Head of People & Culture (Wine Jobs: Management & Administration)

  Lancemore Hotel Group

  Melbourne, Victoria

A fantastic opportunity is available for a talented and versatile Group Director of People & Culture to lead the People & Culture function with a strong operational and strategic focus. This hands-on role involves designing and implementing strategies that align with the overall goals and objectives of the Lancemore Hotel Group's vision and values. Supported by a direct report, you will oversee all aspects of the people function and be a part of the Executive team, based at the company’s head office in the heart of the CBD.   

About the role:

• Strategically important role reporting into the CEO, a member of the Executive team and an important player in enabling the growth of the organisation through the people strategy;
• Responsible for guiding the development and execution of HR initiatives that will attract, develop and retain the breadth of talent required to drive excellence and business performance;
• Reinforce the employer brand and design the internal and external communications strategies and tactics through all phases of the employment lifecycle to deliver on it;
• Responsible for guiding the organisation’s culture with the company’s senior leaders with the aim of ensuring our ongoing success and a company everyone working within it can be proud of;
• Dealing with the day to day and resolving employee relations matters swiftly and effectively 
• Lead the training and development program from end-to-end with an aim of being concurrently highly innovative and highly effective and take responsibility for the e-learning platform)
• Develop, maintain and support the hotel teams serving as an employee advocate, cultural ambassador, subject matter expert and innovator through a genuine partnership.  This includes recruitment, learning, coaching, health & safety, performance management & succession planning.
• A hands-on role that involves both strategic and execution skills. 
• Ensuring the P&C platforms, tools, processes are effectively managed and utilised to continue to engage and optimise the employee experience with effective reporting.  

About you:

• Experienced senior Human Resources practitioner, preferably from a highly customer focused, multi property environment
• Be a genuine business partner – with a history of helping achieve the organisation’s vision, mission, KPIs and desired culture
• Have the ability to build on our strong foundation and take it to the next level through the execution of innovative ideas – especially in talent management, L&D and culture
• Naturally outgoing and friendly demeanour with personal commitment and passion for providing employee care, growth and performance
• Have a relentless passion to nurture and cultivate a best place to work at all times
• Have strong organsational, task-management, employee relations, leadership, problem resolution, creativity, verbal and written communication and presentation skills
• Have a desire to constantly learn, develop yourself and others to help lead the organisation to excellence
• Possess strong software and computer skills to include e-recruitment, e-learning platforms and Microsoft Office Suite.  

About Us:

Founded in 1986, The Lancemore Group is a leading Australian boutique lifestyle brand and pioneer in boutique hotels and residential conference facilities. 

• Our hotels offer boutique accommodation, conferences & meetings, weddings & events, wellness spas, critically acclaimed restaurants and an award-winning wines, that are CBD and regionally based across Victoria and Queensland with approximately 500 + team members.  
• We are unique in being a family-owned company that combines the head of a large operation with the heart of a family company.
• You will be joining a high performing workplace that believes in developing new talent and empowering people to drive their own results.
• We value our people and, as such, offer career progression, generous staff discounts, companywide incentives and team social activities.