Talent Acquisition Partner

About the team

At Wesfarmers Corporate Office, we believe that building a team of outstanding people and utilising their individual talents is essential to achieving sustainable success.

To attract and retain outstanding people we strive to create an environment where team members can continually grow, thrive and connect. Our HR team helps to bring this to life by partnering with leaders and team members on a broad range of people and culture activities and initiatives.

What you’ll do

The Talent Acquisition Partner is responsible for identifying, attracting, and hiring top talent to support the Wesfarmers Corporate Office (including OneDigital) business objectives. This role partners closely with hiring managers, HR, and business leaders to deliver a best-in-class recruitment experience, ensuring the acquisition of high-quality candidates across all disciplines; with a strong focus on technology. 

If you love building strong relationships and creating an amazing candidate experience, this role is for you.

Key responsibilities include:

• Partner with hiring managers through the recruitment process including defining process and agreeing timelines; ensuring the manager is aware of their responsibilities; providing advice on recruitment best practice, market trends, sourcing strategies; facilitating manager training if required and implement initiatives to continuously improve.
• Professionally manage candidates through the recruitment process including explaining the recruitment process; interview preparation; interviewing and provision of feedback at agreed intervals.
• Develop sourcing strategies by using a variety of appropriate channels including web-based and direct sourcing, including niche and senior roles.
• Negotiate offers and compensation packages, whilst ensuring that all processes are followed in line with the agreed methodology.
• Manage agency delivery or candidates for recruitment assignments.
• Understand all aspects of the applicant tracking system and assist with the maintenance of the ATS to ensure maximum usage and efficiency gains.
• Introduce creative sourcing strategies (e.g., talent communities, social campaigns, referral programmes) to reduce reliance on agencies.

What you’ll need

• Experience in sourcing talent across disciplines with a strong focus on data and digital.
• Experience managing senior-level stakeholders and candidates and recruiting for senior roles and the ability to work autonomously.
• Track record of implementing best practice talent sourcing and acquisition processes and methodologies.
• Successfully used a variety of sourcing methods and activities to build talent pipelines with the right candidates.
• Outstanding communication skills to ensure we are able to effectively present the opportunity that is on offer.
• Passionate about people; building and nurturing relationships and aligning great talent with exciting opportunities.
• Comfortable prioritising and executing within a fast-paced and evolving environment.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Great interpersonal skills including an ability to develop key relationships. 

About Wesfarmers

As one of Australia’s largest listed companies, we’re proud of our longstanding contribution to Australians. We continually reinvent ourselves and invest in the businesses we own and operate, including leading retailers like Bunnings, Kmart, Target, Officeworks and Priceline. We also have an online offering, including OnePass and the Group shared data asset. Our work doesn’t stop there, we operate in the industrials sector which supplies the nation with chemicals, energy and fertilisers, and industrial and safety products. And we participate in an integrated lithium joint venture, including the operation of a mine and concentrator and the development of a refinery.

Join the team at Corporate Office which provides support and advice across the Wesfarmers Group.

The Corporate Office provides corporate services and support to the autonomous businesses within the Wesfarmers Group, enabling the achievement of Group objectives. It leads capital allocation and portfolio management for the Group and focuses on leveraging and enhancing the Group’s reputation to support attraction and retention of talent, securing investment opportunities and maintaining a low-cost capital. To do this, we need great people, working together and role modelling our values and ways of working.

Our culture

We’re results focused, but we’re a business that cares. Here we are less about titles and more about everyone playing a valuable role. We provide autonomy and space with freedom to operate, quickly learning from mistakes because we know they are part of the way forward. We’re curious, open minded, and collaborative. And although we’re thought leaders, we’re humble, and willing to share knowledge and learn from one another.

We know that diversity fosters greater innovation and better customer connection, so we strive to create an inclusive and diverse work environment.

Next steps

If this sounds like your next career move, click on the ‘Apply’ button by Friday, 13 February 2025. Please note that we may commence interviewing of candidates prior to this closing date.

We’re hiring the best and the brightest talent. Let’s start to explore the possibilities of achieving great things together.

For more information, visit our website at www.wesfarmers.com.au.