Bren Corporation is focused on building high performing teams that deliver consistent business outcomes across varied services. The role of HR is critical in enabling leadership effectiveness, strengthening workforce capability and ensuring meaningful and consistent employee experience.
The HRBP Manager operates as a core partner to business leadership, with clear accountability for driving people outcomes aligned to business priorities. The role integrates performance management, employee engagement, workforce insights and governance to enable both business success and a strong people culture. As a custodian of culture, the role plays a critical part in reinforcing organizational values, shaping team behaviors and ensuring alignment between leadership actions and employee efficiency.
This role requires strong business acumen, analytical thinking and the ability to influence and coach leaders while maintaining discipline across processes and core compliance frameworks.
Key Responsibilities
Business Partnership and Strategic Alignment
Act as a trusted advisor to business heads and leadership teams, building a deep understanding of business priorities, challenges, and growth plans
Translate business strategy into clear people priorities across team structure, capability, and productivity
Provide thought partnership on organisational effectiveness, team design, and leadership capability
Drive accountability with business leaders on key people metrics including performance, retention, and team effectiveness
Influence decision making through structured insights and practical, outcome focused solutions
Enable alignment between business decisions, leadership behavior, and organisational culture to ensure consistency and credibility
Performance Management and Leadership Coaching
Own and drive the performance management framework, ensuring clarity, consistency, and accountability across teams
Enable a high-performance culture through strong goal setting, regular reviews, and differentiated performance outcomes
Drive performance calibration to ensure consistency, fairness, and clear differentiation across teams
Coach managers on feedback, performance conversations, and building high performing teams
Performance and Leadership Excellence
Lead the performance management framework across assigned business functions.
Embed a culture of accountability through clear expectations, continuous feedback, and differentiated performance outcomes.
Facilitate performance calibration to ensure consistency, fairness, and high performance standards.
Coach leaders on performance management, leadership effectiveness, and team development.
Support managers in addressing performance challenges through structured interventions and development plans.
Strengthen leadership capability through ongoing coaching, feedback, and development.
Talent Strategy and Capability Development
Partner with business leaders to identify future talent requirements aligned with business strategy.
Drive talent reviews and succession planning to build sustainable leadership pipelines.
Support career development and internal mobility to maximize organizational capability.
Partner with Learning and Development to design capability-building initiatives aligned with business priorities.
Coach leaders on talent decisions, succession planning, and building high-performing teams.
Drive initiatives that strengthen organizational capability and prepare the business for future growth.
People Analytics and Business Insights
Develop workforce dashboards and business scorecards that provide meaningful people insights to business leaders.
Analyse trends across productivity, engagement, retention, performance, absenteeism, and workforce movement.
Translate workforce data into actionable recommendations that improve business performance.
Conduct regular business reviews using people metrics to drive informed decision making and accountability.
Anticipate workforce risks and recommend proactive interventions.
Foster a data-driven approach to people decisions across the business.
Employee Experience and Culture
Design and implement strategies that strengthen employee engagement, trust, and organizational commitment.
Build trusted employee connect through structured listening mechanisms, skip level interactions, and continuous feedback.
Partner with leaders to strengthen team culture, collaboration, accountability, and leadership effectiveness.
Translate employee insights into targeted actions that improve organizational effectiveness.
Act as a trusted advisor to leaders and employees in resolving complex people matters.
Drive a consistent employee experience that supports high performance, retention, and business
Key Requirements
MBA or Postgraduate qualification in Human Resources or a related discipline.
5 to 8 years of experience in HR Business Partnering within a fast-paced organization.
Strong business acumen with the ability to align people strategy with business priorities.
Demonstrated experience in organizational design, workforce planning, performance management, and leadership coaching.
Strong analytical capability with experience in workforce analytics, dashboards, and business reporting.
Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive business outcomes through people strategies.
Excellent stakeholder management, consulting, influencing, and communication skills.
Strong problem-solving capability with the ability to navigate complex people and business situations.
High ownership, execution discipline, sound judgment, and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
Why Join Bren
This role offers the opportunity to partner directly with business leaders to shape organizational capability, influence strategic business decisions, and build high-performing teams. Working closely with senior leadership, you will play a key role in strengthening leadership effectiveness, driving organizational transformation, and creating a workplace where people and business performance grow together.
Benefits:
- Cell phone reimbursement
- Health insurance
- Leave encashment
- Paid sick time
- Paid time off
- Provident Fund
Work Location: In person