About this role
At Carma, we're more than just a car company—we're on a mission to shake up the Australian automotive industry! As a digital pre-owned car dealership, we're turning the car buying (and selling!) experience into a hassle-free, seamless journey that customers can truly enjoy. With our diverse and collaborative team managing everything from engineering to marketing and buying to reconditioning in-house, we're powered by the best people—and we'd love for you to come along for the ride! As a Talent Acquisition Lead, you'll play a critical role in leading and delivering recruitment across Carma's high-pace operational environments. You'll work closely with stakeholders across our production facilities to understand workforce requirements and build practical recruitment strategies that attract and retain top talent. This is a hands-on TA leadership role, with a strong focus on frontline, skilled trades, automotive and operational hiring. You'll balance high-volume recruitment with targeted sourcing for hard-to-find technical talent, while coaching the TA team, improving recruitment processes and helping Carma scale its operational workforce. Lead recruitment across Carma’s operational workforce, partnering closely with production and operational leaders to understand workforce requirements and deliver against hiring plans. Build and execute practical sourcing strategies across high-volume frontline roles and hard-to-fill skilled positions, using direct sourcing, referrals, job boards, agencies and non-traditional talent channels. Own high-volume recruitment campaigns when operational demand changes, quickly scaling attraction and selection activity to ensure critical vacancies are filled. Personally recruit key and difficult-to-fill positions, particularly across automotive, skilled trades, production, logistics and operational functions. Support and coach the TA team, setting priorities, allocating workloads, removing roadblocks and creating accountability for delivery, candidate experience and quality of hire. Partner with operational leaders on workforce planning, translating headcount requirements, turnover, productivity and operational demand into clear recruitment plans. Build strong talent pipelines for recurring and specialist roles, reducing reliance on reactive recruitment and creating sustainable talent pools for Carma’s growing operational workforce. Use recruitment data to drive decisions, tracking vacancy levels, time-to-fill, source effectiveness, conversion, offer acceptance, quality of hire and other key metrics to identify bottlenecks and improve outcomes. Improve the way Carma recruits, identifying opportunities to simplify processes, improve candidate experience, increase hiring manager capability and introduce greater consistency across sites. Leverage technology, automation and AI to reduce recruitment administration, improve candidate engagement and make the TA team more efficient and data-driven. Act as a trusted recruitment partner to senior stakeholders, providing market insight, challenging assumptions where needed and ensuring hiring decisions balance speed, quality and operational requirements. Help shape Carma’s employer brand and attraction strategy for frontline and skilled talent, ensuring we stand out in competitive automotive and operational talent markets. Be hands-on when required—jumping into sourcing, screening, interviewing, stakeholder meetings and recruitment campaigns when priorities or hiring volumes demand it.