Talent Acquisition Specialist

training, development, and execution of talent acquisition (TA) strategies to include both retail and food and beverage.

Essential Functions:

• Provides new user and on-going user training to support and optimize talent acquisition tools, technologies, resources, policies, and materials. and conducts virtual check-ins
• Manages partial and full-cycle recruitment of key positions as assigned (posting ads, sourcing, screening, interviewing, selection, hiring, candidate experience, etc.); understands business trends and objectives and applies talent acquisition functional knowledge to business and hiring issues
• Analyzes market and employment data, tracks and reports on recruiting activities (weekly/monthly/quarterly), and gauges performance trends and results
• Builds and cultivates strong partnerships with HR and hiring managers; provides specialized guidance to help implement and optimize recruiting efforts and hiring process for both individual and volume hiring, including new store openings
• Assesses existing tools, processes and practices against predefined standards and goals; provides recommendations for closing identified gaps to improve recruiting, hiring, candidate experience and retention
• Provides specialized guidance and direction to HR partners to identify & track community recruiting resources including outreach programs, colleges, and universities (culinary programs), job fair vendors and organizations, and diversity groups
• Maintains talent acquisition resources including ATS, career sites, dashboard, ensuring they are up to date, relevant, optimized and effectively utilized to support the recruitment process (e.g. TA playbook, marketing collateral, training materials); facilitates and manages talent acquisition contracts, including billing, reporting, and assessing return on investment

• Designs and develops professional and visually appealing presentations to support internal and external communications, ensuring clarity, coherence, and alignment with brand standards.
• Ensures compliance with local, state and federal laws, ordinances and statutes affecting the recruitment process

Reporting Relationship: The TA Specialist reports to the Director of Talent Acquisition

Minimum Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, and Work Environment: 

Education and Experience: The combination of education and professional experience must exceed 3 years:

In a technical role: Requires 3 years of experience engaged in intermediate level, full cycle recruiting experience in large, multi-state, multi-unit hospitality/restaurant/retail environment

A bachelor’s degree in a program related to the functional area can count for 1 of the three-year requirement

In the industry: 3 years of Hospitality, F&B and/or Retail experience

Specialized Training:

Training that leads to proficiency of talent acquisition and search tools

Training that leads to knowledge of best in class recruiting processes, standards, and strategies

Specialized Skillset/Competencies/Traits:

Demonstrated ability using data to analyze staffing and retention barriers and developing solutions for hard to fill and high-volume staffing challenges

Demonstrated experience with managing programmatic ad strategy and an RPO a plus

The ability to work in a highly matrixed environment; this position works highly independently at most times, but also works collaboratively on talent projects and large recruiting initiatives on an as-needed basis

Customer service-oriented mindset with a focus on providing positive experiences for internal and external stakeholders (e.g. candidates, field HR and Operations teams)

Skilled at creating marketing content and collaborating with internal stakeholders

Knowledge of employment laws and regulations related to recruitment and hiring

The ability to work with content management systems and graphic design tools (e.g. Canva, Adobe Creative Suite) a plus

Business acumen and also has the mindset required to understand the long-term implications of talent acquisition planning and to advance the organizations goals

Demonstrated history of understanding the needs of the business, stakeholders, the employee population, and individual circumstances

Demonstrated history of creating and maintaining positive work environments

• Location/Travel:
• This is a remote position and requires the candidate to be based within reasonable commuting distance to a major airport
• Requires up to 25% travel for recruitment and hiring events, branch visits, and/or meetings