Senior Executive Client Aligned Recruiter

If you are a talent acquisition professional focused on the executive level, this is your chance to make a significant impact on the future of Microsoft as part of a leading-edge executive recruiting team. In this role, you will have the opportunity to attract, assess and secure executive talent from all industries around the world.  The role will focus on all facets of executive recruiting.

We are looking for a well-connected and intellectually curious Senior Executive Client Aligned Recruiter supporting Operations who can drive and own the recruiting efforts of external executive talent for Microsoft. This position encompasses all stages of the hiring process including partnering with client stakeholders, other talent acquisition professionals, and Human Resources (HR) business partners on succession planning, position strategy and candidate requirements, as well as developing sourcing strategies to target and assess top executive talent and negotiating and closing offers.  Ability to build internal and external networks is key, along with a solid foundation of executive recruiting skills and experience. This role will also be accountable for driving and maintaining a competitor strategy for executive talent acquisition at Microsoft, to ensure that we identify, target, and engage with the top talent in today’s technical marketplace.   

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

Stakeholder/Client Engagement

• Uses data and metrics, and an understanding of the long-term business requirements, to advise a division, set of countries, or subsidiary on the implications of talent gaps. Leads the development of staffing processes and strategies.
• Applies deep knowledge of factors relevant to the business and hiring managers' needs (e.g., time to hire, location, budget) and uses this knowledge to guide the development of end-to-end hiring plans aligned to the needs of the business group, division, region, or subsidiary.
• Consults a division, region, or subsidiary on critical talent needs and opportunities. Presents and frames information in a way that speaks to the business needs and influences leaders to embrace differentiated and alternative types of talent (e.g., compete, diverse, nontraditional) that may not be typically considered.

Data Analysis & Hiring Plans

• Analyzes relevant data and trends to provide insight and set plans to meet hiring goals. Connects data to cross-organization goals and leads conversations across groups to address broad hiring issues. Leads the implementation of a hiring plan for complex organizations, areas, or talent pools that addresses both business demand and availability of talent for a division’s, set of countries, or subsidiary’s short-term and long-term needs (12 months and beyond).

Candidate Attraction

• Uses deep knowledge of competitor opportunities to differentiate Microsoft’s unique career possibilities, advantages, and rewards and leverage a consistent, compelling message that conveys the most significant motivators to prospective candidates.
• Shares proven stories that help others across the discipline to source, recruit, and/or close candidates. Tracks candidate activity and shares with internal stakeholders.
• Coaches the client to represent Microsoft’s unique career possibilities, advantages, and rewards that are distinct from those of competitors.

Candidate Experience

• Gathers requirements and develops hiring plans that meet candidate needs throughout the hiring lifecycle, often for critical, complex, high level or high volume candidate searches. Owns the candidate experience and prepares candidates for next phases of the process. Enhances the candidate experience at all phases of the relationship by proactively identifying factors that may adversely impact the candidate and partnering with business leaders to develop mitigation strategies.

Talent Sourcing

• Leverages long-term relationships with talent pools and co