Pacific Talent Manager: Recruitment, L&D & Branding

Cevalogistics; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Personal wellbeing

Work–life balance

Professional development

Financial wellbeing

Inclusive culture

Job summary

CEVA Logistics seeks a Talent Manager for CEVA Pacific, based at our Truganina head office. You will lead talent acquisition, learning and development, employer branding, and visa sponsorship across Australia, New Zealand and Fiji, driving commercially focused practices aligned with global frameworks.

You will develop the Pacific Talent team, partner with senior leaders, and ensure delivery of high‑quality recruitment and learning initiatives while strengthening partnerships with external

Qualifications

• Significant experience in talent acquisition or broader talent management, including experience leading, coaching or guiding team members.
• Demonstrated success partnering with senior leaders on recruitment strategies, workforce priorities and complex hiring requirements.
• Broad recruitment experience across different functions, seniority levels and role types, including proactive sourcing and talent pipelining.
• Experience managing recruitment suppliers, labour hire providers or other external partnerships.
• Strong knowledge of contemporary recruitment practices, Australian employment requirements and Tier 1 recruitment or HR systems.
• Strong commercial judgement, stakeholder management, data analysis and communication skills, with the ability to influence within a global matrix organisation.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop the Pacific Talent team, establishing clear priorities, consistent ways of working and reliable service delivery.
• Develop and implement recruitment strategies supporting business growth, new customer implementations, senior appointments and critical talent pipelines.
• Oversee end‑to‑end recruitment delivery across CEVA Pacific and personally support strategic, senior and difficult‑to‑fill appointments.
• Guide Pacific learning and development activity in partnership with local HR teams and APAC Learning and Talent Management.
• Manage CEVA’s labour hire partnership framework, visa sponsorship programme and broader portfolio of talent‑related suppliers.
• Drive employer branding, recruitment reporting, systems governance, process improvement and compliance across the talent function.

Skills

Talent acquisition

Leadership coaching

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Recruitment strategies

Tools

HR systems

Sourcing platforms

Job description

CEVA Logistics seeks a Talent Manager for CEVA Pacific, based at our Truganina head office. You will lead talent acquisition, learning and development, employer branding, and visa sponsorship across Australia, New Zealand and Fiji, driving commercially focused practices aligned with global frameworks.

You will develop the Pacific Talent team, partner with senior leaders, and ensure delivery of high‑quality recruitment and learning initiatives while strengthening partnerships with external