Associate Talent Acquisition Partner

At Te Mātāpuna Fonterra, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves.

Whether you're early in your career or ready for your next step, Fonterra offers a unique opportunity to grow with a global dairy co-operative that values care, collaboration and contribution.

Owned by New Zealand dairy farmers and supported by a dedicated team, we are all working together to create a better future. Imagine tomorrow with us, where your career can grow and you can create positive change.

Our Talent Acquisition team connects great people with opportunities across the Co-op. We partner with hiring teams throughout Fonterra to deliver positive recruitment experiences and help build the capability our organisation needs.

Within our team, this role provides hands-on recruitment delivery across defined job families while supporting broader Talent Acquisition priorities through candidate sourcing, screening and talent-pipeline activity.

As an Associate Talent Acquisition Partner, you’ll own end-to-end recruitment across defined, repeatable job families, managing activity from an approved vacancy through to offer acceptance across a national portfolio.

These are roles where the hiring need and recruitment approach are well understood, allowing you to focus on great execution, pace, candidate engagement and consistent delivery.

You’ll work directly with hiring managers and candidates to:

This is a hands-on delivery role with plenty of freedom in how you organise your work. We’ll give you clear outcomes, the tools and support to achieve them, and trust you to work out the best way to get there.

Things won’t always be perfectly mapped out. Priorities will shift, sometimes you’ll be working with incomplete information, and there won’t always be a process telling you exactly what to do next.

We want someone with the judgement and experience to make a call, take action and keep things moving.

You’ll manage multiple candidates, vacancies and stakeholder relationships at once, so you’ll need to be organised, adaptable and comfortable working without lots of structure around you.

You’ve already built solid, hands-on recruitment experience and are ready for greater ownership.

Ideally, you’ll bring around 12–24 months’ end-to-end recruitment experience in a fast-paced delivery environment, where you’ve been personally accountable for progressing multiple vacancies and candidate pipelines at the same time.

You’re used to roles that need filling, candidates who need answers and priorities that can change before lunchtime. You know how to pick up a vacancy, quickly understand what’s needed, find and engage candidates, assess fit and keep the process moving through to offer.

You’ll also bring strong candidate-management skills, confidence having direct and practical conversations, and the organisation required to move quickly without becoming messy.

You don’t need to arrive as the finished product. In fact, we’re looking for someone who is still keen to learn and grow.

Bring us strong recruitment foundations, initiative, curiosity and a genuine openness to coaching, and we’ll give you the opportunity to build from there.

We’ll give you clarity on what success looks like, the tools to get there and support when you need it. We won’t give you a script for every step along the way.

We care for our people globally. Our comprehensive benefits support your wellbeing, development and work-life balance:

At Te Mātāpuna Fonterra, be inspired by purpose and guided by our principles and values.

Create goodness for generations and make a global impact at a local level.

As part of our Co-operative, be an everyday creator, imagining what Fonterra, dairy and you can be here.

Does this sound good to you? Come join our whānau, bring your whole self and let’s solve for better together.

You, me, us together. Tātou, tātou.

Inclusion is key to our Co-operative. We’re building a team that reflects the diverse world we live in, believing it drives better decisions and innovation.

We welcome applications from all backgrounds, identities, ages, abilities, neurotypes, cultures and religions.

Even if you don’t meet every requirement listed, we encourage you to apply. We value potential and growth.

If you face accessibility issues or need reasonable accommodations during the process, please contact your recruiter. We ensure fair participation, allowing you to be at your best. Tātou, tātou.