Talent Enablement Specialist

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

Flexible Location | Talent Acquisition | Full Time

The work you do here reaches further than your job description.

At CIMIC, we are the team behind the operating companies that deliver some of the most significant infrastructure projects across Australia and the Asia Pacific. We connect capability, expertise and services across the Group, helping CPB Contractors, UGL, Leighton Asia, Sedgman, Pacific Partnerships and EIC Activities focus on the work only they can do.

Our Talent Enablement Specialist role is responsible for leading strategic sourcing initiatives that strengthen current and future workforce capability across the Group. The successful candidate will develop and execute proactive talent pipelining strategies, deliver talent insights, and lead the development of recruitment tools, reporting, technology optimisation and process improvement initiatives. As a trusted partner to Talent Acquisition and business stakeholders, this role will play a key role in driving a modern, data-driven and scalable recruitment function while supporting the achievement of strategic hiring objectives.

What you will do

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 that inform recruitment and workforce planning decisions.

Establish and maintain strategic talent communities aligned to business growth plans, critical capability requirements and future workforce priorities.

Deliver market insights and analytics, including talent availability, salary trends, competitor hiring activity and candidate motivations, to support data-driven hiring decisions.

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 that improve efficiency, scalability and user experience.

Partner with recruiters, hiring managers and key stakeholders to embed best-practice attraction strategies, enhance adoption of recruitment technologies and improve overall recruitment capability.

Establish governance, standards and reporting frameworks that support consistent, efficient and data-driven recruitment practices across the business.

What you will bring

Demonstrated experience leading strategic sourcing, recruitment delivery or talent acquisition initiatives within a complex organisational environment.

Deep knowledge of contemporary talent acquisition practices, sourcing methodologies and recruitment technology principles.

Deep expertise in Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), preferably PageUp, including system optimisation, reporting, workflow design and user adoption.

Proven capability leveraging digital tools and data analytics platforms, including Microsoft Copilot, Power BI or similar technologies, to drive operational efficiency, insights and continuous improvement.

Demonstrated ability to lead, coach and influence geographically dispersed or remote teams, including establishing performance expectations, monitoring KPIs and driving accountability.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret data, identify trends and translate insights into actionable recruitment and workforce strategies.

Experience leading process improvement, transformation or automation initiatives that enhance recruitment effectiveness, scalability and user experience.

About CIMIC

CIMIC is the central enabling function for the CIMIC Group. Finance, People and Culture, Legal, HSEQ, IT, Strategy, Commercial and Risk, Corporate Affairs and Communications, and Audit professionals, working together so that the Group's operating companies can deliver some of the most significant projects and operations across Australia and the Asia Pacific.

We sit within one of the world's leading construction and infrastructure groups. ACS and HOCHTIEF. A network that spans major markets globally and is growing in the sectors that will define the next decade: AI and Digital Infrastructure, Defence and Security, Energy and Nuclear, and Critical Minerals.

One Group, One Team is how we work. Not duplicated functions, but shared capability and expertise applied consistently across the Group. Built on expertise. Delivered at scale.

What we offer

Career mobility across operating companies, sectors and functions, with pathways to CPB Contractors, UGL, Leighton Asia, Sedgman, Pacific Partnerships and EIC Activities.

Access to ACS University, providing leadership development, executive education and learning opportunities across the ACS global network.

A culture built on the Group Principles: Integrity, Accountability, Innovation and Delivery, with Safety underpinning everything.

The Accountable Leadership program, a Group-wide framework that creates shared language and shared standards for how we lead and perform.

The opportunity to work with specialists at the top of their fields, on projects and operations that reach communities and industries across Australia and beyond.