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Senior Director, Global Talent Acquisition - Corporate Functions

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Job ID 302377 Date posted 12/20/2024 Location : Wayzata, Minnesota Category  HUMAN RESOURCES Job Status  Salaried Full Time

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Job Purpose and Impact

The Senior Director, Global Talent Acquisition – Corporate Functions is a highly strategic role responsible for leading the Corporate Functions recruiting team in sourcing and recruiting the job family of Legal, Marketing, Human Resources, Corporate Affairs, Communications, Strategy, Business Development, Sustainability and Administrative Services talent globally, with a focus on developing and executing complex global strategies. This role will lead efforts to attract and hire top-tier corporate functions professionals ranging across early career roles to senior level positions. This role will be strategic and forward thinking, requiring extensive corporate functions related recruiting and talent acquisition strategy experience, including extensive experience in building relationships with business leaders, hiring managers, candidates and across the HR team. Comfort in ambiguity and ability to influence across a large global team will be critical to success. You will continuously develop top recruiting and advisory capabilities within the team.  This role reports to the Vice President, Global Talent Acquisition.

Key Accountabilities

  • Develop a comprehensive global talent acquisition strategy including initiatives to attract, source, and hire top-tier corporate functions professionals for the company at all levels.
  • Lead the sourcing strategy and vision of attracting top talent with success and effectiveness, defining strategy, developing tools, and building global cohesion including proactive sourcing, recruitment marketing, employer branding, and diversity, equity and inclusion; and leading strategic capability development based on workforce plans and goals. 
  • Identify and operationalize recruitment channels and techniques, including social media, networking events, and industry partnerships to attract passive candidates for key geographies and talent segments. 
  • Lead improvement of the end-to-end talent acquisition processes and technology, including candidate sourcing, screening, interviewing, and selection, while ensuring a positive candidate and hiring manager experience, develop global talent acquisition policies, processes, and legal requirements to align with local laws, regulations, and company standards, and collaborate with Total Rewards team on compensation strategies to ensure market relevance in offers and monitor trends. 
  • Partner with the global employer brand team to develop and implement innovative talent attraction strategies, messaging, and campaigns. 
  • Manage hiring efforts and lead the collaboration across early career/university and executive positions, strategies to ensure holistic goals and successful results. 
  • Develop, report, and influence robust metrics to measure talent acquisition's effectiveness and overall capability; identify trends, successes, and areas of improvement for performance enhancements. 
  • Provide strategic leadership, development and talent management for direct reports and their organization, which may include forecasting resource needs, recruiting, hiring, performance management, training, and budgeting. Coordinate subordinate managers and supervisors in selecting staff to align with current and future needs of the organization. 
  • Partner with procurement and legal teams to ensure the right strategic partnerships are in place in order to deliver the hiring strategies across areas of talent attraction, sourcing and marketing for the areas of hiring you will support.
  • Play a key role in being the Global Talent Acquisition Leadership Partner for the Corporate Functions, working closely with the SVP of Human Resources for Corporate Functions.
  • Other duties as assigned. 

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications 

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
  • Confirmed experience in global talent acquisition strategy, candidate pipeline development, research and a variety of talent attraction and engagement methods, processes, and tools.
  • Confirmed experience in recruiting technology and tools as well as talent acquisition digital disruptive tools.
  • Minimum of eight years of related work experience, five years of supervisory experience.

Preferred Qualifications 

  • 10+ years of experience recruiting within high performing and winning corporate functions talent acquisition teams.
  • 5+ years of leadership and proven ability of building high-performing and engaged global teams.
  • Human resources or talent management certificate.
  • Proven track record of successfully leading global talent acquisition strategy, candidate pipeline development, research, and execution across a variety of talent attraction and engagement methods, processes and tools for operations and supply chain professionals.
  • Excellent communication, relationship-building, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively interact with candidates, hiring managers, and senior leaders as well as influence key stakeholders across the organization.
  • Experience leading a significant workforce transformation and/or specialist hiring projects.
  • Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in recruitment practices.
  • Experience with applicant tracking systems (ATS), recruitment marketing platforms, and other HR technology tools.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, global environment and adapt quickly to changing priorities.
  • Adept with leveraging data to build KPIs/metrics, including determining, measuring, elevating, and monitoring performance on a regular basis, develop actions/strategies based on outcomes and story tell leveraging data.
  • Previous global experience and experience working with global business services sourcing strategies.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.

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