CIMIC Group is seeking a P&C Manager to join its People & Culture team. The key purpose of this role is to act as a trusted strategic advisor to senior business leaders on all people, culture and workforce matters, providing high-level counsel that enables the business to achieve its people, commercial and operational objectives.
This position translates business strategy into people strategy – advising executives and senior leaders on workforce planning, talent, organisational design, leadership effectiveness, culture, employment relations and change. The role focuses on shaping long-term people outcomes, anticipating workforce risks and opportunities, and elevating leadership capability across operational project teams, work winning and the broader client group.
About the Role
This role reports to the Principal P&C Business Partner, and key responsibilities include:
Build trusted relationships with project leaders, senior and operational leaders to co-develop people solutions that drive business performance.
Translate client group business strategy into actionable people plans, ensuring initiatives within the client group are commercially grounded and deliverable.
Provide clear, timely and pragmatic advice on workforce, culture and leadership challenges, enabling leaders to act with confidence.
Contribute to workforce planning activities including demand forecasting, resource mobilisation and capacity planning across the client groups.
Leverage workforce data; including turnover, absenteeism and engagement indicators to surface meaningful insights and inform business decisions.
Provide confident, well-reasoned advice on employee relations matters including performance management, conduct issues and workplace investigations.
About You – Qualifications & Experience
To be successful, you will bring:
Tertiary qualifications in Human Resources, Business, Organisational Psychology or a related discipline; postgraduate qualifications highly regarded.
In addition
Experience, with significant time spent in project HR management, senior business partnering or generalist HR roles within large, complex organisations.
Strong commercial and financial acumen, with a proven ability to link people strategy to business and project outcomes.
Demonstrated experience operating as a P&C advisor to project and senior leadership teams.
Proven ability to influence, challenge and coach senior leaders, including on sensitive or complex people matters.
Deep expertise in workforce strategy, organisational design, talent and succession, culture and change.
Strong diagnostic, analytical and consulting skills – able to interpret people data and translate it into clear strategic recommendations.
About CIMIC Group
CIMIC Group is a leading international contractor delivering major projects that shape communities, support economic growth and create long-term value.
Our mission is to generate sustainable returns for our shareholders while delivering outstanding results for our clients and providing safe, rewarding and fulfilling careers for our people. We live by our core principles—integrity, accountability, innovation and delivery—underpinned by safety.
Our people are highly valued and are committed to excellence across all aspects of our operations.
Why Join Us?
Be part of a leading global organisation delivering iconic projects
Work within a high-performing and collaborative finance team
Exposure to complex, large-scale financial operations
Career development opportunities across the CIMIC Group
Skills Required
- Tertiary qualification in Human Resources, Business, Organisational Psychology or related discipline
- Postgraduate qualification (highly regarded)
- Significant experience in project HR management, senior business partnering or generalist HR roles within large, complex organisations
- Experience advising senior leaders and project teams on people, culture and workforce matters
- Deep expertise in workforce strategy, organisational design, talent and succession, culture and change
- Strong commercial and financial acumen linking people strategy to business and project outcomes
- Proven ability to influence, challenge and coach senior leaders on sensitive or complex people matters
- Experience providing employee relations advice, including performance management, conduct issues and workplace investigations
- Strong diagnostic, analytical and consulting skills; able to interpret people data and make strategic recommendations
What We Do
CIMIC Group is an engineering-led construction, mining, services and infrastructure development leader working across the lifecycle of assets, infrastructure and resources projects. CIMIC Group comprises our construction businesses CPB Contractors, Leighton Asia and Broad, our mining and mineral processing companies Thiess (joint control) and Sedgman, our services specialist UGL, and our development and investment arm Pacific Partnerships – all supported by our in-house engineering consultancy EIC Activities. Our mission is to generate sustainable returns by delivering innovative and competitive solutions for clients and safe, fulfilling careers for our people. With a history since 1899, and around 30,000 people in around 20 countries, we strive to be known for our principles of Integrity, Accountability, Innovation and Delivery, underpinned by Safety. CIMIC is a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Australia Index and FTSE4Good. The principles of Integrity, Accountability, Innovation and Delivery underpin CIMIC’s operations. These principles provide a shared language and identity for CIMIC and guide its actions. Each of these principles is underpinned by a continual focus on safety which is fundamental to CIMIC’s operations.
