HR Manager

The role

We know exceptional experiences begin with exceptional people. Individuals coming together, to make business better. At DLA Piper, we make this happen by creating a culture where passion, individuality and excellence is celebrated every day. 

A culture that recognizes that no two careers or two people are the same. A culture that you have the opportunity to build and contribute to. 

An opportunity has become available for an experienced Human Resources Manager to join our Sydney team. 

Working as part of a collaborative and inclusive HR team, this role leads and manages the people agenda for specified national practice groups and teams, as well as having a location-based HR focus. A professional HR role of trusted advisor, who understands the business and its priorities and builds strong relationships which provide both support and challenge.

Operating in a national HR business partnering model, supported by an HR Advisor and with Centres of Excellence (COE) specialist roles, each HRM has a high degree of autonomy managing a combination of legal practice and business services support groups, as well as having responsibility for location- based HR needs, partnering with the Office Managing Partner (OMP) and other local stakeholders on engagement and other local HR support and initiatives. This role will also partner and collaborate with internal functions and business services.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Act as a single point of contact for the management team in the Practice Group(s) and is an active member of the leadership team (Group Heads and Location Heads), facilitating to bring the best people solutions for the business, partners, and employees.
• Works in partnership with the national HR team, proactively oversees and supports the delivery of the HR calendar.
• Actively identifies gaps, proposes, and implements changes necessary to address people risks, working with specialist areas and the HR Administration team.
• Builds a strong relationship with Office Managing Partner, working with them to develop a local engagement plan and engage resources to support delivery from the wider HR team.
• Supports the Office Managing Partner through the provision of local intelligence including a regional lens across people processes and ER case activity
• Supports the Head of HR across all HR deliverables in accordance with the International HR Strategy and Plan, including strategic priorities and transactional outputs.
• Mitigate and proactively anticipate HR issues and work collaboratively with service areas in order to deliver successful outcomes (including Risk, BD/Marketing, Property & Workplace, Finance and SDQ)

ABOUT YOU
We are looking for someone who is passionate about HR and ready to build their career in a global law firm. 
To be successful in the role, you will ideally have:

• The ability to work under pressure, resilient, and robust
• A positive attitude, a strong, honest, and supportive team player with the ability to work autonomously whilst working as part of a team
• A relentless focus on achieving high performance results in line with the firm’s culture and values through commitment and collaboration
• Demonstrable success in developing and supporting line managers through change
• Strong stakeholder management, influencing and communication skills
• Good level of commercial awareness and business acumen
• Good organisational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking multiple priorities in a fast-paced and challenging environment

ABOUT US
DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers and business service professionals located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Our global reach ensures that we can help businesses with their legal needs anywhere in the world. We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality, service excellence and value to our clients and offering practical and innovative legal solutions to help them succeed. Our clients range from multinational, Global 1000, and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies, as well as government and public sector bodies.
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OUR VALUES
In everything we do connected with our People, our Clients and our Communities, we live by these values:

• Be Supportive – we are compassionate and inclusive, valuing diversity and acting thoughtfully
• Be Collaborative – we are proactive, passionate team players investing in our relationships
• Be Bold – we are fearless and inquisitive, challenging ourselves to think big and find creative new solutions
• Be Exceptional – we are strategic and driven, exceeding standards and expectations

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
At DLA Piper, diversity and inclusion underpins how we live our values and everything we do. We believe that everyone has a voice, and that everyone’s voice counts. We know that the rich diversity across our firm makes us stronger, more innovative and creative, which helps us to better serve our clients and communities. We are committed to providing an inclusive working environment and culture across our global firm, where everyone can bring their authentic self to work.
Diversity of perspective, thought, background and culture combine to make us the leading global law firm; that’s why we actively seek to build balanced teams. We welcome the unique contribution that you will bring to our firm and actively encourage applications from all talented people – however your talent is packaged, whatever your background or circumstance and regardless of how you identify.

HYBRID WORKING
We recognise that people have responsibilities and interests outside of their career and that as a business, we all benefit from working flexibly. That’s why we are open to discussing with candidates the different ways in which we are able to support requests for agile working arrangements.

PRE-ENGAGEMENT SCREENING
In the event that we make an offer to you, and where local legislation permits and where relevant, we will conduct pre-engagement screening checks that may include but are not limited to your professional and academic qualifications, your eligibility to work in the relevant jurisdiction, any criminal records, your financial stability and work-related references.