusion

• Ranked 3rd place in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2023 for medium sized program as voted by graduates

• Top 20 Workplaces for Dads in 2019 and 2020 (HBF Direct Advice for Dads)

• Family First accredited employer since 2021

Apply now

APPLY NOW and let’s make it happen! 

Click APPLY to submit your application. Successful applicants will need to complete work rights, police and credit checks through our online provider as a condition of employment.

QBE recognise the value of diverse perspectives and experience. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected for who they are. If we can provide support with access requirements, alternative work arrangements or you would like to connect with one of our networks please contact us at [email protected]

Please note: the Talent Acquistion team will be taking a break over the festive season, so your application will not be reviewed until week commencing 6th January.

Skills:

Application Close Date: 12/01/2025 11:59 PM

How to Apply:

To submit your application, click "Apply" and follow the step by step process.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.