Talent Acquisition Manager

Responsible for ensuring timely delivery of hiring demands for Landers Superstore. Oversees a team of recruitment professionals to drive hiring delivery, efficiency and process improvements. Leads the organization in Branding and Recruitment Marketing.

JOB SUMMARY:

Branding and Sourcing

• Develops strategic road map and implements programs, plans and procedures to provide quality candidates to the organizational needs

• Builds quality relationships with the internal customers and external recruitment agencies

• Establish relationships with industry partners and aide in building a stronger brand for the company

• Proactively seek candidates through targeted sourcing channels

• Creates programs to ensure there's a flow of candidate pool for all hiring demands

• Stay up to date on all branding guidelines and requirements to ensure all produced collateral from the recruiting team meets the branding standards

• Work closely with Marketing Team to create and maintain advertisements for employment opportunities, public relations messaging, and any public facing collateral that contains the Landers branding

• Represent the Landers organization with external activities like campus, institution partnerships and other events

Recruitment Operations

• Oversees the end-to-end recruitment process

• Conducts end to end hiring for Managerial roles for both the Store and Central office vacancies

• Serves as the recruiting subject matter expert and advisor to the organization for all staffing needs.

• Plan, direct and develop efficiencies of activities and processes of recruiting store and central office vacancies

• Support ongoing HR improvement projects

• Proactively create process improvement initiatives impacting the Talent Acquisition process and all related stakeholders

• Drives team compliance on Internal policies and Talent Acquisition Standard Operating Procedure

• Provide/develop/maintain regular reporting on recruitment activities, requisition, applicant flow, interviews, hires, etc.

• Setting standards for evaluating applicant qualifications

• Assures that contacts and relationships with educational institutions, employment agencies, workforce centers and other sources for applicants are maintained

• Conducts regular meetings with internal stakeholders to review hiring needs, recruiting activities, and applicant pipeline development plans

• Develop and provide innovative solutions to meet hiring needs and attract applicants to maintain applicant pool.

Screens and conducts competency-based interviews to select qualified candidates for the hiring vacancies. Partners with various departments and hiring managers to ensure an excellent candidate and stakeholder experience.

Candidate Sourcing

• Utilizes social media platforms to expand networks to professionals

• Sources potential candidates with the use of traditional and/or non-traditional recruitment channels.

• Conducts proactive sourcing and boolean searches for specialized roles

• Address all inquiries from job portals as well as internal inquiries from employees

• Conceptualizes and implements various sourcing initiatives to fulfill the hiring demand

• Participates in nationwide off-site/ on-site recruitment events

• Creates job ads aligned to the Landers' brand marketing and feel

Vacancy Management

• Conducts job brief meetings with the Hiring Managers to understand the skill sets and nature of the role

• Partners with internal external teams to ensure the requirement is aligned with market standards

• Builds knowledge and understanding of a variety of roles in order to effectively source, screen, and short list applicants.

• Cascades & complies with Service Level Agreements to hiring managers

• Identifies future hiring needs and proactively source for potential hires & talents in the market

Agency Management

• Partners with varied Manpower Agencies to ensure deployment of manpower needs of the store

• Monitors the performance and delivery of the agencies.

• Coordinates with the HR Admin and Accounting teams for billing and proper charging of provided services

Candidate Management

• Guarantees timely processing of candidates received for open vacancies

• Answers all candidate queries related to their application status

• Schedules and conducts interviews for shortlisted candidates as needed in the hiring vacancy

• Conducts behavioral interviews to ensure proper assessment of job and culture fit of the candidate with the company

• Conducts Background Investigation for selected candidates

• Collects pre-employment requirements of the candidate

• Accurately encodes the candidate in the HR Information Systems and trackers

• Assist in interview schedules for Leadership and Senior Officers candidates

• Collates all hiring documents and ensures completeness for regulatory and audit checking documentation

• Coordinates with Total Rewards team for proper salary calibration

• Presents offer letters and explains provisions in the employment contract to the selected candidate

• Provides regular updates to hiring managers, and HR partners to cascade any progress and/or bottlenecks encountered

• Partners with different departments to ensure Day 1 readiness of the candidate upon onboarding

Reports

• Ensures preparation and sending of timely and accurate reports

• Measures and reports sourcing metrics, like source of hire, aging, and candidate conversion rates.

• Analyzes data to discover trends, patterns and correlations that will assist management in making better business decisions.

• Regularly reports vacancy status and fill-up rate to management team

QUALIFICATIONS:

Educational Background:

Graduate of any four-year course, preferably in the field of Human Resources, Psychology, Behavioral Sciences, with at least 2 years relevant experience in volume hiring in the retail industry.

Work Experience

Preferred experience in retail industry but not required

Experience in managing multiple manpower agencies

Knowledge and Skills

Proficient in using Microsoft Office tools

Experience in conducting behavioral and competency-based interviewing

Above average communication skills

Strong stakeholder management

Ability to problem solve and multitask