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Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Lactalis
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 2/28/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/24/2025

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Full-time

Description

JOB TITLE : Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

REPORTS TO : Senior Manager, Talent Development

LOCATION : Chicago, IL

Lactalis Heritage Dairy is currently seeking candidates to join our team in Chicago!

Lactalis Group, the world leader in dairy, is a family-owned business with more than 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals worldwide, committed to providing healthy and delicious dairy products that bring people together every day. At Lactalis, our core values of AMBITION, ENGAGEMENT, and SIMPLICITY are at the heart of everything we do.

If you're looking for a unique experience with a company that offers strong brands, professional expertise, and a dynamic work environment that champions entrepreneurial spirit, hands-on responsibility, and real opportunity for career development, we want to hear from you!

Lactalis Heritage Dairy : inviting you to share with us your STORY, your PASSION, and your EXPERTISE.

From your PASSION to ours

The Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist plays a key role on the HR team by managing the full lifecycle recruitment process and ensuring the overall recruitment strategy attracts, recruits, and selects high-performing employees that drive the business forward. You will be responsible for ensuring the overall recruitment strategy attracts, recruits, and selects high-performing employees that drive the business forward. Full-life-cycle recruiting involves partnering with hiring managers; sourcing candidates; delivering creative and proactive solutions, fostering relationships with external agencies, and providing advice and guidance to hiring managers on candidate selection. You will lead and / or support projects that focus on improving the candidate experience and recommend process and tools that drive a successful recruitment model.

From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include :

  • Manage full life cycle recruiting process from in-take to offer acceptance including job postings, sourcing, pre-screen, interview scheduling, and preparing and extending offers.
  • Develop and maintain strong relationships with hiring managers, candidates, and cross-functional partners to create best in-class hiring experiences for internal partners and candidates.
  • Create and manage comprehensive recruiting strategies, selection criteria, recruitment processes and procedures, and leveraging internal and external resources to hire top talent.
  • Prepare job postings and provide interview guidance based on robust intake calls that reflect each position's requirements.
  • Build and maintain an external talent pipeline; and maintain relationships with talent for future opportunities.
  • Providing research and statistical information, collecting, preparing, and analyzing information to use as resources for Talent Acquisition.
  • Make recommendations on an on-going basis for continuous improvement of processes and practices.
  • Participate in the USA Talent Acquisition Workgroup which focuses on system and process improvements that bring efficiency and consistency to TA across the Lactalis USA businesses.
  • Ownership of the annual Internship Program, working in partnership with HR and hiring managers to drive participation and execute events.
  • Assist with Lactalis Heritage Dairy LinkedIn company page, partnering with Communications and Sr. Talent Development Manager on the content calendar and creation and execution of posts.
  • Manage relationships with Universities and Colleges and lead all on-campus initiatives including but not limited to recruitment initiatives, career fairs, marketing events, social events etc.
  • Travel and / or extended or off work hours may be required.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

From your STORY to ours

Qualified applicants will contribute the following :

Education and Experience

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
  • 5 years' agency and / or in-house recruiting experience
  • Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

  • Knowledge and experience working within an Applicant Tracking System
  • Experience working with LinkedIn Recruiter, and other recruiting sites (i.e. Indeed)
  • High degree of proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, and Power Point)
  • Proven ability to efficiently manage multiple tasks, prioritize workloads, and maintain a structured, organized work environment
  • Team player with a "can do" attitude, also able to work independently with a high sense of urgency and go-getter spirit
  • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to establish close working relationships and interact positively with multiple departments and locations - both in person and remote
  • Demonstrated experience in managing projects from initiation to completion, including planning, executing, monitoring, and closing, while ensuring alignment with company goals and timely delivery
  • Strong problem solving, attention to detail and verbal / written communications skills
  • Ability to adapt in a changing work environment
  • Lactalis Heritage Dairy is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to : veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities.

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