Talent Acquisition Specialist – Global Businesses & Functions Full Time

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What You’ll Do

As Talent Acquisition Specialist in the Global Businesses and Functions Recruiting team, you will be responsible for the full lifecycle of recruiting activities for a diverse range of roles in our team’s portfolio. In partnership with other key members of the GBF TA team, you will manage the sourcing, screening, interviewing, and offers for all candidates in a multi-faceted regional setting. You will be responsible for maintaining high quality standards and delivering a positive experience for all candidates and stakeholders at each phase of the recruiting process. To successfully lead the internal and external recruiting efforts, you possess excellent communication, relationship, and process management skills and build positive and lasting partnerships with internal hiring managers, the GS/GSB HR Teams, HR in local offices, and other stakeholders.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred
• 2+ years of recruitment/talent acquisition experience in international markets and complex matrixed organizations or a high-touch recruiting agency
• Understanding of market talent pools, sourcing channels, hiring trends, cultural norms, compensation benchmarks
• Previous in-house full lifecycle recruiting experience, ideally within Shared Service Centers or a volume hiring environment preferred
• Strong behavioral and competency-based interviewing experience required
• Deep knowledge and proven success of utilizing LinkedIn Recruiter for successful talent engagement and pipelining
• Well versed with Applicant Tracking Systems, recruiting analytics tools, and digital communication tools like Trello, Slack, Sharepoint, strong proficiency with Microsoft Suite
• Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills in English, in addition other European languages preferred
• Ability to be responsive and effective in a fast-paced yet consensus-driven corporate culture, to multitask and operate effectively in a matrix organization
• Experience building internal network with senior leaders and advising senior stakeholders as subject matter expert
• Ability to drive efficient processes and show operational effectiveness

Who You’ll Work With

As part of the GBF (Global Businesses & Functions) Talent Acquisition team, Global Services and other BST business units to attract and select top talent across the system, the region and globally through: Best-in-class recruiting, innovative sourcing, and an engaging talent brand.

In this role you will work closely with the larger People team, including Talent Acquisition, HR, mobility, and the various business leads.

Additional info

You are good at

• In order to successfully lead the internal and external full lifecycle recruiting efforts, you will have excellent relationship and process management skills and be effective in building lasting partnerships with Hiring managers, the respective HR Teams, HR in local offices and 3rd parties (if applicable).
• Areas of ownership for you include:      
• Full lifecycle management of vacancies across a diverse range of corporate & digital functions primarily focused in India across Corporate Functions roles include People, Finance, Admin Assistants & Executive Support, Marketing, Operations.
• Manage key stakeholder relationships as a trusted partner and valued hiring partner, building a deep understanding of their business, function knowledge and/or technical skills, role requirements and desired candidate profiles
• Leveraging internal talent sources to drive mobility, employee referrals and alumni engagement in the region
• Identify high quality candidates through the proactive identification of candidates via direct channels, job postings, social media, web sourcing, talent mapping, vendors, networking & innovative sourcing techniques
• Conduct first round interviews for all suitable candidates, providing a competency-based assessment and fact-based candidate recommendation
• Build talent pipelines to fill current and future roles to drive improvements in quality and time to hire
• Manage recruitment campaigns for any volume hiring needs or brand building events
• Utilize the applicant tracking system to actively track, manage and report on candidate pipelines to enhance stakeholder communication and ensure effective process management
• Articulation of the global talent brand and candidate value proposition to talent in the region and talent markets in individual countries
• Support the regional recruitment strategy by contributing to and implementing regional initiatives to global projects; locally identify and implement improvements creatively
• Manage and improve the candidate experience through efficient process management and continuous communication
• Review key metrics and performance measures for the region such as time to hire, cost per hire and quality of hire, and recommend enhancements wherever possible
• Ensure global best practices are embedded in the region to drive operational effectiveness through process improvements and the ongoing coaching and mentoring of hiring managers
• Partner and collaborate closely with the regions HR and systems Recruiting teams to enhance the quality of hiring decisions

Equal Opportunity

The Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws. In addition, as a federal government contractor, BCG maintains an affirmative action program which furthers its commitment and complies with recordkeeping and reporting requirements under certain federal civil rights laws and regulations. BCG is an E-Verify Employer. Click here for more information on E-Verify. VEVRAA

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.

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