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About the Role
This role is responsible for delivering exceptional hiring outcomes while partnering with leaders to build talent pipelines, succession plans, and workforce capability for the future. You will support a national portfolio of retail stores, attracting, identifying, and securing top talent, while influencing broader workforce planning and talent decisions. The ideal candidate has strong operational recruitment expertise, commercial thinking, and a passion for building scalable talent solutions.
Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end recruitment for retail leadership and store-based roles.
- Deliver high-quality hiring outcomes across large volumes, maintaining speed, quality, and candidate experience.
- Build talent pipelines for peak trading periods, new store openings, and future growth.
- Develop innovative sourcing and attraction strategies.
- Continuously review and improve recruitment advertising, sourcing channels, and candidate engagement.
- Ensure recruitment activity is compliant, consistent, and aligned with best practices.
- Build trusted relationships with Area Managers, Store Managers, and key stakeholders.
- Act as a talent advisor, providing market insights and workforce recommendations.
- Challenge thinking and influence hiring decisions to strengthen business outcomes.
- Identify opportunities to improve hiring capability, recruitment effectiveness, and workforce planning.
- Maintain visibility of current and future workforce requirements.
- Identify talent risks, capability gaps, and succession opportunities.
- Support talent and succession discussions for key operational leadership roles.
- Build proactive talent pipelines for future leadership opportunities.
- Partner with the People Team to address retention risks and workforce challenges.
- Champion internal mobility and career progression.
- Identify high-potential talent and future leaders.
- Support visible career pathways across retail leadership.
- Promote internal development opportunities and succession success stories.
- Coach leaders on effective selection, assessment, and interviewing techniques.
- Ensure recruitment processes, documentation, and governance standards are maintained.
- Use recruitment data and insights to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities.
- Contribute to evolving the Talent Acquisition function into a best-in-class operation.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience managing high-volume recruitment in a fast-paced retail, hospitality, consumer, or multi-site environment.
- Proven capability partnering with operational leaders and influencing hiring decisions.
- Strong experience managing multiple priorities while delivering recruitment outcomes at pace.
- Commercial mindset and ability to understand broader business priorities.
- Experience building talent pipelines and supporting workforce planning activities.
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to identify talent risks and proactively develop solutions.
- Passion for continuous improvement and delivering exceptional candidate experiences.
- Experience working within growth businesses, scale-up environments, or large multi-site organizations is highly regarded.
- Consent to a Work Rights check.
Skills
- Recruitment
- Talent Acquisition
- Workforce Planning
- Talent Pipelines
- Succession Planning
- Stakeholder Management
- Relationship Building
- Commercial Acumen
- Sourcing Strategies
- Candidate Experience
- Data Analysis
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Experienced
Benefits
- Birthday Leave
- Paid Parental Leave
- Generous discounts across JD Sports and partner brands
- Employee Assistance Program
- Wellbeing initiatives
- Monthly culture events
- Team celebrations
- Pre-payday lunches
About the Company
- Known as the 'Undisputed King of Trainers', JD Sports is a global Sports Fashion brand.
- Founded in 1981 in Greater Manchester, UK, JD Group has grown significantly through global expansion.
- JD Sports is one of the world's leading sports fashion retailers with over 3,400 stores worldwide.
- The company has more than 70 stores across Australia and New Zealand.
- JD Sports inspires the emerging generation through the culture of Sport, Music, and Fashion.
- The company is experiencing significant growth across Australia and New Zealand.
Equal Opportunity
- JD values diversity and inclusion and champions a culture where everyone feels valued, included and celebrated.