Assistant Vice President - Talent Acquisition - Retail

Roles & Responsibilities :

- Partner with hiring teams to build effective sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches with an ability to manage customer/partner expectations through a deep understanding of return on investment.

- Be able to recruit passive candidates and possess the mentality to "profile people and gauge chemistry of candidates for fit and understand their motivation" rather than sell a role.

- Possess strong ability to screen, interview candidates within the framework of the position specifications and prepare an ideal candidate slate within an appropriate and consistent timeline.

- Build and maintain network of potential candidates through pro-active market research and on-going relationship management; conducts in-depth interviews of potential candidates, demonstrating ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high offer-to-interview ratios.

- Communicate effectively with the hiring manager and interview team to ensure preparedness during the interview process. Share and exchange information with all levels of management.

- Recommend ideas and strategies related to recruitment that will contribute to the long-range growth of the company, implementing any new processes and fine tuning standard processes for recruiting that fits within company's mission to deliver the highest quality results to the customer.

- Provide a great candidate experience and act as a candidate advocate.

- Articulate in writing a plan with deliverables, timelines and a formal tracking process.

- Participate in special projects/recruiting initiatives including assessment of best practices in interviewing techniques, leveraging of internal sources of talent and identification of top performers for senior-level openings.

Basic Qualifications :

- BA/ BS degree or equivalent from a highly reputable university.

Experience required : 9-14 years of progressive full-lifecycle recruiting experience within an international corporate dynamic and search firm environments, non-technology hiring.

- Experience managing and prioritizing multiple searches, projects and client relationships.

- Relentless client focus and commitment to continuous improvement, ability to proactively network and establish effective working relationships.

- Ability to execute recruiting strategy, including employer promotion in the marketplace, candidate management, diversity sourcing, and interview process management.

- Must have experience with building and utilizing a variety of sourcing plans and tools, including proactive phone and internet research.

- Must pursue conscious cost-containment efforts in recruiting, continually seek new sourcing options, and develop creative approaches to delivering candidates to the customer.

- Self-sufficient and able to work with little direct supervision.

- Strong consulting skills and demonstrated ability to work in a team environment, as a team leader and member.

- Possess strong analytic skills with ability to create, measure, and scale the right workflow between candidates, hiring managers, and the recruiting team. Strong communication skills, organizational and negotiation skills.