Executive Recruiter (Fixed Term - 12 Months)

Executive Recruiter - Fixed Term (12 Months)

Our Purpose
At Xero, weʼre here to make running a business beautiful. By making small business more efficient every day, connecting them with big business technology and empowering a community behind them, their potential is limitless. When that happens, weʼre not only helping small business, weʼll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

How youʼll make an impact
The Senior Talent Specialist plays an integral role across Xero, and Xeroʼs Talent Experience (TX) team. This role will deliver Executive sourcing plans and hands on hiring support. You will be a regional contact for Executive talent, working closely with the Head of Executive Recruiting for Executive Talent. This role will work effectively within a global matrix, and leverage support across and within TX portfolios (as required) to deliver, and concierge #beautiful experiences for Xero leaders, colleagues and candidates.

What youʼll do
This role will combine high touch partnership with Xero leaders, vendors and colleagues to deliver Executive sourcing plans and hands on hiring support. You will be a regional contact for Executive hiring, and deliver a wide range of hands-on recruitment tasks, such as proactively sourcing and selecting quality, diverse talent, phone screening candidates, scheduling interviews, reference checking, responding to candidate and hiring manager queries, along with any other planning and recruitment activity required to deliver #beautiful experiences, and Xero as an employer of choice. The Senior Talent Specialist will deliver proactive and customer centric recruitment support, establish long term relationships, use data and insights to inform hiring plans, and ensure alignment with hiring processes and best practice.

Success looks like

• Effective sourcing and selection of quality, diverse talent for Executive hires

• Proactively strengthening quality, diverse passive talent pipelines for this portfolio

• Delivering #beautiful experiences for Executive and professional talent

• Strengthening Xero brand as an employer of choice for professional talent globally

• Providing exceptional support and advice for Xero leaders, colleagues and candidates

• Leveraging Talent Experience systems, processes, platforms and standards

• Maintaining effective databases and leveraging merit based hiring practice

• Assist with any additional projects as required

What youʼll bring with you

• The ability to network, influence and build sustainable relationships

• Ability to engage, and source active and passive talent

• Excellent organisation, and time management skills

• Commercial acumen, judgement and confidentiality

• Proactive communication, planning and ability to multi-task

• Track record of effective sourcing and selection, of Executive and professional service talent

• Has developed a sustainable network of professional service and Executive talent (region/global)

• Knowledge of recruitment technologies and sourcing platforms

• Experience working with external vendors to deliver recruitment outcomes

• Relevant Bachelor Degree