Senior Executive Talent Specialist

1 month ago


North Melbourne, Australia Telstra Full time
Employment TypePermanent

Closing Date23 Sept 2023 11:59pm

Job TitleSenior Executive Talent Specialist

Job Summary

Job Description

Telstra is Australia’s leading telecommunications and technology company, offering a full range of communications services and competing in all telecommunications markets. 

In Australia we provide 18.8 million retail mobile services, 3.8 million retail fixed bundles and standalone data services and 960,000 retail fixed standalone voice services.

We believe it’s people who give purpose to our technology. That's why our purpose is 

We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce in all its forms. We encourage applicants from diverse gender, cultural and linguistic backgrounds and applicants who may be living with a disability. We also offer flexibility in all our roles, to ensure everyone can participate. 

The Opportunity

An exciting and rare opportunity exists in Telstra’s Executive Talent, Development & Succession team. Part of the People, Culture and Communications (PC&C) function, the team oversees the talent acquisition requirements and development needs across all Telstra functions. Our focus is to deliver great talent experiences, working with our people leaders to attract and hire the best talent in the market, and supporting our internal talent development needs to ensure we have the right leadership to achieve our T25 ambitions and beyond.

In this diverse and challenging role, the core focus will be collaborating with various stakeholders across Telstra to gain a clear understanding our current and future leadership requirements, our internal talent population, and external talent pools. The role involves executing seamless end-to-end executive searches and guiding our talent along their career journeys within Telstra to help them reach their full potential, ensuring a positive experience for candidates and stakeholders alike.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build strong relationships with business stakeholders to proactively understand their business, how we can add value and act as a trusted advisor. Provide broad consultation and advice on prospective talent market and competitor trends & relevant insights to help inform decisions.

  • Collaborate with executive People Leaders and Business Engagement Leads (BELs) to understand executive talent requirements, strategically source, identify and assess prospective talent through long-and short-listing and offer negotiation.

  • Interview and assess prospective candidates against specific the specific capabilities required for executive roles and write-up high quality candidate reports for shortlist candidates, outlining key strengths, development areas, areas to further probe, etc.

  • Understand the development needs of our existing and potential executive talent population and support their development by helping coordinate, action and evolve executive development programs, tools and initiatives to aid their executive development and readiness.

  • Represent Telstra effectively in the marketplace and present a comprehensive universe of qualified candidates by partnering with People Leaders and BELs, observing the need for confidentiality throughout the search process and providing a high quality of candidate care aligned with Telstra’s Values.

  • Collaborate with other Talent Acquisition delivery teams (particularly Band 1) to discover new ways of working and share sourcing initiatives, driving continuous improvement of innovative recruitment strategies, as well as members of the wider PC&C community (HR and Org Design teams)

  • Ensure Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) is top of mind during all recruitment activities, ensuring we stay committed to delivering gender balanced shortlists, and other agreed recruitment diversity initiatives.

About you


Intellectually curious with a passion for people and naturally able to build rapport, you will showcase your strong interpersonal and project management capabilities. Other desired attributes include:

  • The ability to multitask and manage multiple, competing priorities

  • A proactive ‘can do’ attitude and agility to work at pace but not as the expense of quality.

  • Strategic sourcing to increase market and prospective candidate knowledge (i.e. connecting and sourcing people, not desk research)

  • Resilience: the tenacity to push through, navigate ambiguity to achieve great outcomes

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

  • A collaborative mindset, working with others to achieve and celebrate shared success

If this opportunity sounds like a perfect fit for you, we'd encourage you to apply

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We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce in all its forms. We encourage applicants from diverse gender, cultural and linguistic backgrounds and applicants who may be living with a disability. We also offer flexibility in all our roles, to ensure everyone can participate.

To learn more about how we support our people, including accessibility adjustments we can provide you through the recruitment process, visit for more information.



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