Sr. Talent Acquisition Specialist

Description

Lactalis US Yogurt is currently seeking candidates to join our Human Resources Team.

Lactalis Group, the world leader in dairy, is a family-owned business with more than 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals worldwide, committed to providing healthy and delicious dairy products that bring people together every day. At Lactalis, our core values of AMBITION, ENGAGEMENT, and SIMPLICITY are at the heart of everything we do.

If you’re looking for a unique experience with a company that offers strong brands, professional expertise, and a dynamic work environment that champions entrepreneurial spirit, hands-on responsibility, and real opportunity for career development, we want to hear from you!

At Lactalis US Yogurt, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace and we know that our candidates come from many different backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job posting, we still encourage you to apply and share with us your STORY, your PASSION, and your EXPERTISE! You may be just the perfect candidate for this or other roles within our company.

From your PASSION to ours

The Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist is responsible for providing support in an HR environment by managing the full life-cycle recruitment process. You will be responsible for ensuring the overall recruitment strategy attracts, recruits, and selects high-performing employees that drive the business forward. Full-life cycle recruiting involves partnering with HR and hiring managers; sourcing candidates; delivering creative and proactive solutions, fostering relationships with external agencies, and providing advice and guidance to hiring managers on candidate selection. You will lead and/or support projects that focus on improving the candidate experience and recommend processes and tools that drive a successful recruitment model. 

This role is HYBRID – onsite in our Bedford, NH offices three days per week. This role will also need to be onsite at our Londonderry, NH facility on occasion, and have flexibility to be onsite additional days (during the normal Monday – Friday workweek) as business demands.

From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Manage full life cycle recruiting process from in-take to offer acceptance including job postings, sourcing, pre-screen, interview scheduling, and preparing and extending offers for all Corporate and Industrial Salaried positions, which includes two corporate offices and three industrial plants.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with HR, hiring managers, candidates, and cross-functional partners to create a best in class hiring experience for internal partners and candidates.
• Prepare job descriptions and interview questions based on robust intake calls that reflect each position’s requirements.
• Make recommendations on an on-going basis for continuous improvement of processes and practices.
• Create and manage comprehensive recruiting strategies, selection criteria, recruitment processes and procedures, and leveraging internal and external resources to hire top talent.
• Build and maintain an external talent pipeline and maintain relationships with talent for future opportunities. 
• Providing research and statistical information, collecting, preparing, and analyzing information to use as resources for Talent Acquisition.
• Ownership of the annual Internship Program, working in partnership with HR and hiring managers to drive participation and execute events.
• Participate in the USA Talent Acquisition Workgroup which focuses on system and process improvements that bring efficiency and consistency to TA across the Lactalis USA businesses.
• Responsible for the Lactalis U.S. Yogurt LinkedIn company page, partnering with Communications and Sr. Talent Development Manager on the content calendar and creation and execution of posts.
• Other related ad-hoc projects.
• Travel and / or extended or off work hours may be required.

From your STORY to ours

Qualified applicants will contribute the following:

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 5+ years recruiting experience with a combination of Direct Hire Agency experience plus Corporate Recruiting experience strongly preferred.
• Experience working with LinkedIn Recruiter, and other recruiting sites (i.e., Indeed).
• Previous experience with passive candidate recruitment.
• Must have high degree of prof