Talent Acquisition Specialist

GENERAL FUNCTION
The Talent Acquisition Manager provides a consultative recruitment approach, driving consistent communication with hiring teams, providing market analysis, executing creative sourcing techniques, candidate assessment, and other talent related activities.

Primary responsibilities include managing full-lifecycle recruitment processes and strategies across a designated retail or business function, partnering closely with internal clients and external candidate populations. This position will focus on mid-level management, leadership and or technical positions across a designated business group or retail brand

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
" Source, screen, recruit, present high quality, diverse talent to Hiring Managers to fill open vacancies in the allocated business group
" Builds and maintains proactive partnerships with all internal and external client groups to understand business needs, staffing requirements and issues, and offers creative and effective sourcing solutions
" Develops and executes recruitment strategies to proactively source diverse pools of candidates using various recruiting methods, including cold-calling, networking/relationship building, web and social based sourcing methods
" Leads regular recruitment strategy meetings with hiring managers & HR and provides consultative approach on talent. Acts as Subject Matter Expert (SME) on hiring techniques and legal issues regarding hiring practices
" Acts as liaison between candidates, Hiring Managers and HR business partners and offers guidance through every stage of the hiring process.
" Gathers competitive intelligence, industry trends, and labor market conditions and creates search strategies and business presentations based on findings.
" Implements and enforces consistency with recruiting policies and procedures.
" Successfully manages and tracks assigned postings, prioritizing and closing searches against timeline according to established KPIs
" Partners with other HR Functions to identify and manage internal key talent to increase internal mobility company-wide
" Generates recruitment reports, candidate trackers and data for each designated recruitment assignment, including regular requisition communications.
" Leads additional special recruitment projects as assigned including mentoring Recruiters or Specialists.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
" Bachelor's Degree
" 5+ years recruiting experience across either of retail, corporate, consumer or supply chain businesses or industries
" Experience developing recruitment processes and implementing into a business
" Knowledge and experience in recruitment concepts, practice, and procedures
" Excellent interpersonal, organizational, influential communication skills
" Ability to take initiative, prioritize, influence, negotiate and partner effectively with individuals at all levels of the organization
" Experience with change management and the ability to be flexible in work style and responsibility
" Strong analytical skills, the ability to report and understand data

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
" Prior experience supporting an international multi-brand consumer, retail, supply chain, consumer, wholesale, medical device] business
" MBA or advanced degree