Sr. Specialist Talent Acquisition

Purpose: Responsible for partnering with People Operations, Business and
Recruiting colleagues to identify and qualify candidates and drive the
recruitment process from onset through offer.
Responsibilities
* Plan and participate in strategic planning meetings with key business partners to understand current and upcoming requirements in order to build a plan on how to effectively recruit for positions within your area of responsibility.
* Ownership of the entire recruitment process including requisition approval, hiring manager briefing, job advertising, candidate sourcing, application review, candidate screening, interview strategy and offer process.
* Leverage relevant advertising resources to create awareness and attract qualified applications for key roles within your area of responsibility.
* Leverage candidate databases (internal and external) to identify prospective candidates to create awareness and invite them to apply for open positions including cold calling prospects.
* Build and maintain candidate pools of strong candidates and new prospective candidates within the functional area that your support.
* Conduct weekly check-ins with active candidates and hiring managers throughout the entire recruiting process for each role.
* Support planning and gathering information for quarterly review meetings with key stakeholders that will provide an overview of recruiting achievements as well as opportunities to improve hiring performance moving forward.
* Partner with recruiting and sourcing colleagues to share candidates and jobs to encourage a collaborative hiring process.
* Utilize recruitment systems effectively following key standards, documenting key actions and ensuring all data is accurate for reporting purposes.
* Support additional recruitment initiatives as needed.
Skill Requirements:
* Ability to multi-task and prioritize workload in a fast paced environment.
* Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills.
* Strong written and verbal communication skills.
* Ability to manage change and influence hiring behavior.
* Ability to set clear goals and deliver into key objectives with minimal supervision.
* Good ability to understand business needs and assess talent against those needs.
* Independently able to perform the responsibilities of the job and makes decisions with minimal supervision.
* Shows courage to express ideas and to challenge the status quo within the TA organization and the business.
* Demonstrated ability to push back/influence the business to drive best hiring practices.
* Understands how to navigate challenges independently.
* Ability to think critically and formulate opinions and strategies to solve challenges.
* Consistently displays curiosity by asking questions and identifying ways to make improvement to better TA processes.
* Demonstrated ability to pick up new tasks quickly and independently.
* Process improvement mindset to think beyond the current state towards what could be and independently brings forward solutions.
Experience Requirements:
* Minimum of ‎3 years' experience in talent acquisition ideally within a fast paced agency
* Track record for delivering high impact customer experiences and implementing new solutions to support their business area.
* Track record of driving recruiting initiatives (i.e. proactive recruiting, internal recruiting, diversity, etc) and achieving goals.
* Demonstrated ability to drive holistic recruitment strategy (i.e. employer branding, social recruiting, etc.)
* Arabic speaking is a plus