Talent Acquisition Partner

Our Customer is the world's learning company, with 32,000 employees across 70 countries worldwide. Their unique insight and world-class expertise comes from their long history of working closely with teachers, learners, researchers, authors, and thought leaders. Their products and services are used by millions of teachers and learners around the world every day. Whether it’s training school leaders or educating professionals, they are helping people make progress in their lives through learning.

We are seeking a Talent Acquisition Partner on a contract basis to help support our Customer’s business needs. This role is 100% remote in Eastern Standard hours.

Reporting to the Talent Manager, the Talent Acquisition Partner will sit in the Enterprise Functions stream. The team hires roles that make strategic sense to be hired as a collective. These include functional areas such as Customer service, Project/Program Management, Legal, Finance and HR which are the backbone of the business. This collaborative and forward-thinking team is truly global and you will hire chiefly across the US.

As a Talent Partner sitting within the Global Talent Acquisition Team, you will be responsible for the full end to end talent selection process. In your everyday work you will contribute towards achieving one of the core multiyear goals to become a truly talent and skills-based organization. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of the company through your abilities to find and match great people to great roles both internally and externally. As part of this you will be focused on creating the best possible candidate and manager experience, driving innovative hiring strategies to meet specific needs.

You’ll embrace new technologies, ideas and ways of thinking to drive new solutions to business problems and be a brand ambassador for the areas you support. You will love to influence through data and experience, operate at pace while always striving to delivering quality results for the business.

What You'll Do:

• Partner with Hiring Managers and HR teams across your specific area to identify hiring needs or skills gaps as they arise, leveraging all the tools in your tool kit to find the best and fastest solution to solve the need
• Partner with hiring managers to understand business direction, strategies and WFP/forecasts and build proactive strategies to create and drive engaged talent pools to enable a faster route to market once positions are open
• Partner with HR and management teams to understand internal bench strength and succession plans to support internal upwards mobility as well as driving engagement through great career opportunities for their own teams
• Operate as a strategic thought partner for the business, building strong relationships with your hiring teams and leverage your experience and influence to drive a best-in-class recruitment and candidate experience
• Operate with a growth mindset challenging your own and others thinking to consistently evolve talent practices to achieve greater results
• Monitor and drive your own performance against pre-set criteria, always striving for excellence
• Operate as one with your peers and the broader HR teams, prioritizing and being agile providing support one another as needed
• Leverage data to influence business thinking and support on talent decisions
• Be a champion and ambassador for diversity and unbiased hiring as a lever for business growth
• Stay relevant and up to date with industry trends, demographic shifts, new technologies, platforms, or channels for us to explore
• Promote a ‘select in’ mentality and consider candidates against their skills rather than just their experience

Qualifications:

• Knows what great recruitment looks like and can demonstrate successful execution of the end to-end proactive talent attraction/acquisition services and strategies
• A desire to delight the customer – whether that be a candidate or a manager
• Being positive, collaborative, agile and adaptable is part of your DNA
• Has fun with new technologies and understands how to use them to automate tasks when needed
• Focused on being the best Talent partner possible with the core objective of helping the business achieve its goals to drive growth
• On trend, you are up to date on industry/tech/candidate preferences within the market and use these to inform recruitment decisions
• Performance driven – challenging yourself and others to achieve
• Collaborative and tenacious team player
• Strategic talent partner in all positions within your remit and will be comfortable in leveraging market insights and data to support hiring or talent decision making

Please Note: In order to create a safe, productive work environment, our client is requiring all contractors who plan to be onsite to be fully vaccinated according to the CDC guidelines. Prior to coming into our offices, contractors will be required to attest that they are fully vaccinated.

Perks are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements)
Health Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life (including spouse & child), 401k, STD/LTD, AD&D, and Commuter Benefits program.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.