Help grow our HR services arm.

- Shape a new HR offer inside an established business with 20 years in the market and 1,100+ clients
- Work directly with our leadership and delivery, backed by a business that already has the clients, the software and the infrastructure
- We will build the arrangement around the right person
- Brisbane preferred, remote considered

Let's Talk About You

You have spent years inside the HR profession, and you are good at it. You have sat across from CEOs and connected with them, adding value from the outset. You have restructured teams, written the frameworks, fixed the culture problem that turned out to be a leadership problem, and hired the person who changed the trajectory of a business.

Somewhere along the way you worked out that the part you enjoy most is the consulting. The diagnosis. The design. Walking into a business that is growing faster than its people systems can handle, and building the thing that lets it keep going.

Maybe you are consulting independently now, and you have discovered that being the whole business is exhausting. The marketing, the pipeline, the proposals, the invoicing, the delivery, all of it, alone. Maybe you are in a senior in-house role, and the itch to build something has not gone away. Maybe you are somewhere in between.

We are offering the middle path. The autonomy and variety of consulting, with a business behind you that already has the clients, the brand, the technology and a delivery team.

Who We Are

We are Scout Talent Group. For more than 20 years we have helped organisations across Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the US and around the world hire smarter.

We do this through full-service recruitment campaigns and recruitment technology that gives in-house teams the power to attract, engage and hire great people. Some clients come to us for recruitment support, some for software, and many choose both.

Everything we do comes back to our Purpose: Connecting People to Grow Companies, Careers and Communities. Our philosophy is simple. AI-enabled, human-led. We use the best technology going to do the heavy lifting, and we keep people at the centre of every decision because that is where the trust is.

We see people first.

What We Are Building, and Why We Need You

For 20 years we have been the on-demand recruitment partner for HR professionals, HR teams and Hiring Managers. We are good at that. And, we are uncovering additional opportunities with CEOs of growing businesses, and it goes something like this: the recruitment is only half my problem. My structure is wrong. My position descriptions are five years old. I have no idea what to pay people. My managers are not managing. I don't want or need a full-time HR Director, but I'd like help/support.

We can already solve the recruitment half. We have the software, the talent acquisition capability and the AI tools.



What we do not yet have is someone who can walk into that conversation and solve the other half, designing and delivering a solution where we take the problem off the CEO's desk.

That is the offer we want to build. Fractional HR expertise, wrapped around our recruitment technology and delivery capability, sold to CEOs of growth businesses who want the outcome without the headcount.

We are looking for the person who can sell that and deliver it.

What You Will Actually Do

Two halves, and you need to want both.

Winning the work.

You will be in front of CEOs and business owners, having consultative conversations about what is actually holding their people function back. Sometimes those conversations come from our existing client base, our outbound sales team and our marketing. Sometimes you will create them yourself, through your network and your own reputation. You will scope the work, write the proposal and close it. If the idea of never picking up a phone or never asking for the business appeals to you, this is not the role for you, and that is completely fine.

Delivering the work.

Organisational design and structure reviews. Position descriptions, job sizing and grading. Remuneration frameworks and benchmarking. Capability frameworks and performance systems. Fractional HR support for businesses that need the expertise without the salary. The mix will depend on what we sell and what you are strongest at.

You will also help us work out what this service should actually be. Which HR solutions we lead with. What we productise. How we price it. Where we say no. We have views on all of that, and we want to be argued with by someone who knows more about it than we do.

The businesses we want to serve are growing organisations that need better people infrastructure to keep growing. We are deliberately staying away from heavily award-covered environments and complex industrial relations work. If enterprise agreements and Fair Work Commission matters are where you do your best work, we would not be doing right by you.

Who You Will Work With

You will work directly with our CEO, Andrea Davey.

That is not a line we put in ads lightly. This is a function we are building deliberately, and Andrea is personally invested in getting it right. You will have her time, her network and her decision-making, and you will get answers quickly rather than waiting on a committee.

You will also have real infrastructure around you. A sales team who can open doors. A delivery team who run recruitment campaigns properly.



Our own recruitment software. A cutting-edge AI stack, which means less of your day disappears into admin, and more of it goes into client work.

In our May 2026 employee engagement survey, 95% of our Australian team said they enjoy their work, with innovation, autonomy and culture consistently named as the reasons. The way we work is shaped by seven values: Innovation, Enthusiasm, Respect, Ownership, Transparency, Success and Wellbeing.

How We Could Structure This

We are open, and we would rather find the right person than force the right structure.

- As a contractor, engaged on a project basis, working alongside your existing clients and commitments
- As a part-time or full-time employee, with a retainer and performance incentives tied to the current business you bring in
- As a blend, starting on projects and moving to something permanent as the practice takes shape

Tell us what works for you and we will have that conversation properly. Remuneration will be built around the structure we agree on and the experience you bring.

What You Will Love About Working Here

- Genuine autonomy to build something and put your name on it
- Performance incentives on new business you win, structured to suit how we engage you
- A MacBook Air and access to our AI tools and platforms from day one
- Scout Learning and monthly 1:1 coaching with senior leaders
- Quarterly celebrations, Friday socials, and an all-expenses-paid global trip for top performers. Tokyo was last year, and in July we headed to Hong Kong. Next year is San Francisco.
- A stake in what we are building through our Employee Share Option Plan for long-term high achievers
- A healthy, social Brisbane office with fitness event subsidies, or the freedom to work from wherever you are

Is This You?

We are looking for someone with:

- Significant HR consulting or senior in-house HR experience, ideally both
- Real depth in organisational design, position architecture, remuneration or capability frameworks. You do not need all four, but you need to be excellent at some of them
- Credibility with CEOs and business owners, and the confidence to hold a room where you are the only HR person in it
- A track record of winning work, or a clear and honest appetite to learn how
- Comfort with ambiguity, because we are building this as we go
- Tertiary qualifications in HR, business or a related field, or the experience to make that irrelevant
- Australian working rights and, if you are joining us as a contractor, your own ABN and insurances

Ready?

If you are an experienced HR consultant who wants the freedom to build something, with a business behind you that already has the clients and the technology, we want to hear from you.

Tell us about the consulting work you are proudest of, and how you would want us to structure this.

Apply now.

Scout Talent. See people first.

📌 HR Consultant (Milton)
🏢 Scout Talent
📍 Milton