Talent Acquisition Specialist

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent recruiting experience required.
• Minimum of 5 years direct, relevant and recent experience in recruiting entry to mid-level professionals required.
• Proven success as a professional recruiter that requires direct sourcing.
• Strong organizational and follow-up skills; ability to prioritize and process a high volume of work for multiple team members while maintaining the highest quality.
• Experience working with executives and teams.
• Sound judgment, discretion and influencing skills required.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Workday, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and database systems required.

Responsibilities

• Support the recruitment function in managing high volume full-cycle recruitment for assigned client groups.
• Responsible for managing full-cycle recruitment and selection process including conducting strategy meetings to discuss the job requirements, job postings, Phone screening, booking interviews for the hiring managers.
• Offer negotiation with candidates and complete the reference checks and background checks process using third-party vendor.
• Should be able to handle 20 – 25 job requisitions at a time for entry level to mid-senior level.
• Develop unique sourcing strategies to support hiring in diverse environments including our pharmacy operations team. “Be Creative” and find new avenues and sourcing methods to attract top talent from the external job market including LinkedIn and other social media platforms.
• Build strong relationship with various Educational Institutions including Colleges, Universities and other Healthcare Associations to promote visibility and branding of Express Scripts Canada.
• Coordinate and participate in the job fair for Co-op student hiring.
• Help in encouraging Express Scripts Canada’s internal Employee Referral Program and responsible to send out monthly communication to ESC employees.
• Proactively share market and competitive intelligence to inform talent, business and organizational design decisions.
• Present ongoing requisition updates both written and verbally to the Talent Acquisition Manager, HR Advisors and Senior Management.
• Provide excellent customer service at all level that enhance the Candidate/Client experience by promoting positive and inclusive culture of ESC.
• Network, source and build a talent pipeline with industry leaders assess them and ultimately attract the highest skilled and credentialed professionals to join Cigna.
• Other responsibilities assigned by Recruitment Manager based on the business requirement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Healthcare or Pharmacy preferred.
• Knowledge of web-based candidate tracking system management and reporting preferred (Workday a strong plus).
• Someone who is truly passionate about recruitment and would like to grow within the same field.