Pet Circle Hiring for Talent Acquisition Lead Job at Sydney Full Time

Talent Acquisition Lead

About Us

At Pet Circle, we want to create a world where pets and their families are healthy, happy and spend more time together. Over the past ten years, we’ve scaled to become one of Australia’s Top 5 eCommerce companies, the No.1 player in the Online Pet industry and with intentions of becoming the best Pet Company in the world. We will accelerate our growth as we continue on our mission to disrupt the way that pet parents discover and shop for the products they love.

The pet industry is booming (it’s a $15billion dollar industry!) and pets are holding bigger spaces in our hearts and homes than ever before. Online penetration of the pet industry is going to grow exponentially in the next 5 years. This is a unique opportunity in your career to be part of our exceptional growth story!

Founded and headquartered in Sydney, our team is now 450 people strong and are based across Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a driven, passionate leader to drive best in class attraction, acquisition and onboarding of new talent to enable our growth. You will be constantly challenging how we do things and looking to continuously improve our recruitment and people processes to ensure we are well positioned to scale.

Your Responsibilities

Team Leadership

• Coach, mentor and develop our talented team of Talent Acquisition professionals (currently 3 but growing as we speak).
• Empowering and enabling our team to perform at their best;
• You’ll be passionate about making an impact and delivering outcomes quickly without compromising on quality. You’ll enable your team by removing roadblocks, thinking fast on your feet, embracing problems and sharing your tricks of the trade.
• Refine recruitment goals (KPIs) and lead our team of Talent Acquisition Specialists to exceed hiring benchmarks around time to hire, retention and performance of hires and candidate experience.

Workforce Planning and Talent Pipelining

• Support our Executive Leadership team with workforce planning and the creation of robust Talent Plans which will enable our teams to achieve our ambitious strategic objectives. Partnering with our Head of People you will bring the right amount of rigour to our processes and ensure all talents plans are calibrated cross functionally.
• Embed a culture of pipelining and proactive recruitment within the team, providing the relevant context and frameworks to achieve this
• Work with Hiring Managers across the business to develop comprehensive job descriptions, candidate briefs and best in class interview frameworks
• Oversee the maintenance of relevant salary benchmarking reports to ensure we have our finger on the pulse and remain competitive in the talent market

Recruitment and Onboarding

• Champion our diversity strategy through implementing recruitment initiatives that enable us to attract and retain top talent that contributes diverse perspectives across our business.
• Innovate our hiring practices by using new methods or channels and implement a highly data-driven approach to optimise. The aim is to create world class recruitment processes that are scalable
• Proactively headhunt and champion the sourcing for Senior Leadership and strategic roles.
• Partner with our Head of P&C and CFO to align compensation to our talent strategy and remuneration philosophies.
• Empower our team to build solid talent pipelines by identifying the best pools of talent, connecting with relevant communities, proactive reach outs and attending events / meetups
• Reimagine our onboarding experience – Supported by our L&D Specialist, design the onboarding and development pathway for new hires in first 6 months to ensure our talent thrives from day 1.

Employer Branding and Value Proposition

• Develop our employer branding strategies and continuously refine our EVP as our business evolves to attract the best talent in the market.
• Think outside the box when it comes to how we showcase our employer brand and EVP.
• Stay well abreast of trends, challenges and opportunities in the talent market to position Pet Circle as an attractive employer

Your Ideal Experience

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  Passionate people leader: you have previously led a TA function of at least 5 and you’re motivated by seeing your team achieve great things. You see the value in investing time to coach, mentor and give feedback to your team. Radical candor is in our DNA!
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  Excellent at managing upwards you will thrive in an environment where you are truly empowered and will be exceptional at anticipating needs, thinking two steps ahead and owning the outcomes of your function
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  Recruitment specialist: you not only know what best practice looks like but you have implemented world class recruitment processes, in a hyper growth business.
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  Generalist recruitment experience: ideally you will have recruited across a variety of functions including Technology, Product, Marketing, Strategy, Supply Chain and Contact Centres / Customer Support. Where you don’t have this specific experience, you’ll be adept at learning quickly
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  System savvy: you are very quick to learn new systems and tools (e.g. ATS platforms, LinkedIn and candidate databases, HR software) and continuously strive to automate and improve the recruitment process
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  Problem solver and comfortable in a fast, changing environment: you will bring a creative approach to sourcing for candidate-short roles and you will have worked creatively across LinkedIn, industry-specific job boards, referral networks or events to source top talent
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  Learning mindset: while you’re an expert in your field, you’ll have a learning mindset and be willing to challenge yourself and how you may have operated before
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  Humble, practical, can-do attitude: you are not afraid to roll up your sleeves to support the People & Culture team and the wider business with ad hoc projects
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  Naturally energetic and enthusiastic: you inspire and motivate those around you