Talent Acquisition Partner - MUST have Executive Recruiting experience and proficiency in Workday

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic talent acquisition direction, staffing expertise, and counsel to Human Resources and leaders within the organization for each functional area supported.
• Identify best practices as they relate to processes, tools, and metrics to support and track the success of the staffing function, based on the internal Voice of the Customer (VOC).
• Proactively generate a continual, diverse pipeline of highly-qualified candidates.
• Utilize technology solutions when possible to streamline processes to maximize the Talent Acquisition Team’s role.
• In addition to contingency searches, works with Executive Recruiting team to manage highly-visible, retained searches for high-level recruitment.
• Create and utilize innovative and aggressive recruitment methods that are designed to deliver an exceptional, diverse pool of candidates to Hiring Managers in an effective and efficient manner.
• Proactively and continuously utilizes effective sourcing strategies (passive and non-passive) in an effort to build a network of high quality, diverse candidates for current and future openings.
• Proactively identifies recruitment issues, problems, and provides timely and proper solutions.
• Driving local or country-wide staffing projects as assigned.
• Ability to understand the needs of the business segments and hiring managers and translate those to the broader talent labor market.
• Expertise to identify, evaluate, and manage proactive sourcing plans, position specific sourcing strategies, initiatives and tactics including cold-calling, networking/relationship building, internet job boards, database mining, referrals, professional outreach, agencies, and advanced sourcing techniques.
• Solid and persuasive verbal, written, consulting, and platform communication skills; ability to market BD value proposition and opportunities to candidates, present candidates to business partners, understand key conversion factors of candidates, and influence them to join the organization.
• Ability to develop and maintain meaningful hiring metrics.
• Strong time management and analytical skills; ability to prioritize multiple projects and responsibilities.
• Ability to handle ambiguity, stressful and/or confidential situations with ease, professionalism, and savviness.
• High energy, enthusiasm, passion for recruitment, and sense of urgency levels.
• Travel required as needed, approximately 25%.

Qualifications

• Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree in a related field. Master’s degree a plus. 5+ plus years of high volume professional and/or executive recruitment experience, ideally in a technical, scientific environment within a mid to large public company. Experience recruiting within the medical device, life sciences, bio-tech, pharma, or related industries and/or recruiting for Corporate, Engineering, R&D, Sales, Marketing, IT, a strong plus.
• Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: Experience utilizing applicant tracking systems; prior use of Taleo/Workday a plus. Experience with a broad range of recruiting methodologies including sourcing capabilities (active and passive), internet, employee referrals, professional networking, social media etc. Proven ability to “hunt” leads and turn into qualified candidates. Demonstrated experience managing the candidate process orchestrating a positive candidate experience throughout. Prior use of behavioral-based interviewing and selection models required. Prior experience managing retained searches very desirable.