HR Manager

at  GWA Group

REQUIREMENTS

Join our vibrant team at GWA, where our rich Australian and New Zealand heritage, technical expertise, and innovative drive, combine with our iconic brands to create something truly extraordinary. For over a century, we’ve been crafting innovative, high-quality products for homes and offices, including market-leading brands like Caroma, Methven and Clark.
We’re on the hunt for a dynamic and forward-thinking Human Resources Manager to join our team. If you’re passionate about driving organisational effectiveness by developing and deploying innovative HR strategies that drive performance, enhance culture and deliver stakeholder value, we want to hear from you!
The role will be based at our office in South Melbourne and reports to our Group General Manager for People & Performance.
We welcome applications from candidates who are interested in both permanent and 12-month contract roles.

ABOUT US

At GWA, we’re not just a company—we’re a supportive community committed to making everyday water experiences extraordinary. Our dedication to water sustainability, customer-first values, and community engagement creates a ripple effect of positive impact, ensuring that our consumers not only enjoy our products, but also contribute to saving millions of litres of water each year.
When you join us, you’ll discover a welcoming workplace where safety, collaboration, and inclusivity are the cornerstones of our culture. Every contribution matters, and we provide a supportive environment where you can thrive, learn, and grow, recognising and celebrating performance in diverse and meaningful ways.
We celebrate the unique perspectives and talents that everyone brings with them and foster a culture of care where you feel valued and empowered to succeed. Our cultural pillars—We are One Team, We are Customer Focused, and We Care for Each Other—are more than just words; they’re our way of life.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Human Resources Manager and as part of the HR Leadership team, you’ll play a key role in partnering with senior leaders across functions to deliver on business priorities and develop & deliver HR programs focussed on workforce planning, performance and talent management, organisational change, cultural, and leadership development. A true generalist role that requires a blend of strategic and operational skills coupled with a passion for people and a deep understanding of the connection between people and performance.

Some of the key areas you will be responsible for include:

• HR Strategy & Business Performance: As a trusted advisor you will collaborate with our business leaders to drive people capabilities, provide outstanding people management counsel, and oversee the execution of all HR processes.
• Change Management: You will lead and support organisational changes with a keen understanding of their impact on people. Your expertise will guide us through major programs of work to secure adoption and embedding of new ways of working.
• Leadership Development: You will work with the GM of People & Performance and Head of Talent and OD to lead the talent and succession planning cycle, refine our capability needs, provide coaching for high-performance behaviours, and support the growth of our senior leaders.
• Engagement & Culture: You’ll drive the evolution of our company culture with strategic initiatives and action plans to boost engagement, as well as helping to embed our Employee Value Proposition (EVP) strategy.
• Systems & Processes: You will lead the charge in improving our People & Performance systems and processes, ensuring they align with our broader corporate goals. You will also manage key projects and the annual Performance & Remuneration review process for your business areas.

This is a busy, high-profile role and as such our ideal candidate will have at least 10 years’ experience within a similar role and industry, including:

• Stakeholder Management: build strong trusted relationships at all levels, promote constructive conversations and make sound business decisions.
• Commercially astute: balance people, business, customer and shareholder priorities to inform considered decision making and provides good guidance with consideration to internal and external factors.
• Courageous & Curious: confidence is challenging the status quo for the purpose of finding new ways to do things that deliver customer value.
• Team Contributor: embrace our agile ways of working by contributing cross functionally to accelerate the delivery of strategic group initiatives.
• Manage competing expectations: effectively prioritise and set clear expectations balancing operational tasks with strategic deliverables.
• Experience: proven track record of results, preferably in an industrial environment as a HR generalist with strengths in employee and industrial relations, talent attraction and development, culture and engagement and systems and reporting.
• Education: Tertiary qualifications in Human Resource Management, Commerce, Psychology, or a related discipline are preferred