Senior Technical Recruiter

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Talent Acquisition

Job Description Summary

The Senior Technical Recruiter must be able to successfully prioritize, execute, and close challenging searches, managing to benchmarks and metrics. They thrive in an innovative, fast-paced environment, and are driven by data to develop winning talent strategies. The best candidates draw on years of expertise in talent delivery and have built extensive industry networks. They have sound business acumen and the ability to forge dynamic relationships with business leaders. They have a reputation for being exceptional at candidate generation and development, negotiation, client management, and are highly organized. They possess the ability to prioritize, push back, and demonstrate a strong sense of urgency, all while being highly customer focused and collaborative. Develop innovative recruiting strategies to attract top talent. Act as a liaison for potential candidates, generate and follow up on leads, perform initial telephone screens, keep accurate records of potential candidates, follow up with established recruits, support team members and other division teams as necessary.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Partner with hiring to build and execute effective sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches with an ability to manage customer/partner expectations through a deep understanding of return on investment.
• Partner effectively with recruiting team peers and cross-functional partners (Compensation, HR, Systems and Programs teams, etc.)
• Recommend ideas and strategies related to recruitment that will contribute to the long-range growth of the company.
• Recruit passive candidates at senior levels and develop sophisticated closing strategies that match fit and motivation rather than focusing on selling alone.
• Write recruitment strategy documents with deliverables, timelines and a formal tracking process.
• Interview candidates within the framework of the position specification. Possess strong ability to screen, interview and prepare a candidate slate within an appropriate and consistent timeline.
• Partner with the recruiting manager on fostering excellence in the team's culture and driving productivity.
• Self-sufficient and able to work with little direct supervision.
• Excellent communication, organizational and negotiation skills.
• Strong client focus and commitment to continuous improvement; ability to proactively network and establish effective working relationships, must pursue conscious cost-containment efforts in recruiting, continually seek new sourcing options, and develop creative approaches to delivering candidates to the customer.
• Ability to execute recruiting strategy, including employer promotion in the marketplace, candidate management, diversity sourcing, and interview process management.
• 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.
• Ability to execute searches at all levels
• Strong client focus and commitment to continuous improvement; ability to proactively network and establish effective working relationships, must pursue conscious cost-containment efforts in recruiting, continually seek new sourcing options, and develop creative approaches to delivering candidates to the customer.
• Identifies and utilizes innovative sourcing methods, posts positions, performs resume review, conducts candidate screens and participates in feedback towards making a hiring decision.
• Recruits, screens, and interviews internal and external applicants to fill current or expected job vacancies. Reviews and evaluates applicants work history, education, training, and other qualifications.
• Notifies applicants of consideration or rejection; interviews those selected that meet organizations qualifications. Informs candidates of jobs duties/responsibilities, compensation and benefits programs, work schedule/conditions, career advancement opportunities, etc. Conducts and scores, or arranges for, testing of applicants, records results and other relevant information.
• Prepares and extends job offers; /or authorizes appropriate paperwork.
• Possesses and applies broad knowledge of concepts and principles or exhibits technical expertise in a specific area with minimal instruction or guidance with appreciable latitude for un-reviewed action; performs moderately difficult assignments with diverse scope and complexity, requiring a great deal of originality, creativity and problem solving with initiative and independent judgement required.

Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in a relevant field or equivalent education and/or experience
• Minimum of 5 years experience in Human Resources and/or Recruiting
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite

Preferred Qualifications

• Financial Services and/or Insurance Industry experience
• Experience with technical recruitment
• Proficiency with ATS and CRM tools

Working Environment

• This is a hybrid position requiring three days in office per week in one of our hub locations (Cedar Rapids, Denver, Philadelphia).  Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.

Compensation

• The Salary for this position generally ranges between $80,000 - $95,000 annually. Please note that the salary range is a good faith estimate for this position and actual starting pay is determined by several factors including qualifications, experience, geography, work location designation and operational needs. Salary may vary above and below the stated amounts, as permitted by applicable law.
• Additionally, this position is typically eligible for an Annual Bonus based on the Company Bonus Plan/Individual Performance and is at the Company’s discretion. 

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

This job description is not a contract of employment nor for any specific job responsibilities. The Company may change, add to, remove, or revoke the terms of this job description at its discretion. Managers may assign other duties and responsibilities as needed. In the event an employee or applicant requests or requires an accommodation to perform job functions, the applicable HR Business Partner should be contacted to evaluate the accommodation request.

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