Senior Advisor, Recruitment & People

Placed.au is looking for a full-time Senior Advisor, Recruitment & People for our client in Bentleigh, Victoria. This role is responsible for supporting recruitment and talent acquisition, employee onboarding and offboarding, workforce strategy, HR-related projects, and employee experience initiatives. The position provides specialist advice across the organisation while contributing to continuous improvement, capability development, and a positive workplace culture.

Job Description

• Manage the end-to-end recruitment and talent acquisition lifecycle using best-practice recruitment processes and sound judgement.
• Maintain strong knowledge of the industry and connect with relevant talent to ensure the organisation remains competitive in the candidate market.
• Develop and maintain talent pools for current, future, and upcoming vacancies.
• Conduct recruitment briefings with Hiring Managers and manage job advertisements and candidate lifecycles through online recruitment platforms.
• Manage candidates, including phone screening, shortlisting, responding to candidate enquiries, and providing timely application updates.
• Liaise with external recruitment agencies where appropriate to support external placements or locum requirements.
• Assist with workforce strategy, HR management projects, and process improvement initiatives.
• Champion the new employee experience by coordinating onboarding activities, including starter requests, employment contracts, contract variations, and other people-related requirements.
• Organise pre-employment checks, including police checks, Working with Children Checks, professional registrations, and qualification verification.
• Accurately onboard new employees through HRIS and learning management systems, including processing employment conditions and reporting-line changes.
• Contact new starters at commencement to support their orientation and ensure their personnel information is accurate and up to date.
• Process offboarding requests accurately and promptly, reviewing results and translating them into actionable outcomes.
• Respond to employee and manager enquiries and refer matters to relevant parties where required.
• Support equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives and help safeguard people against discriminatory or stigmatising behaviour.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to people leaders to enhance HR capability and promote continuous improvement.
• Work collaboratively with internal teams, managers, employees, recruitment providers, HR vendors, and other external stakeholders.

Qualifications / Attributes

• Must hold a Bachelor's degree in Human Resources Management, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• Must possess at least five (5) years of relevant work experience in recruitment, talent acquisition, HR, or a related field.
• Proven experience operating within large and complex working environments, particularly in recruitment and talent acquisition.
• Advanced computer literacy skills, particularly with recruitment management platforms and HRIS.
• Strong knowledge of recruitment processes, candidate management, onboarding, employee lifecycle activities, and HR practices.
• Demonstrated ability to develop innovative sourcing strategies and support workforce planning aligned with organisational goals.
• Ability to meet and exceed recruitment targets and KPIs while contributing to team capability and continuous improvement.
• Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to provide specialist advice across various levels of an organisation.
• Ability to coach and mentor people leaders to enhance their capability in HR practices.
• Prior experience working with HRIS platforms such as Employment Hero, ELMO, or equivalent systems is desirable.
• Strong commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, respectful workplace practices, and continuous professional development.

Salary Range

$100,000 – $120,000 per annum excluding superannuation.