About the Role
BOQ Group is seeking a dynamic Senior Manager to lead and coordinate our culture and engagement strategy. This role will modernise BOQ Group’s listening strategy, ensuring our culture narrative, including Risk Culture, is seamlessly integrated into the Group’s strategic transformation.
By leveraging external research, industry insights and BOQ Group data, you will ensure our culture change plans align with our target state culture.
In this role you will lead various culture change activation initiatives, including recognition of programs, culture and engagement action planning and the code of conduct. Additionally, you will provide support and expertise to prioritised culture transformation initiatives, such as leadership, change management, and credit practices, ensuring our people practices are embedded in target state culture.
Reporting to the Head of Leadership, you will collaborate with Group Communications, Business Partners and colleagues across the People & Culture function to embed this narrative across all communication channels. You will also work with Group Technology to fully leverage our Microsoft partnership, including Microsoft Viva suite, to support culture change and generate insights.
About you
Our successful candidate will demonstrate the BOQ Group values of Spirited, Optimistic, Curious, Inclusive, Accountable and Lionhearted to contribute to the purpose of Building Social Capital through Banking!
You will hold a degree in Human Resources or a related field. You should have significant and proven experience in leading culture transformation initiatives in a similar setting. Your commercially and business acumen will be crucial in impacting outcomes within the Banking and Finance Industry.
You will have demonstrated experience in consulting with HR Business Partners to align HR strategies with organisational goals, driving sustainable business outcomes. Your expertise in utilising HR Experience Analytics platforms, conducting comprehensive data analysis, and providing business insights will be essential.
We are looking for someone experience in seeing initiatives through from idea to implementation. Your strong coaching and influencing skills will inspire and motivate teams and business leaders to achieve culture change. You should also have facilitation capability, with experience in facilitating development or strategic alignment.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal, are a must. You will need to build relationships, influence stakeholders at all levels, and collaborate strongly across teams. The ability to communicate to senior audiences with clarity and impact is essential.
Finally, you should have a strong knowledge of contemporary People & Culture practices, organisational development and culture transformation.
About Us
BOQ Group is a truly unique group of challenger brands with a purpose – to provide a genuine alternative to Australian financial services for customers and employees.
Our family of brands (Bank of Queensland (BOQ), ME Bank, Virgin Money Australia, BOQ Specialist), each come with their own defined customer audience and brand personality, but share one goal – to build social capital through banking. That’s creating trust with customers, exploring staff potential and believing that tiny gestures and big ideas can change the world for communities.
BOQ Group’s inclusive vision is to foster a workspace that values and leverages difference and creates new possibilities, a place where our people feel confident to bring their best selves to work every day. We embrace difference and believe that our workforce should reflect the customers and communities that we serve.
Since 2021, BOQ Group is recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA).
In 2023, we successfully implemented an innovative Reconciliation Plan, driving positive change and promoting inclusivity across BOQ Group.
Our Benefits
* Flexible working arrangements
* Discounted financial products
* Salary sacrificing options
* Paid parental leave with no minimum
* Purchase annual leave
* Discounted private health insurance plan
* Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
* Access to employee network groups focused on First Nations Reconciliation, LGBTQIA+, Multicultural, Gender, Early Careers and accessibility
* BOQ Group is a member of Pride in Diversity and a participating organization in the Australian Workplace Equality Index
How to Apply
To apply for this role at #boqgroup #people&culture, follow the links or apply via our https://www.boq.com.au/About-us/careers.
BOQ Group is committed to diversity and an inclusive workforce. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People are encouraged to apply.
We celebrate, value and include people of all backgrounds, gender and expressions, sexualities, cultures, bodies and abilities. When you apply, you are welcome to tell us the pronouns you use and please let us know any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.
If you are successful for a role with BOQ Group, it is a condition of employment that background screening is completed to ensure that the Bank complies with its obligations under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act. These checks may include, but are not limited to: identity, verification, reference checks, criminal background checks, immigration checks, verification of academic qualifications, bankruptcy checks.
Please no agency applications.