Executive Search And Talent Specialist

The opportunity:

We’re on the lookout for an Executive Search and Talent Specialist to join Bupa on a fixed-term contract until January 2025. If you’re ready to make an impact and help shape our future, we want to hear from you!

The Executive Search and Talent Specialist will proactively identify and source candidates for executive and senior level roles across the organisation. This will include market mapping for critical roles within the executive and senior leader cohort across APAC, using several sourcing techniques to identify and qualify candidates and building and nurturing talent pools for critical roles.

To be successful in this role, you will be commercially astute and have strong experience in Executive Search and engaging at an executive level.

This is a fixed-term contract until January 2025, and you can be based in Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane with hybrid work arrangements available. We are also open to this role being part-time (3-4 days per week).

How will I help?

Key accountabilities include:

• Working with leaders at the executive and senior level to identify candidates
• Building strong relationships with executive stakeholders, working as a business partner and trusted advisor on senior level talent identification.
• Identifying effective strategies to source candidates for these roles
• Using technical expertise to source passive candidates with a variety of techniques and tools, and mapping local markets to determine where the best talent is in the market
• Maintaining knowledge of internal talent pools and build relationships with key internal talent.
• Identifying suitable potential candidates from other areas of Bupa to meet business needs and to promote internal mobility and people development.
• Developing and maintaining an internal and external pipeline of candidates for key roles and capabilities.

Why work at Bupa?

We keep our people smiling by helping them improve their lives in and outside of the office.

We’re a welcoming lot, no matter who you are or where you’ve come from. We welcome all talents and backgrounds and embrace our differences, so you can bring your true self to work.

We support our people to be the best version of themselves, physically and mentally. With a healthy work/life balance, leadership support, reduced private health cover, volunteering options and a commitment to promoting from within.

Our employees can access wide range of benefits: from our own products (incl. health insurance subsidies) to many other products and services via our partnerships program (like Apple, Samsung, JB Hi-Fi, plus gym and spa discounts to name a few). We reward our people and celebrate their success, provide initiatives that develop careers and look after our people’s health, wellbeing, and futures.

What do I need?

To be successful in this role you will have a proven track record in Executive Search and Talent engagement gained from a combination of inhouse executive recruitment and Executive Search firm experience. You will have extensive experience in talent mapping, head hunting, search analytics and industry related research, leading full end-to-end Executive Search processes.  

You have excellent written and verbal communication skills, collaborating well within a small independent team. Your knowledge of leadership assessments, psychometrics and Talent development as well as exposure to OD portfolios will be extremely beneficial. You have high levels of integrity and professionalism, able to maintain very tight levels of confidentiality.

Your ability to build relationships, and your high level of credibility has enabled you to become a trusted advisor at a senior level. This will be essential to your success in this role. You’re able when necessary to work autonomously and independently, running a robust talent attraction process with a can-do, flexible attitude, happy to dive in and make things happen.

About Bupa Asia Pacific:

Bupa is an international healthcare group which has been committed to a purpose of helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world for more than 70 years.

Bupa Asia Pacific operates in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong, supporting about 6.5 million customers through a broad range of health and care services including health insurance, aged care, dental, medical, optical and hearing services. Employing more than 20,000 people in the region, we believe that we can make a real difference to the lives of customers through our values, purpose and the way that we deliver personalised care.

Our people reflect the diversity of our community.  At Bupa, your wellbeing, identity and own story is respected and valued.