DESCRIPTION
Amazon is looking for an innovative, hands-on, and customer-obsessed Recruiter to join our professional recruiting organization. The successful candidate will own a key segment of hiring for Amazon's high-volume hiring team, providing a full resourcing service including sourcing and stakeholder management. This fixed term contract position will end in December 2021.
You will ensure that candidates are recruited quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively in order to meet the ongoing needs of a rapidly growing business, solving complex recruitment challenges and developing your own career and skill-set along the way.
Responsibilities:
· Provide a proactive and targeted approach to attract the best talent to Amazon
· Partner with stakeholders in the business to provide first-class recruiting support and advice throughout the end to end hiring process and on overall hiring strategy
· Operate as the expert in industry best practices, monitoring new trends and opportunities to consistently raise the standard for hiring to the organization
· Manage the recruitment process from initial candidate contact to offer ensuring an outstanding candidate experience.
· Analyze and implement process improvements.
· Develop creative and effective sourcing strategies and plans to build pipelines for top candidates across all areas of the organization
· Oversee relationships with recruitment preferred suppliers and other external organizations
· Implement and enforce consistency with our recruiting policies and procedure
· Represent the company at external events when required
· Ensure the quality of our recruiting process is consistent by conducting skills training for managers
· Ensure 100 % data accuracy of our recruitment database. Track and analyze statistical recruiting data to determine effectiveness of all recruiting activities, including time to hire and cost per hire.
· Undertake referencing for senior level candidates
· Develop and deliver on EU wide recruitment projects as defined by the local team EU teams.
· Communicate effectively and partner with HR and Training teams, ensuring collective objectives are achieved
· Work to develop the employer brand through advertising, promotion, and community involvement with hiring focused local events
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
· Several years' in-house experience in an customer facing, full cycle recruiting role, with proven track record of achievement in a comparable environment: a fast growing, high pressure, and heavily matrixed global corporate organisation with a high hiring bar
· Experience of mid-senior level professional hiring within e-commerce and/or the softlines retail sector
· Skilled at partnering with hiring managers and other stakeholders in diverse locations including the US and EU to build effective sourcing strategies and relationships while managing a high volume workload
· Demonstrated customer service focus, and proven track record in providing an excellent candidate experience and meeting SLA goals
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills and effective influencing skills; fluency in written and spoken English is required
· Results-focussed, highly adaptable and flexible; used to working in a fast paced environment to deliver against company hiring goals
· Excellent negotiation skills and professional presence; able to partner effectively with senior stakeholders externally and internally
· Proven results in a hands on delivery role, with experience of leveraging different sourcing channels and familiarity with internet search tools
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Passion for matching candidates to their ideal role, and a creative approach to problem solving
Able to work efficiently and accurately when under pressure to meet tight deadlines
