Job Description

Senior HR Business Partner

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The Senior HR Business Partner is the strategic people partner to Executive Leadership Team (ELT) leaders and their functions. The role translates business strategy into clear people priorities that strengthen organisational performance, leadership capability, workforce effectiveness and employee experience.

Working closely with senior leaders and the HR centres of excellence, the Senior HR Business Partner develops and delivers integrated people plans that align enterprise people strategies and frameworks with functional business objectives. Through workforce planning, organisational design, talent management, leadership coaching and change leadership, the role enables leaders to build high-performing teams capable of delivering business outcomes.

The Senior HR Business Partner acts as a trusted advisor and consultant to leaders, while partnering across the Human Resource team to embed enterprise frameworks, programs and initiatives. Success is measured through stronger leadership capability, workforce readiness, talent outcomes, organizational effectiveness, and business performance.

Responsibilities

Strategic Business Partnership

• Acts as a trusted advisor to the ELT leaders and senior leadership team on people, workforce and organisational matters.
• Aligns people strategy with business objectives and functional priorities.
• Influences leadership decisions through data, insights and commercial understanding.
• Builds strong partnerships with leaders to proactively identify opportunities and address organisational challenges.
• Balances enterprise priorities with functional business needs to deliver practical people solutions.

Functional People Strategy & Planning

• Develops and executes clear, measurable people plans aligned to business strategy.
• Translates enterprise people priorities into functional actions and outcomes. • Establishes meaningful workforce and people metrics to track progress and impact.
• Partners with leaders to identify priorities that improve business, team and leadership performance.
• Ensures people initiatives directly contribute to business objectives.
• Measures and evaluates the effectiveness of people initiatives and interventions.

Workforce Planning & Talent Management

• Leads workforce planning activities to identify future workforce requirements and capability needs.
• Drives talent reviews, succession planning and leadership pipeline development.
• Supports leaders to identify, develop and retain critical talent.
• Provides insights on workforce risks and opportunities.
• Strengthens internal mobility, career pathways and long-term capability planning.

Leadership & Team Effectiveness

• Coaches' senior leaders to build high-performing, accountable and inclusive teams.
• Facilitates leadership effectiveness and team effectiveness interventions.
• Supports leaders to improve employee engagement, culture and performance outcomes
• Builds leadership capability through focused development and coaching initiatives. Strengthens collaboration, alignment and accountability across leadership teams.

Organisational Design & Change

• Leads organisational design initiatives that improve effectiveness, scalability and performance.
• Assesses organisational impacts, risks and readiness for change.
• Partners with leaders to successfully implement and sustain change initiatives. Ensures changes deliver both people and business outcomes.

Enterprise Program Delivery

• Leads the implementation of enterprise people programs and frameworks within the function.
• Partners with Centres of Excellence to embed talent, performance, reward, engagement and capability initiatives.
• Acts as the bridge between the business and specialist HR teams.
• Ensures consistent application of people policies, frameworks and practices. Identifies opportunities to improve adoption and effectiveness of enterprise programs.

HRBP Leadership & Support

• Provides coaching, guidance and support to HR Business Partners.
• Shares best practice and strengthens business partnering capability across the People team.
• Supports consistency in service delivery and stakeholder management.
• Oversee complex, high-risk employee relations matters in partnership with legal and ER Manager.

About You

About Domain (part of the CoStar Group)

Domain is a leading property technology and services marketplace that is home to one of the largest portfolios of property brands in Australia, including the Domain, Allhomes and Commercial Real Estate (CRE) platforms. In 2025, Domain became part of CoStar Group - a global leader in commercial real estate information, analytics, online marketplaces and 3D digital twin technology. We are dedicated to digitising the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights, and connections that improve their businesses and lives.

What’s in it for you

Working at CoStar Group means you'll enjoy a culture of collaboration and innovation that attracts the best and brightest across a broad range of disciplines. We offer you generous compensation and performance-based incentives. As well as having an outstanding working environment, other perks include extra days of annual leave, leadership development programs, LinkedIn Learning, Perkbox discounts and much more!

At CoStar, we recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality. We aim at all times to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds including but not limited to; people of all genders, of all ages, sexual orientations, ethnicities, nationalities, religions and beliefs.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Domain is enthusiastically and unapologetically committed to fostering an equitable, inclusive work culture which reflects our customers and communities. We are proactively looking for candidates from all lived experiences, including people with disability, and people of all ages, ethnicities, cultures (including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples), faiths, sexual orientations, and gender identities (including trans and non-binary people).

We are committed to providing an equitable recruitment process for people with disability. If you require adjustments during the process we’re here to support. If you wish to receive this job advertisement in an accessible format, or have a confidential chat about workplace adjustments, please contact our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion team at edi@domain.com.au or leave a message on 1300 858 356 and we will get back to you.

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CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing