Talent Acquisition Specialist

About Us
Southern Cross Health Insurance is shaping a healthier Aotearoa New Zealand. Our purpose is simple: empowering our members to live well for longer. We're here to give peace of mind through timely access to quality care, inspire healthier living, and lead positive change across the health system. As a New Zealand-owned, member-based organisation, we're building a future where wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do — delivering exceptional value for our members and creating an environment where our people thrive.

Now is an exciting time to join us. You'll be part of a high-performing, values-driven team where people are at the heart of everything we do — and in return for your talent, you'll have the opportunity to grow, make an impact, and be proud of the difference your work makes.

About The Role
Are you passionate about finding exceptional talent and shaping a people-first recruitment experience? We are looking for a dynamic
Talent Acquisition Specialist
to join our People Experience team at Southern Cross Health Insurance.

In this role you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Southern Cross by identifying, attracting, and securing top talent aligned with our strategic goals and values. Through proactive sourcing, engaging candidate experiences, and partnerships with hiring leaders, our specialists ensure we build a diverse, high-performing workforce that drives innovation, growth, and long-term success.

What You'll Do

• Design and implement effective sourcing strategies that attract the right skillsets, capabilities and mindsets, while proactively building talent pools and pipelines for hard-to-source roles to ensure future readiness.
• Partner with hiring leaders throughout the recruitment process, providing expert coaching and guidance to deliver a consistently seamless candidate experience for both internal and external recruitment processes, from first contact through to onboarding and beyond.
• Position Southern Cross as an Employer of Choice, enabling us to acquire and retain talent aligned with our strategic direction, values, and future capability needs.
• Drive operational excellence by continuously improving processes, enhancing our employee value proposition, exploring AI driven tools, while ensuring compliance with our obligations.
• Leverage Workday and other digital platforms to enable automation, self-service, and reduce transactional workload, freeing up capacity for strategic talent initiatives.

What You Bring

• Proven experience in end-to-end recruitment, ideally across both internal and agency settings.
• Ability to manage volume recruitment and shifting priorities while maintaining quality and candidate care.
• Strong working knowledge HRIS platforms[MD1] (Workday preferred).
• Expertise in behavioural interviewing, psychometric testing, and employment legislation.
• A flair for social media and recruitment marketing campaigns, with a passion for crafting compelling job advertisements.
• A continuous improvement mindset with strong analytical and systems thinking.
• Courageous communication, curiosity, continuous learning and a collaborative spirit.
• A human-centred design approach and a drive to challenge the status quo.

Why You'll Love It Here

• You'll be part of a purpose-driven team that puts people at the heart of everything we do.
• You'll help shape a modern, agile operating model that supports meaningful work.
• You'll be empowered to innovate, influence, and make a real impact.

Our values who we are and what's important to us.

Ngākau nui. Āhurutanga. Tikanga.
Join a team that's
always there, always real, always true
. If you thrive in a purpose-driven, diverse and supportive culture, we think you'll love working with us

What we
offer you

• five days of wellbeing leave per year (pro-rated for part-timers)
• health insurance for you and your immediate whānau
• life insurance cover and discounts on pet and travel insurance
• extra parental leave benefits and financial wellbeing support
• ability to participate in our workplace wellbeing programme.

But that's not all. If you need more time to support your whānau, we offer work-life balance, a hybrid environment and each year you have a volunteer day to spend with your team contributing to a cause or community of your choice.

We are proud to be Rainbow Tick accredited, and we facilitate an active employee-led Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Forum which supports many diverse groups including our Māori network, Pasifika Collective, Neurodiversity and Whānau Support networks.

If you share our commitment and passion, we'd love to hear from you.