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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Hybrid
About Fitness & Lifestyle Group
Fitness & Lifestyle Group (FLG) is Asia Pacific's largest group of corporately owned health and wellness clubs — 310+ locations, 600,000+ members, and five of the region's most recognised fitness brands: Fitness First Australia, Goodlife Health Clubs, Jetts Fitness, Zap Fitness and Barry's.
We're headquartered in Australia with regional offices across South East Asia, and we're on a mission to help our global community live stronger, happier lives.
The Opportunity
Great recruitment starts with a great candidate experience.
In the newly created role of State Talent Acquisition Specialist (looking after club operations vacancies for Goodlife Health Clubs, Queensland), you will play a key role in ensuring our Club Managers have access to the talent they need to deliver exceptional experiences for our members, as we centralise our recruitment processes.
You will own the end-to-end recruitment process for club-based roles across your state, partnering closely with Regional Managers, Club Managers and other operational leaders to attract, assess and secure great talent. This is a high-volume, hands-on recruitment role where you will manage multiple vacancies at once while maintaining a consistent, efficient and engaging experience for every candidate.
You will bring structure, pace and process excellence to club recruitment, from advertising and screening through to interviews, offers and pre-employment checks. You will also build talent pipelines for future workforce needs and support the development and delivery of group recruitment and assessment activities alongside the Talent Acquisition Lead.
As a trusted recruitment partner to our operational teams, you will use recruitment insights, market feedback and candidate experience data to identify opportunities to improve how we attract and hire talent. Your work will directly contribute to strengthening our employer brand, improving speed to hire and ensuring our clubs can continue to deliver exceptional member experiences.
There is an element of travel required across the Greater Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast areas required within this role.
Key Responsibilities
Own the end-to-end recruitment process for club-based roles, ensuring a consistent, efficient and positive experience for candidates and hiring managers.
Partner with Regional Managers, Club Managers and operational leaders to understand workforce needs and provide effective recruitment solutions.
Manage candidate attraction activities, including job advertising, sourcing and talent pipeline initiatives across relevant channels, including Seek.
Review applications, shortlist candidates and conduct phone screens to assess suitability against role requirements.
Coordinate interviews and manage candidate progression, feedback, offers and rejection processes in a timely and professional manner.
Build and maintain talent pools to support current and future vacancies and improve speed to hire.
Support the Talent Acquisition Lead to develop and deliver group recruitment sessions, assessment activities and other high-volume hiring initiatives.
Manage pre-employment processes, including reference checks, background checks and progression through recruitment stages.
Provide recruitment insights and guidance to hiring managers, using data and market feedback to identify trends and improve hiring outcomes.
Champion recruitment best practice, process improvement and employer brand, ensuring every candidate interaction reflects our values and delivers a positive experience.
About You
You are an organised, people-focused recruiter who enjoys working at pace and making things happen. You thrive in a high-volume environment where priorities can change quickly and are comfortable managing multiple vacancies while maintaining attention to detail and quality.
You build trust easily with operational leaders and candidates and know how to balance being supportive with keeping recruitment processes moving. You are proactive, resilient and solutions-focused, with a genuine interest in improving how we attract and secure great talent. You take ownership, communicate clearly and are motivated by seeing the direct impact of great recruitment on our clubs and our people.
Key Experience
Demonstrated experience delivering end-to-end recruitment processes, either in-house or agency.
Experience managing high-volume recruitment and multiple vacancies simultaneously.
Experience recruiting for multi-site, customer-facing, retail, hospitality or similar operational environments is highly regarded.
Proven experience building and maintaining talent pipelines for current and future workforce needs.
Experience partnering with hiring managers and operational leaders to understand workforce requirements and deliver effective recruitment solutions.
Experience coordinating interviews, group recruitment sessions, assessment centres or other high-volume recruitment activities.
Experience using Applicant Tracking Systems and recruitment technology to manage workflows and maintain accurate candidate data.
Experience with external advertising platforms, including Seek.
Ability to use recruitment data and insights to identify opportunities to improve attraction, process efficiency and time to hire.
Strong organisation, prioritisation and stakeholder management skills in a fast-paced environment.
Experience with Workday Recruitment/HRIS and Zapid Hire is desirable.
In return we offer you
Our commitment to diversity & inclusion
At Fitness and Lifestyle Group we bring positive energy and attitude to work every day, we are proud of who we are and who we work for. We don't just accept individuality; we encourage it and acknowledge the value diversity and inclusivity brings to our organisation. We pride ourselves on empowering our team to be their authentic selves at work.
We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, people of all ages, race, sex, intersex status, gender identity, sexual orientation, people with a disability and from other diverse backgrounds.
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