Manager Talent & Experience
Manager Talent & Experience
Contract Type:
Permanent
Location:
Industry:
Contact Name:
Kate Vuleta
Contact Email:
katevuleta@attunedtalent.com.au
Contact Phone:
Date Published:
01-Dec-2025
Welcome to your new (work) home
Great Southern Bank (GSB) is a genuinely different organisation. Being customer-owned means the focus is always on people - from reinvesting profits into better value for customers, to supporting communities and ensuring fair, responsible and accessible banking. Their purpose - helping all Australians own their own home
- isn’t just words on a website; it underpins how they lead, work and connect with each other every day.
Culturally, GSB is collaborative, inclusive and forward-thinking. They balance warmth and community connection with innovation and disciplined execution, creating a people-first environment where flexibility, diversity and wellbeing genuinely matter.
The Opportunity - Shape the Future of Talent & Experience
Reporting to the Head of Culture, Leadership & People Experience, this newly created leadership role sits within the People & Culture Division, leading a small team of Talent & Experience Partners across strategic and operational delivery.
You will play a highly visible role shaping how GSB attracts, welcomes and grows its people - strengthening employer brand, uplifting hiring capability and building future-focused talent strategies as the bank continues its enterprise-wide transformation.
Your impact will include:
- Leading Talent & Experience strategy and delivery across the employee lifecycle
- Growing and developing a capable team of Talent & Experience Partners
- Strengthening employer branding and proactive sourcing pipelines
- Partnering with senior leaders to guide confident people decisions
- Elevating candidate experience, onboarding and internal mobility journeys
- Driving simplification through technology, insights, AI and automation
- Managing recruitment and assessment vendors for quality and value outcomes
- Using analytics to assess workforce trends, pipeline health and capability gaps
About You
You bring strong experience across Talent Acquisition, sourcing or recruitment operations, ideally within complex or fast-moving environments. You are comfortable modernising TA functions - combining human-centred thinking with data and technology to create experiences that work for both people and the business.
Your strengths include:
- Proven leadership of end-to-end Talent functions and delivery teams
- Success building pipelines for specialist or hard-to-fill capability
- Experience using systems, analytics and automation to enhance performance
- Confidence partnering with Executives and senior leaders
- A calm, collaborative leadership style that builds trust and simplifies complexity
Why This Role?
This opportunity offers the rare combination of:
- A purpose-led organisation with strong community impact
- A cooperative, customer-owned business model that truly puts people first
- Genuine backing for innovation and modern People practices
- A supportive, inclusive culture that values diversity, flexibility and wellbeing
- Visible scope to influence, shape and grow a function in transformation