Senior Talent Advisor | 14 Month Fixed-Term Contract (SYD/MEL)

ADP Consulting; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 100,000 - 130,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Structured development pathways

Professional memberships funding

Flexible Work Policy

Wellbeing initiatives including Pilates and CrossFit

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy is seeking a Senior Talent Advisor to enhance their talent acquisition strategy in Melbourne or Sydney. In this critical role, you'll lead end-to-end recruitment processes, coach hiring managers, and build proactive sourcing pipelines. Ideal candidates will have over 8 years’ experience in recruitment within engineering or consulting. The company values inclusivity, professional development, and offers a flexible work culture, encouraging a healthy work-life balance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years' experience in recruitment or talent acquisition, ideally within engineering or consulting.
• Experience improving recruitment processes, systems, and candidate experience.
• Strong understanding of recruitment compliance, employment law, and inclusive hiring practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end recruitment for senior roles, ensuring excellent candidate experience.
• Build proactive sourcing pipelines through LinkedIn Recruiter and market mapping.
• Coach hiring managers on best practice interviewing and selection.

Skills

Proactive sourcing

Stakeholder management

Strong judgment

Relationship-building

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

ATS and HRIS platforms

Job description

Shape talent strategy. Elevate candidate experience. Build ADP's future.

ADP Consulting is seeking an experienced and driven Senior Talent Advisor to join our People and Culture team on a 14-month fixed term contract in Sydney or Melbourne. In this role, you'll partner closely with leaders across the business to deliver strategic talent acquisition initiatives that attract, engage and hire exceptional people across technical and corporate functions.

This is an opportunity to make a real impact in a sustainability-led engineering consultancy that is continuing to grow. You'll bring a strong mix of proactive sourcing, stakeholder partnership, market insight and recruitment process improvement, helping ADP strengthen its talent capability and deliver a seamless experience for candidates and hiring managers alike.

Who We Are

Founded in 2011 in Australia, ADP Consulting is a trusted, sustainability-led engineering consultancy with an international footprint that is renowned for finding the best technical and sustainable solutions to the most complex projects, wherever these may be.

ADP Consulting is committed to inspiring a better world through influence and design, collaborating with industry leaders who are equally as passionate about innovation, design excellence and, importantly, our impact on the planet.

ADP Consulting has now joined forces with Ayesa, one of the world's largest technology and engineering companies, in a move that facilitates new pathways and accelerates our growth.

What is your role?

Reporting to the Director | People and Culture, you'll play a key role in leading, shaping and delivering ADP's talent acquisition strategy.

Your day-to-day will include:

• Leading end-to-end recruitment for senior, technical and corporate roles, ensuring an excellent candidate and hiring manager experience throughout the process.
• Leading and supporting a Talent Advisor who reports into this role, providing guidance, development and day-to-day direction across recruitment delivery.
• Building proactive sourcing pipelines through LinkedIn Recruiter, headhunting, passive candidate engagement and market mapping.
• Partnering with hiring managers and leaders to understand workforce needs, provide recruitment advice and support hiring decisions.
• Monitoring recruitment metrics and providing insights to help guide hiring decisions and identify opportunities for improvements.
• Coaching hiring managers on best practice interviewing, selection and unconscious bias mitigation.
• Contributing to recruitment panel management, supplier performance and broader recruitment cost optimisation initiatives.
• Partnering with our Senior People Operations Advisor to improve recruitment systems, workflows and processes to enhance efficiency, scalability and quality of hire.
• Supporting employer branding activity in partnership with Marketing, including campaigns, events and education partnerships.
• Championing diversity and inclusion in hiring practices and ensuring recruitment activities align with employment legislation and best practice.

About you

You're a confident and commercially minded recruitment professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys partnering with stakeholders at all levels. You bring a proactive, solutions focused mindset, strong judgement and a genuine passion for connecting great people with great opportunities.

You'll ideally bring:

• 8+ years' experience in recruitment or talent acquisition, ideally within engineering, consulting or another technical environment.
• Strong capability in proactive sourcing, headhunting, passive candidate engagement and talent pipelining.
• Experience using LinkedIn Recruiter to source and engage top talent.
• Confidence partnering with hiring managers and leaders on recruitment strategy and workforce planning.
• A strong understanding of recruitment compliance, employment law and inclusive hiring practices.
• Experience improving recruitment processes, systems and candidate experience.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and relationship-building skills.
• Proficiency across ATS and HRIS platforms, Job Adder experience highly regarded.

Why ADP Consulting?

• Advance at ADP

We offer structured development pathways to foster career growth, beginning with a two-year graduate program and extending to Director-level opportunities. We also support Engineers Australia chartership, provide annual funding for professional memberships and accreditations, and invest in external leadership training ensuring continuous upskilling and professional development.

• All welcome at ADP

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable culture where our team feels valued, respected and empowered to contribute meaningfully. Our initiatives include a whole-of-family approach in our policies, our internal Women @ ADP group, LGBTIQA+ advocacy, and designing for inclusivity.

• All well at ADP

Our Flexible Work Policy recognises the unique needs and circumstances of our team and supports tailored flexibility while balancing the organisational and operational requirements of the business. We encourage wellbeing through lifestyle initiatives including pilates, CrossFit and regular social events like Friday lunches. While also providing access to a variety of leave options including Pet Leave, Grandparent Leave, Volunteer Leave and more.