Senior Talent Advisor - Executive Recruitment

Senior Talent Advisor - Executive Recruitment

Melbourne, Sydney, or Brisbane location | National Scope

At CIMIC Group, we're shaping the future of infrastructure, engineering, construction, resources and services across Australia and internationally. With more than 30,000 employees and a portfolio of iconic projects delivered through businesses including CPB Contractors, UGL, Thiess, Sedgman and Pacific Partnerships, we're looking for an experienced talent acquisition professional to help secure the leaders who will drive our future success. 

We are seeking a Senior Talent Advisor - Executive & Strategic Recruitment to lead the attraction, engagement and hiring of senior leaders across the Group. This role will focus primarily on General Manager, Executive General Manager and executive-level appointments, while also supporting selected strategic appointments critical to business growth and project delivery. 

Working closely with senior operational leaders, People & Culture teams and executive stakeholders, you will provide expert market intelligence, talent mapping, succession insights and strategic recruitment advice across a diverse national portfolio. 

About the Role

Reporting to the Principal Advisor, Workforce Planning, you will act as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders and lead end-to-end recruitment strategies for senior leadership and business-critical positions. 

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing executive and senior leadership recruitment assignments across CIMIC Group businesses.
• Partnering with General Managers, Executive General Managers and senior stakeholders to develop sourcing and attraction strategies.
• Conducting market mapping, competitor analysis and talent intelligence activities.
• Building and maintaining pipelines of executive and senior leadership talent.
• Identifying and engaging passive candidates through targeted search methodologies.
• Providing labour market insights, talent trends and workforce intelligence to business leaders.
• Supporting succession planning initiatives through talent identification and leadership benchmarking.
• Managing executive search partners and recruitment suppliers where specialist support is required.
• Delivering exceptional candidate and stakeholder experiences while managing highly confidential appointments.

• Partnering with Workforce Planning, Learning & Development and HR teams to understand internal capability and inform strategic hiring decisions. 

About You

You are an experienced executive recruiter or senior talent acquisition professional who enjoys partnering with business leaders on complex and commercially significant appointments.

You'll bring:

• Extensive experience recruiting senior leaders, executives or business-critical roles.
• A strong background in executive search, strategic sourcing or talent acquisition.
• Experience operating in complex and competitive sectors such as construction, engineering, infrastructure, resources, energy or related industries.
• Advanced candidate sourcing, talent mapping and market research capability.
• Experience partnering directly with executive stakeholders and senior business leaders.
• Strong commercial acumen and the ability to influence hiring decisions at a senior level.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, communication and negotiation skills.
• Experience managing external search firms and strategic recruitment partners.
• High levels of professionalism, discretion and confidentiality.
• Strong capability across LinkedIn Recruiter, ATS platforms and modern recruitment technologies.

• Tertiary qualifications in Human Resources, Business, Psychology or a related discipline are advantageous but not essential. 

Why Join CIMIC?

• Opportunity to influence executive and strategic hiring across one of Australia's largest infrastructure and engineering groups.
• Exposure to senior leaders across multiple operating companies.
• Contribute to succession planning and long-term leadership capability strategies.
• Work within a collaborative, high-performing People & Culture team.
• Build relationships across Australia and internationally.

• Play a key role in shaping the future leadership pipeline of the Group.

If you're passionate about executive search, talent intelligence and partnering with leaders to secure exceptional talent, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply now and help shape the leadership capability that will drive CIMIC Group's future success.