Senior HR Business Partner

Employment Type

Permanent

Closing Date

26 Aug 2026 11:59pm

Job Title

Senior HR Business Partner

Job Summary

Job Description

Who We Are

We're an iconic Aussie brand with a global footprint. Our purpose is to build a connected future so everyone can thrive. We're all about providing the best experience and delivering the best tech on the best network.

This includes making Telstra the place you want to work. For you, that means a having career that grows with you and working with a team powered by human connection that prioritizes wellbeing and choice.

About the Role

As a Senior HR Business Partner in Telstra's Digital Infrastructure business, you'll thrive in complexity and be energised by the opportunity to solve challenging people and organisational issues. You'll play a key role in one of Telstra's most dynamic and evolving portfolios, partnering at the forefront of transformation to help shape the future of our workforce and business.

Working closely with senior leaders, you will influence and deliver people strategies that build leadership capability, strengthen talent pipelines, and enable sustainable business performance. This is a highly visible and strategic partnering role where success comes from building trusted relationships, understanding the realities of a complex operational environment, and translating business priorities into practical people outcomes.

You'll bring a commercial mindset and a passion for problem-solving, balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution. Whether guiding organisational change, developing leadership capability, or designing innovative people solutions, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on both our people and our business.

While our preference is for this role to be based in Melbourne, VIC or Sydney, NSW, we welcome applications from candidates across Australia.

What We Offer

• Performance-related pay
• Access to thousands of learning programs so you can level-up
• Global presence across 22 countries
• Purchased annual leave scheme
• Additional Telstra day off
• Additional 30% off Telstra products and services
• Toolkit provided (laptop + mobile phone + plan paid for)

What You’ll Do

As a senior member of the Telstra Digital Infrastructure (TDI) People Partnering team, you will partner closely with leaders across our domestic and international asset businesses to help shape the future of our workforce. This is a strategic HR partnering role with a significant transformation agenda, offering the opportunity to influence organisational effectiveness, leadership capability, workforce planning, and business performance across both Australian and global teams.

You'll work at the intersection of people and business strategy, supporting leaders to navigate complexity, accelerate change, and build high-performing teams. While you'll provide expertise across the full employee lifecycle, a key focus will be driving large-scale transformation initiatives, strengthening leadership effectiveness, and building the capabilities needed for the future.

In this role, you will:

• Partner with senior leaders to identify people-related opportunities and challenges, diagnose root causes, and develop practical solutions that enable business outcomes.
• Leverage organisational insights, workforce data, and industry trends to inform strategic decision-making, improve operating models, and shape future workforce strategies.
• Lead and support organisational design, transformation, and change initiatives, ensuring a positive employee experience from design through to implementation and embedding.
• Work closely with leaders, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to deliver sustainable change outcomes and strengthen leadership accountability.
• Apply deep HR expertise across employee relations, talent, workforce planning, remuneration, culture, recruitment, and transformation to support TDI's strategic priorities.
• Partner effectively in environments that include unionised workforces, balancing business objectives with strong employee and stakeholder engagement.
• Collaborate across the broader People & Culture team to drive simpler, more effective solutions and deliver an exceptional customer experience.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced HR leader who thrives in complex environments, enjoys solving strategic business challenges, and is passionate about helping organisations and people perform at their best.

About You

You will bring the following skills and experiences to be successful in the role:

• Demonstratable track record as HR partner to senior leaders in a sizable, operational organsiation.
• Relevant bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong HR business partnering experience (5+ years in Business Partnering or similar field), including strong business transformation capability.
• Experience across the employee lifecycle, including workforce planning, organisational effectiveness and change implementation.
• Ability to embed practical people strategies, operating model changes and sustainable ways of working.
• Experience leading or supporting complex employee and industrial relations matters.
• A proactive commitment to shaping culture, championing diversity, equity and inclusion, and improving the employee experience.

If you want to be surrounded by top talent at a company that gives back to the community, apply now!

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As part of your application with Telstra, you may receive communications from us on +61 440 135 548 (for job applications in Australia).

When you join our team, you become part of a welcoming and inclusive community where everyone is respected, valued and celebrated. We actively seek individuals from various backgrounds, ethnicities, genders and disabilities because we know that diversity not only strengthens our team but also enriches our work. We have zero tolerance for harassment of any kind, and we prioritise creating a workplace culture where everyone is safe and can thrive. 

As part of the hiring process, all identified candidates will undergo a background check, and the results will play a role in the final decision regarding your application.

We work flexibly at Telstra. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you. When you apply, you can share your pronouns and / or any reasonable adjustments needed to take part equitably during the recruitment process.

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