Head of People and Culture
Head of People and Culture
Contract Type:
Permanent
Location:
Industry:
Contact Name:
Kate Vuleta
Contact Email:
katevuleta@attunedtalent.com.au
Contact Phone:
0424 324 499
Date Published:
13-Oct-2026
The Opportunity
An exciting opportunity exists for an experienced and commercially minded Head of People & Culture to join a successful, founder-led Australian business entering its next phase of growth and transformation.
Entrepreneurial, fast-moving and customer-focused, this business has built a strong reputation and an engaged workforce. With ambitious plans ahead, the focus is now on building the people capability, leadership frameworks and organisational foundations to support sustainable growth.
Reporting directly to the Founder and Managing Director, you will have the opportunity to build and shape the People & Culture function, bringing structure, contemporary HR practices and a clear people strategy to a business that values creativity, agility and performance.
This is a role for someone who enjoys building rather than maintaining, can move comfortably between strategy and execution, and thrives in an environment where they can make a visible impact.
Your Focus
- Build the function: Establish the People & Culture strategy, frameworks, processes and operating rhythms to support a growing business.
- Partner with the Founder: Act as a trusted advisor, translating business ambition into practical people priorities and outcomes.
- Develop leadership capability: Coach and empower leaders, build accountability and introduce contemporary performance and development frameworks.
- Shape culture and engagement: Protect what makes the business special while evolving a high-performance, high-care culture.
- Enable growth and change: Support organisational design, workforce planning, succession and change initiatives as the business scales.
- Elevate the employee experience: Strengthen talent acquisition, onboarding, retention, recognition and career development.
- Establish operational excellence: Build fit-for-purpose HR policies, systems and processes, ensuring strong governance and employment compliance.
About You
You will be an accomplished HR or People & Culture leader who brings the confidence, energy and commercial judgement to establish a function and influence at all levels of a business.
Ideally, your experience will have been gained in customer-centric organisations with diverse operational workforces, where you understand the balance between commercial performance, employee experience and operational delivery.
You will bring:
- Broad HR leadership experience, with demonstrated success building or transforming people functions.
- Experience supporting growing, entrepreneurial or founder-led organisations, where agility and adaptability are essential.
- Strong organisational development, leadership capability and change management expertise.
- A sound understanding of Australian employment legislation, employee relations and contemporary HR practices.
- The ability to engage and influence across leadership, corporate and frontline operational teams.
- A pragmatic, hands-on style, balanced with the strategic thinking and commercial acumen to support business growth.
Why Consider This Opportunity?
This is a rare opportunity to take ownership of the people agenda within an ambitious, founder-led business, with the autonomy to build something meaningful.
You will work closely with an engaged Founder, influence business direction and play a pivotal role in shaping the culture, capability and organisational foundations for the next chapter.
Based on Brisbane's CBD fringes, with onsite parking available.
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