Description:
Wawanesa is seeking a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist to attract and recruit talent into our performance-based, values-aligned company. This role serves as a strategic partner to the business, collaborating across functional teams to drive effective and optimized recruitment practices and deliver a best-in-class candidate experience.
Job Responsibilities
- Develop, implement and maintain talent acquisition and sourcing strategies.
- Manage the full cycle recruitment for various roles across our business from attraction, to sourcing, interviewing, assessments, background checks and offers of employment.
- Develop and maintain relationships with Hiring Managers and HR Representatives.
- Act as a Subject Matter Expert and build competence; coach managers in effective behavioural interviewing, compliant interviewing protocol, and effective candidate screening techniques.
- Source active and passive candidates for current vacancies as well as build pipelines and talent communities for future vacancies.
- Screen incoming and on-file applicant resumes, and asses for job and organizational fit.
- Identify innovative and best channels for attraction; advertising of job vacancies on job boards, professional associations, universities and colleges, social media, social recruiting tools, etc.
- Attend external recruitment events (e.g. campus fairs, career fairs, and networking events) and participate as a company representative.
- Prepare salary recommendation analysis and collaborate with HR Representatives on the development of new hire total rewards packages.
- Administer psychometric assessments and background checks
- Generate employment offer documents and other related materials for distribution to applicants.
- Maintain communication with applicants and hiring managers throughout the recruitment lifecycle.
- Monitor and measure recruitment results against Key Performance Indicators.
- Research and contribute competitive intelligence to the business.
- Ensure diversity and inclusion is imbedded at each stage in the recruitment process.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience working in full-cycle recruitment, either in-house or in an agency environment.
- Bilingual in English & French will be considered a strong asset.
- Completion of post-secondary education.
- Demonstrated self-starter, able to take initiative and suggest and implement creative solutions.
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills.
- The ability to demonstrate courage at all levels and always in the best interest of the company.
- Excellent MS Office skills, and experience in Applicant Tracking Systems.
- An openness to change, trying new tools (AI), strategies and tactics to achieve better outcomes.
- Sound problem-solving skills that can identify and assess moderately complex issues and opportunities that support the business.
- Well-developed interpersonal skills with the ability to work and communicate with all levels of the organization while fostering positive working relations.
- A true desire to learn and improve continuously, keeping abreast of developments and innovation in the talent acquisition space.
- Strong organizational skills including the ability to multi-task and prioritize.
- A team player that can work in a collaborative environment.
- Sound decision making skills and strong project management skills.