Culture & Capability Partner

Company Description

Mai te hiku ki te taurapa, whitikina e te ra

From the tail of the fish to the tail of the waka, shines the sun

Meridian is Aotearoa's largest renewable electricity producer, generating power from 100% renewable sources—wind, water, and sun!

Are you passionate about helping good humans thrive?

Do you love partnering with the business to shape culture, build capability, and drive meaningful change?

Meridian is looking for a Culture and Capability Partner who leads with humility, curiosity, and a growth mindset.

What you'll be doing

Championing Meridian's world-class culture by designing and delivering people-focused solutions that elevate capability, diversity and inclusion, wellbeing, and the overall employee experience.

Building strong, collaborative relationships across the business especially with our Strategic People Partners and the wider People Team to ensure our initiatives amplify Meridian's people strategies.

Diagnosing root causes, assessing team dynamics, and supporting the business to overcome barriers and achieve their goals.

Leading interventions such as team-building workshops, coaching, conflict resolution, learning experiences, and capability-building initiatives.

Enabling change through effective change management strategies, stakeholder engagement, and feedback loops.

Developing talent solutions for long-term success, supporting the leadership employee life-cycle processes, and aligning development with our leadership commitments framework.

Promoting a thriving, inclusive culture by championing key People Team strategies including diversity and inclusion, leadership development, health and safety, and te ao Maori.

Facilitating learning and development initiatives—virtually and in person—and turning insights into action through analysis of employee survey results.

What you'll bring

You bring a growth mindset and a flexible, solutions-focused approach to challenges and opportunities, with a passion for making a real impact.

You thrive in partnership leaning in to work with the business and the People Team to deliver impactful development solutions.

You have a deep understanding of the employee life-cycle and know how to influence each stage to build a thriving, future-ready culture.

You believe in a non-hierarchical, ego-less culture, value transparency, empowerment, and trust in others.

You're open to new ideas and value every voice, with a desire to develop ideas together in a collaborative way.

Proven experience leading organisation-wide development initiatives, strong consulting skills and the ability to influence stakeholders.

Deep understanding of performance, leadership, and capability development.

What we can offer!

An attractive and competitive salary package that's reviewed annually, performance-incentive plus discounts from several partnerships

Southern Cross Healthcare—Wellbeing one insurance, funded scheme for eligible employees to give you that extra peace of mind

Enhanced leave provisions : three company paid days (over the holiday period), enhanced parental leave and options to buy up to 12 days additional leave

Life, trauma and income protection insurance (which we hope you won't need!)

Enhanced KiwiSaver contributions

Access to the Meridian employee share scheme

Excellent learning and development opportunities, we want you to be the best version of yourself and will help you get there!

Award-winning wellbeing programme that provides support whenever and wherever you need it

Employee discounts off your power with Meridian, every bit counts

A one-off $400 payment to support your work-from-home set-up (if needed)

Apply now

All in all, we're an awesome place to work.

If this sounds like you and you want to bring your energy and use your power to make a difference (pun intended), then apply today and tell us why!

We encourage you to apply for this role — even if you don't meet every requirement.

At Meridian, we value diverse perspectives and believe that potential, passion, and a willingness to grow are really important.

If you're excited about this opportunity, we'd love to hear from you!

To view the full Position Description please click here.

Why join us?

We help reduce carbon emissions and support communities in doing the same, supplying electricity to over 400,000 homes, businesses, and farms through Meridian and Powershop.

At Meridian, we embrace diversity and inclusion, knowing that different perspectives make us stronger.

We encourage everyone to bring their whole selves to work, creating a welcoming and empowering environment for all.

Be gutsy, be in the waka, and be a good human – our three principles.

We work hard and celebrate connection through quizzes, morning teas, and cultural events, both in person and virtually.

Sustainability is in our DNA.

We proudly support KidsCan and Kakapo Recovery and work side-by-side with our generation communities.

If you've any questions, please email

We're committed to becoming more accessible and providing support if needed.

Please get in touch if there are parts of our process you would like assistance with (process found here meridianenergy.co.nz / careers), we're more than happy to help.

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