At CSL, we are driven by our promise to save lives and protect public health. As our Senior Manager Industrial Relations – APAC, you will play a critical leadership role in shaping and delivering industrial relations strategy across the region, with a strong focus on Australia.
This is a unique opportunity to work in a complex and highly regulated environment where your expertise will directly influence business outcomes, workforce engagement and organisational transformation.
The Opportunity
As a trusted advisor to senior leaders, you will lead the design and execution of industrial relations strategies that support CSL’s evolving workforce and business priorities. You’ll partner closely with executives, HR Business Partners, legal and operational leaders to drive constructive employee relations outcomes across enterprise bargaining, dispute resolution and organisational change.
From leading enterprise agreement negotiations to navigating complex IR matters, you’ll be at the centre of high‑impact decisions that shape our employee experience and industrial landscape.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end‑to‑end enterprise bargaining processes, acting as a subject matter expert and representative in negotiations and at external forums (including the Fair Work Commission)
- Partner with leaders to develop and implement industrial relations strategies aligned to business objectives
- Provide expert advice on dispute prevention and resolution, support organisational change initiatives, ensuring effective consultation with employees and unions
- Develop briefing materials, reports and recommendations on emerging IR risks and legislative changes
- Build IR capability across senior leaders through coaching, training and guidance
- Foster a progressive, collaborative IR culture across CSL’s APAC operations
About You
You are an experienced IR professional who thrives in complex, fast‑paced environments and brings both strategic thinking and hands‑on expertise.
You will bring:
- 5-7+ years’ experience in industrial relations, ideally within large, matrixed or global organisations
- Strong knowledge of Australian employment law and unionised environments
- Proven experience leading end to end enterprise bargaining and managing industrial disputes
- Exceptional stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
- Experience in pharmaceutical or manufacturing environments (highly regarded)
- Relevant tertiary qualification (postgraduate study desirable)
Why CSL?
At CSL, you’ll join a global organisation with a strong purpose and a commitment to innovation, collaboration and excellence. You’ll work alongside passionate experts, influence meaningful change, and help deliver therapies that impact lives around the world.
Apply Now
If you’re ready to take a lead role in shaping industrial relations strategy within a purpose‑driven organisation, 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
- 5-7+ years experience in industrial relations
- Experience within large, matrixed or global organisations
- Strong knowledge of Australian employment law and unionised environments
- Proven experience leading end-to-end enterprise bargaining and managing industrial disputes
- Exceptional stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
- Experience in pharmaceutical or manufacturing environments
- Relevant tertiary qualification
- Postgraduate study (desirable)
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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