Leidos
Talent Sourcer & Market Intelligence Specialist
🇦🇺Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia7 days ago
Full TimeENAsia/Pacific
Initial 12 months maximum-term contract | Canberra based
Work with world leading technology business at the forefront of innovation.
For someone who thrives on uncovering high-value talent that is difficult to identify and engage
Our team feel Leidos is a great place to work. Learn more about our culture and benefits by visiting us here https://www.leidos.com/company/global/australia/careers
Do Work That Matters
Leidos Australia delivers IT and airborne solutions that protect and advance the Australian way of life. Our 2000 local experts, backed by our global experience and network of partners, are working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in government, intelligence, defence, aviation, border protection and health markets.
Your New Role and Responsibilities
Reporting to the Head of Talent Acquisition & Future Workforce – Leidos Australia, this role is designed as a dedicated sourcing capability focused on identifying and engaging hard-to-find technical and cleared talent across highly constrained markets. You will operate as a true search specialist, proactively building pipelines and uncovering talent including those professional that are not typically accessible through traditional recruitment channels.
Lead proactive seach across technical, software, and other cleared talent markets.
Build talent maps across competitors, adjacent industries and target skill clusters.
Engage passive candidates through tailored outreach and relationship-led search activity.
Qualify talent against capability, clearance, mobility and role alignment requirements.
Deliver high-quality, market-informed talent pipelines into priority hiring demand.
What You’ll Bring to Make An Impact
You are someone who enjoys the challenges of finding talent other cannot. You understand how to navigate niche markets, build pipelines from scratch and engage passive candidates throughout thoughtful, high-quality search strategies.
Experience within agency sourcing/search, executive search, RPO or dedicated sourcing functions. Demonstrated success sourcing hard-to-fill technical or highly specialised talent.
Deep capability in market mapping, outbound search and passive candidate engagement across highly constrained and business-critical talent markets.
Skilled in identifying hidden or non-obvious talent pathways through research, market intelligence and network-led sourcing approaches.
Ability to operate with autonomy, pace and discipline in fast-moving hiring environments.
High levels of curiosity, persistence and creativity when solving complex or talent-constrained search challenges.
Don’t worry if you don’t tick all the boxes – if you meet most of them, we encourage you to submit your application. We’re most interested in your strengths, what you want to learn and how far you want to go.
This role does require the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and be willing to obtain and hold an AGSVA security clearance.
Diverse Team Members, Shared Values and a Common Purpose
Providing our customers with smarter solutions takes an incredible team with diversity of thought, experience and perspectives driving innovation. Inclusion is at the heart of our culture and is one of our core values. It's about creating a workplace where everyone can do important work, feels welcome, valued, and respected, and has equal access to opportunities to thrive. Paul Chase – Chief Executive, Leidos Australia.
Leidos Australia is an equal opportunities organisation and is committed to creating a truly inclusive workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, veterans, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.
Our five Advocacy Groups (Women and Allies Network, Young Professionals, Defence & Emergency Services, Action for Accessibility and Abilities and Pride+) provide an opportunity for team members to connect and collaborate on shared interests, and work to support and celebrate our diverse community.
Next Steps
To apply for this role, follow the links, apply via our Careers page or contact cameron.larkin@au.leidos.com.
Recruitment process – typically includes two interviews, a potential case study discussion, and background checks (varies by role). The Talent Acquisition team will brief you in detail before the commencement of interviews.
Applicants may also need to meet International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) requirements. In certain circumstances this can place limitations on persons who hold dual nationality, permanent residency or are former nationals of certain countries as per ITAR 126.1.
We are committed to making our recruitment process accessible to all candidates. Please contact our Careers team careers.au@au.leidos.com if you’d like to discuss any additional support during your application or throughout the recruitment process.
If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
