- Partner with executives to shape strategic people and workforce outcomes
- Lead organisational change, industrial relations and workforce planning
- Hybrid work | Energy discounts | Career growth opportunities
Alinta Energy is one of Australia’s biggest energy retailers, generators and developers with over 1.1 million customers. Australia’s energy system is undergoing the biggest transformation in its history and we’re right there with it. We’re investing in and developing large-scale renewables and storage projects as part of our ongoing effort to provide our customers with reliable, affordable and sustainable energy.
We understand that flexibility matters when considering your next role. Let us know your requirements, and we’ll carefully consider how we might accommodate them.
Ready to make a real impact?
The Head of Business Partnering, G&D and TPM will lead the strategic people agenda across Alinta Energy’s Generation & Development and Trading & Portfolio Management pillars. Partnering directly with two Executive Directors and their leadership teams, you will translate business strategy into practical people plans that support complex operational and project-based environments.
As a trusted advisor, you will provide commercially focused leadership across workforce planning, industrial and employee relations, organisational design, change and organisational effectiveness. Using workforce data and insights, you will guide executive decision-making, champion the P&C operating model, collaborate across the P&C function and build team capability to deliver consistent, high-quality outcomes and meaningful commercial impact.
This role will be based in either Perth or Sydney.
Why you’ll love working here
At Alinta Energy, we’re taking real action to deliver reliable and sustainable energy for Australia — and that practical approach runs through everything we do. You’ll get clear direction, genuine flexibility, and the support you need to grow, all while working on projects that make a lasting difference. We’re big enough to create impact, but small enough that your ideas and effort will always be seen.
There are plenty of other great benefits of working for Alinta Energy, including flexible working, energy discounts, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), a paid volunteer day each year, fully stocked kitchens, and lots more.
What you’ll do
- Partner with the G&D and TPM Executive Directors and leadership teams to deliver strategic people outcomes aligned with business priorities.
- Provide commercially focused advice across the employee lifecycle, including complex employee and industrial relations matters.
- Lead workforce planning, organisational design and major change initiatives, including restructures, redundancies, projects and integrations.
- Use qualitative and quantitative workforce data to identify risks and opportunities and provide actionable insights to leaders.
- Collaborate with P&C Business Partners and Centres of Excellence to deliver engagement, succession, leadership development and other strategic programs.
- Lead, coach and develop your direct report while championing the P&C operating model and a consistent enterprise-wide service.
Your experience
- Degree qualifications in Human Resource Management or a related discipline, with experience operating at Head of level in senior strategic business partnering roles.
- Demonstrated success partnering with Executive and General Manager stakeholders within the energy sector or similarly complex heavy industrial environments.
- Experience in the energy sector is highly regarded.
- Deep expertise in industrial and employee relations, including unionised workforces, complex case management and conflict resolution.
- Extensive experience in strategic and tactical workforce planning for large-scale industrial or project delivery environments.
- Strong capability in operating model reviews, organisational design and change management, supported by commercial acumen and a focus on return on investment and cost optimisation.
- Exceptional communication, influence and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced national environment.
- People leadership experience and flexibility to travel interstate; experience supporting large-scale, complex projects, including construction, will be highly regarded.
Please note this role requires full working rights within Australia.
This role will suit an influential and commercially minded people leader who can balance strategic thinking with practical delivery. You will bring the credibility to partner at executive level, navigate complex industrial and project environments, and translate business priorities into people outcomes that build capability and support sustainable performance.
Like what you’re seeing?
If you like the sound of this, and you’ve got experience in a similar role, we’d love to talk to you. Come and discover better together with Alinta Energy.
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If your application progresses, we will need to complete background and pre-employment checks, such as immigration checks, reference checks, criminal background checks, qualification checks, and additional checks for roles related to finance.
Our Diversity Commitment
Alinta Energy offers a truly diverse, safe and supportive work environment. As an equal opportunity employer, Alinta Energy encourages applications from any qualified person, including First Nations Australians, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, people of all ages and people living with a disability. We are also proud to be a WORK180 Endorsed Employer and we are committed to advancing women’s careers.
We look forward to hearing from you.
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Closing date: Friday 6th November 11.55pm AEST