Head of Talent

$200k + super + bonus + pathway to equity Talent is our #1 bottleneck to growth. This role exists to remove it. Beaver Group is building multiple industrial businesses with global ambition. The strategy is clear. The capital is in place. The constraint is talent – specifically, putting the right people in the right seats. This is a rare talent leadership role, working directly with a Founder who truly gets the importance of talent. Your job is building the A‑player team that turns strategy into reality. The Role Your mission is simple: make talent a competitive advantage, not a constraint. This is a hands‑on builder role with group‑wide scope. You own talent and hiring across the group, working closely with the Founder and senior leaders. The goal is clear – build an A‑player team that delivers the strategy in each business. What you’ll own: - Talent leadership – own talent outcomes across the group, not just hiring activity. - Role definition – define success up front through clear role briefs and job packs. - Critical hiring – personally deliver executive, senior, and difficult hires end to end. - Team leadership – lead the recruitment team and build a reliable, high‑quality hiring engine. - Talent quality bar – set it, defend it, and refuse to compromise. - Succession planning – maintain bench strength for critical roles and surface talent risk early. - Data‑driven hiring – run hiring on evidence, data, and disciplined assessment, not gut feel. - Systems & process – build the systems, cadence, and discipline that make great hiring repeatable. You will be the Founder’s talent partner – a trusted adviser with judgment and backbone to challenge when it matters. Our Talent Philosophy Our talent philosophy is unapologetically focused on hiring A‑players. We define an A‑player as someone in the top 10% of their role at that pay level. We build the business like a high‑performance sporting team – because putting the right people in the right seats is the highest‑leverage decision we can make. Great talent doesn’t need motivating. They need clarity on vision, goals, and expectations. And the freedom to make it happen. Most A‑players already have good jobs. Our job is to inspire them to join us – by being clear about where we’re going, why it matters, and the role they can play. Culture matters – every hire must fit our Beaver core values. We deliberately hire rough diamonds – people overlooked or underestimated for the wrong reasons. We back smarts, grit, learning speed, and work ethic over polish or pedigree. We have an underdog mindset and hire on merit, without filters or quotas. That’s how we build teams that outperform. We are intentionally investing in our Talent capability. The Founder has personally carried talent decisions for 18 years and is now looking to hand the torch to a true talent partner. Who You Are You’re the kind of Talent leader people trust with hard decisions. You already operate as a Head of Talent – or you're a high‑potential Talent Manager on that trajectory and ready to step up fast. You love a challenge. You enjoy the detective work of shaping undefined roles and solving hard hiring problems. You want to be hands‑on, running a small team and turning it into a well‑oiled hiring machine. You are unapologetically company‑first, not candidate‑first. You optimise for what’s right for the business long‑term, not what’s easy or convenient now. You're confident working directly with a Founder and Hiring Managers, including saying NO when required. You’ll likely bring experience such as: - Leading talent in a founder‑led or private business with real growth ambition. - Personally owning senior, executive, and mission‑critical hires. - Hiring across a wide variety of roles and functions (including sales, marketing, engineering, operations, manufacturing, finance, etc). - Acting as a trusted adviser to a Founder and senior leaders on talent and org decisions. - Building, leading, and upgrading an internal recruitment team. - Using process, data, and systems to drive consistently better hiring outcomes. Red flags – this role is not for you if you: - Avoid hard conversations or struggle to say NO to a Founder or senior leaders. - Default to being ‘candidate‑first’ instead of doing what’s right for the business. - Hide behind policy, frameworks, or process rather than exercising judgement. - Come from corporate, HR, or agency background and want to keep operating that way. - Optimise for speed, volume, or optics over hiring true A‑players. What’s In It For You? This is a rare seat for a Talent leader. It’s hard to find a business and Founder that truly 'gets' the importance of talent. What’s special about this role: - Founder partnership – a high‑trust role working closely with the Founder. - Leadership seat – part of the Senior Leadership Team (not stuck under HR). - Real authority – genuine ability to say no, protect the hiring quality bar, lift team capability. - Hands‑on – on the tools for the hard, interesting work (executive, senior, and mission‑critical hires). - Group‑wide scope – across multiple businesses we already own and those we’ll build next. - Long‑term upside – strong package today with a pathway to equity for someone who proves indispensable. Location Perth HQ – working closely day‑to‑day with the Founder and leadership team. Hybrid option (initial 6 months) – remote with 1 week per month in Perth, with relocation expected longer term. How to Apply We’re not looking for generic applications. Apply with your resume and a cover letter answering the following questions: - Your motivation – what is it about this role that specifically appeals to you? - Your career aspiration – what is your future vision for your career? - Your suitability – why does your head, heart, and briefcase fit this role? About Us Beaver Group is a private holding company based in Perth, led by entrepreneur and business builder Josh Beaver. We acquire and aggressively grow industrial businesses. We invest our own capital, own for the long term, and back talented people to build great businesses. #J-18808-Ljbffr