Senior People & Culture Business Partner

This is Us At Goodman Fielder, our purpose is simple, making everyday food better for everyone. We're behind some of New Zealand's most loved and trusted food brands

• Meadow Fresh, Puhoi Valley, Molenberg, and Vogel's - names that generations of Kiwis have grown up with and continue to enjoy every day. We're a proud part of a leading global food company and are focused on delivering great results for our people, customers, and communities. We live by our values: We Grow Together, We Keep Things Simple, We Get Stuff Done. The Opportunity Join us as a Senior People & Culture Business Partner, where you'll help shape the future of our Sales & Marketing teams. Partnering with senior leaders, you'll drive the people strategy that enables growth, strengthens leadership capability, unlocks productivity through AI and innovation, and builds a culture where people and performance thrive. This is a highly visible role where you'll influence business decisions, lead organisational transformation, and help ensure we have the talent, capability, and structures needed to grow in a competitive market. What you'll be doing As a critical part of our People & Culture team, your role will include: Partner with Sales & Marketing leaders to translate business strategy into a clear people plan, ensuring the right capability, organisation design, and workforce priorities are in place to deliver commercial outcomes. Lead strategic workforce planning and talent management, identifying critical capability needs, talent and succession opportunities, and build, buy or partner strategies to strengthen our future talent pipeline. Drive productivity and organisational effectiveness, helping leaders leverage AI, automation and smarter ways of working to simplify processes, improve capability, and unlock growth. Build high-performing teams and leaders through coaching, performance management, leadership development, and initiatives that strengthen accountability, engagement, and culture. Lead organisational change and transformation, providing expert guidance on organisational design, structures, and change initiatives to ensure successful adoption and sustainable business outcomes.

What you'll bring

To make this role a success we are looking for someone to join us that has an extensive background as generalist People & Culture partner that has proven they can thrive in a fast-paced and complex environment. The ability to not only design but execute organizational change is a must. We'd love to hear from you if you have: Senior P&C Business Partner experience, with a track record of influencing leaders and delivering strategic people outcomes.

Strong commercial mindset and ability to translate business strategy into workforce, capability and organisational plans. Experience in workforce planning, organisational design, talent management and succession planning. Proven capability leading change, transformation and organisational redesign initiatives. Data-driven, AI confident & curious, and knowledgeable in New Zealand employment law and employment relations practices Why work with us?

You'll be part of a collaborative and high-performing team where you can truly make a difference. Here's what's on offer: Competitive salary plus incentive and benefits Hybrid/flexible working options Career development and learning opportunities Exposure to Executive business leaders and strategic initiatives A down-to-earth, values-driven culture driven by our people At Goodman Fielder, we don't just offer jobs - we build careers.

If you're looking to grow, be challenged, and make an impact in a business that feeds millions every day…. this could be your next move. Ready to join us? Apply now At Goodman Fielder, we strongly believe in diversity and inclusion in everything we do. If you need support with your application, please reach out - we're committed to an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures and identities.

Questions? Contact us at: [email protected]