Featured Contractors (Sydney)

Interested in finding out more about the below Candidates? Please email our Sydney team at sydney@tandempartners.com.au.

HR Advisor/HR Generalist

A polished and articulate HR Advisor operating at a solid generalist level, bringing recent UK experience supporting a diverse client base across Technology, Financial Services and Professional Services. CIPD Level 5 qualified, they combine strong employment law knowledge with hands-on delivery across the full employee lifecycle, managing multiple client portfolios and acting as a trusted HR contact for stakeholders through to senior leadership.

Comfortable handling a high volume of employee relations matters, including performance management, grievances, redundancies and complex casework, while also contributing to broader HR initiatives such as policy development, recruitment support and benefits implementation. Exposure to global mobility and sponsorship has added a layer of commercial awareness, particularly in advising on compliance and risk.

Known for presenting in a polished and professional manner, with the confidence to lead client discussions and deliver webinars to larger groups. A capable, delivery-focused operator looking to continue building breadth in a generalist HR environment.

People & Culture Coordinator/HRIS Administrator

An organised and proactive People & Culture Coordinator operating at a junior HR generalist level, with solid exposure across the full employee lifecycle and a strong lean towards HR operations and systems. Experience spans Technology, Education and small business environments, supporting leadership teams with day-to-day HR delivery while keeping processes structured and compliant.

Comfortable coordinating recruitment, onboarding and offboarding, maintaining HRIS data, and supporting performance review cycles and employee engagement initiatives. Has also stepped into project-style work, recently leading the implementation of Employment Hero end-to-end, alongside reviewing policies, processes and documentation to streamline HR operations and improve consistency.

Brings exposure to working with both onshore and offshore teams, contributing to process improvements and operational efficiency through a detail-oriented, systems-focused approach. Known for being reliable and hands-on, with the ability to manage confidential information and keep things moving in busy environments. This candidate would suit teams needing a capable, adaptable coordinator who can provide immediate operational support while continuing to build broader generalist capability.

Senior TA Lead

A commercially astute Talent Acquisition Lead with deep experience across highly regulated environments, this candidate brings a strong blend of strategic capability and hands-on delivery, particularly within Life Sciences and MedTech. Most recently operating within a complex ASX-listed organisation, they partner closely with senior corporate functions including Finance, Legal and Executive Leadership, managing end-to-end recruitment for head office portfolios spanning VP through to specialist hires.

Known internally as an AI champion within Talent Acquisition, they have led the practical integration of AI tools into recruitment workflows, developing governance frameworks, uplifting capability across the team, and embedding safe usage aligned to data privacy standards. Their remit has extended into core transformation work including ATS implementations, vendor consolidation initiatives, and process optimisation across recruitment operations.

Calm, pragmatic and delivery-focused, they bring credibility with senior stakeholders and are motivated by environments where they can shape capability, drive efficiencies and step into broader leadership responsibility.

HR Early Careers & Employer Branding Specialist

An experienced HR specialist with a strong foundation in FMCG, bringing a well-rounded capability across early careers, employer branding and learning and development within global FMCG organisations. Most recently operating in a standalone capacity in Australia, this individual managed end-to-end early careers programs, overseeing the full candidate lifecycle from attraction and diversity engagement through to onboarding, rotations and program delivery, while acting as the key link between global frameworks and local execution.

Alongside this, they led employer branding initiatives across social channels, developing content that elevated employee value proposition and strengthened talent pipelines. Their remit also extended into learning and development, where they localised global learning content, coordinated training across sales cohorts and rolled out digital leadership programs across ANZ, often facilitating sessions directly.

Comfortable working autonomously with global stakeholders, they bring a practical, hands-on approach with a strong process mindset and an ability to deliver in lean environments. Now exploring new opportunities following a restructure, they offer immediate value in contract settings requiring ownership, structure and program delivery.

Change Manager – HR Transformation

A commercially sharp HR Transformation and Change Specialist with more than 10 years' experience delivering enterprise-wide people initiatives across Financial Services, Government, Industrial and Insurance environments. They bring a rare blend of HR domain expertise, project delivery capability and technical fluency, with a strong track record across operating model redesign, HR systems, people analytics and large-scale change programs. Recent experience within a banking environment saw delivery of high-impact HR initiatives including organisational restructure frameworks, intranet transformation and the introduction of AI-enabled solutions to enhance recruitment and content management. Earlier work includes leading Agile delivery of a People & Culture knowledge hub as both Product Owner and Project Manager, alongside ownership of enterprise people analytics and reporting in a complex manufacturing setting. Known for operating comfortably between strategy and execution, building credibility with senior stakeholders and translating complex problems into practical, scalable outcomes that improve employee experience and drive efficiency. Well suited to project-heavy environments requiring structure, stakeholder alignment and a clear outcomes focus.

Senior Employee Experience/HR Transformation Leader

A senior Employee Experience and Organisational Development leader with depth across large, complex corporates, spanning Financial Services, Wagering and membership-led services. Most recently they led a newly centralised employee experience and communications function in a 4,000-employee business, setting strategy across culture, listening, EVP, onboarding, policy simplification and AI-enabled productivity initiatives while leading a team of nine.

Earlier responsibilities included managing a 16-person Employee Experience, Analytics and People & Culture Operations team through a major demerger, with exposure to executive and board stakeholders, workforce analytics, inclusion strategy, hybrid working, leadership capability and culture design at scale.

They bring a strong mix of organisational development, employee experience, communications and broad HR partnering foundations, making them well suited to transformation-focused environments needing someone who can shape the agenda while remaining close to delivery. Particularly credible for senior HR project, culture, change, employee experience or broader People & Culture leadership roles where commercial judgement, calm stakeholder management and hands-on execution all matter.

Head of Talent, Careers & Workforce Strategy

Operating at the enterprise level across a global Professional Services environment, this HR leader brings deep expertise in talent strategy, workforce architecture and large-scale people transformation. Experience spans leading end-to-end careers and performance redesign, enterprise skills frameworks and AI-enabled talent intelligence platforms within a complex, multi-country organisation of more than 7,000 employees.

Known for partnering closely with executive and board stakeholders, they translate business strategy into capability uplift, succession pipelines and workforce planning outcomes. They have led major technology and data transformation initiatives, including global Workday implementation, optimisation of talent technology ecosystems and embedding people analytics for executive decision-making. Their background includes regional HR leadership across ANZ with full responsibility for HR, Talent Acquisition and Learning & Development teams, supporting business units with significant revenue accountability.

Comfortable operating hands-on while shaping strategy, they bring a pragmatic, commercially grounded approach and strong credibility in both technical and leadership domains. Well suited to contract environments requiring sophisticated transformation capability, executive influence and the ability to deliver change at scale.



HR Data & Workforce Analytics Specialist

An HR Data and Workforce Analytics Specialist with a strong blend of hands-on HR operations, payroll and HRIS experience, combined with increasingly sophisticated analytics capability. Their background spans Financial Services, Healthcare and Sport, working across both Australia and New Zealand to deliver workforce reporting, system optimisation and data-led insights for People & Culture functions.

They have built and maintained Power BI dashboards covering headcount, turnover, DEI and engagement, and are comfortable working with large datasets in Excel to support WGEA reporting, leave liabilities and compensation analysis. They also bring practical experience across HRIS and payroll environments, including system implementations, migrations to ADP and ongoing optimisation, alongside designing engagement surveys and translating workforce data into meaningful recommendations for leaders.

Thoughtful and detail-oriented, they bridge technical analysis with practical HR application, making them a strong fit for organisations looking to strengthen workforce reporting, improve data integrity and better leverage people data for informed decision-making.