As New Zealand's largest telecommunications and digital services company, Spark’s purpose is to help all of New Zealand win big in a digital world. We provide mobile, broadband, and digital services to millions of New Zealanders and thousands of New Zealand businesses.

You'll be empowered to work on things that you're passionate about. You'll be given autonomy to deliver on your ideas that contribute to our overall business strategy, and you will never have a chance to get bored. Are you ready to embrace the challenge? Come and build the future and help us, to help New Zealand win big in a digital world.


About the Role:
The People & Culture Partner is part of a new formed and evolving flow-to-work team enabling people outcomes across Spark, where we have both a fixed term contract (for 9 months) and permanent opportunities.


Day to day you will:

• Work across all business units, supporting leaders with day to day matters not resolved through self-service or the People Operations team. E.g. people issues, giving coaching and advice.
• Manage employment relations issues (attendance, performance & misconduct) to ensure that pragmatic and solution-focused outcomes are achieved for the business in line with the relevant legislation and build capability of our leaders to deal with a range of employment-related challenges and issues.
• Be flexible and able to respond to demand across different parts of the organisation as cases arise, ensuring coverage and expertise are available where needed.
• Enable business outcomes and leader queries for enterprise programmes such as employee engagement, wellbeing, workforce planning and talent.

What experience you'll bring:

• Experience as a People & Culture Partner or high performing People & Culture Advisor with proven ability to prioritise, execute and deliver best-in-class people and culture outcomes at pace.
• Strong coaching and influencing skills to uplift leader capability across all things People & Culture.
• Adaptability and craft expertise to support across the business on a range of queries.
• Confident communicator and the ability to collaborate with stakeholders to achieve the right outcomes for our people and the business.
• Ability to gather, track and draw insights from people related data, and leverage the latest AI capabilities.

WHY CHOOSE US:
Diversity and Inclusion: Te Kanorau me te Whakawhāiti mai
At Spark, we are constantly looking for ways to build a more inclusive culture. Our vision is for diversity and inclusion to be “how things are done at Spark”, embedded into our day-to-day activities, standards, and business practices. We want you to feel totally comfortable bringing your whole self to work regardless of your gender, ethnicity, orientation, age, or ability.
Sustainability: Toitū
Sustainability is a key focus for us. We are dedicated to supporting Aotearoa New Zealand’s recovery and economic transformation. The principle of equity is at the very heart of our approach, and we remain committed to working in partnership to make a positive contribution to digital equity in line with our focus on Diversity and Inclusion.


Benefits: Awhina
Our people matter and we make sure we look after them. As a valued employee of Spark, we’ve got our people covered with a range of leading benefits including:

• Wellbeing - Comprehensive medical insurance, life and income protection. Access to wellbeing coaches, EAP and in-house Specialist Clinical support through our leading Mahi Tahi Wellness programme.
• Hybrid ways of working - for most teams at Spark this means being in the office for 4 days a week, and 1 day being flexible.
• Leave - in addition to four weeks annual leave, we offer purchased leave, enhanced parental leave support and study leave.
• Spark Credit – we provide permanent employees with $120 monthly Spark credit to use on any of our amazing products.
• Spark Share scheme – periodically we offer the opportunity to buy into our share scheme.
• Career development – access to an internal marketplace that connects employees with experiential, on the job learning across Spark.

Due to the nature and urgency of this role, we are only considering applicants that are based in New Zealand with permanent residency, citizenship, or a valid work visa (with at least 18 months remaining).