Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

Are you ready to be a big part of something big? 

At carsales, we’re all about making buying and selling a great experience. For 29 years we’ve been evolving with the new economy to help people choose how they move today and tomorrow.

When it comes to your career, we want to provide big opportunities to help you make a big impact. But for this to be possible, we strive to feel small. Small enough to quickly change tack, small enough to learn from different departments and small enough to connect authentically with leadership. 

With a vision to be the global leader in online vehicle marketplaces. We transform how people buy and sell across the globe. We discover new ideas and make them happen. We continue to grow, and we continue to evolve – and we aren’t afraid to make big bets.

If you’re passionate about connecting top talent with exciting opportunities, this role could be the perfect fit. You’ll partner across our entire business to recruit for a diverse range of roles – from Technology, Product, and Data to Marketing, Sales/Account Management, Media, and our Corporate Functions.

You will have capacity to lead process improvements and efficiencies within our ATS, SmartRecruiters, ensuring a seamless candidate experience. Leverage sourcing tools like LinkedIn Recruiter and market insights to focus on high-value activities and meaningful candidate engagement.

As part of our People team, you’ll help attract, retain, and engage exceptional talent.

What’s on offer: 

• A place where you can move your career forward, where you’ll be continuously backed to make new ideas happen, and the chance to do work that makes real, significant impact in the world. 
• We’re proud to be recognised as one of Australia’s Best Workplaces™ by Great Place to Work®, a Family Friendly Workplace and a WORK180 endorsed employer for women.
• The support of a highly engaged, high-performing team including a leadership team that you’ll actually have face time with. 
• 24 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers, four weeks paid secondary caregivers leave and paid family & fertility planning leave.

What you’ll do: 

• Manage the end-to-end recruitment experience across carsales and its subsidiaries, delivering exceptional candidate and hiring manager experiences.
• Develop and support solutions such as attraction events and manager coaching workshops that support in delivering top talent across carsales.
• Manage cyclical talent events such as graduate and early careers recruitment programs.
• Focus on initiatives that deliver high employee engagement, diversity and quality of hire and retention. This includes engaging talent via a range of avenues including outreach, referrals, applications, market mapping and everything in between.
• Work with top tier technology such as SmartRecruiters and HiBob and sourcing tools like LinkedIn Recruiter, consistently discovering how technology can support how we recruit.
• Provide regular reporting, sharing trends and insights from candidate and competitor knowledge to ensure we remain an employer of choice for the best talent.
• Collaborate and connect with Hiring Managers to build capability to attract and engage talent directly via regular coaching and workshops.
• Partner with the broader People and Culture team and contribute to business projects and initiatives as required.

What we are looking for

• Expertise in identifying, engaging, and attracting top talent in a competitive environment, across a variety of roles, with quality of hire and employee engagement always a priority. Experience recruiting technical roles is highly desirable.
• In-house recruitment experience and ability to thrive in a fast-paced and energised People and Culture environment.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills with demonstrated experience working directly with Hiring Managers from role brief to offer.
• Hands-on  Applicant Tracking System (ATS) management experience. SmartRecruiters preferred, but not essential.
• Motivation to learn from a broad range of diverse people within carsales and expertise within the People and Culture team.
• Flexibility and self-motivation to consistently maintain momentum.
• Hosting and engagement skills to lead attraction events.

A few other things we want to let you know about...

• carsales is an equal opportunity employer and we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage everyone of all ages, genders and backgrounds to apply. If you’re a candidate with a disability or you’ll need some adjustments to be at your best, let us know how we can provide you with additional support. 
• We know how important keeping that balance between work/life is and have a range of flexible working options on offer, including part time work. We are open to this conversation during our recruitment process - if you want to know more just ask. 
• We are a proud Circle Back Initiative Employer which means we are committed to responding to every job applicant. 
• Successful candidates joining the carsales family are required to undergo a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights on an ongoing basis. 

So come and join our team - because every role is a big role in our plans to go big.