Executive Search Specialist

Findstaff; Brisbane; Remote; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

FindStaff is seeking an Executive Search Specialist to grow our executive search capability across Australia and New Zealand. This role offers autonomy to build a market, create relationships and turn conversations into opportunities with a strong support base.

You'll engage CEOs, executives and senior decision-makers, develop a robust pipeline, and lead assignments from brief to placement, while collaborating with IntoWork colleagues to build lasting partnerships.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in executive search, retained search, senior recruitment or executive‑level business development.
• A track record of winning new clients and developing recruitment/search revenue.
• Confidence engaging senior executives and decision‑makers.
• Strong headhunting, talent mapping and passive candidate sourcing capability.
• The ability to build genuine long‑term networks, not just transactional contact lists.
• Excellent storytelling, influencing and relationship‑building skills.
• Commercial judgement and the confidence to advise and challenge clients when required.
• A self‑directed approach and the motivation to build something.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of growing an executive network and search portfolio across Australia and New Zealand.
• Win new executive search business, identifying and developing prospective clients across the Australian and New Zealand markets.
• Build trusted relationships with CEOs, Executives, Boards, business owners and senior leaders.
• Develop a strong network of executive and leadership talent across multiple industries and functions.
• Generate your own pipeline through targeted business development, referrals, networking, research and strategic outreach.
• Identify opportunities for retained, exclusive and high‑value search assignments.
• Partner closely with clients to understand their organisation, strategy, culture and leadership requirements.
• Map markets and proactively engage high‑calibre passive executive talent.
• Lead executive search assignments from initial client conversation through research, sourcing, assessment, shortlist, offer and placement.
• Become a recognised and trusted voice in your executive markets.
• Collaborate with the wider FindStaff team and IntoWork colleagues to uncover opportunities and build long‑term partnerships.

Skills

Executive search

Business development

Relationship building

Head-hunting

Stakeholder management

Job description

Commission on top of salary and professional dev

As a profit-for-purpose business, we have a unique proposition for an Executive Search Specialist who wants to build their legacy autonomously, while aligned to a great purpose and with an excellent support base.

Are you an experienced executive recruiter who loves the thrill of opening a new door just as much as finding the perfect candidate? Are you yearning to build a legacy that's yours and that brings meaning?

FindStaff is looking for an Executive Search Specialist to help grow our executive search capability across Australia and New Zealand.

This isn't a role where you inherit a desk full of jobs and wait for briefs to arrive.

We're looking for someone who can build a market, create relationships and turn conversations into opportunities.

Someone who knows how to engage CEOs, executives, business owners and senior decision‑makers, understand what's keeping them awake at night, and position executive search as a genuine business solution.

What you'll be doing

You'll take ownership of growing an executive network and search portfolio across Australia and New Zealand.

You'll:

• Win new executive search business, identifying and developing prospective clients across the Australian and New Zealand markets.
• Build trusted relationships with CEOs, Executives, Boards, business owners and senior leaders.
• Develop a strong network of executive and leadership talent across multiple industries and functions.
• Generate your own pipeline through targeted business development, referrals, networking, research and strategic outreach.
• Identify opportunities for retained, exclusive and high-value search assignments.
• Partner closely with clients to understand their organisation, strategy, culture and leadership requirements.
• Map markets and proactively engage high‑calibre passive executive talent.
• Lead executive search assignments from initial client conversation through research, sourcing, assessment, shortlist, offer and placement.
• Become a recognised and trusted voice in your executive markets.
• Collaborate with the wider FindStaff team and IntoWork colleagues to uncover opportunities and build long‑term partnerships.

Who we're looking for

We're interested in someone who brings commercial hunger and executive credibility in equal measure.

You'll bring:

• Proven experience in executive search, retained search, senior recruitment or executive‑level business development.
• A track record of winning new clients and developing recruitment/search revenue.
• Confidence engaging senior executives and decision‑makers.
• Strong headhunting, talent mapping and passive candidate sourcing capability.
• The ability to build genuine long‑term networks, not just transactional contact lists.
• Excellent storytelling, influencing and relationship‑building skills.
• Commercial judgement and the confidence to advise and challenge clients when required.
• A self‑directed approach and the motivation to build something.

Most importantly, you'll be someone who genuinely enjoys creating business, not simply servicing it.

Why FindStaff?

Imagine what you could build with the freedom to make your mark, the support of the IntoWork Group and the opportunity to contribute to a meaningful purpose across diverse industries. With offices based all around Australia and New Zealand, we are open to what location best suits where you work.

We are committed to supporting National Reconciliation efforts through the implementation of our Reconciliation Action Plan, fostering respectful relationships and creating meaningful opportunities with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.