Senior People Partner

We're an iconic Aussie brand with a global footprint. Our purpose is to build a connected future so everyone can thrive. We're all about providing the best experience and delivering the best tech on the best network.

As a Senior People Partner (Sr. HRBP) supporting Telstra's Corporate Affairs, Risk & Legal (CARL) function, you'll thrive in complexity and be energised by the opportunity to solve challenging people and organisational issues.

You'll join a portfolio where people and culture are viewed as critical enablers of business success. CARL leaders are genuinely invested in developing talent, fostering inclusive and high-performing teams, and continuously evolving the way they work to deliver better outcomes for Telstra.

As the People Partner supporting this portfolio, you will work closely with senior leaders to shape and deliver people strategies that strengthen leadership capability, organisational effectiveness and workforce readiness.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to identify people-related opportunities and challenges, diagnose root causes, and develop practical solutions that enable business outcomes.
• Leverage organisational insights, workforce data, and industry trends to inform strategic decision-making, improve operating models, and shape future workforce strategies.
• Support leaders to attract, retain and develop highly specialised talent across legal, risk, governance, security and corporate affairs disciplines.
• Lead and support organisational design, transformation, and change initiatives, ensuring a positive employee experience from design through to implementation and embedding.
• Coach and support leaders to strengthen organisational effectiveness, leadership capability, employee engagement and accountability, driving a culture of high performance and inclusion.
• Apply deep HR expertise across talent management, organisational effectiveness, workforce planning, remuneration, leadership development, culture and employee relations to support CARL's strategic priorities.
• Provide trusted advice on complex employee relations, organisational risk and people decisions, ensuring alignment with legal, regulatory and policy requirements.
• Champion continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to strengthen people practices, share successful approaches across CARL, TB and PC&C to enhance the impact and value of the People Partnering team.

What We Offer

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

Requirements

• Relevant bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong HR business partnering experience (5+ years in Business Partnering or similar field), including strong business transformation capability.
• Experience partnering with professional, corporate or specialist workforces in areas such as legal, governance, risk, corporate affairs, consulting, professional services or similar environments.
• Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build credibility and trust with senior leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to balance strategic thinking with practical execution in complex and changing environments.
• Experience across the employee lifecycle, including workforce planning, organisational effectiveness and change implementation.
• Ability to embed practical people strategies, operating model changes and sustainable ways of working.
• Experience leading or supporting complex employee and industrial relations matters.
• A proactive commitment to shaping culture, championing diversity, equity and inclusion, and improving the employee experience.