Manager | Industrial Relations

Job Requisition ID: 37248 

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•    Mentoring program - receive support and coaching to progress your career
•    Flexible work arrangements through various Flex options

Unique opportunity for Workplace Relations professionals to join the Deloitte Workplace Integrity Team in Melbourne or Sydney!

About the team
The Workplace Integrity team is a part of Deloitte's Strategy, Risk & Transactions team in Australia.  

The Workplace Integrity team combines practitioners with deep workplace relations expertise and advanced data analytics skills to support clients to navigate the evolving workplace regulatory landscape and identify innovative opportunities to make a real impact for our clients. 

You will join a large team of passionate and innovative workplace relations practitioners with diverse experience across professional services, industry and government, all working together to support our clients to solve their most complex workplace relations challenges. 

What will your typical day look like?
As a Manager in our team, you will play a pivotal role influencing, advising and supporting our clients on their complex workplace relations issues, across a diverse range of industries including ASX listed, government, and private companies.

You will engage with clients every day to develop an understanding of their strategic challenges, opportunities and how you can help them. Through your workplace relations insights and expertise, you will help your clients to align their workplace relations strategy to their organisational strategy, navigate organisational transformation and change and manage regulatory risk and compliance with workplace relations obligations. With the support of Partners and Directors, you will manage and lead teams of consultants to develop: 
•    Workplace relations and enterprise bargaining strategies
•    Workplace relations and payroll compliance and remediation 
•    Frameworks, processes & controls to enable sustainable workplace relations compliance.

Your typical day will include some of the following activities:
•    Leading and enabling a team throughout the delivery of work and inspiring, supporting and developing your team along the way
•    Leading or contributing to proposal development activities to shape, scope and win new packages of work
•    Managing the planning, forecasting and delivery of work in line with an agreed statement of work
•    Contributing to and leading the reporting of status up through the project and client governance structures, including identification and managing risks and issues associated with your stream of work and across the program
•    Shaping the ongoing work and managing the delegation of work, and review of deliverables throughout the delivery
•    Engaging with your program leadership (Directors/Partners or otherwise) to ensure appropriate input and review throughout
•    Participating in practice related activities, and acting as a career coach for team members – helping to guide them in their ongoing growth and development within the firm  

You will have an opportunity to work with a group of highly experienced and supportive workplace relations practitioners, giving you an opportunity to grow your expertise and skills. 

Enough about us, let's talk about you. 
We are looking for talented people with a passion for workplace relations and a natural curiosity to solve complex client problems aligned with business strategies and supported by data. 

You are smart, agile, open-minded and will be pragmatic in your interactions with our diverse range of stakeholders. You have practical experience with workplace relations legislation and industrial instruments and are adept at translating complex, technical information into simple, understandable concepts that all stakeholders can relate to. 

Above all, you are someone with the utmost integrity, who holds confidentiality and discretion at your core.

You may have all or some of the following skills and experience:

•    Significant experience in workplace relations
•    Detailed knowledge of Australian workplace relations laws
•    Excellent eye for detail and ability to think logically, critically, and to solve problems
•    Ability to:
o    help clients identify strategic opportunities to reach win-win solutions for our clients and their employees / stakeholders
o    build and maintain strategic relationships with external stakeholders 
o    apply a commercial and risk point of view
o    work independently, demonstrate high levels of initiative
o    take ownership of projects and deliverables, identifying key connection points with project leadership (e.g. Partners and Directors) including key risks/ issues for escalation
•    Project management skills, including ability to manage to timeframes, budget and milestones
•    Track record of leading teams including allocation of workload on a day to day basis and developing junior team members to reach their potential
•    Demonstrated ability to think ‘outside the box’ and not afraid to challenge status quo
•    Strong analytical, presentation and report writing skills
•    Excellent written and verbal communication skills, in particular, the ability to contextualise and communicate complex concepts accurately
•    A collaborative and consultative approach to teamwork with a natural curiosity for new ideas and perspectives to achieve innovative solutions 
•    Enjoy being in a dynamic, fast-growing environment and embrace the opportunity to experience new challenges and develop your career
•    Tertiary qualifications in industrial relations, labour/employment law, or employee relations human resource management

Why Deloitte?  
At Deloitte, we focus our energy on interesting and impactful work. We’re always learning, innovating and setting the standard; making a positive difference to our clients and our society. We put coaching at the heart of what we do, helping our people grow their careers in any direction – whether it be up, moving into something new, or even moving across the world.   
  
We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion. We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone’s perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong.  
   
We prioritise flexibility and choice. At Deloitte, you get trust on Day 1. We know our people get their best work done when they’re in control of where and how they work, designing their work week around their client, team and personal commitments. 
  
We help you live and work well. To support your personal and professional life, we offer a range of perks and benefits, including retail discounts, wellbeing leave, paid volunteering days, flexible working options, market-leading parental leave and return to work support package.  
 
Next Steps
Sound like the sort of role for you? Apply now, we’d love to hear from you! 

By applying for this job, you’ll be assessed against the Deloitte Talent Standards. We’ve designed these standards so that you can grow in your career, and we can provide our clients with a consistent and exceptional Deloitte employee experience globally. The preferred candidate will be subject to background screening by Deloitte or by their external third-party provider.