Sr. Specialist, Talent Acquisition

This will be a remote role based out of the Banfield Pet Hospital headquarters in Vancouver, WA.Salary Range: $75,029 - $103,165 (DOE)Summary and Qualifications: The primary purpose and function of the Sr. Specialist, Talent Acquisition is to manage the sourcing, recruitment, and selection process for assigned functions/regions, with a focus on priority, leadership, and innovation for ensuring security of top talent for positions at Banfield.This position performs full lifecycle recruiting and provides the highest level of staffing services while guiding clients/ hiring managers and candidates through the selection process.Essential Responsibilities and Tasks:

Live and exemplify the Five Principles of Mars, Inc. within self and team.

Organize, lead, and communicate effectively regarding the day-to-day recruitment operations for assigned client groups through the development and execution of full life cycle recruitment plans and strategies, ensuring the candidate, functional leader, team, and recruiter experiences are met.

Partner with senior leadership to identify functional needs, workforce-planning strategies, ensuring adherence to practice objectives.

Conduct initial interviews to ensure qualified candidates are referred to managers.

Perform selection function including pre-screening resumes and candidates, participating as part of interview team, advising hiring managers, driving the offer process, leading, and documenting post-interview debriefs and feedback sessions with interview teams, candidates, and all levels of leadership.

Maintain accurate and well-ordered documentation on all candidates, searches, hiring managers’ interactions, and other recruiting activities in the applicant tracking system.

Meet established hiring targets, manage client relationships, and interact with hiring managers to discuss specific requirements.

Drive facilitation of continuous improvement via measurement tools, scorecards, and recruitment analytics.

Ensure proper and confidential protection of candidate data, recruiting and hiring practices comply with governmental regulations and company policy and procedure requirements.

Develop search strategies leveraging a balance of creativity, drive, and political savvy.

Source active and passive candidates that fit and will further our culture through networking, direct sourcing, and working with external executive search firms (as needed), providing exceptional service delivery by understanding our business landscape, competitive demographics, and employment value proposition to provide a qualified and diverse candidate pool.

Build networks with strong leadership talent in the marketplace. Lead, coach, and mentor recruiters and hiring managers as needed.

Retain and manage relationships with additional recruiting support, such as sourcers, researchers and search firms.

Represent Banfield for recruiting purposes at identified networking and industry events, job fairs, conferences, etc., participating in special projects when necessary.

Other job duties as assigned.

Special Working Conditions:

Ability to work at a computer for long periods of time.

Project timelines and work volume/deadlines may often require more than 40 hours per week to complete essential duties of this job.

Must have mental processes for reasoning, remembering, mathematics and language ability (reading, writing, and speaking the English language) to perform the duties proficiently.

Ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form and to solve problems involving several variables.

Ability to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, and climb as well as manipulate (lift, carry, move) up to 50 pounds.

Requires good hand-eye coordination, arm-hand-finger dexterity with the ability to grasp, and visual acuity to use a keyboard and operate necessary equipment.

The noise level in the work environment is normally moderate.

Environment where pets are present.

Experience, Education and/or Training:

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or a similar discipline is required, or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.

PHR/SPHR and/or AIRS certification is preferred.

Six years of full lifecycle in-house corporate recruiting are required, with three years recruiting for senior level positions and demonstrated success in a high-volume recruitment position.

Demonstrated working knowledge of legally defensible sourcing, networking, qualifying, assessing, interviewing, relationship management, record maintenance and metric management is required.

Expert level experience to perform searches that produce qualified candidates according to relevant job criteria, using various recruitment sources including cold calls, talent pipelines, networking, Internet recruiting resources, career fairs, internal talent pools, and employee referrals, is required.

Experience recruiting for large companies with a multi-unit presence is preferred.

What We Offer – The Good Stuff:

Competitive salary with paid time off & holidays so you can spend time with the people you love

Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your loved ones

Fertility and family-building assistance

Paid Parental leave

Practice Paid Basic Life Insurance

Practice Paid Short- and Long-Term Disability

Competitive referral program – join our team, bring your friends, and get paid

Automatic enrollment 401(k) Savings Plan after 60 days of employment with generous company match

Commuter Benefits

Legal Plan

Health Savings Account & Flexible Spending Account

Mental health support and resources

Paid Volunteering

Optimum Wellness Plans® for up to three pets

Continuing Education allowance & MED hours for eligible positions

Student Debt Relief (for full-time DVMs)

A Variety of discounts including Mars, PetSmart, Royal Canin, fitness, cellular and so much more

Even More Good Stuff:

Opportunities for growth and leadership roles at Banfield, Mars, and other divisions of Mars

Health and well-being benefits to support quality of life

Associate-led equity, inclusion, and diversity groups (we have 7 of them!)

Awesome opportunities to volunteer through Mars Volunteer Program, like volunteering at coral reef cleanups or on research vessels!

Terms and conditions applyBenefits eligibility is based on employment statusWE ARE A DRUG-FREE, SMOKE-FREE, EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.Banfield Pet Hospital® strongly supports and values the uniqueness of all individuals and promotes a work environment where diversity is embraced. Banfield Pet Hospital is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, genetic information, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability. Banfield Pet Hospital complies with all applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every Banfield location.