Recruitment Partner

Are you a seasoned recruiter who thrives on finding hard-to-find talent and influencing senior stakeholders?

We are partnering with a large, complex organisation seeking an experienced Recruitment Partner to join their Christchurch-based People & Culture team. This is a high-impact role where you'll play a key part in building talent pipelines and delivering exceptional hiring outcomes across a broad portfolio of business-critical positions.

About the Role
You will manage end-to-end recruitment across a diverse range of functions and seniority levels, partnering closely with hiring leaders to identify, attract and secure exceptional talent. You'll be involved in everything from proactive sourcing through to offer management, onboarding, process improvement and employer branding initiatives.

What You Will Be Doing

• Deliver full-cycle recruitment across a wide range of professional, technical and operational roles.
• Partner with hiring managers to define requirements and develop effective sourcing strategies.
• Build and maintain talent pipelines for difficult-to-fill and business-critical positions.
• Direct source high-calibre candidates through networking, market mapping and talent engagement activities.
• Manage candidate experience from first contact through onboarding.
• Support employer value proposition (EVP) and employer branding initiatives.
• Contribute to recruitment system improvements, process optimisation and continuous improvement projects.
• Analyse recruitment data and insights to improve hiring outcomes and efficiency.

What We Are Looking For
You are an experienced recruiter who has worked in fast-paced environments and understands the realities of complex talent acquisition.
You'll bring:

• Proven recruitment or talent acquisition experience.
• Proven success recruiting across multiple disciplines and seniority levels.
• Strong capability in proactive sourcing and executive-level candidate engagement.
• Experience managing challenging, hard-to-fill recruitment assignments.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Strong systems and process mindset, including ATS experience.
• A resilient, positive and solutions-focused approach.
• The ability to juggle competing priorities while maintaining a high standard of candidate and stakeholder care.

Why Apply?
This is an opportunity to join a collaborative People & Culture team where recruitment is viewed as a strategic function, not just a transactional service.  If you're a resilient recruiter who enjoys finding the "unfindable" candidate and wants to make a meaningful impact, we would love to hear from you.

To apply for this position, please visitwww.h2r.co.nzand refer to reference 1133403. For further information, please contact Gemma Forrest on [09 368 7300](tel:09 368 7300). All applications will be acknowledged by email.