Senior Talent Advisor | Executive Recruitment

CIMIC; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

CIMIC Group is seeking a Senior Talent Advisor - Executive Recruitment to lead end-to-end recruitment for senior leadership roles across its national portfolio. You will partner with General Managers and executive leaders to develop sourcing strategies, conduct market mapping, and build talent pipelines with a focus on confidentiality and stakeholder satisfaction.

You will bring extensive experience in executive search, strategic sourcing, and talent intelligence, collaborating with People &

Qualifications

• Extensive experience recruiting senior leaders or executives.
• Strong background in executive search and strategic sourcing.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders and stakeholders across multiple business units.
• Proven ability to map talent and build leadership pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end recruitment of senior leadership roles across CIMIC Group.
• Collaborate with General Managers and senior stakeholders to shape sourcing strategies.
• Conduct market mapping and talent intelligence to inform hiring decisions.
• Manage external search firms and recruitment partners when needed.
• Deliver exceptional candidate and stakeholder experiences with discretion and confidentiality.

Skills

Executive search

Talent mapping

Stakeholder management

Sourcing strategies

Negotiation

Candidate assessment

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR/Business/Psychology or related

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

ATS platforms

Job description

Senior Talent Advisor | Executive Recruitment

Senior Talent Advisor - Executive Recruitment

Melbourne, Sydney, or Brisbane location | National Scope

At CIMIC Group, we're shaping the future of infrastructure, engineering, construction, resources and services across Australia and internationally. With more than 30,000 employees and a portfolio of iconic projects delivered through businesses including CPB Contractors, UGL, Thiess, Sedgman and Pacific Partnerships, we're looking for an experienced talent acquisition professional to help secure the leaders who will drive our future success.

We are seeking a Senior Talent Advisor - Executive & Strategic Recruitment to lead the attraction, engagement and hiring of senior leaders across the Group. This role will focus primarily on General Manager, Executive General Manager and executive-level appointments, while also supporting selected strategic appointments critical to business growth and project delivery.

Working closely with senior operational leaders, People & Culture teams and executive stakeholders, you will provide expert market intelligence, talent mapping, succession insights and strategic recruitment advice across a diverse national portfolio.

About the Role

Reporting to the Principal Advisor, Workforce Planning, you will act as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders and lead end-to-end recruitment strategies for senior leadership and business-critical positions.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing executive and senior leadership recruitment assignments across CIMIC Group businesses.
• Partnering with General Managers, Executive General Managers and senior stakeholders to develop sourcing and attraction strategies.
• Conducting market mapping, competitor analysis and talent intelligence activities.
• Building and maintaining pipelines of executive and senior leadership talent.
• Identifying and engaging passive candidates through targeted search methodologies.
• Providing labour market insights, talent trends and workforce intelligence to business leaders.
• Supporting succession planning initiatives through talent identification and leadership benchmarking.
• Managing executive search partners and recruitment suppliers where specialist support is required.Delivering exceptional candidate and stakeholder experiences while managing highly confidential appointments.
• Partnering with Workforce Planning, Learning & Development and HR teams to understand internal capability and inform strategic hiring decisions.

About You

You are an experienced executive recruiter or senior talent acquisition professional who enjoys partnering with business leaders on complex and commercially significant appointments.

You'll bring:

• Extensive experience recruiting senior leaders, executives or business-critical roles.
• A strong background in executive search, strategic sourcing or talent acquisition.
• Experience operating in complex and competitive sectors such as construction, engineering, infrastructure, resources, energy or related industries.
• Advanced candidate sourcing, talent mapping and market research capability.
• Experience partnering directly with executive stakeholders and senior business leaders.
• Strong commercial acumen and the ability to influence hiring decisions at a senior level.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, communication and negotiation skills.
• Experience managing external search firms and strategic recruitment partners.
• High levels of professionalism, discretion and confidentiality.
• Strong capability across LinkedIn Recruiter, ATS platforms and modern recruitment technologies.
• Tertiary qualifications in Human Resources, Business, Psychology or a related discipline are advantageous but not essential.

Why Join CIMIC?

• Opportunity to influence executive and strategic hiring across one of Australia's largest infrastructure and engineering groups.
• Exposure to senior leaders across multiple operating companies.
• Contribute to succession planning and long-term leadership capability strategies.
• Work within a collaborative, high-performing People & Culture team.
• Build relationships across Australia and internationally.
• Play a key role in shaping the future leadership pipeline of the Group.

If you're passionate about executive search, talent intelligence and partnering with leaders to secure exceptional talent, we'd love to hear from you.

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• How many years' experience do you have as a Recruitment Executive?
• How much notice are you required to give your current employer?

MISSION AND PRINCIPLES

The CIMIC Group’s mission is to generate sustainable returns for shareholders by delivering projects for our clients while providing safe, rewarding and fulfilling careers for our people.

Our mission is supported by four principles which guide our actions and act as a common unifying bond across our operations. Our Principles are Integrity, Accountability, Innovation and Delivery. Each of these principles is underpinned by a continual focus on safety which is fundamental to CIMIC’s operations.

The Group’s shared principles help us to:

• Provide safe, supportive and positive workplaces
• Support a united and collaborative culture where engaged employees are aligned to achieve superior performance
• Deliver technical excellence and create efficient, innovative solutions that satisfy our clients
• Generate sustainable cash-backed profits which creates value for shareholders
• Build an enviable reputation and the trust of employees, clients and other stakeholders.

Source: This is an extract from the company's own website.