HR Business Partner

Joining the Metcash Family

At Metcash, you’re part of something bigger. You have all the perks of a small business heart, without missing out on the big business support.

Being part of something bigger means you’re part of a strong purpose, where the work you do makes a big difference to independent business and local communities. It opens a sea of opportunities to develop yourself, grow your career, thrive your way and make your mark. And you’ll be part of our high performing team, where you reap the rewards of our collective success now and into the future.

About the Opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity to join Metcash as a HR Business Partner. The purpose of the HR Business Partner role is to bring to life our Metcash Purpose of Championing Successful Independents, delivering the Group People Strategy with a local flavour to the Metcash Food pillar. HR Business Partners nurture passionate leaders, who create constructive cultures, where our people have a strong sense of belonging and connection.

In this Role

• Working collaboratively within the Food Business Partner team, develop the State or function annual people plan for those teams you partner, which enable the state or function to achieve its business plans.  These plans align into the broader Metcash People Strategy and focus on business growth, culture, leadership, capabilities, and core people processes.
• Act as the people lead in major business changes, providing key stakeholders with capability, support, and effective people-related change management practices to enable and embed major business change.
• Identify, design, and implement initiatives to ensure the Food pillar has the right talent, in the right place, at the right time to deliver our purpose of Championing Successful Independents
• Providing leadership coaching & advice to your partner executives & leadership teams
• Work closely with P&C Advice Centre to understand major trends, working proactively to address underlying issues and focusing on continuous improvement.

You’re Likely a Match If

• Extensive experience in a P & C / HR BP role operating at Senior Leadership level
• Strong coaching capability
• Proven ability to influence and build collaborative relationships with key stakeholders, including varied levels of seniority
• Sound problem solving skills, able to analyse facts or data to determine root causes of challenges and then able to propose solutions & implement
• Ability to balance competing priorities – this role partners 3 teams who are geographically disbursed across Australia
• Experience in supply chain and IR/ER and an understanding of the industrial relations landscape an advantage
• Facilitation experience
• Adaptable and relatable style, with the ability to connect with colleagues at all levels of the organisation
• Experience in navigating the dynamics of belonging to a Group function and localised business needs

Life at Metcash

🌈 Experience a supportive and flexible work environment. We are a FlexReady accredited workplace!

🌟 Enjoy a 5th week of annual leave every year after your first year.

🌿 Benefit from 2 well-being days and 1 volunteer day annually.

🌐 An abundance of learning, development, and career growth opportunities.

💼 12 weeks of gender-neutral paid parental leave for primary carers.

🏆 Proudly awarded the “Bronze Employer for LGBTQ Inclusion”.

🌍 Recognized as the 74th in the "Equileap Top 100" globally for initiatives on gender equity.

⚖️A neutral gender pay gap of under 5% as published by WGEA 2022- 2023

🥇 Gold accreditation by Mental Health Australia.

💸 Incredible value discounts and perks through our team member app, “Our Local”.

About Us

Metcash is Australia’s leading wholesale distribution company, with revenue exceeding $18 billion in FY23. We’re also an ASX top 100 listed company.

We believe that it is absolutely vital to Australia that there is a sustainable, independent, family-owned business sector. Independent retailers support their local communities. We help them to be the ‘Best Store in Their Town’ by providing merchandising, operational and marketing support across our food, liquor and hardware pillars.

We're dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion in our workplace and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Joining our team means becoming part of something bigger, a company that actively promotes diversity, champions charitable causes, and supports environmental efforts. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including First Nations. If you have any specific support or access needs, please don't hesitate to inform us when you apply. Rest assured; your personal information will be handled with the utmost confidentiality in accordance with applicable privacy laws.

Join us and become part of something bigger!