Permanent Team Leader in Sydney

About Talent Focus

Established in 1997, Talent Focus Recruitment has spent nearly three decades building a dominant reputation across the Eastern Seaboard and Asia Pacific. Originally founded as a specialist boutique provider for FMCG, Operations, and Technical Supply Chains, we are completely Australian-owned and run by consultants who are genuinely passionate about what they do.

The Opportunity

Stepping into this pivotal leadership role, you will take immediate ownership of a tight-knit, dedicated permanent recruitment team of 3 consultants. This is a hybrid 'player-coach' role where you will lead by example while maintaining your own high-performing billing desk while aggressively driving the strategic growth of the permanent division. Your primary objective is clear: Scale the permanent team’s revenue performance and systematically increase our headcount by hiring, mentoring, and developing the next generation of top-tier recruitment talent.

Key Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Development: Lead, coach, and mentor a team of 3 permanent recruitment consultants, driving daily activities, setting KPIs, and fostering a high-performance culture.
• Strategic Growth: Build and execute a clear growth strategy to increase the permanent division’s profitability, market share, and headcount.
• Hands-on Billing: Lead from the front by managing end-to-end permanent recruitment cycles for senior supply chain, procurement, and logistics professionals.
• Business Development: Leverage your network and Talent Focus’s deep historic database to secure new client partnerships and key preferred supplier agreements (PSAs).
• Brand Ambassadorship: Maintain and project Talent Focus’s honest, ethical, and collaborative approach to recruitment.

What We Are Looking For

• Proven Agency Track Record: A minimum of 4–5+ years of 360 agency recruitment experience, ideally with deep domain knowledge in Supply Chain, Logistics, Procurement, or Manufacturing.
• Leadership Experience: Experience managing, mentoring, or stepping up to guide junior or mid-level recruitment consultants (even as a Senior Consultant looking for that formal step up).
• Commercial Acumen: A natural hunter mindset with a clear history of meeting personal billing targets and a genuine passion for scaling a business unit’s headcount and revenue.
• Strong Communication: Exceptional relationship-building skills to engage with corporate stakeholders and supply chain executives smoothly.

What’s In It For You?

• Uncapped Earning Potential: Enjoy a lucrative base salary paired with a highly rewarding personal commission structure plus a team override on your team of three.
• Clear Career Path: You are entering at a critical expansion point. Success in this role directly maps to a Divisional Manager / Director pathway as the team scales.
• Great Culture: Work out of our modern Western Sydney office in a collaborative, supportive environment that values autonomy over rigid micromanagement.