Melbourne CBD | Appointment Setter | 6-month contract

Are you confident picking up the phone, opening doors and creating opportunities with people you have never spoken to before?

Tradewind Australia is looking for an Appointment Setter to join our Melbourne team on an initial six-month contract, supporting the growth of our Social Services recruitment division.

Your job is straightforward: start conversations, uncover opportunities and book quality meetings.

You won’t be expected to manage a full recruitment desk. Instead, you’ll focus on the front end of the sales process, prospecting organisations, reaching decision makers, re-engaging previous clients and creating qualified opportunities for our Recruitment Consultants.

If you have experience in appointment setting, outbound sales, business development or another target-driven environment and enjoy the challenge of turning a cold conversation into an opportunity, this could be a strong next move.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll work alongside our Social Services recruitment team to build new business opportunities and reactivate existing relationships.

Day to day, you will:

- Make upward of 100 outbound calls to prospective Social Services clients
- Identify and engage hiring managers and key decision makers
- Introduce Tradewind and clearly communicate our recruitment offering
- Ask the right questions to uncover recruitment needs and opportunities
- Book quality meetings for our Recruitment Consultants
- Re-engage inactive and previous clients to identify new opportunities
- Follow up prospects consistently and maintain momentum across your pipeline
- Work through targeted prospect lists while identifying new potential clients




- Maintain accurate call notes, activity and opportunities within our CRM
- Work towards explicit activity, appointment and business development KPIs
- Support candidate screening and recruitment activity when additional team coverage is required

What we’re looking for

Recruitment experience isn’t essential, but gift of the gab is.

You could currently be working in appointment setting, telesales, door-to-door sales, lead generation, recruitment or another high-activity sales environment.

You’ll bring:

- Experience in outbound sales, appointment setting, business development or a similar target-driven role
- Confidence making cold calls and starting conversations from scratch
- The resilience to hear “no” and make the next call
- Strong communication skills and the ability to build rapport quickly
- Curiosity and the ability to ask questions that uncover genuine business needs
- Commercial awareness and confidence identifying a potential sales opportunity
- Strong follow-up habits and personal organisation
- The discipline to maintain accurate CRM records
- Motivation to work towards measurable activity and appointment targets
- Initiative and the ability to create your own momentum

You don’t need a scripted sales personality. You do need to be comfortable with outbound activity,



accountable for your numbers and motivated by turning conversations into results.

Why Tradewind?

Tradewind Australia is a specialist recruitment agency connecting talented people with organisations across Social Services, Education and Healthcare.

You would be joining a Social Services team with an established market presence and a clear focus on growth.

In return, you can expect:

- An initial six-month contract with potential to extend or become permanent based on business requirements and performance
- A Melbourne CBD office and hybrid working environment
- Support from experienced Recruitment Consultants and leaders
- Clear targets so you know what success looks like
- Regular learning and development opportunities
- Wellbeing initiatives and employee benefits
- Regular team and company social events
- Exposure to recruitment, business development and client relationship management
- Autonomy to take ownership of your activity without working from a rigid call center script

How we work

This isn’t the place where you are handed a script and told to read it.

You will have the freedom to learn the market, understand your prospects and develop a style that gets people talking.

There will still be expectations around activity, appointments, CRM discipline and results. The people who succeed in this environment are consistent, resilient and comfortable taking ownership of their numbers.

You will have experienced people around you to help you develop, but you’ll also need the initiative to pick up the phone and create momentum yourself.

If we have ticked your boxes apply today!

📌 Appointment Setter/ Business Development Consultant (Melbourne)
🏢 Tradewind Australia Pty
📍 Melbourne