Employee Relations Specialist

Montu is one of Australia's leading health tech businesses and a leader in alternative health services. With operations in Australia and Europe, we take a technology-first approach to reshaping the landscape for suppliers, practitioners, pharmacies and patients.

Montu operates a fully integrated, end-to-end ecosystem of healthcare companies that touches every part of the alternative health experience, from patient care through to pharmacy dispensing, clinical education, product development, wholesale distribution and more. Our brands include Alternaleaf, UMeds, Leafio and Saged. Recognised by the Deloitte Tech Fast 50 as the fastest growing tech company in Australia for two years running – with revenue growth of over 26,000% and 9,000% – Montu is now the largest business of its kind outside North America.

Our Employee Relations Specialist is responsible for leading all of Montu’s Employee Relations frameworks, processes and practices, and ensuring they meet a high standard of practicality, regulatory, and legal compliance. This role has a number of internal stakeholders through whom the execution of many of these practices occur – such as the People and Talent team, and people leaders.

This role is the internal 'Subject Matter Expert' and must maintain a high degree of knowledge, while being comfortable giving advice on complex ER matters. and leading high risk, high profile and highly complex cases, independently.

Employee Relations Case Management

• Bring a diverse range of approaches and solutions to managing ER cases and risk
• Provide key guidance and support to People Partners on addressing cases.
• Be primary manager and point of contact of high risk cases where appropriate
• Perform moderate to high risk and/or complexity investigations
• Provide general case management support and guidance to People Partners on navigating ER issues
• Represent the Company at mediation hearings as required.
• Run and own the use and delivery of services of external parties, such as legal counsel, external, investigators, etc.
• Ensure all case notes and documentation are properly maintained.

Employee Relations Framework

• Ensure policies, procedures, templates and frameworks are in place, up to date, and well understood and actioned by the relevant parties (eg, People Partners, Managers etc)
• Ensure contractual documents (eg. employment agreements) are appropriately drafted to manage for ER risk.
• Ensure the People and Talent team operates within an appropriate framework, including training, policies, procedures and documents.
• Manage any government submissions required as they relate to Employment compliance, eg WGEA.

Employee Relations Business Capability

• Identify ER skill and capability gaps and partner with others (eg, L&OD) to organise training to build capability.
• Review ER data to identify patterns of risk and identify strategies to reduce risk across the organisation.
• Maintain currency of knowledge of government proposals or draft legislation that may have significant business impact, and prepare draft papers for discussion.

• Degree Qualified in IR, HR or Law
• A minimum of 6 years' experience in Employee Relations (within complex/matrix environments) 
• Trained ER investigator with consulting + in-house experience
• Experience interpreting and understanding Fair Work rulings, and translating requirements into frameworks (Australian experience is required).
• Experience building ER business capability in a scale up environment will be highly regarded.

You’ll be joining a highly motivated, agile team where your ideas and work will directly influence the direction and progress of an expanding global company in a hyper-growth phase. We pride ourselves on our collaborative and driven culture and offer opportunities for advancement to high achievers. Other benefits include:

• Gaining access to SAGED courses and more through the Greenhouse learning platform, fostering continuous growth and development.
• Enjoying discounts with over 450 retailers through our Reward and Recognition platform.
• The freedom of a full-time, work-from-home role.
• Access to co-working spaces in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and select regional cities.
• Mental health support through our wellbeing platform, Unmind.
• A private health insurance discount through Medibank.
• Up to 8 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Swag kits to celebrate key milestones in your journey with us.
• Enhance your home office with our work from home equipment allowance benefit.
• Being part of one of the fastest-growing industries in Australia, improving the lives of hundreds of thousands of patients.

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