Talent Lead - Based On Talent

The Talent Lead (TA) will focus on specific business unit recruitment. The position reports to the SVP of Human Reources and will be instrumental in managing a team of recruiters, contractor(s), consultants and a coordinator. The Sr Manager, Talent Acquisition will develop relationships at all levels of my client's business units and functional areas and collaborate with HR Business Partners on Human Capital Planning for our business units, forecasting and workforce planning. Developing and deploying long-term sustainable recruiting strategies, establishing and maintaining best in class recruiting processes, pipeline maintenance, channel management, and strategic partnerships, are critical in this role.

Responsibilities:

• Meet regularly with senior business unit leaders and Human Resource Business Partners to fulfill TA need across the organization.
• Identify top talent with ranking system utilizing scorecards to assist in measuring candidate qualifications.
• Create partnership strategies that ensure effective management of expectations, clarity regarding service level agreements, roles and responsibilities and a superior level of customer service.
• Maintain consistent communication with the recruiting team to ensure updates and changes are effective, leverage data within applicant tracking system and other reporting to ensure recruiting efforts are timely, accurate and within compliance; partner across HR and the enterprise.
• Ensuring consistent messaging and a repeatable best in class experience for both candidates and internal clients.
• Leverage market intelligence, partner on workforce planning and gather competitive intelligence about locations, compensation, skill availability, diversity, etc. to inform recruiting strategy.
• Provide leadership, support, advocacy, and vision to a team of recruiters that support a business unit and are in line with the company's strategic direction and core values.
• Develop the team by providing clear expectations on performance and how to exceed their goals.
• Create, build, and execute the talent acquisition analytics strategy and use the resulting data to tell relevant stories about all aspects of talent acquisition across the enterprise.
• Develop and execute best in class sourcing strategies and campaigns to ensure proactive strategies to attract passive candidates, talent in high demand and diversity in the candidate pipeline.
• Stay informed of trends and innovative recruiting techniques to be competitive in state-of-the-art practices.
• Align company, business unit, HR, and TA long and short-term vision, goals, and objectives.
• Regularly assess overall lead generation, particularly for "hard to fill” and business critical positions.
• Stay abreast of job board performance and adjust utilization based on results.
• Promote and meet internal referral program targets.
• Work with internal business units and HR Business Partner's as well as with Internal Communications to ensure all open positions are internally published to support our internal opportunity programs.

Core Competencies:
• Must have the gravitas, intellectual capability and talent acquisition and operational knowledge to gain credibility with senior leadership, business unit leadership, HR business partners and cross-functional teams.
• Recruiting experience with ability to plan, source and support selection of top talent at the professional level for you personally and lead the team in this as well.
• Skill with managing teams that leverage internet resources including but not limited to resume databases, recruiting and search techniques such as LinkedIn, user group lists, social media and industry specific online professional networks, blogs as well as diversity and general job boards.
• Works with a high sense of urgency coupled with the ability to remain flexible within a highly dynamic environment and still deliver on deadlines. Works well with ambiguity.
• Strong critical thinking, problem solving, results oriented, adaptability, managerial courage, and influential skills.
• Ability to establish and fulfill service level agreements and set service standards with hiring managers and business leaders.
• Experience building creative and advanced recruiting strategies to deliver against the talent attraction needs for the enterprise that will focus on generating passive candidates for our current and future growth initiatives; helping us to continue our shift from a reactive model to proactively building our talent pipeline.
• Special projects and other duties as assigned.
Experience:
• 5+ years of recruiting experience, minimum five years as a Manager in a recruiting function.
• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Coach recruitment team listening and providing alternatives to the way things have always been done finding creative ways to make the team better.
• Expert skill managing teams that leverage internet resources including but not limited to resume databases, recruiting and search techniques such as LinkedIn, user group lists, industry specific online professional networks, advanced Boolean searches, blogs, and diversity and general job boards.
• Comfortable working with and around C suite Executives in a fast pace environment
• Works with a high sense of urgency coupled with the ability to remain flexible within a highly dynamic environment and still deliver on deadlines. Works well with ambiguity.
• Ideal candidate will be highly motivated, self-directed and possess strong learning agility.
• Expert task management, resource management and interpersonal skills to support time-critical staffing needs.
• Experience leveraging data and producing dashboards and metrics to support customer service expectations
• Partner with business leaders effectively; must possess the ability to feel comfortable challenging the status quo and sharing your point of view
• Experience building creative and advanced recruiting strategies for their team(s).
• Align company, business unit, HR, and TA long- and short-term vision, goals, and objectives.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.