People Consultant

Primary Details

Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

• Location: Sydney or Melbourne
• Type: Permanent, full time
• Hybrid role, Happy to talk flexible working

The opportunity

Join our Leader Assist team as a People Consultant, where you’ll be the first point of contact for leaders with their people management queries, issues and cases. You’ll act as a trusted advisor supporting leaders in managing their teams and developing their people management capabilities. You’ll have the opportunity to develop and build on your HR generalist skills.

As a part of a team that takes a customer-centred approach, you’ll play a key role in ensuring our leaders are equipped to effectively manage people matters. On a daily basis, you’ll be managing performance, conduct and wellbeing cases, responding to leader queries and providing support to the People Business Partnering team on cyclical activities, organisational changes and other people initiatives.

About QBE

At QBE, we get to the heart of what matters for our customers. And we do it all with a human touch.

We’re an international insurer with more than 13,000 people working across 26 countries – which means we’re big enough for your ambitions, yet small enough for you to make a real impact. It’s an exciting time. We’re building momentum towards our vision to become the most consistent and innovative risk partner.

What if you could have a positive impact – at work and in the world? As part of the QBE team, you’ll get to spend every day working with people who are passionate, talented and kind.

Your new role

As a People Consultant you will work on:

• Providing guidance, advice and coaching to support leaders with their people management queries, and enhance their leadership skills
• Supporting leaders with pragmatic, people-centric guidance on performance management, absence management and flexible working arrangement requests
• Managing non-complex conduct and health & wellbeing cases in partnership with leaders, and the broader People team
• Contributing to the development of internal resources, templates and knowledge bank content
• Providing administrative support on organisational changes, people projects, continuous improvement initiatives and cyclical HR activities as needed
• Building relationships with key stakeholders to support the people and business agenda.

About you

To be successful you will have recent experience in an HR advisory role, ideally within a large corporate or complex environment. You will demonstrate experience supporting people leaders in managing performance, conduct and health & wellbeing cases end to end, with the ability to influence and advise leaders to achieve positive outcomes to their queries and cases.

You will also have:

• Experience in managing complex high-volume administrative activities, or experience participating in organisational change processes
• Strong verbal, written communication, stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
• The ability to work at pace on a variety of complex HR matters, and able to effectively prioritise competing priorities
• A continuous learning mindset, and openness to new ideas and ways of working
• Comfortable working as part of a collaborative team environment.
• Proficiency in using HRIS platforms and ER case management systems (we use Workday and ServiceNow)

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

• ‘Hybrid Working’ – a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
• Life Leave, supporting the life events we all experience, leaving your annual leave for rest
• 18 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super
• A range of discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services

To learn more about benefits of working with us, click here. 

Rewards & Recognition

We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:

• 2025 Winner of Excellence in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award at the Insurance Business Australia Awards for our Respect@QBE program
• Platinum employer on the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) – the definitive national benchmark on LGBTQI+ workplace inclusion
• Ranked in the top ten in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2025 for medium sized program as voted by graduates

APPLY NOW and let’s make it happen! 

If you’re looking for a career that combines your expertise and your empathy, click Apply today. Your career. At the heart of it.

Successful applicants will need to complete work rights, police and credit checks through our online provider as a condition of employment.

QBE recognise the value of diverse perspectives and experience. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected for who they are. If we can provide support with access requirements, alternative work arrangements or you would like to connect with one of our networks please contact us at recruitment@qbe.com

Skills:

Critical Thinking, Detail-Oriented, Financial Products, Human Resources (HR), Human Resources Policies, Industrial Relations, Intentional collaboration, Managing performance, Performance Management (PM), Presenting with Impact, Problem Solving, Stakeholder Management, Succession Planning, Talent Management, Team Management

Application Close Date: 19/05/2026 11:59 PM

How to Apply:

To submit your application, click "Apply" and follow the step by step process.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.