Human Resources Manager | 3+ Months Parental Leave | Holiday Inn & Suites Geelong

We are seeking an experienced and energetic HR Manager to join our dynamic leadership team for a 3+ month parental leave cover. In this pivotal role, you will be the primary point of contact for all people-related matters, ensuring our colleagues feel as valued as our guests. With a strong focus on employee engagement, performance and development support, end-to-end recruitment and onboarding; you’ll bring both strategic insight and genuine care to our workplace culture. If you are passionate about fostering a positive, high-performing environment and enjoy bringing innovative solutions to the table, we’d love to hear from you. 

A little taste of your day-to-day:

Every day is different at IHG, but you’ll mostly be:

• Continue to foster and further develop an engaged and positive working environment for all colleagues
• Lead, mentor and guide hotel leaders during the recruitment and onboarding process, ensuring that all new colleagues have received the appropriate tools to succeed 
• Sustain and embed the use of all branded people tools to recruit, train, recognise, reward and retain top talent 
• Managing employee records and ensuring compliance with relevant employee laws, appropriate industrial relations legislation and payroll compliance
• Development and management of policies and procedures
• Strong understanding of HIGA, Fair Work and NES
• Cooperate and partner with the leadership team in the implementation of workplace health, safety and wellbeing related initiatives
• Participate in investigations of injuries and illness arising from workplace activities 
• Partner with the leadership team to ensure the hotel lives our promise of the employer brand and create a leadership culture focused on engagement 
• Prepare and utilise HR data to inform and guide hotel leaders and enable strategic planning and forecasting to occur 
• Understand the talent landscape and drive the talent management process ensuring robust succession and people planning 
• Support end-to-end employee relations, including performance management and performance improvement plans
• Other ad-hoc duties – unexpected moments when we have to pull together to get a task done 

What We need from you:

• High school diploma, secondary education or equivalent 
• At least 2 years’ related experience in Human Resources 
• Further education in Human Resources or employment law preferred. 
• Must speak fluent English; other languages are a bonus
• Full Australian working rights

What We Offer 

Join us and you’ll become part of the global IHG family and like all families, all our individual team members share some winning characteristics. As a team, we work better together we trust and support each other, we do the right thing and we welcome different perspectives. You need to show us you care: that you notice the little things that make a difference to guests as well as always looking for ways to improve visit www.http://careers.ihg.com to find out more about us. 

We have a wide range of benefits for our colleagues designed to help you live your best work life including impressive accommodation, food & beverage discounts, on-site meals, our PerkBox lifestyle and discount program and a supportive Employee Assistance Program.

At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to an individual's, race, colour, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or familial status, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. 

The statements in this job description are intended to represent the key duties and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be ALL responsibilities or qualifications of the job.