Senior HR Manager (Head of People & Culture)
Overview
We’re MCA National Group, a national company of 40 people with big plans. This is our first senior HR hire, so you’ll set direction and get hands-on: build our hiring engine (with a focus on early talent), lift culture, implement the right systems, and coach leaders. We offer flexible hours, hybrid work, and genuine ownership of the People & Culture function.
- Clean Slate Initiative : Build and own People & Culture from the ground up.
- Flexible hours: We’re open to consider and designing work that works.
- Big impact, fast: Untangle people bottlenecks so the business can grow.
- Leadership access: Direct line to decision makers.
- Competitive package: Salary band available; talk to us if you’re the right fit.
About the role
Reporting to the Executive Team, you’ll establish and lead People & Culture across the full employee lifecycle, including recruitment, onboarding, performance, learning, engagement, wellbeing, and ER/IR compliance across four states. You’ll design simple, scalable processes supported by the right tools (ATS/HRIS) and build repeatable hiring funnels with a strong focus on early-talent pipelines.
What you’ll lead
- Talent engine: Build scalable hiring systems to hit growth targets, with emphasis on early-talent pipelines (employer brand, social, referrals).
- Culture & engagement: Embed values in action, run regular pulses, launch recognition and feedback rituals, and champion wellbeing.
- Performance & capability: Lightweight performance frameworks, manager toolkits, and targeted learning.
- HR foundations: Policies, compliance, award interpretation (with advisors as needed), HRIS selection/implementation, reporting and people analytics.
- Leader coaching: Clear, calm guidance on performance conversations, change, and pragmatic ER matters.
- Process design: Turn manual, cluttered workflows into clean, trackable systems across the employee journey.
About you
- Senior HR generalist (minimum 4 years) with experience building or rebuilding HR in a growing SME.
- SME, proven recruitment marketing and pipeline building results for hard to fill roles and early talent.
- Strength in culture building: engagement design, values embedding, and manager enablement.
- Confident with Australian employment frameworks and practical ER/IR handling.
- Comfortable moving from strategy to execution, set the plan, deliver, measure, and continuously improve.
- A clear communicator who earns trust with technicians, coordinators, and executives alike.
Flexibility & perks
- Flexible hours considered.
- Autonomy, variety, and direct access to decision makers.
- Budget and remit to implement the right HR tech (ATS/HRIS) and processes.
- A close-knit, values-led team that backs initiative and continuous improvement.
- We welcome non-linear career paths, parents returning to work, and carers—tell us what you need to do your best work.
How to apply
Click Apply with your CV and a short note on:
1. an early-talent initiative or campaign you led (channels + outcomes), and
2. a system or process you implemented (e.g., ATS/HRIS, manager toolkit) and the impact it had.
We’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Applicants must have full working rights in Australia.
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