Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition Enablement

Solenis is a leading global producer of specialty chemicals focused on delivering sustainable solutions for water-intensive industries, including consumer, industrial, institutional, food and beverage, and pool and spa water markets. Owned by Platinum Equity, the company’s product portfolio includes a broad array of water treatment chemistries, process aids, functional additives, and cleaners and disinfectants, as well as state-of-the-art monitoring and control systems. These technologies are used by customers to improve operational efficiencies, enhance product quality, protect plant assets, minimize environmental impact, and create cleaner and safer environments.  

Headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware, the company has 69 manufacturing facilities strategically located around the globe and employs a team of over 16,100 professionals in 130 countries across six continents. Solenis is a 2024 US Best Managed Company, recognized fouryears in a row. For more information about Solenis, please visit www.solenis.com. 

Reporting to the Global Head of Talent Acquisition, The Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition Enablement, will lead the efforts in an assigned region to optimize, maintain, and evolve Solenis’ recruitment processes, programs, tools and systems.  This will be a key role on the Talent Acquisition leadership team based in North America. The successful incumbent will provide operational guidance and hands-on support to a number of internal and external stakeholders, including Solenis’ internal Talent Acquisition team, functional and HR business partners and third-party recruitment vendors, in order to increase operational efficiency and productivity with the function. Additionally, this person will be responsible for driving adherence to the company’s established policies and procedures, ensuring that Solenis is well-positioned to meet our KPI’s related to recruitment, diversity & inclusion and the overall candidate experience.  And finally, you will be responsible monthly recruiting reporting for the region, ad-hoc TA projects, and data-gathering exercises requiring some amount of redundancy on a recurring monthly basis.

This role can be located in the greater Philadelphia area, with the ability to work from our office in Wilmington, Delaware 3 days per week (preferred), or fully remote within the US, with the ability to travel to Wilmington up to 25%.

Responsibilities:

• Understand and maintain operational expertise of Solenis’ TA processes and procedures while seeking to find improvement opportunities to ensure an efficient and effective TA function.
• Develop and implement TA programs, tools, systems, and processes that help drive a strong pipeline capable & diverse talent, and identify flexible, scalable processes to streamline and simplify the candidate and hiring manager experience.
• Optimize TA programs by assessing strengths, identifying areas of improvement, determining key requirements, evaluating risks and opportunities, gathering data and feedback, and enhancing processes.
• Improve, develop and deploy solutions across the region to enhance processes such as third-party agency management, immigration management, candidate marketing and employee value proposition, employee referrals, university relations, AAP/EEO reporting (US only) and others.
• Partner with the Head of TA and the Talent Management team to maintain, update, and deliver TA training programs across the region.
• Manage the regional relationship with all TA suppliers, including with our core solution provider - Hudson RPO - which currently supports the company’s recruiting efforts across North America, Europe and parts of India.
• Work closely with regional HR leaders and internal stakeholders to ensure 100% compliance to Solenis’ established policies, procedures and SLAs, while escalating issues and developing solutions when necessary. This will include owning and managing certain monthly reports and actively following up with HRBPs where needed.
• Facilitate the effective utilization of Solenis’ TA systems, with particular focus on Workday Recruiting, to ensure these tools are being utilized appropriately; support the continued Workday Recruiting implementation by leading related work streams, with a focus on candidate and employee user experience and maximizing reporting capabilities.
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