Recruitment Business Partner

Flexible location in main centres (Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin)

Build the talent pipelines and recruitment capability behind one of New Zealand's leading construction businesses

Naylor Love is one of New Zealand's largest and most respected national construction companies. With a proud history, strong values and a reputation built on long-term relationships, we are focused on becoming the best and most respected construction company in New Zealand, ever.

As our business continues to grow, our projects are becoming larger, more complex and more geographically diverse. That means finding, engaging and mobilising great people matters more than ever. We are looking for an experienced, commercially minded and proactive Recruitment Business Partner to help us build our national recruitment capability and the workforce pipelines needed for the future.

This is a newly created opportunity to make a real impact across the business. You will deliver high-quality recruitment today while helping shape a more proactive, connected and insight-led recruitment approach for the future. Working with leaders across New Zealand, you will turn project and workforce requirements into practical recruitment strategies, talent pipelines and career opportunities.

About the role

In this blended strategic and operational role, you will lead end-to-end recruitment across a geographically dispersed and project-based business. You will partner closely with regional, operational and functional leaders to understand immediate vacancies, future project demand and the critical capabilities we will need as Naylor Love continues to grow.

You will build direct sourcing strategies and talent pools for core roles, strengthen workforce planning, support internal mobility, and help develop our cadetship, apprenticeship and other early-career pipelines.

You will also own the day-to-day administration and optimisation of our ATS (TeamTailor), improve recruitment reporting and analytics, and help create a careers and candidate experience that reflects who we are as a business.

This is not a role for someone who wants to simply manage vacancies as they arise. You will need to get close to the business, build strong relationships with leaders, understand the realities of construction and use your market knowledge to help Naylor Love plan ahead, secure scarce capability and make sound hiring decisions.

Key responsibilities:

• Deliver high-quality end-to-end recruitment, from role briefing and attraction strategy through sourcing, assessment, selection and handover to onboarding

• Build trusted relationships with regional, operational and functional leaders, providing practical advice and market insight

• Develop proactive direct-sourcing strategies and maintain talent pools for recurring, specialist and hard-to-fill roles

• Translate workforce and project plans into clear recruitment priorities, pipeline activity and longer-term sourcing strategies

• Support regional teams as required in the attraction and recruitment of cadets, apprentices and other early-career talent aligned with future workforce requirements

• Own and optimise TeamTailor as our applicant tracking system and careers platform, including workflows, templates, data quality, talent pools and reporting

• Develop practical recruitment dashboards and insights covering demand, pipeline health, source effectiveness, time to fill, candidate experience and agency use

• Improve recruitment processes, tools and leader capability to create greater consistency, pace and quality across the business

• Strengthen Naylor Love's employer brand and careers experience through credible content, targeted campaigns and authentic employee and project stories

• Deliver a professional, respectful and responsive experience for every candidate

• Build productive relationships with education providers, industry bodies, professional networks and specialist recruitment partners

About you

You are an experienced recruitment or talent acquisition professional who can balance strategic thinking with hands-on delivery. You know how to move beyond advertising vacancies, find and engage passive talent, build credible pipelines and advise leaders on what the market will support.

You will be comfortable working across multiple regions, projects and stakeholder groups, often balancing competing priorities and challenging recruitment demands. You will bring pace, sound judgement and strong commercial awareness while keeping the candidate and hiring leader experience at the centre of your work.

You will likely bring:

• at least ten years' experience in end-to-end recruitment or talent acquisition

• experience working in a complex, multi-site, operational or project-based organisation

• demonstrated success recruiting across operational, technical, professional and leadership roles

• strong direct-sourcing, talent-mapping and talent-pooling capability, including engaging passive candidates

• experience partnering with senior and operational leaders on workforce requirements and recruitment priorities

• confidence administering and improving an applicant tracking system (TeamTailor experience would be an advantage)

• the ability to use recruitment data and analytics to improve decisions, service and process

• strong written and verbal communication, stakeholder management and influencing skills

• experience supporting cadet, apprenticeship, graduate or other early-career programmes would be valuable

• experience in construction, infrastructure, engineering, property, trades or a related project-based industry would be highly regarded.

Why join Naylor Love?

At Naylor Love, our people are our 'special sauce'. We are proud of our culture, our values and the long-term relationships we build with our people, clients and communities.

This role gives you the opportunity to shape something meaningful: a national recruitment approach that improves how we plan, source and secure talent, strengthens internal career opportunities and builds the workforce capability behind our future growth.

You will be joining a business with:

• a strong national footprint and a proud construction heritage

• a clear strategy and ambition to be New Zealand's best and most respected construction company, ever

• the opportunity to shape and mature a national recruitment function

• direct involvement in workforce planning and talent pipelines supporting major construction projects across New Zealand

• a genuine commitment to developing people, careers and future leaders

• national cadetship, apprenticeship and career development opportunities

• a practical, values-led culture where relationships, teamwork and doing the right thing matter

• a range of employee benefits, including health insurance for you and your family.

This is a chance to build recruitment capability at scale, connect talented people with meaningful careers and help Naylor Love deliver some of New Zealand's most important construction projects.

Apply now

If you are a practical, strategic and people-focused recruitment professional who enjoys being close to the business and wants to build something for the future, we would love to hear from you.

Join Naylor Love and help shape the talent, careers and workforce capability behind one of New Zealand's leading construction businesses.

Applications close on Friday, 21 August 2026.

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The successful applicant will be required to complete pre-employment medical questionnaire and drug screen and be eligible to work in New Zealand either as a resident or by holding a current work visa.

Naylor Love is an equal opportunities employer and committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion across all areas of our business.

Building people, creating a sustainable future - He Whaihanga Tangata, He Waihanga Anamata Toitū.