Talent Partner

Cultivate People Ltd; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Five weeks annual leave after 12 mos

Birthday leave

Hybrid working up to 3 days from home

Fully paid health insurance

Income protection, trauma and life ins

Monthly team lunches

Job summary

Cultivate People Ltd is a Kiwi-owned recruitment business focused on genuine relationships, growth, and fun. The Talent Partner role sits in our Business Operations & Customer Experience team and partners with a senior consultant to deliver end-to-end recruitment across a mix of temp and permanent roles.

You’ll manage briefs, source talent, interview and shortlist, while building strong relationships for current and future opportunities. Hybrid work and a supportive environment are offered.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to source and assess candidates across roles.
• Ability to manage multiple vacancies with deadlines.
• Commitment to an inclusive, positive candidate experience.

Responsibilities

• Source and interview candidates for temporary and permanent roles.
• Deliver shortlists and thoughtful recommendations to clients.
• Keep candidates informed and provide an excellent recruitment experience.
• Build talent pools for current and future opportunities.
• Partner with consultant to meet client needs and share market insights.
• Manage vacancies, deadlines, systems and compliance.

Skills

Sourcing

Candidate engagement

Interviewing

Multi-role management

Compliance & processes

Tools

AI tools

Job description

5 weeks leave, hybrid working, paid insurances

About Cultivate

We’re a Kiwi owned recruitment business built on genuine relationships, doing right by people and having fun along the way.

We won SEEK Medium Recruitment Agency of the Year in 2023 and 2024, and Outstanding Progress in DE&I in 2025. We are currently finalists in three categories for this year’s awards too (wish us luck for end of November!).

Get to know more about us, our team, and the way we do things via our LinkedIn Profile or Google reviews.

What’s in it for you?

We are proud of our offering, culture and career opportunities, with just snippet of our benefits including:

• Career development: Cultivate’s Talent or Consultant Career Framework
• Flexibility: Hybrid working - up to 3 days from home a week
• Extra leave: Five weeks annually after 12 months, plus birthday leave
• Financial protection: Fully paid health, income protection, trauma and life insurance
• Recognition: Monthly paid lunch to celebrate success across the business as a team + peer voted awards
• Partnership: This is a unique role, partnering 1-1 with a highly successful, supportive consultant, giving you ownership, exposure and variety

About the role

This is a varied recruitment portfolio where no two days are the same. As a Talent Partner, you’ll become an integral part of a close working partnership with a highly successful consultant and their long-standing, exclusive clients – making sure you have a lot of fun and laughs along the way.

This role sits within our Business Operations & Customer Experience team – a team who truly work together across everyone’s portfolios to get the best outcomes. You’ll work very closely, championing everything talent, sourcing and candidate experience wise, with our other Talent Partners too.

In the partnership, you’ll manage recruitment delivery across a mix of temporary and permanent roles, from understanding briefs and sourcing talent through to interviewing, shortlisting and keeping candidates engaged.

You’ll also build relationships with talent for future opportunities, share market insights and bring ideas to improve how the portfolio operates.

What you’ll do

• Source, interview and assess candidates across a range of temporary and permanent roles.
• Deliver quality shortlists and thoughtful recommendations to customers
• Keep candidates informed and provide a great recruitment experience.
• Build relationships with talent for current and future opportunities, ensuring our core roles have strong talent pools
• Partner with your consultant to anticipate client needs and share market insights, to improve the outcome of your portfolio, customers and candidates
• Manage multiple vacancies, deadlines, recruitment systems and compliance requirements.
• Adapt to changing priorities, take ownership and keep processes moving.

About you

You’re agile, organised and comfortable working at pace, without letting the details or candidate experience slip.

You want to pursue a career in Talent Partnering and would like to take ownership of end-to-end delivery in your partnership.

An inclusive, positive candidate experience underpins everything we do at Cultivate – we are looking for someone who also places high value on this.

You’ll bring

• Strong sourcing, assessment and candidate engagement skills.
• The ability to manage multiple roles, thrive working at pace and competing deadlines, taking control to keep things on track.
• Passionate about candidate experience, driving inclusive practices and job seeker outcomes.
• Detail and quality focused – compliance and processes will sit with you, and you will be excellent at ensuring nothing slips through the cracks.
• Very confident using technology, systems and tools – exposure to AI tools and/or technology systems in recruitment would be ideal.

We believe diversity is vital to a healthy, high-performing workplace. That’s why we’re committed to delivering a psychologically safe recruitment experience. One that uncovers and celebrates your strengths. If traditional hiring processes don’t bring out your best let us know. We want you to shine, not shy away.

Next Steps

you’ll need to hold New Zealand citizenship, residency, or a valid work visa.

This ad was written with help from AI, but your application will be reviewed by a real human, Rachel Derry:

Passionate about job seeker experience and looking after our marketing, HR and Talent team at Cultivate, outside of work you'll find me travelling the world in my cowgirl boots, on the golf course, or watching reality TV with my two tabby cats.

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