Talent Acquisition Specialist

Talent Acquisition ManagerThe 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.• 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.• 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• Prior experience supporting an international multi-brand consumer, retail, supply chain, consumer, wholesale, medical device business• MBA or advanced degree