Talent Acquisition Specialist

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Baldwin Richardson Foods is focused on enriching the flavor of life. As a full-service liquid products supplier and strategic partner to the food and beverage industry, Baldwin Richardson Foods combines its formulation expertise and unique packaging options with robust processing capabilities to produce high-quality sauces, toppings, syrups, fillings, and shelf-stable beverages for the world's most iconic Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs), Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) brands, and food service companies. Its state-of-the-art Innovation & Culinary Center transforms trends and culinary inspiration into legendary products through an award-winning commercialization process. The company also manufactures and markets Mrs. Richardson's dessert sauces and Nance's mustards/condiments in addition to producing finished goods for the private label sector. BRF maintains its headquarters and a manufacturing facility in Macedon, New York; with a Culinary Innovation Center in Westmont, Illinois; and offices and manufacturing facilities in Williamson, New York; Pennsauken, New Jersey; and Corona, California. This role reports into our Macedon, New York Headquarters and manufacturing plant.

What We Need

The Talent Acquisition Specialist will independently drive the full-cycle process of incoming talent to Baldwin Richardson Foods by partnering with key stakeholders to deliver top talent in a competitive marketplace and in accordance with BRF's CARE Values. This will be accomplished through the development of strong internal partnerships, as well as continuous education and understanding of the external talent market and its constraints. This role's focus will be focused on the full spectrum of production, production support and professional roles.

What You Will Do

• Directly source talent, via job ads, direct souring, and creating pipeline activities through community and social media engagement, for a wide variety of open roles within the organization.
• Through a variety of methods, and collaboratively within HR and other functions, work to enhance BRF's employer brand awareness and reputation in the internal and external talent marketplace.
• Continuously develop a strong understanding of the overall business and therefore its needs as related to talent.
• Act as SME for hiring managers in talent acquisition best practices.
• Responsible for quality of the prospective candidates that are presented to the hiring managers for open requisitions. Will own relationship with candidate from application through start date.
• Form relationships with hiring managers and leadership to understand the recruiting business needs and required skills. Through partnership to leaders be able to offer consultancy services on market, salary, talent availability, job description language and title.
• Manage the candidate pipeline by implementing effective sourcing strategies.
• Ensure all talent related internal and external communication, documents and information are up to date, professional and consistent with driving a positive BRF brand image.
• Engage in talent development and management projects which enhance the talent brand, create candidate pipeline, develop the skills of our leadership and standardize our TA processes
• In partnership with Talent Acquisition team, regularly evaluate recruiting sourcing and avenues and adjust as necessary.
• Adhere to and participate in continuous development of talent acquisition processes at BRF.
• Meet assigned talent acquisition metrics, such as time to fill and Level of Service (LOS)

What You Will Need To Be Successful

• Bachelors in Human Resources, Business, Marketing or related preferred.
• A minimum of three (3) years of talent acquisition experience across a broad variety of roles from entry level individual contributor to senior leadership, including technical functions.
• Proven experience developing strong partnerships with leaders to coach, counsel, and support through a successful hiring experience.
• Experience identifying and managing relationship and KPIs for third-party sourcing partners.
• Prior internal recruiting experience.
• Experience using a variety of recruiting tools including applicant tracking systems (ATS), social media and sourcing tools.

At BRF, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. Your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

You'll also receive a comprehensive benefits package including a low premium and out of pocket cost medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k with company match, generous sick and vacation time, 9 paid holidays, birthday and floating holidays, volunteer time and more!