Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition

Our Purpose
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Title and Summary
Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition
Overview• Aligns talent acquisition strategies with the Mastercard's talent agenda• Accountable for designing, planning and coordinating talent acquisition efforts; ensures the talent acquisition programs are scalable to support local, regional and global activities• Acts as consultants to the business on a wide variety of talent acquisition strategies, programs and processes• These include talent planning, recruiting, assessment, candidate sourcing, market research and employment branding
Responsibilities• Develops sourcing strategies through detailed market research and data mining, using resources such as LinkedIn or social media pertaining to prospective candidates• Conducts initial outreach to and screening of prospective internal and external candidates and serves as the direct point of contact for the prospective candidate up until their candidacy is confirmed• Executes marketing and branding talent acquisition strategies (e.g. timed social media postings, segmentation driven visuals), and collaborates with Communications to achieve designated objectives• May coordinate phases of the talent acquisition process for assigned talent pipeline and evaluates team recommendations of candidates• Follows talent acquisition specific processes and systems• Monitors progress against quarterly goals for time-to-fill, cost per hire, diverse candidate slates and candidate pipelines• For University Talent Acquisition:• Assists in development and deliverance of university segmentation strategy by maintaining contact and outreach to relevant universities, programs, departments etc.• Conducts initial outreach to prospective student hires either before or following on-campus talent acquisition and marketing events or initiatives• Collaborates with Communications to assist with designated branding and marketing strategies, offers insight from on-campus observations and feedback• Collects and sorts the university-hire effectiveness metrics to develop insights on universities to prioritize and revisit
Experiences• Advance English proficiency is a must.• Bachelor degree is a must.• Experience in Talent Acquisition for consulting roles.• Experience to manage high volume recruitment. • Experience implementing talent acquisition programs/processes including candidate screening, assessment and selection in a fast-paced, high volume and matrixed environment• Track record delivering hiring results that meet business needs and expectations• Consistently delivered performance at or exceeding quarterly goals for time-to-fill, cost per hire, diverse candidate slates and candidate pipelines• Experience screening, assessing and selecting prospective top candidates and provide a robust analysis and insight to candidate• Experience conducting market research independently and communicating effectively and clearly with research subjects (i.e. cold-calling, interviewing), collating findings in a clear manner across multiple functions & industries• Experience managing the candidate life cycle preferable• Demonstrated success identifying new candidate pools and sources
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