Global Talent Acquisition Leader — Hands-On & Strategy

First Focus AU; Australia; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid and flexible working

Flexible leave options

10 paid study days per year (+ exam)

FastTrack mentoring program

Inter-office travel program

Job summary

First Focus AU, Australia’s leading MSP, is seeking an exceptional Head of Talent Acquisition to take ownership of recruitment across First Focus. You’ll shape our TA strategy, lead a geographically distributed team and help us build the talent capability we need for growth.

You’ll still recruit senior, technical and hard-to-fill roles while refining processes, technology, and employer brand. Collaborate with executives and hiring managers to understand needs and push for better, faster hiring

Qualifications

• Senior TA leader with technology recruitment experience.
• Experience developing and executing a company-wide TA strategy.
• Strong leadership of geographically dispersed teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management and collaboration with executives.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement our Talent Acquisition strategy.
• Own recruitment processes, technology, reporting and candidate experience.
• Lead and develop our technology-focused TA team across Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines.
• Partner with executives and hiring managers to understand what they really need.
• Stay hands-on with senior technical, specialist, sales and difficult-to-fill roles.
• Build sustainable talent pipelines so every vacancy doesn’t start with panic.
• Review and improve sourcing channels, recruitment technology, processes and data.
• Trial, adopt and actually use AI and automation where it makes us better and faster.
• Create consistency across multiple countries without assuming identical markets.
• Improve our Employer Value Proposition and how we tell the First Focus story to candidates.
• Establish useful TA metrics to improve quality, speed and effectiveness.
• Collaborate with the Talent Director and hiring managers in our US-based parent company.

Skills

Talent acquisition leadership

Strategic TA planning

Stakeholder management

People development

Job description

First Focus AU, Australia’s leading MSP, is seeking an exceptional Head of Talent Acquisition to take ownership of recruitment across First Focus. You’ll shape our TA strategy, lead a geographically distributed team and help us build the talent capability we need for growth.

You’ll still recruit senior, technical and hard-to-fill roles while refining processes, technology, and employer brand. Collaborate with executives and hiring managers to understand needs and push for better, faster hiring