Talent Acquisition Business Partner

Primary Details

Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

As a Talent Acquisition Business Partner you will lead a small team and provide talent acquisition expertise throughout the full life-cycle recruitment process. This will include providing proactive internal and external recruitment strategies and best in class experience, enabling the appointment of talented individuals who meet QBE's current and future talent needs.

Your part in a changing world

At QBE, our purpose is to enable a more resilient future.

We're an international insurer and reinsurer with a local presence in 27 countries.

Leveraging our deep expertise and insights, QBE offers commercial, personal and specialty products and risk management solutions to help people and businesses manage risks, build strength and embrace change to their advantage.

We've been cultivating resilience since 1886, when our founders started a marine insurance company in Townsville, Australia to give early pioneers a safeguard against uncertainty.

Today, we employ more than 11,600 people around the world, and our product portfolio includes property, motor, crop, energy, marine and aviation insurance.

The opportunity

Do you enjoy project focused recruitment, combining the planning, reporting and execution elements of project delivery? We are seeking to recruit a Talent Acquisition Business Partner to join us on a 12 month fixed term contract where you will lead a small team responsible for the design and delivery of high volume recruitment. As a Talent Acquisition Business Partner, you will partner with hiring managers and other key stakeholders to provide talent acquisition expertise, including:

- Leading and managing 1 direct report
- Engaging with the business to understand strategic objectives, team culture and capability expectations
- Ongoing reporting and process improvements
- Supporting diversity and inclusion initiatives to ensure we attract talented people from the breadth of the communities in which we operate

Your story so far

With proven recruitment experience ideally from within a complex organisation, you will have a passion for implementing best practice talent acquisition methodologies including talent attraction, mapping, networking, pooling, assessment and selection. In addition, you will have:

- The ability to establish a high degree of trust and credibility with stakeholders
- A motivational, inspirational and enthusiastic approach to teamwork
- The ability to think creatively and innovatively whilst effectively prioritising competing priorities

We are here to support you

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As an QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

- 'Hybrid Working' - a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
- Our 'At My Best' wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
- 12 weeks' gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super
- The ability to maximise retirement savings through voluntary super contributions and company matching
- Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums
- Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners

We value our employee's experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:

- 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice
- 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbeing at the Australian HR Awards
- Gold Employer status for 2019 & 2020 Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) - the definitive national benchmark on LGBTI workplace inclusion
- Ranked 6th place in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2021 as voted by graduates
- Top 20 Workplaces for Dads in 2019 and 2020 (HBF Direct Advice for Dads)

Join us.

QBE recognise the value of diverse perspectives and experience. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected for who they are. If we can provide support with access requirements, alternative work arrangements or you would like to connect with one of our networks please contact us at

How to Apply:
Equal Employment Opportunity:
QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.