People and Culture Operations Lead
Kent Town, South Australia

Intro

For more than 25 years, Yumbah has been a pioneer in sustainable aquaculture. What began as a land-based abalone farming business has grown organically and through acquisitions into Australia’s leading diversified aquaculture business, with farming operations throughout South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania across Abalone, Oysters, Mussels and Kingfish.

Yumbah’s success is built on three values that guide everything they do:

Teamwork – We achieve more together.

Daring – We embrace innovation and growth.

Integrity – We respect each other, our product, and our environment.

Over the past 2 years the business has doubled in size, leading to a new People & Culture strategy and structure to support the expanded business and future growth plans.

Job Description

We’re searching for a People & Culture Operations Lead, you’ll be responsible for implementing state of the art people systems and processes that are easy to use and efficient for staff and managers, including AI driven self-service and policy guidance tools.

You will be experienced in implementing and optimising the workflows within modern HRIS platforms, optimising people processes, delivering on remuneration reviews and managing the annual people cycle and calendar.

Key Responsibilities

The successful applicant will be responsible for:

Managing the end-to-end implementation of Employment Hero across the business, bringing three separate systems across the business into one national platform
Harmonise policies and procedures across 3 acquired entities into one consistent standard
Build an insightful people & culture reporting dashboard and analytics to enable business decision making and inform P&C strategy
Manage remuneration and incentive system reviews across the business
Develop an AI driven P&C self service platform for staff and managers providing policy and people practices advice
Project manage the annual people & culture calendar, coordinating with P&C business partners nationally
Ensure people and culture practices are pragmatic, easy to work with and provide a great manager and employee experience
Manage internal employee communications

Skills, Experience & Attributes

We’re looking for a people-focused HR professional who thrives in a dynamic, multi-site environment. You’ll bring commercial awareness, deep insight into how to create a great place to work and build high performing teams and be a strong relationship builder at your core.

You’ll need:

5+ years in a generalist or specialist HR experience in HR systems implementation and optimisation.
Strong knowledge of Australian employment legislation and HR best practice.
Experience in salary benchmarking and remuneration review processes
Experience in harmonising employment policies and terms and conditions of employment across multiple entities
Experience in people reporting and data analytics

You’ll be:

Values-driven, with integrity and accountability at your core.
A passion to provide an exceptional employee experience and service
Strong attention to detail and process oriented
Commercially aware, results-driven, and adaptable.

Why Join Our Team?

Opportunity to join a growing business with national operations
Paid parental leave
Flexible working arrangements
Training and development opportunities
Competitive remuneration

Next Steps

If you’re interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply via SEEK