Head of Business Partnering
Head of Business Partnering
Tandem is proud to be partnering with City of Casey on an exciting Head of Business Partnering reporting to the CPO Lead transformation in an evolving
Tandem Partners is pleased to be partnered with the City of Casey to appoint a Head of Business Partnering, a pivotal leadership role within the People & Culture function that reports to the Chief People Officer. This role leads the Business Partnering function, ensuring our workforce, talent, culture and change approaches are strategically aligned to organisational priorities and capable of responding effectively to evolving workforce conditions.
The City of Casey
City of Casey is one of Australia’s largest and fastest growing councils, supporting a diverse workforce of 1800 to deliver essential services to a dynamic and expanding community.
Casey operates at genuine scale and complexity, delivering a wide range of services—from infrastructure, planning and community services through to health, early years, regulatory functions, and corporate services. The organisation plays a critical role as both a service provider and a major regional employer, with a strong focus on sustainable community outcomes.
City of Casey’s values guide how work is done and how decisions are made:
- Dream Big – thinking boldly about the future and being open to new ways of working and improving outcomes
- Empower Each Other – working collaboratively, building capability, and holding ourselves and others accountable
- Make Our Community Proud – acting with integrity, care and responsibility in everything we do, recognising our impact as a public organisation
The Role
The Head of Business Partnering is an enterprise leader responsible for delivering end-to-end strategic and operational business partnering across the City of Casey. Success in the role requires deep strategic workforce planning capability, and the ability to lead, teach and build capability, —within the Business Partnering team and across the organisation.
- Lead and mature a Strategic Business Partnering function that delivers proactive and consistent ways of working across all portfolios.
- Establish clear partnering standards, ways of working and expectations for Business Partners and the business
- Translate strategy, budgets and service plans into clear workforce and capability priorities
- Act as a trusted advisor to Executive and senior leaders on complex people, performance and change matter
- Build leadership capability and accountability through coaching, guidance and structured framework
- Partner closely with People Operations and Centres of Excellence as part of a tiered People Services model transformation.
This leadership role has genuine scope to shape how people partnering supports a large, diverse organisation. Your success will be measured on how you develop capability both within the Business Partnering team and across the business.
Please note that whilst flexibility and hybrid working is available, the ideal candidate will be willing to be on site regularly to engage with the leadership teams. Please expect 2-3 days as a regular cadence.
Your Experience and Qualifications
- Tertiary qualification in Human Resources, Industrial Relations, Organisational Psychology or Business; a master’s degree is highly regarded.
- Broad, cross industry HR experience with the ability to apply contemporary market best practice in a complex organisational context.
- Proven experience leading HR Business Partnering team(s) or an equivalent strategic partnering function.
- Demonstrated capability delivering enterprise level people outcomes within large, complex or regulated organisations.
- Sound employee and industrial relations judgement, with the ability to manage complex matters (deep specialisation not required).
- A broad HR skillset, including experience in organisation design and talent management.
- Demonstrated experience building workforce and leadership capability at scale.
For a confidential discussion on this role and to understand more, please contact Kate Castell at Tandem Partners.
Salary Range:
$ - $
Work Type:
Full Time
Location:
Victoria
Date Published:
15-May-2026