Specialist Consultant - Industrial & Employee Relations
Specialist Consultant - Industrial & Employee Relations
enterprise bargaining and advise leaders through change within a large, unionised environment.
This is a rare opportunity to step into a senior, trusted Industrial & Employee Relations role within a large, complex and unionised organisation navigating significant transformation.
Partnering closely with leaders across the business, you’ll play a critical role in managing high‑risk ER matters, supporting enterprise bargaining, and guiding the people aspects of major change initiatives. This role suits someone who brings sound judgement, calm influence and a pragmatic, human approach to complex ER and IR challenges.
The Opportunity
Reporting into a senior Employee Relations leader, you will operate as a subject matter expert across a broad and interesting ER/IR portfolio. Your work will span advisory, investigations, bargaining and strategic change, with genuine exposure to senior stakeholders.
Key elements of the role include:
About You
You’re an experienced ER/IR professional who is comfortable operating in complexity and ambiguity. You combine strong technical capability with empathy, credibility and commercial awareness.
You’ll likely bring:
Why Join?
If this role isn’t quite right but you’d like to stay connected to future ER or IR opportunities, we’d still love to hear from you.
Partnering closely with leaders across the business, you’ll play a critical role in managing high‑risk ER matters, supporting enterprise bargaining, and guiding the people aspects of major change initiatives. This role suits someone who brings sound judgement, calm influence and a pragmatic, human approach to complex ER and IR challenges.
The Opportunity
Reporting into a senior Employee Relations leader, you will operate as a subject matter expert across a broad and interesting ER/IR portfolio. Your work will span advisory, investigations, bargaining and strategic change, with genuine exposure to senior stakeholders.
Key elements of the role include:
- End‑to‑end management of complex employee relations matters, including misconduct, investigations and terminations
- Leading high‑risk and sensitive workplace investigations requiring sound judgement and discretion
- Supporting enterprise bargaining activities, from strategy and negotiations through to implementation and compliance
- Advising on ER and IR risk during major organisational change, including restructures and business transformations
- Providing pragmatic, commercially grounded advice to leaders on employment law, policy and employee issues
- Representing the organisation in employment tribunals as required
- Contributing to the governance and continuous improvement of employment contracts and ER frameworks
- Building strong relationships across the business, unions and external stakeholders
About You
You’re an experienced ER/IR professional who is comfortable operating in complexity and ambiguity. You combine strong technical capability with empathy, credibility and commercial awareness.
You’ll likely bring:
- 5+ years’ experience in employee and industrial relations within large, complex or unionised organisations
- Strong working knowledge of the Australian employment law framework
- Experience supporting enterprise bargaining and managing union relationships
- A proven track record handling sensitive, high‑risk ER matters and investigations
- Confidence influencing and advising senior leaders in challenging situations
- Excellent communication, negotiation and mediation skills
- A degree in law, business, HR, employee or industrial relations (or equivalent experience)
Why Join?
- Work in a genuinely strategic ER role with real impact
- High trust, autonomy and access to senior decision‑makers
- Flexible working and a strong focus on wellbeing
- Ongoing learning, development and career progression
- A values‑driven culture that balances performance with care and inclusion
If this role isn’t quite right but you’d like to stay connected to future ER or IR opportunities, we’d still love to hear from you.
Salary Range:
$ - $
Work Type:
Full Time
Location:
Victoria
Date Published:
18-Mar-2026