Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist – Professional Search & Pipelining

The Role

As Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist – Professional Search & Pipelining, you will lead proactive sourcing strategies for critical roles across the organisation. Partnering closely with hiring managers and business leaders, you will provide trusted advice, market intelligence and high-quality recruitment delivery from initial brief through to offer and onboarding.

You will use modern sourcing tools, data and relationship-based recruitment approaches to identify, engage and nurture talent, helping reduce reliance on external agencies while delivering outstanding candidate and stakeholder experiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead proactive search, market mapping and talent intelligence activity for professional, technical and senior level roles.
• Identify, engage and nurture passive candidates through direct search, headhunting and relationship based recruitment.
• Build and maintain strategic talent pipelines to support current and future workforce requirements.
• Partner with hiring managers and business leaders on role briefs, sourcing strategies, workforce planning and hiring decisions, providing market insights on talent availability, salary benchmarking and competitor activity.
• Manage end-to-end recruitment delivery, from screening and assessment through to interview coordination, offer negotiation and onboarding, while using recruitment technology and data to strengthen internal search capability and reduce agency reliance.

What you will need to succeed

• At least five years’ recruitment experience, with proven capability in direct search, headhunting and engaging passive candidates.
• Demonstrated success recruiting professional, technical and senior-level roles, while building proactive talent pipelines.
• Expert capability in LinkedIn Recruiter, including Boolean search, advanced sourcing and talent mapping.
• Strong end-to-end recruitment experience, supported by confident stakeholder management, influencing and advisory skills.
• Sound knowledge of recruitment technology, data-led decision-making, employment legislation and ethical recruitment practices, with a track record of reducing agency reliance.

Why join Adbri

At Adbri, you'll be part of a collaborative and values-driven organisation where your expertise and ideas are valued. You'll have the opportunity to influence talent strategies, partner with experienced leaders, and make a meaningful impact on the future capability of our business.

If you're passionate about connecting great people with great opportunities and enjoy partnering with leaders to solve talent challenges, we'd love to hear from you.

Our business

Adbri is majority owned by CRH and is a market leader in the manufacture and supply of construction materials and industrial minerals which has been building a better Australia since 1882. Adbri's respected brands employ over 2800 people nationally producing cement, lime, concrete, aggregates, concrete products and industrial minerals. 

About CRH

CRH (NYSE: CRH) is the leading global provider of building materials solutions that build, connect and improve our world. Employing 80,000 people at 4,000 operating locations in 28 countries, CRH has market leadership positions in North America, Europe and Australia. As the essential partner for transportation and critical infrastructure projects, complex non-residential construction and outdoor living solutions, CRH’s unique offering of materials, products and value-added services helps to deliver a more resilient and sustainable built environment. The company is ranked among sector leaders by Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) rating agencies.

For more information visit: www.crh.com

Creating a safe and supportive diverse workforce

Adbri recognises that diversity in our workforce drives innovation, encourages creativity and better equips us to be Always Ready. We are committed to increasing diversity within our workforce and our industry.

Employment in this role may be contingent upon the successful completion of pre‑employment checks, which could include a medical assessment, national police clearance, and reference checks. The specific checks required will vary depending on the nature and location of the position.

We will be progressively short listing - if this role looks like it could be your next role, apply now.

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