(AUS-Fortitude Valley) Head of Talent Acquisition Operations ANZ

**Company Description**

**At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.**

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

**Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.**

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts – planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers – leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let’s get started.

**Job Description**

The main purpose of this role will be to support the ANZ region to lead a team to bring in amazingly talented people into our business to achieve our strategic and cultural aspirations.

This role will ensure our teams provide best-in-class service, maximizing our new operating model, systems, digital tools, data and processes in alignment with the Global TA strategy. The Talent Acquisition function has been through a large transformation globally over the last 2 years to adapt and enhance how we attract and select candidates in a highly competitive landscape. This role will continue this journey and look to continually improve on our attraction and recruitment offering.

As the Head of Talent Acquisition Operations, ANZ, you will manage the operational backbone of our TA ANZ recruiting process and use of our systems. This role will drive the mechanisms that enable a seamless recruiting process for our candidates, recruiters, and business stakeholders. You will report to the TA Director, International to influence and deliver against global and local strategic goals, driving process efficiency alongside scale. You will also indirectly report to the Director, People and Culture, ANZ to ensure there is full transparency and understanding to all regional activities and that there is a link to our overall regional people strategy.

You will also work collaboratively with the regional and global TA and HR leadership teams to develop and improve Management Informationcapability, at the same time providing reporting consistency across all ANZ business areas.

This role will require a high level of collaboration with key stakeholders and peers. It is essential that this role instils a level of consistency in approach and methodology with best practice methods being always utilised in line with AECOM’s regional and global standards. Above all, this role needs to engage, support and develop a team of passionate, talented and fun TA professionals who will walk over coals to deliver exceptional outcomes.

**Qualifications**

+ Experience in a Talent Lead role within a multinational organisation with a strong focus on people management, operational delivery and excellence.

+ Experience in leading large-scale recruiting functions covering multiple disciplines including both Early Careers and Experienced hiring

+ Customer-oriented with experience working with multiple stakeholders across borders, appreciated the importance of building and maintaining strong relationships with recruiters, hiring managers, business partners and candidates alike.

+ Analytically strong approach to data, reporting and insights which leads to practical solutions and the right decision making.

+ Has previously partnered with senior TA leads to deliver consistent results as a collective team.

+ High appreciation and knowledge of recruitment ATS and HRIS systems and the metrics that are needed to story tell different elements of the recruitment funnel.

+ Values the importance of clean data and can put measures in place to ensure our regional TA teams all work with real time and accurate data.

+ Strong reporting skills with Microsoft Excel and appreciation of understanding MI tools such as Power BI and Tableau

+ Has a real interest in process excellence e.g. Lean Six Sigma and is able to turn this into practical enhancements that complement our systems.

+ Has a passion in refining and validating data, extracting and prioritising key insights and storytelling in a compelling way

+ Champions and promotes ED&I within the business and to the external market, particularly focused on gender, LGBTQIA+, and indigenous representation. This includes a blended approach to Early Careers intakes that covers full representation of the market.

+ Ability to be “hands on” and lead by example. This includes being able to develop successful campaigns, problem solve and be solutions orientated.

+ Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity, problem solve and exercise judgement under time pressure

+ Possess the experience, confidence, and presence to influence and engage internal stakeholders and the external market.

+ Ability to work in the best interests of the business whilst remaining ethical and compliant, leading by example

+ Demonstrated ability to contribute to broader HR agendas.

**Additional Information**

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM! Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.

_AECOM does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or recruitment agencies. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, AECOM explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of AECOM and in the absence of a signed Agreement, AECOM will not consider or agree to payment of any recruitment fee._

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM! Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.

**ReqID:** J10078919

**Business Line:** Geography OH

**Business Group:** DCS

**Strategic Business Unit:** ANZ

**Career Area:** Human Resources