Manager, Talent Acquisition

2 weeks ago


Kitchener, Canada Definity Full time

Job ID : 6345
Category : Human Resources
Brand : Definity
Regular/Temporary : Temporary
Fulltime/Parttime : Full Time
Location : Kitchener, Canada

Definity includes some of Canada’s most long-standing and innovative insurance brands, including Economical Insurance, Sonnet Insurance, Family Insurance Solutions, and Petline Insurance. With strong roots that date back to 1871, we’ve grown to become a digital leader in the insurance industry. We’re proud to help our clients and communities adapt and thrive in a world of constant change.

Our promise to you: It’s better here. Why? Because we CARE, and we provide an employee experience that’s collaborative, ambitious, rewarding, and empowering.

Our ambition is to be one of Canada’s leading and most innovative P&C insurers. Come be a part of our journey, and love what you do.

Definity offers a flexible, hybrid work experience where employees work from the office and virtually depending on the type of work they are doing and who they are working with. Leaders partner with their teams to find the right balance of on-site and remote work that best meets the needs of their teams, colleagues, brokers and customers, while ensuring collaboration, teamwork and accountability for goals.

**JOB RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Recruiting Delivery**:

- Ability to build strategic recruiting plans, articulate these plans to leadership teams and HRBPs, and successfully deliver on these plans the intended objectives
- Responsible for the delivery of HC demand by creating a high-performing team, continuously improving our recruiting process and being an exceptional coach
- Client management - working with hiring managers, HRBPs, campus program team, and other key stakeholders to understand recruiting needs, hiring requirements and develop strategies and set recruiting priorities to meet hiring goals
- Be the lead recruiter on some senior level and/or complex open requisitions as required
- Working with the Director of TA, help build our brand strategy for key job families and execute on an event and brand strategy
- Leverage insights from recruitment reports and adjust recruiting strategies as needed. Must be able to tell a story with the data and take in qualitative market knowledge.
- Implement the broader Talent Acquisition IDEA goals through the business unit’s more specific recruitment strategies
- Manage our agency strategy and spend

**Team Management**:

- Lead a team of Talent Acquisition Specialists who are accountable for innovative external talent sourcing, assessment and advising, and who will develop proactive pipelines for key roles
- Oversee their performance, development and delivery of results tied to client group needs
- Coach and mentor Talent Acquisition Specialists that helps build the overall capability and maturity of the Talent Acquisition function to achieve best in class practices
- Create a high-performing team culture with a continuous improvement and customer experience lens

**Qualifications**:

- Proven expertise in the planning and delivery of corporate recruiting in a complex, matrixed environment, with at least 6-8 years of progressive recruitment and leadership experience
- Proven experience in sourcing, building, and executing on recruitment strategies
- Proven experience in managing recruitment teams, specifically in load-balancing work efforts within a fast-paced, high-volume enterprise recruiting function
- Ability to manage teams in a data-driven environment, providing transparent delivery of recruiting to multiple client groups through dashboards, reports and recruiting metrics and industry best practices
- Great fundamental knowledge of the project management life cycle and change management principles for planning requirements, design, communication, implementation, and evaluation.
- Agility to pivot in strategic and tactical situations to assess business opportunities, developing use cases and problem statements, designing and executing practical solutions to talent/recruitment initiatives.

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**Background checks**
This role requires successful clearance of a background check (including criminal checks and leadership references).

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