Time Type: Full time
Worker Type: Employee
Location: Sydney or Melbourne
Type: Permanent, full time
Hybrid role, Happy to talk flexible working
The opportunity
As part of our Workforce Planning & Organisational Design team, you'll play a key role in helping QBE build a future-ready workforce. Working closely with senior leaders, you'll lead strategic workforce planning initiatives that ensure we have the right capabilities, capacity and organisational structures to deliver on our business objectives. You'll combine workforce insights, strategic thinking and organisational design expertise to sole complex business challenges and shape how we organise for future success.
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:
Key responsibilities will include:
Lead strategic workforce planning activities across a 3–5 year horizon, including workforce forecasting, capability assessments, talent supply and demand analysis, and future workforce planning.
Partner with senior leaders to identify current and future workforce needs, translating business strategy into actionable workforce strategies, investment choices and implementation roadmaps.
Lead or support strategic workforce planning engagements in a consulting-style capacity, including problem definition, hypothesis-led analysis, executive storytelling, options development and recommendation design.
Build and refine workforce planning methodologies, frameworks, tools and data models to support enterprise-wide decision-making and repeatable SWP practices.
Collaborate with HRBPs, Finance and business leaders to assess workforce demand, talent supply, cost implications and capability shifts required to deliver future business outcomes.
Provide advice on workforce implications of operating model, organisational design and transformation initiatives, including role clarity, job architecture, spans and layers where required.
Support senior leaders through workforce transformation initiatives, ensuring recommendations are pragmatic, commercially grounded and able to be embedded across the business.
About You
To be successful in this role, you'll bring deep expertise in strategic workforce planning and organisational design within large, complex organisations. You'll be commercially minded, highly analytical and comfortable partnering with senior leaders to solve complex business challenges and influence enterprise-wide decisions.
You'll also have:
Significant experience in Strategic Workforce Planning, including workforce forecasting, capability planning, talent supply and demand analysis, and scenario modelling.
Proven ability to lead workforce planning across a 3–5 year horizon, translating business strategy, financial plans, transformation programs and workforce implications into actionable workforce outcomes.
Experience within a leading management consulting firm, professional services environment, or internal consulting-style role, with strong advisory and problem-solving capability.
Strong analytical capability, leveraging workforce, organisational, financial and external labour market data to generate actionable insights and support evidence-based decisions.
Demonstrated ability to engage and influence executive stakeholders, partnering with senior leaders to shape workforce strategy, capability priorities and transformation outcomes.
Working knowledge of organisational design, job architecture, operating model alignment and organisational effectiveness, with demonstrated success leading large-scale workforce planning, transformation or organisational change initiatives.
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 support work/life balance
Free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional support, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
18 weeks' gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid superannuation
To learn more about the benefits of working with us, click here.
Awards & Recognition
We value our employees' experience with us and are proud to have been recognised through a range of industry awards and achievements, reflecting our commitment to inclusion, development and creating a workplace where people can thrive.
To learn more about our achievements, click here.
How to Apply
If you're looking for a career that combines your expertise and your empathy, click Apply today. Successful applicants will need to complete work rights, police and credit checks through our online provider as a condition of employment.
Your career. At the heart of it.
QBE recognises 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 [email protected].
Before submitting your application, please have a conversation with your Manager or People Business Partner. Internal references will be collected as part of the recruitment process. We value career growth and development and ask employees to remain in each role for at least 12 months.
Skills:
Application Close Date: 17/07/2026 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.
