Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partner

The Nudge Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Nudge Group is seeking a Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partner to lead talent hiring across Australia and New Zealand. You will work directly with business and technology leaders to translate hiring needs into targeted search strategies and hands-on sourcing.

As an experienced practitioner, you will build deep pipelines for hard-to-fill tech roles, run candidate conversations, assess fit, and guide hiring managers through the full recruitment process, delivering a high-quality candidate

Qualifications

• Significant experience in an internal talent acquisition function partnering with hiring managers and business leaders.
• Background in a recruitment agency or executive search environment as well as specialist recruitment businesses.
• Proven track record hiring software engineering, data engineering, data analytics, AI/ML, cloud/platform, architecture or tech consulting talent.
• Demonstrable personal sourcing through LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, direct outreach and referral networks.
• Experience building pipelines for hard-to-fill or specialist roles.
• Strong assessment and interviewing skills with credibility to challenge briefs for senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Personally source, identify and approach high-quality candidates across Australia and New Zealand.
• Map talent markets and build target lists for priority roles and capability areas.
• Build and maintain deep pipelines of prospective talent ahead of immediate hiring requirements.
• Run initial candidate conversations and assess capability, experience, motivation and fit.
• Manage candidates through the recruitment process and maintain a high-quality candidate experience.
• Work with business, technology and delivery leaders to translate requirements into clear search strategies.
• Advise hiring managers on talent availability, market conditions and search approach, and challenge briefs where required.
• Share candidate intelligence, sourcing approaches and market insights with the UK talent acquisition team.

Skills

Internal TA

Agency/Executive search

Tech hiring

Direct sourcing

Talent pipelines

Assessment & interviewing

Senior stakeholder management

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

Boolean search

Job description

A growing technology and data consulting business, with offices across Australia, New Zealand and the UK, is creating a Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partner to lead talent acquisition across Australia and New Zealand. This is a senior individual contributor role, not a people management position.

You will work directly with business, technology and delivery leaders to understand the capability the business needs, then go into the market yourself to find it.

Responsibilities

• Personally source, identify and approach high-quality candidates across Australia and New Zealand
• Map talent markets and build target lists for priority roles and capability areas
• Build and maintain deep pipelines of prospective talent ahead of immediate hiring requirements
• Run initial candidate conversations and assess capability, experience, motivation and fit
• Manage candidates through the recruitment process and maintain a high-quality candidate experience
• Work directly with business, technology and delivery leaders to translate requirements into clear search strategies
• Advise hiring managers on talent availability, market conditions and search approach, and challenge briefs where required
• Share candidate intelligence, sourcing approaches and market insights with the UK talent acquisition team

Candidates should have

• Significant experience inside an internal talent acquisition function, partnering directly with hiring managers and business leaders
• A background in a recruitment agency, executive search firm or specialist recruitment business, we want both sides of the fence, not one
• A genuine track record hiring software engineering, data engineering, data and analytics, AI and ML, cloud and platform, architecture or technology consulting talent, as market knowledge here is non-negotiable
• Demonstrable personal sourcing through LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, direct outreach and referral networks
• Experience building pipelines for hard-to-fill or specialist roles
• Strong assessment and interviewing skills, and the credibility to challenge a brief with a senior stakeholder
• This isn't a fit for HR generalists where recruitment was one part of the role, recruitment operations or coordination profiles, agency people who were primarily business development rather than candidate-side, or TA leaders who have moved into management and are no longer personally sourcing.

For more information please contact Steve Grace