At IAG, were ready for you. We're the largest general insurance group in Australia and New Zealand. Our family of brands turns the IAG purpose of making your world a safer place into action by helping everyday Aussies and New Zealanders, supporting their ambitions and making insurance accessible.
In this role, youll play a pivotal role in shaping the employee experience and protecting IAGs reputation through strategic, compliant, and people-focused leadership.
Youll lead a team of advisors and specialists to manage a variety of complex employee relations matters as well as collective agreement negotiations, policy changes, mergers and acquisitions and legal proceedings, ensuring alignment with legislation and internal standards.
Youll be a confident and effective communicator, both written and verbal, trusted to engage across the business, deliver training and represent IAG at the Employment Relations Authority.
With exposure to a wide variety of issues and stakeholders trans-Tasman, this is a high-impact role for someone who thrives on challenge, leads with purpose and is passionate about building a safe, inclusive and high-performing workplace.
This is a permanent full-time role based in based in Tmaki Makaurau (Auckland)
NgMahi HeiWhakatutukiMu| What You'll Do
- Lead a team of Employee Relations Advisors and Specialists, championing IAGs purpose and fostering a high performance, agile culture
- Design and manage robust employee relations processes and policies across New Zealand
- Monitor employee relations advice across the service delivery model ensuring alignment to policies, procedures and legislative requirements
- Manage the delivery and escalation of employee relations matters to agreed service levels
- Oversee P due diligence and integration activities
- Collective agreement negotiations and drafting
- Enable and drive comprehensive reporting, analysis and insights on employee relations
- Design and ensure appropriate implementation of change initiatives resulting from changes in collective agreements, employment agreements and policies
- Lead and implement training for people leaders and P on employee relations
- Work closely with our internal employment law team to escalate as appropriate and obtain legal advice where required
- Represent IAG at the Employment Relations Authority
- Contribute to people components of business-led projects
- Monitor external trends and the legislative and regulatory environment to ensure a contemporary approach to employee relations and ongoing compliance
- Proactively engage with and influence key internal and external stakeholders
- Ensure the safety and wellbeing of our people in the workplace and proactively manage risk for IAG
uPkengameuWheako| What You'll Bring
- Strong experience as a senior employee relations practitioner, ideally in a commercial organisation of significant complexity
- Proven ability to translate complex and technical employee relations issues into pragmatic and plain language solutions
- Experience working in an agile environment, exercising good judgment with incomplete information
- Strategic mindset able to anticipate employee relations issues and take an active approach resolving them
- Courage and ability to challenge and influence stakeholders
- Demonstrated experience coaching and upskilling leaders and HR practitioners in employee relations issues
- Proven ability to actively keep abreast of changes in external environment and translate into internal environment
- Proven ability to work collaboratively across whole of function and broader group to reach common approach
TMtauki a Koutou| What We Offer
- Boosted KiwiSaver with 4.5% employer contribution and life insurance as standard.
- 20 days annual leave + 5 days MyLeave (extra leave for whats important to you).
- Work from home and many more flexibility options with myFlex.
- Up to 50% off personal insurance, including home and motor insurance.
- Annual $500 health& wellbeing payment.
- 14 Weeks paid parental leave.
- Access to LinkedIn Learning, the award-winning IAG Academy, study assistance and secondment opportunities
- employment type eligibility criteria apply
Applications close: Sunday 7 June 2026 11:59PM AEDT
TMtauRatongaTautoko| Adjustments& Support
If you require any support or adjustments to participate equitably in our recruitment process, we encourage you to reach out to careers@iag.co.nz for a confidential conversation.