Talent Acquisition Specialist (13622)

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Level: Professional Staff Manager

Function: Human Resources, Recruiting

Grade: 15

Location: Wytheville, VA

Who We Are: At Somic America, you are joining a talented and passionate team of automotive parts makers driven to produce and create products of exceptional quality and reliability. You can be a part of creating a better, more exciting future, for the automotive industry, our business, our plants and yourself. 

For more than 35 years, we have produced quality components for the North American and South American automotive markets, providing manufacturers with local sourcing and a connection to the exceptional capabilities and performance commitment of Somic Ishikawa. We are justifiably proud of our history, but more importantly, we are proud of our people. Our expectations are high, and we’ll work hard to support you professionally and personally so you can challenge yourself to be your very best. 

Job Purpose: Manage recruiting workflow and serve as adviser to the business. Build and extend customer relationships through excellence in recruitment process delivery, including sourcing, screening, assessing, and marketing candidates. Manage the offer process and play a consultative role between the hiring manager and HR. Manage high-touch candidate relationships and remain customer focused and responsive in customer-facing activities. Coordinate relationship and engagement with third-party suppliers. Serve as talent acquisition industry expert, providing the hiring manager with insights. Use data and relevant technology to inform decision-making and drive conversations with customers. Serve as the subject matter expert around applicant tracking systems, candidate sourcing methodologies, and recruitment process effectiveness. 

Responsibilities: 

1. Recruitment Process: Develop recruiting plan for the Company, including recruiting KPIs; track progress to the plan and metrics.
2. Recruitment: Work on attracting, shortlisting, selecting, and appointing suitable candidates for all jobs (either plant or corporate) within Somic America, Inc. Manage the hiring and onboarding process of new employees for the Company. 
3. Candidate Pipeline: Develop and maintain a candidate pipeline for hard-to-fill specialist and management roles, developing a variety of talent attraction and engagement processes and tools.
4. Recruitment Campaigns: Contribute to the creation of recruitment campaigns, identify the characteristics of key candidate target groups; propose channel and media selections and messaging content; design events; draft communications content and agency briefings. 
5. Screen Candidate Applications: Carry out online research and telephone interview and review submitted portfolios of work to validate applications for all roles and to screen out those that do not meet key criteria.
6. Stakeholder Engagement and Resolving Stakeholder Issues: Direct stakeholder engagement by arranging actions, meetings, events and supporting materials to promote stakeholder understanding and commitment. Respond to more advanced escalations promptly and appropriately; provide managerial approvals as required. 
7. Future Talent Recruitment: Contribute to the creation of future talent recruitment campaigns; review and analyze external research on values and aspirations of university/school leavers; research and analyze recruitment channels (including career fairs); draft communications and events content. 
8. Vacancy Profiling: Liaise with hiring managers to review role profiles and to ensure that role responsibilities and candidate specifications are up-to-date and relevant; develop candidate and recruitment agency briefings to attract high-quality candidates. 
9. Create/Update Job Descriptions: Ensure job descriptions are accurate and up-to-date prior to recruiting efforts beginning.

Tasks:

• Design, evaluate and modify recruitment strategies and processes to ensure programs are current, competitive, and in compliance with legal requirements. 
• Analyze recruitment policies, procedures and practices to determine competitive recruiting plan. 
• Direct, prepare and distribute information to job candidates and current employees on job responsibilities, company benefits offerings and value of the workplace.
• Identify and implement practices to increase the quality of hiring practices by working with internal and external stakeholders, researching local employment issues. 
• Compile reports concerning open positions, recruitment metrics, hires, transfers and termination reasons.
• Analyze data and reports to identify and determine causes of termination and develop recommendations for improvement of the company’s policies and procedures. 

Mediate between candidates and hiring managers, such as by assisting in handling candidate questions or taking suggestions.

Competencies:

• Attracts Top Talent
• Communicates Effectively
• Business Insight
• Plans and Aligns
• Action Oriented

Education: Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent Experience preferred; High School diploma or GED is required.