Head of HR - Corporate

About Lactalis-Mainland Dairy

Mainland Dairy, the business formerly known as Fonterra’s global Consumer and associated businesses, is now part of the Lactalis Group and known as Lactalis-Mainland Dairy.

Lactalis is a French family-owned business founded in Laval in 1933. Today, it is the world’s leading dairy group, present in 50 countries employing around 85,500 people. It is home to some of the world’s best known global and international dairy brands, including Président, Galbani and Parmalat, and local brands including Pauls, OAK, and Cracker Barrel in Australia.

Lactalis-Mainland Dairy is a team of more than 4,300 employees, operating 16 manufacturing sites across Oceania, Southeast Asia, South Asia and the Middle East. We make well-loved brands including Perfect Italiano, Mainland, and Western Star.

Our passionate and talented team is committed to nurturing the future, unlocking new opportunities, and fostering innovation in nutrition and food.

About The Opportunity

This is a senior HR leadership role responsible for shaping and delivering the people strategy across our Corporate functions. Reporting to the HR Director, you will partner closely with senior leaders to drive organisational performance through strong workforce planning, capability uplift, engagement and culture initiatives.

As the Head of HR-Corporate, you will play a key role in ensuring effective, consistent and commercially aligned HR delivery across corporate portfolios, while influencing leadership outcomes and supporting enterprise-wide people priorities.

In this role, you will:

• Partner with senior leaders to drive capability building, engagement, culture and change initiatives
• Coach and advise leaders on performance management, organisational effectiveness and team capability
• Lead employee relations and compliance activity, managing risk and ensuring sound outcomes
• Partner with specialist HR teams (C&B, Talent and IR/ER) to deliver enterprise people processes including salary reviews, performance and talent cycles
• Monitor workforce metrics, identify trends and implement actions to improve engagement, retention and performance outcomes

About You

You are a commercially minded HR leader with strong experience partnering with senior stakeholders in corporate or complex environments. You bring a balance of strategic thinking and hands-on delivery, with the ability to influence, challenge and build capability across the business.

You will also bring:

• Significant HR leadership experience supporting senior leaders within corporate functions or complex organisational environments
• Strong generalist HR capability across workforce planning, talent, performance, reward and organisational change
• Demonstrated experience in employee relations, case management and employment compliance
• Ability to leverage data and insights to inform decision-making and drive outcomes
• Strong coaching, influencing and stakeholder management skills
• Experience working in partnership with HR Centres of Excellence to deliver enterprise people programs
• Tertiary qualification in HR, Employment Relations, Business, Psychology or similar

What We Offer

• Competitive pay and benefits
• Career development and internal opportunities across a global business
• A team focused workplace in a fantastic culture where your work has real impact
• A strong commitment to quality, innovation and sustainability

Based at our Richmond office, this role offers excellent career development and internal mobility pathways as well as flexible ways of working and a hybrid structure, that allows you the balance of in-office collaboration and working from home to suit your lifestyle.

Our Commitment

Lactalis-Mainland Dairy is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religious beliefs, age, or ability.

Please note that applicants must have full working rights for Australia to be considered.

We are politely declining recruitment agency support and approaches for this role.