Senior Consultant - Recruitment & Executive Search

Kaizen Recruitment; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning & development budget

Competitive salary and commission

Advisory board exposure

Job summary

Kaizen Recruitment is an award-winning specialist financial services recruitment and executive search firm partnering with Australia's leading funds and managers. This Senior Consultant role focuses on building relationships, identifying talent, and delivering outstanding recruitment outcomes, with opportunities to broaden into retained executive search and strategic projects.

Working with Kaizen's Directors and senior leadership, you will manage assignments, contribute to market mapping, and

Qualifications

• Experience in recruitment, talent acquisition, executive search or a related discipline.
• Strong sourcing, research and candidate assessment capabilities.
• Excellent written communication skills, attention to detail and the ability to prepare professional client-facing documentation.
• A proactive, organised and commercially minded approach to your work.
• Confidence engaging with senior professionals and building trusted relationships.
• Curiosity about business, financial services, technology and continuous improvement.
• A collaborative mindset and a willingness to contribute to projects beyond your immediate recruitment responsibilities.
• Financial services experience would be advantageous, but we're equally interested in experienced recruiters from adjacent professional services sectors.
• Above all, integrity, authenticity, compassion, accountability and a genuine passion for helping people succeed.

Responsibilities

• Manage specialist recruitment assignments across financial services, building trusted relationships with clients and candidates.
• Identify, engage and assess high-quality talent through proactive sourcing, research and networking.
• Deliver an exceptional candidate and client experience throughout the recruitment process.
• Contribute to business development and relationship management initiatives, leveraging Kaizen's established networks and client relationships.

Skills

Executive search

Talent acquisition

Candidate sourcing

Relationship management

Stakeholder engagement

Recruitment consulting

Job description

Senior Consultant - Recruitment & Executive Search

Kaizen Recruitment is an award-winning, specialist financial services recruitment and executive search firm, partnering with some of Australia's leading superannuation funds, investment managers, wealth management businesses, insurers, and asset consultants.

Our reputation is built on the strength of our relationships, deep industry expertise, and a genuine commitment to delivering exceptional outcomes for clients and candidates.

We believe recruitment is fundamentally a people business. Our success comes from combining market knowledge, meaningful relationships, collaboration and a commitment to continuous improvement.

As we continue to grow, we're looking for an experienced recruitment professional who shares these values and is excited by the opportunity to contribute beyond a traditional recruitment role.

This is an opportunity for an experienced and passionate recruiter who enjoys building relationships, identifying talent and delivering outstanding recruitment outcomes, but is also interested in broadening their experience.

Working closely with Kaizen's Directors and senior leadership team, you'll contribute to a diverse range of activities, including specialist recruitment, retained executive search, talent research, client projects, AI and business improvement initiatives.

You'll have the opportunity to manage recruitment assignments, support senior executive appointments, contribute to strategic research and market mapping projects, and help shape the continued development of our business. Importantly, we're looking for someone who enjoys being part of a team, takes pride in delivering high-quality work and is motivated by both individual achievement and collective success.

Recruitment & Relationship Management

• Manage specialist recruitment assignments across financial services, building trusted relationships with clients and candidates.
• Identify, engage and assess high-quality talent through proactive sourcing, research and networking.
• Deliver an exceptional candidate and client experience throughout the recruitment process.
• Contribute to business development and relationship management initiatives, leveraging Kaizen's established networks and client relationships.

Executive Search & Strategic Projects

• Partner with our Directors on senior retained executive search assignments, including CEO, CIO, CFO, CRO, COO and other executive leadership appointments.
• Undertake targeted market mapping, talent identification, competitor research and executive assessments.
• Prepare high-quality candidate profiles, market intelligence reports and client presentations.
• Support succession planning, talent benchmarking and other strategic advisory projects for our clients.

Business Operations & Continuous Improvement

• Contribute to internal projects designed to improve business processes, systems and recruitment delivery.
• Support the development of research methodologies, reporting, candidate engagement and recruitment technology.
• Collaborate with our leadership and marketing teams on initiatives that strengthen Kaizen's market presence and client engagement.
• Identify opportunities to improve how we operate, share knowledge and deliver value to our clients.

About You

We're looking for someone who genuinely enjoys recruitment, values strong professional relationships and is excited by the opportunity to develop a broader skill set.

You may currently be working in a specialist recruitment agency, executive search firm or another professional recruitment environment.

Ideally, you'll bring:

• Experience in recruitment, talent acquisition, executive search or a related discipline,
• Strong sourcing, research and candidate assessment capabilities.
• Excellent written communication skills, attention to detail and the ability to prepare professional client-facing documentation.
• A proactive, organised and commercially minded approach to your work.
• Confidence engaging with senior professionals and building trusted relationships.
• Curiosity about business, financial services, technology and continuous improvement.
• A collaborative mindset and a willingness to contribute to projects beyond your immediate recruitment responsibilities.

Financial services experience would be advantageous, but we're equally interested in experienced recruiters from adjacent professional services sectors.

Above all, we're looking for someone who brings integrity, authenticity, compassion, accountability and a genuine passion for helping people succeed.

Why Join Kaizen?

• Enjoy the variety of managing recruitment assignments while gaining valuable exposure to retained executive search, strategic research and business operations.
• Access a $4,000 annual learning and development budget, including relevant professional memberships, conferences and development opportunities.
• Collaborate directly with Kaizen's Directors and benefit from access to our experienced advisory board, gaining exposure to senior client relationships, executive search and business strategy.
• Work with an exceptional portfolio of leading Australian financial services organisations and benefit from the relationships and reputation Kaizen has built over many years.
• Receive a competitive salary and attractive commission structure that recognises both individual and team contribution and performance.
• Benefit from a dedicated marketing team that supports your professional profile, industry engagement, thought leadership, and client development activities.
• Join a supportive, flexible and collaborative team where success is shared, ideas are encouraged and people are empowered to take ownership of your work.