Talent Acquisition Manager - Early Careers-Hybrid Schedule
AramarkAbout the role
Job Description
The Early Careers Manager is responsible for establishing and leading the Early Careers recruitment and engagement strategy for the US business. The Early Careers Manager will drive innovation in the full lifecycle of early talent, ensuring solutions are market leading and competitive to attract and retain diverse early talent. The Early Careers Manager will partner closely with key stakeholders in the business and Talent Acquisition to build a network of Early Careers Champions to best support recruitment efforts and drive an excellent talent experience within our core campuses/partnerships. The Early Careers Manager will be a relationship builder and trusted partner across the COE, HR, and business leaders. This role will need strong leadership skills, strategic agility and proven experience in building and executing a best-in-class college relations program. This role will provide expert sourcing expertise by staying abreast of industry trends, labor supply and demand, and business knowledge
Job Responsibilities
- Build the recruiting strategy as well as short-term & long-term goals for the Early Careers function, overseeing the implementation of a new Early Careers strategy
- Partner with key stakeholders within the organization to build a network of Early Careers supporters to drive strategic partnerships within business and across clients for maximum ROI and success of program
- In partnership with HR partners, enable workforce planning for campus programs, assessing current and future staffing needs against business strategy
- Oversee relationships with key Career Services & Faculty leaders at targeted schools in order to ensure positive brand and access to students throughout school year, identifying new ways to drive brand awareness and enhance partnerships with key schools
- Create employment branding material in partnership with TA Recruitment Marketing to build awareness and engagement including social media campus activation
- Leverage existing professional development & talent resources to design and ensure successful early careers programs and engagement
- Develop early talent engagement strategy, providing end-to-end support for early talent in order to attract top talent
- Build and manage early careers recruitment strategy to ensure attraction of diverse talent to the organization
- Partner with key stakeholders to ensure efficient placement process for retaining talent after early careers program
- Leads and provides direction for team of recruiters, managing work capacity and resources
- Assists with defining, tracking, analyzing and reporting on early careers recruitment and program metrics
- Provide strategic recruiting expertise by staying abreast of campus industry trends, best practices, technological advancements and benchmark comparisons; functions as subject matter expert on all recruitment activities for campus program
The Early Careers Manager reports to the Talent Acquisition Director and will manage a team of 2-4 direct reports.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree preferred
- 2-5 years of experience in early careers recruitment required
- Up to 25% of travel required
- 1 plus years of leadership experience required
- Demonstrated knowledge of early careers recruitment strategies
- Excellent consultative, strategic thinking, problem solving and interpersonal skills.
- Leadership and influence skills; ability to effectively communicate & network at both executive and operational levels
- Creative and flexible in attitude and style to adapt to new situations in a rapidly changing, dynamic environment
- Strong data and analytics skill set required to lead evolution and development of dashboards; must be comfortable with large data sets from various systems
- Excellent consultative, strategic thinking, problem solving and interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrated experience with ATS technologies required.
- Advanced MS Excel and MS PowerPoint skills.
Benefits
• Flexible work arrangements
• Paid Time Off (PTO), Vacation, nine (9) paid holidays
• Volunteer days, community partnerships, Employee Assistance Program
• Your choice of three medical plans, two carriers to choose from & My Healthy Changes well-being program
• Adoption Assistance & Paid Parental Leave
• Tuition Funding Sources and Scholarship Programs
• Retirement plan with match on annual contributions
About Aramark
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