As a Recruitment Team Lead, you will bring strong stakeholder engagement skills, a passion for talent acquisition, and a deep understanding of hiring within the banking and financial services sector.
In this role, you will lead recruitment delivery across a broad range of portfolios, including senior and revenue-generating roles, while acting as a key point of contact for hiring managers and functional recruiters. You will provide strategic recruitment support, guide process management, and deliver insights that align with business objectives.
As a team lead, you will also help drive operational excellence—mentoring recruiters, leading process improvements, and ensuring consistent and high-quality recruitment outcomes across the portfolio.
What you will be doing:
- Ownership of end-to-end recruitment across Australia including oversight for functional recruitment and first escalation point for any functional recruitment queries
- Operational relationship manager of P&C community and key point of escalation for Hiring Managers
- Responsible for managing a portfolio of revenue roles, and senior director roles
- Provide regular reporting to business and P&C on both an ad hoc and scheduled basis e.g. open roles reporting, new starters, business reviews and ad hoc requests
- Ownership for facilitating and maintaining regular P&C meeting schedule and agenda
- Attendance at regular COO and Business Management meetings
- As the subject matter expert, ensure functionally aligned recruiters understand the business culture through the sharing business story/updates, processes and nuances. Through ongoing education of existing team members and the induction of new team members.
- Proactively engage functional recruiters to support process management including reviewing all offer approvals prior to submission to the P&C Teams for review and approval
- Supporting aligned recruiters with remuneration and reward queries and challenges Conducting Mid Process ‘quality’ Check Ins across working with the Recruitment Leads where required (in consultation with the FO Lead)
- Attending job briefing meetings with aligned recruiters where required, ensuring that all roles with senior hiring managers are attended to ensure consistency of service
- Collate and escalate feedback and challenges of the recruitment process to the correct point of contacts. Ie: Avature system issues to the Avature Project Team
- Maintain Recruitment SharePoint with the support of the operations teams
- Sharing ‘in the moment’ market insights across the business
About You:
- Confidence in engaging with senior business leaders and HR stakeholders, providing strategic recruitment advice and acting as the first point of escalation for recruitment queries.
- Proven experience managing end-to-end recruitment for senior and director-level roles, ideally within banking, financial services, or similarly complex environments.
- Strong ability to manage recruitment governance, reporting, and process improvement initiatives while driving consistency and best practice across recruitment delivery.
- You enjoy coaching and supporting recruiters, sharing knowledge, and ensuring alignment across teams through education, feedback, and ongoing communication.
- You’re comfortable navigating competing priorities in a dynamic environment, with a proactive approach to identifying solutions, sharing market insights, and supporting evolving business needs.
A little bit about us:
At Hudson RPO, we’re shaping the future of talent. From recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) to employer branding and across the complete talent life-cycle, we thrive in delivering world-class customer and candidate experiences. People are at the center of everything we do. We deliver innovative, customized recruitment services and talent solutions to organizations worldwide. We’re an innovative and diverse team that works hard and thinks smart. Led by accomplished and inclusive leaders, our people are always open to trying new things to continuously bring excellence to our client solutions.
At Hudson RPO, we don’t just accept difference – we celebrate it, support it, and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our clients, and our community. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and commit to fairness and equality for all during the hiring process and once you are onboard. We encourage an environment where everyone’s voice is heard and valued and where you can bring your whole self to work.
