Strategic Talent Sourcing Lead

Leighton Asia Limited; Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

CIMIC is seeking a Talent Enablement Specialist to lead strategic sourcing and modern recruitment across the group. You will build diverse talent pipelines, partner with stakeholders, and drive analytics-enabled hiring decisions in a flexible, global context.

The role emphasizes governance, tooling, and scalable processes to support strategic hiring objectives for current and future workforce needs.

Qualifications

• Experience leading strategic sourcing or talent acquisition initiatives in a complex organisation.
• Deep knowledge of contemporary talent acquisition practices and recruitment technology.
• Expertise with ATS, preferably PageUp, including reporting and workflow design.
• Experience using data tools like Power BI or similar for insights.
• Ability to lead and coach geographically dispersed teams and drive accountability.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to translate data into strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Sourcing Hub to design and deliver targeted sourcing strategies that build diverse, high-quality talent pipelines for current and future workforce needs.
• Conduct talent market mapping and workforce intelligence activities to identify competitor talent pools, emerging skills, talent flow trends and attraction opportunities.
• Establish and maintain strategic talent communities aligned to growth plans and critical capability requirements.
• Deliver market insights and analytics, including talent availability, salary trends, competitor hiring activity and candidate motivations.
• Develop and maintain recruitment performance dashboards that provide visibility of pipeline health, source effectiveness, hiring outcomes and recruitment ROI.
• Lead the design and implementation of modern recruitment tools, processes and automation solutions to improve efficiency and scalability.
• Partner with recruiters, hiring managers and key stakeholders to embed best-practice attraction strategies and improve recruitment capability.
• Establish governance, standards and reporting frameworks that support data-driven recruitment practices across the business.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Talent acquisition

Data analytics

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Tools

PageUp ATS

Power BI

Microsoft Copilot

Job description

CIMIC is seeking a Talent Enablement Specialist to lead strategic sourcing and modern recruitment across the group. You will build diverse talent pipelines, partner with stakeholders, and drive analytics-enabled hiring decisions in a flexible, global context.

The role emphasizes governance, tooling, and scalable processes to support strategic hiring objectives for current and future workforce needs.