Senior Manager, Workforce Strategy & Planning

Location: Richmond, Melbourne VIC, Australia; hybrid ways of working

Company

hirify.global is a property technology company helping people find and finance homes through digital property products and services.

What you will do

• Design and establish strategic workforce planning as an enduring enterprise capability, including its operating model, outputs, cadence, and governance.
• Own three-year workforce supply and demand forecasts, critical capability taxonomies, data definitions, and enablement roadmaps.
• Develop workforce models and scenario testing to identify capability scarcity and surplus, and design reskilling and mobility pathways.
• Define recommendations for closing capability gaps across build, buy, bot, borrow, and bond approaches, balancing cost, speed, risk, and retention.
• Set enterprise organisation design principles covering spans and layers, team boundaries, centralised versus embedded structures, and capability alignment with value streams.
• Partner with senior leaders, Talent, People Partnering, PMO, and analytics teams to shape workforce strategy and build support for the function.

Requirements

• Substantial strategic workforce planning experience in a complex organisation, including building a new capability rather than maintaining an established one.
• Experience owning multi-year supply and demand forecasting, capability taxonomies, data definitions, and scenario modelling.
• Strong executive-level influencing skills and the credibility to present and defend recommendations.
• Sound enterprise organisation design judgement across spans and layers, team boundaries, and capability structures.
• Experience delivering through teams outside direct management and coaching People Partnering and Talent colleagues.
• Genuine willingness to work hands-on, with an interest in technology, AI, and building new capabilities.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid and flexible approach to working.
• Flexible leave options, including birthday leave and the ability to purchase additional leave.
• Flexible parental leave for primary and secondary carers.
• Because We Care program with volunteering leave, community grants, matched payroll giving, and charitable donations through the Community Café.
• Hackdays for developing and testing new ideas.
• Focus on physical, mental, emotional, and financial wellbeing, learning, and growth.