Recruiter

Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.

We’re looking for a Recruiter who loves connecting great people with great opportunities and is ready to continue growing their career in Talent Acquisition.

In this role, you’ll manage full-cycle recruiting, develop trusted relationships with hiring leaders, proactively identify talent, and help create an exceptional candidate experience. We’re looking for someone with 3-5 years of recruiting experience who brings solid fundamentals, strong communication skills, curiosity, and a commitment to continuous learning.

Role Responsibilities

• Own the full recruitment life cycle, from initial outreach to closing stages
• Partner with hiring managers to understand their talent needs and lead the end to end talent acquisition process for your area
• Manage recruitment processes in line with agreed priorities, ensuring excellent candidate experience and fast turn-around times
• Regularly track pipeline, recruitment metrics, priorities, and performance data to share with internal stakeholders
• Ensure recruiting success and robust candidate pipelines through leveraging all channels: employee referrals, applicants/active, and passive/sourced candidates in addition to innovating more avenues for attracting amazing candidates
• Source both active and passive candidates utilizing creative strategies and techniques
• Ensure a high level of data integrity with our ATS (Workday) and other People Office systems
• Partner with business leaders to deeply understand and advise on current and future state talent needs and adapt to changing headcount plans related to business outcomes and priorities
• Be a strategic advisor to business leaders as you collectively devise and deploy diverse talent acquisition strategies
• Create an environment of shared ownership around talent outcomes
• Foster a culture of excellence with deep recruiting subject matter expertise, strong business acumen, and a focus on innovation and scalable solutions
• Act as a strategic partner by providing a unique perspective on market trends, competitive intelligence and industry best practices
• Makes recommendations that optimize our processes and organization
• Tightly manage a multi-stage interview process that ensures that decisions are made in a structured way and according to pre-defined criteria with the goal of reducing bias
• Create meaningful job descriptions that speak to the brightest minds and influences top talent to engage with our brand and apply to our open positions
• Proactively and creatively scout and source talent on LinkedIn as well as other sources - find the talent that is not looking to be found
• Conduct thoughtful outreach campaigns that leverage insightful and relevant content to your chosen audience
• Recruit for diversity by using best practices to attract, hire, and retain a diverse workforce
• Nurture talent over time to create an ecosystem of highly qualified candidates who are interested in Ankura and who can be contacted for open positions as the organization grows
• Be the face of Ankura to the talent market - maintain professional and courteous communication with candidates to foster long-term relationships
• Know your candidates by investing time in understanding their capabilities and aspirations
• Ensure that we are delivering great candidate and hiring team journeys by using data to identify and address weak links in the process or approach
• Continue to raise the bar for talent through research-driven targeting and consistent use of high-quality assessment tools
• Manage multiple concurrent objectives, projects, groups, or activities, using good judgment and data to make the right call on priorities and resources

Requirements

• Minimum of 3-5 years recruiting experience with demonstrated ability to influence successfully and achieve goals by partnering across a matrix of business leaders, HR partners, as well as external partners
• Prefer prior recruiting experience with fast-paced industries including management consulting
• Proven experience in identifying, engaging, and closing excellent, senior-level passive candidates
• Understand the value of a well-structured process and enjoy working with a diverse team of interviewers to continuously monitor and improve decision making quality
• Proven ambition and ability to close candidates in a highly competitive environment
• Experience building strong candidate relationships and knowledge of how to communicate around highly personal topics such as motivation, compensation, and career progression
• Talented and experienced at removing roadblocks and creative problem solving
• Must be metrics-driven and adept at using data to continuously report on and improve the recruitment process; experience with Workday is a plus
• Experience building trust and establishing genuine relationships with both hiring partners and candidates by intentionally working to understand intrinsic motivators and end-state goals
• Strong executive communication skills with the ability to understand your audience and adapt your verbal / written communication accordingly
• Strong attention to detail and operational excellence - experience prioritizing across many stakeholders and candidate pools

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