Talent Acquisition Specialist

With a career at HMSHost, you really benefit! We offer:

• Health, dental and vision insurance
• Generous paid time off (vacation, flex or sick)
• Holiday pay
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Company paid life insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Free parking and onsite fitness center
• Wellbeing Support Program
• Training and exciting career growth opportunities
• Referral program – refer a friend and earn a bonus

Purpose

The purpose of the Talent Acquisition Specialist is to support, enhance, and optimize the 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

Disclaimer

All job requirements are subject to change to reflect the evolving position requirements or to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a threat or risk to the health and safety of themselves or other employees. This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to which will be required in this position. Employees will be required to follow other job-related duties as requested by their supervisor/manager (within guidelines and compliance with Federal and State Laws). Continued employment remains on an "at-will" basis. Dufry, Hudson, and HMSHost are equal opportunity employers and do not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factors.