Talent Acquisition Manager

We are seeking a Talent Acquisition leader with extensive experience in corporate recruitment and team management. This position is responsible for overseeing the recruitment process for professionals across the North American region. The role involves developing and implementing recruiting plans, utilizing effective sourcing strategies and resources, and collaborating on global initiatives while adapting them to meet local market requirements when necessary. This position will report to the Global Talent Acquisition Leader and work as part of the broader Global Talent, TA and Learning HR team to support an integrated talent management approach.

Your responsibilities

• Lead, coach and manage a team of (7+) off-shore and permanent recruiters, coordinators, and sourcers. Coordinate requisitions and ensure requisition load is balanced across team members.

• Develop effective and efficient recruiting and sourcing strategies with a focus on diversity to meet the high growth demands of our organization.

• Partner with business leaders on market insights, competitive intelligence and talent trends to help craft the overarching talent acquisition approach.

• Utilize data to drive results, outcomes and accountability.

• Develop digital engagement and talent marketing strategies for building ongoing, strategic and diverse pipelines.

• Identifies the customers' business needs and translates them into recruitment strategy, plans and policies aimed at the fulfillment of the needs within time, budget and quality constraints. All well aligned with Global TA.

• Oversee a Campus Recruitment and Internship Program.

• Work closely with the respective global and local DEI teams to ensure DEI recruitment goals are operationalized.

• Ensures sufficient inflow of potentially suitable candidates by managing and utilizing the required recruitment capacity and sourcing channels and by building and maintaining professional networks and talent pools.

• Ensures candidate(s) are identified, interviewed and evaluated in line with the agreed recruitment plan, wayof working and related guidelines. With a strong focus on creating and delivering the ultimate candidate experience!

• Act as a business partner; consults, trains, builds and maintains good relationships, business knowledge and satisfaction of your customers.

• Act as a Recruitment Expert; keep up to date with the latest Labor Market Developments, Information, Trends and proactively consults the business.

• Responsible for finding ways to improve TA strategies, processes and tools.  Drive efficiency with stakeholder and candidate experience.

• Execute branding, diversity, and other initiatives in collaboration with global talent acquisition and act as an ambassador of the Vanderlande Employer Brand.

• Manage Workday and maintainaccurate candidate documentation to ensure legal compliance.

• Manage recruiting vendors seeking continuous improvement of service levels, effectiveness and efficiency.

• Oversee North America recruiting budget.

Your qualifications and skills

• Bachelor's Degree with at least 10 years of experience in corporate recruitment and experience in leading and developing a high performing Talent Acquisition team.

• Successful design and execution of proactive and innovative recruiting strategies including non-traditional recruiting methods in competitive talent markets.

• Strong networker with proven experience in building a strong employer brand including a talent community and engagement strategy.

• Experience in developing, implementing and executing recruitment excellence Strategies/Policies which align with business goals and budgets.

• On time delivery of right talent for complex technical/engineering profiles and senior management positions at (international) industrial organizations.

• Business acumen with strong talent advisor skills. Strong internal networker with continuous focus on quality improvement of the recruitment process, building a recruiting culture and imbedding recruitment knowledge by proactive consulting, training and educating the organization.

• Engaging personality with good interviewing skills using active listening and fact finding.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to influence decisions, communicate and consult at all levels and across all internal partner organizations. 

• High level of independent responsibility and personal accountability in leading and decision making in alignment with company strategies.

• Significant experience in fast-paced and high demand environment including demonstrated ability to simultaneously focus on multiple, competing priorities.

• Extensive experience hiring via online recruitment, social media, AI, Video Recorded Interviews and other digital methods. 

• General knowledge of Compensation and Benefits programs.

• Experience with Workday is highly desirable.

• Experience working for a Global organization is also highly desirable.

This role is based in Marietta, Atlanta Georgia.