State P&C Business Partner (Coles Liquor) - VIC & WSN

A new role means a new way to win together. We’ve been proudly serving Australian communities since 1914 and at the heart of our continued success lies our 115,000 team members working across the country. If you’re looking for a career-defining opportunity, take the next step and explore another way your work can have impact and make a difference.

 

About the team

 

People and Culture are dedicated to fostering  an engaged and empowered workplace. One that’s strong, diverse and where our team members have exciting career pathways to choose from. We do it by making people’s lives easier through better experiences, useful tools, and by providing ongoing opportunities to learn and grow.

 

We’ve been proudly serving Australian communities since 1914 and have grown to become a top 30-listed company on the ASX with a portfolio of iconic homegrown brands. At the heart of our continued success is over 115,000 team members working across the country, all contributing to bringing our customers smiles. You’ll not only get to see your work make a difference, you’ll be part of a team working together to help Australians eat and live better every day.

 

 

The Opportunity  

 

We currently have a People & Culture Business Partner opportunity within our P&C Operations Partnering team, following a recent internal promotion.  This role partners closely with senior leaders supporting large, complex portfolios for Coles Liquor across multiple geographical states. 

 

As a trusted advisor to leaders, you will shape and deliver commercially aligned people strategies across workforce planning, organisational effectiveness, leadership, capability, engagement, talent and performance. You’ll play a key role in translating business priorities into practical people outcomes that strengthen performance, culture and customer experience. 

 

Beyond core partnering activity, you will contribute to strategic enterprise initiatives focused on lifting capability, evolving ways of working and enabling sustainable business performance. This role offers the opportunity to influence senior stakeholders, work across highly visible portfolios and help shape the future of how we work at Coles. 

 

This is a high-impact opportunity suited to commercially a minded Business Partner who enjoys balancing strategic thinking with hands-on delivery in a fast-paced environment. The role has clear connection to business performance outcomes including productivity, retention, risk reduction, sales, margin and team effectiveness. 

 

 

About the role 

 

Reporting to the P&C Manager Liquor, you will play a key role in shaping and delivering people strategies that enable business performance, organisational effectiveness and sustainable growth across your portfolio. 

You’ll operate as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, bringing a strong understanding of the business, commercial context and workforce priorities to influence decision-making and drive meaningful people outcomes. 

Through the Liquorland banner, our Coles Liquor team work to bring the drinks our customers want, when and how they want them. With a network of more than 950 stores nationally, you’ll partner with the senior leaders in Victoria and Western Australia to deliver on our commitment to provide accessible drink solutions for every occasion.

 

 

Key Responsibilities 

 

• Partner with leaders to shape organisational design and workforce strategies aligned to evolving business priorities and strategic goals. 

• Collaborate with Centres of Excellence to deliver integrated people solutions across talent, capability, leadership, engagement, culture and workforce planning. 

• Embed contemporary Talent & Performance practices that strengthen leadership capability, accelerate development and lift team effectiveness. 

• Partner closely with the P&C Manager, to support the delivery of strategic people initiatives, transformation activity and change programs across the portfolio. 

• Provide commercially grounded coaching and advice to leaders on people, culture, organisational effectiveness and risk-related matters. 

• Lead and oversee the delivery of core P&C rhythms and cyclical activity, ensuring high-quality execution and alignment to enterprise priorities. 

• Use data, insight and business context to identify workforce trends, risks and opportunities, helping leaders make informed and forward-looking decisions. 

 

 

About you and your skills 

 

• Demonstrated experience partnering with leaders to deliver organisational design, workforce and transformation initiatives within complex, fast-paced environments. 

• Strong People & Culture Business Partnering capability, with the ability to influence, challenge and support leaders to drive meaningful business and people outcomes. 

• Proven experience leading people and change initiatives and strategy through to implementation, communication and adoption. 

• Strong commercial acumen and ability to connect people strategy to operational and business performance outcomes. 

• Ability to build trusted relationships and influence effectively across all levels of an organisation, including senior stakeholders. 

• Data-led and customer-minded approach, with strong analytical capability and the ability to identify workforce insights, risks and opportunities. 

• Exceptional communication, stakeholder management and coaching capability. 

• Strategic thinker with strong judgement, curiosity and problem-solving agility. 

• Comfortable balancing strategic partnering with operational execution in a dynamic and evolving environment. 
• This position will be based in Victoria, with some interstate required to support stakeholders based in Western Australia, South Australia and Northern Territory.

 

What’s in it for you?

 

• Flexible working options: We know that work is only one part of your life, so we actively encourage a positive work-life balance and provide hybrid working options to help you achieve it.
• Office perks: Take advantage of our gym facility and fitness classes, free parking, BBQ area, mini-Coles supermarket, fooderie hub where you can sample new products before they hit the shelves, school holiday program and so much more when you come in.
• Discounts: Eligible team members receive 5% discount all year round on your Supermarket and Liquor online and in-store purchases. We also offer additional periods of double discount (10%) at various times throughout the year. As well as hotdeals exclusive to team members that translate into additional savings.
• Reward through recognition: Give and receive recognition, linked to our Coles values, through our digital recognition platform ‘mythanks’. You can accumulate points to redeem in the online shop for exciting gifts and electronic gift cards from an extensive range of retailers.
• Opportunities for learning and development: No matter where you start within our diverse business, you’ll have experiences, exposure, and education to satisfy you. Discover and explore a variety of career development programs and job-specific training.
• Paid parental leave: We understand how important your life outside work is and offer permanent team members paid parental leave to support you in balancing work and family.
• Investment in your future: Our annual team member share plan offer allows eligible team members to make regular pre-tax salary sacrifice deductions to purchase Coles Group shares.

 

About the recruitment process

 

We’re continuing to build a gender equitable team, and a culture that is just as diverse, inclusive and welcoming as the communities we serve. We are committed to creating a workplace that is safe and respectful for our team. We encourage applications from people of all ages, cultures (including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples), abilities, sexual orientation and gender identities.

 

We’re happy to adjust our recruitment process to support candidates with disability. For further information and additional contact details visit the ‘Our Recruitment Process’ section of our careers site or email ••••@coles.com.au

 

Job ID: 190976

 

Employment Type: Full time

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