Auckland Transport Looking for Senior Human Resources Business Partner at Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Full Time

• Champion new thinking and adaptiveness
• Bring your strategic agility and culture transformation experience
• Support leadership capability and a high performance culture

Auckland Transport is leading the development of transport infrastructure and solutions that enable healthy and accessible communities.

Regardless of your choice to walk, cycle, drive, take the ferry or train, we are passionate about working together to deliver safe, efficient, innovative and sustainable options whilst providing a transport system that will create a vibrant and connected Auckland.  

We are on a journey and working to shape our organisation through an ambitious transformation programme providing for more effective and efficient AT. 

Delivering Auckland’s transport solution on such a mammoth scale is no mean feat and we need a talented team to ensure we are up to this task.

Te Whiwhinga mahi | The opportunity

Reporting to the Head of Business Partnering, People & Performance, this role is all about driving our leadership capability and culture goals. You will need to be able to operate at consulting and commercial level – linking the people strategies to business goals and tangible outcomes.

This is a senior leadership role where you foster new thinking and adaptiveness to coach and mentor leaders to respond to changing needs, challenges, and priorities. You will capture business insights, using commercial acumen and external best practices to inform and guide People & Performance strategy and direction. You’ll demonstrate high learning agility, demonstrate agile ways of working and be adaptive in your approach.

You will be a change agent and understand how to run complex programmes of work and be part of a cross functional team. People & Performance at Auckland Transport is breaking the mould and innovating in industry led ways, the focus is on giving our people the opportunity to grow, develop, extend themselves, while also working on worthwhile and meaningful work, that makes a difference.

Ko koe tēnei | About you

A seasoned professional, you will bring significant experience within large scale culture transformation and extensive experience working in an influential role in large complex organisations.

You will have strong leadership and stakeholder skills with ability to inspire motivate and build effective and high performing teams and lead by influence with proven success in leading (or major contribution) to the design and implementation of major people change initiatives in a complex environment.

Politically savvy and strategic in your approach you will be customer centric problem solver and influencer that can garner the commitment of stakeholders at all levels of an organisation within a changing and evolving environment. You will bring specific functional knowledge and leadership of people strategy, and/ or programme management teams.

Ko wai mātou | About us

At AT, we embrace inclusion and fully support building a diverse workplace where people come first and we feel safe, respected, valued and supported, inclusive of our differences. Our values are more than just words – they are integral to everything we do. Manaakitanga – We care, Tiakitanga – Safe with us, Whanaungatanga – We connect, Auahatanga – Better, bolder, together.

In addition, our Flexible Working initiative empowers our people to work flexibly whilst meeting the needs of our customers, the organisation and the individual.

In addition, we also offer:

• Investment in your professional development and training 
• Opportunity for greater leadership and accountability
• Modern CBD (Wynyard Quarter) waterfront-based office
• Paid parental and partner leave
• Study assistance 
• Health and Wellbeing benefits 
• Professional memberships 

Please apply providing your updated CV along with a cover letter summarising how you meet the requirements for this role.