Founded in the Queensland outback in 1920, Qantas has grown to be Australia’s largest regional, domestic, and international airline. Qantas has a range of subsidiary businesses that support the overall operations of the Group. The Qantas Group’s main business is the transportation of customers and freight using two complementary airline brands — Qantas and Jetstar — operating regional, domestic, and international services.
Job Description- Help shape the People strategy across Qantas Corporate Functions to drive business outcomes and a high-performance culture
- Opportunity to drive impactful change and excellence in People practices
- Senior leadership role working as a part of the business to bring key strategic initiatives to life
We pride ourselves on forward thinking. We're not afraid to challenge, we invent boldly, and we purposefully disrupt. An industry characterised by competition and change, we stay ahead of the game by innovating and creating outstanding products and services for our customers.
We have created a new Head of People role within the Qantas Corporate People Leadership Team to support our Finance and Group Risk & Services portfolio, reporting to the Executive Manager, People, Corporate. This role is responsible for leading and delivering the full spectrum of People related activity across our Finance and Group Risk & Services teams. In this role, you will work with a dedicated team of HR professionals and partner closely with executive leadership teams to shape and deliver the People strategy - translating key initiatives into tangible outcomes across the organisation. This includes supporting business transformation and delivering key programs of work across the employee lifecycle.
As Head of People, you will bring proven experience navigating complex environments, building high‑performance cultures, and ensuring strong alignment between business objectives and People priorities.
What you’ll bring to the role:
- 12+ years’ experience and expert knowledge across the field of Human Resources with experience in a Senior Human Resources Leadership role, ideally within a Corporate, Finance, or Risk environment.
- Tertiary qualification in Human Resources or related fields.
- Proven expertise in Human Resources business partnering, with a track record of formulating and executing strategies, across Corporate Groups within a complex organisation
- Strong commercial acumen
- Experience as a trusted strategic advisor adept at building effective relationships with senior executive leadership teams, with a history of driving collaboration and using influence to shape the business direction.
- Well versed in navigating matrix organisational structures, skilled at driving change and transformation.
- Experience as a key member of a Senior Leadership team working with alignment and collaboratively driving initiatives within area of responsibility and more broadly across the leadership team
- Collaborative and responsive leadership style, demonstrating ownership, accountability and a commitment to coaching and developing others.
Why Qantas?
You’ll join a team where creativity and passion are encouraged. Our people come together to allow us to dream big and deliver successfully.
There are many different opportunities across our team, which means you’ll be able to grow both personally and professionally at Qantas. Your development is a priority for us – so that you can maintain the high standards our customers have come to expect and can continue to develop over time. You’ll be supported from day 1 with on the job training and coaching as well as our formal training opportunities. While you may start in this role, we’ve got a great track record of supporting our people to take their career in so many different directions, the destinations are endless.
The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel.
- We love to travel: Enjoy heavily discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends, as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays.
- We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave (plus superannuation payments on all paid and unpaid parental leave until your child turns 1) and additional purchased leave options for eligible employees.
- We’ll give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment. You can also take advantage of our salary packaging program including motor vehicles, eligible portable electronic devices and professional memberships.
- We’ll support your wellbeing: Whether it’s learning to better support your own and others’ mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan.
Applications close 20th March 2026
Qantas is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. By coming to work for us, you’ll be part of an organisation that encourages diversity, supports charities and environmental initiatives. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and people of all backgrounds to apply. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application. Your personal information will be kept confidential in compliance with relevant privacy legislation.
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