CSIRO Hiring for Executive Talent Acquisition Business Partner Job at Australia Full Time

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The Opportunity

• Drive the execution of an Executive Recruitment Strategy
• Proactively build excellent relationships with hiring managers to establish sourcing priorities and future talent plans
• A great opportunity in a critical leadership and business engagement role

The Executive Talent Acquisition Business Partner is a critical leadership and business engagement role, reporting to the Executive Manager – Talent Acquisition.

As the Executive Talent Acquisition Business Partner you will be responsible for leading the development and execution of an Executive Recruitment Strategy that identifies, attracts, and engages senior leaders, directors, and high-level corporate officers to support CSIRO’s growth ambition and evolving business needs.

The Executive Talent Acquisition Business Partner will proactively build excellent relationships with hiring managers to establish sourcing priorities and future talent plans and to design a roadmap of hiring requirements in the short- and long-term, ensuring a seamless, consistent, and integrated approach to talent acquisition.

Your duties will include:

• Lead the development and execution of an Executive Recruitment Strategy that identifies, attracts, and engages senior leaders, directors and high-level corporate officers to support CSIRO’s growth ambition and evolving business needs.
• Partner with key stakeholders to establish sourcing priorities and future talent plans. Proactively design a roadmap of hiring requirements in the short- and long-term.
• Develop and maintain collaborative partnerships with Strategic People Business Partners to understand business leadership and strategy requirements, succession plans and talent gaps.
• Conduct targeted sourcing through social media channels (e.g., LinkedIn, Facebook and Seek) to attract both passive and active talent.
• Establish long-lasting relationships with high-quality candidates in order to respond to immediate and future business requirements, hiring at the most senior level.
• Build and maintain specialist market knowledge on senior executive salaries, job titles, hiring trends and competitors to ensure attraction and retention of high-quality talent at the appropriate remuneration.
• Monitor market and industry trends to extract insights to drive strategic and innovative sourcing strategies, and support workforce management of the executive group.
• Maintain Success Factors with real time updates relating to individual candidate profiles, with full compliance to administrative systems, processes, and policies, to ensure that all information is accurate, stored correctly and accessible by authorised team members.
• Provide ongoing support to hiring managers in equipping them with skills to apply best practice interview and selection techniques.
• Educate stakeholders and provide expertise, advice and coaching to hiring managers on all talent pipeline and recruitment activity, remuneration and benefits expectations and general market conditions.
• Collaborate with Recruitment Services Team to ensure a seamless, high touch and efficient onboarding experience and candidate communications.
• Work closely with the broader Talent Acquisition team to share market information and trends and to remain informed of wider operational business unit requirements, emerging skill needs and market trends.
• Coach, manage and develop CSOF5 Research Specialist to increase skills, develop relationships within CSIRO and the external candidate and competitor market. Provide performance feedback and training as and when required.

To be considered you will need:

• Demonstrated history leading and supporting executive leadership recruitment and senior talent sourcing strategies.
• Experience in auditing, project management, vendor management, networking and strategy.
• Data driven approach with experience in providing recruitment reports and preparing market analysis and insights.
• Strong customer focus and experience in negotiation and influencing at a senior level.
• Knowledge and experience in managing vendor and supplier relationships, identification of the panel service providers, efficient service delivery and cost management in line with business requirements, sourcing strategies and diversity and niche skill requirements as a TABP in a talent acquisition team, either in house or within outsourced or RPO models
• Collaborative approach to talent acquisition with specific focus on stakeholder and candidate management, communication, business requirements and budget constraints
• Highly organised with high level of attention to detail, ability to manage multiple streams of work
• Superior interpersonal skills, influencing, coaching, systems thinking, communication, negotiation and consultative skills with a broad range of stakeholders, and ability to engage with and win the respect of leaders to successfully influence on key initiatives.
• Evidence of collaborative and agile working that adapts to changing requirements.
• A strong history of communicating and working closely with stakeholders to meet their needs, expectations and building efficient stakeholder engagement in talent initiatives.

Location: All major CSIRO locations considered

Salary: AU$117k – AU$138k plus up to 15.4% superannuation

Tenure: Indefinite

Reference: 90113

For full details about this role please review the Position Description

Eligibility

Applications for this position are open to Australian/New Zealand Citizens, Australian Permanent Residents or you must either hold, or be able to obtain, a valid working visa for the duration of the specified term. Appointment to this role is subject to provision of a national police check and may be subject to other security/medical/character requirements.

Flexible Working Arrangements

We work flexibly at CSIRO, offering a range of options for how, when and where you work.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are working hard to recruit people representing the diversity across our society, and ensure that all our people feel supported to do their best work and feel empowered to let their ideas flourish.

About CSIRO

At CSIRO Australia’s national science agency, we solve the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. We put the safety and wellbeing of our people above all else and earn trust everywhere because we only deal in facts. We collaborate widely and generously and deliver solutions with real impact.

Join us and start creating tomorrow today!

How to Apply

Please apply on-line and provide a cover letter and CV that best demonstrate your motivation and ability to meet the requirements of this role.

Applications Close

13 November 2022, 11:00pm AEDT