Staffing Specialist

Staffing Specialist

The Staffing Specialist will act as a Talent Advisor developing and fostering strong relationships with line clients and HR colleagues to ensure understanding of organizational need and develop strategies to effectively source talent internally and externally where growth and/or vacancies occur. Primary alignment will be divisional and functional with secondary emphasis on supporting initiatives on a "plug and play" basis as capacity permits and business need requires. The Staffing Consultant will be responsible for the development and delivery of creative, efficient, and effective sourcing and recruitment campaigns in response to clients' needs. Incumbent will act as a resource to clients by providing creative methods of building prospect pools, pre-screening and interviewing candidates, and facilitating the staffing process.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
*Coordinates, develops, and implements formal staffing plans and strategies with hiring managers and Human Resources Business Partners.
*Identifies a diverse pool of candidates to ensure company's diversity commitment.
*Coordinates, facilitates and/or participates in interview days and job fairs as needed.
*Reduces cycle time while maintaining or improving quality of hire.
*Contributes to process improvement initiatives and drives efficient process adherence.
*Manages relationships with third party vendors as necessary.
*Provides support of cross-functional and cross-divisional teams to implement an array of staffing initiatives, ensuring stakeholder participation, support and pull-through.
*Reports on recruiting activities as required or requested by the client as well as responsible for ensuring compliance.
*Delivers behavioral-based interview training to client groups across business.

Education Requirements:
*Bachelor's degree required.

Experience Requirements:
*At least 5 years of recruiting/staffing experience required, preferably in a large, matrixed organization
*An independent thinker who can work with minimal supervision while developing creative solutions to complex problems which arise during the recruitment process.
*Experience with direct sourcing and qualification of candidates, including use of the Internet, conducting telephone and on-site interviews utilizing behavioral-based interviewing techniques required.
*Experience recruiting in a fast paced - high volume environment is required.
*Requires thorough knowledge of recruiting/staffing database systems (experience using Taleo a plus).
*Requires working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
*Demonstrated strength in written and verbal communication as well as strong relationship building/maintenance, facilitation and influencing skills required.

Preferred Requirements:
*Pharmaceutical/Biotechnology industry recruiting experience, primarily in the Manufacturing and support functions functions, is a plus.
*Project management expertise in a deadline driven environment is a plus.
*Global recruiting experience is also a plus.
*Behavioral based interview certification is a plus. .
*Agency and Corporate recruitment experience desired


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