Sr. Recruiter

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ABOUT THE COMPANY

Founded in 1888, Lee Kum Kee, a Hong Kong-based global food company, specializes in creating condiments and sauces that promote Chinese cuisine worldwide. With more than 300 products to choose from, Lee Kum Kee takes the mystery out of cooking authentic and delicious Asian foods in the comfort of your kitchen. Lee Kum Kee is committed to providing authentic and innovative condiments and sauces featuring the highest quality ingredients. Armed with a unique management culture, stringent quality control, superb and innovative products, coupled with the century long brand reputation, Lee Kum Kee has achieved unanimous recognition and won numerous prestigious awards.

Lee Kum Kee (USA) Inc., a division of Lee Kum Kee International Holdings Ltd., has its headquarters and manufacturing facilities in Southern California with more than 500 employees (Americas Zone Region). We are looking for the best and brightest talents to join our company and work together to bring the next level of success!

POSITION SUMMARY

As a Senior Recruiter you will manage the end-to-end talent acquisition process for roles critical to our business functions in the U.S, Canada, and Latin America. From the creation of a performance profile to gaining the candidate’s acceptance, you will drive the full cycle of our talent acquisition process helping to establish our reputation as an employer of choice. You will drive the development and execution of sourcing strategies, delivering positive candidate, and hiring experiences while maintaining compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.

In this role, you will collaborate and be a strategic advisor with HR Business Partners, hiring leaders and other stakeholders providing guidance and leveraging your business acumen, to attract the future talent of Lee Kum Kee.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Full-Cycle Recruiting Excellence

• Provide full lifecycle recruiting to including working closely with hiring managers to gain a comprehensive understanding of the position, internal and external sourcing, evaluating resumes, prescreening applicants, interviewing, evaluating talent and value competencies, and negotiating compensation packages. Coordinate on-boarding activities.
• Develop, create, and execute strategic targeted sourcing strategies to build robust candidate pipelines through social media, networks, direct sourcing, ATS and other recruitment platforms and tools.
• Partner closely with hiring managers to understand role requirements and provide consultative hiring guidance.
• Oversee the pre-employment processes including reference checks and required pre-employment screening programs (background checks and drug testing).
• Utilize a lens of Diversity and Inclusion when evaluating, recommending, and guiding candidates, hiring managers and other stakeholders through the evaluation and selection process.
• Design and deliver an outstanding candidate experience throughout the recruitment process.
• Manage complex, senior-level searches with multiple stakeholders.
• Use your talent market expertise, data, and business acumen to educate and influence hiring managers on how to identify and acquire the best talent.

Process & Analytics

• Leverage recruiting metrics and analytics to optimize your hiring process and outcomes.
• Track and report on key recruiting metrics, providing regular updates to stakeholders.
• Identify and implement process improvements to reduce time-to-fill while maintaining quality.
• Monitor pipeline health and proactively address potential gaps.

Strategic Initiatives

• Build and maintain talent pools for critical corporate functions.
• Contribute to employer branding initiatives that strengthen our corporate hiring efforts.
• Utilize and provide feedback on new recruitment technologies and assessment tools.
• Develop creative sourcing approaches for hard-to-fill roles.
• Other duties as needed.

COMPETENCIES

• Problem Solving
• Action Oriented
• Planning & Organizing
• Customer Focus
• Self-Development

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION, SKILLS and EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business Administration, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of full cycle recruiting experience plus 3 years of talent acquisition experience in CPG industry; experience in S&P500 CPG companies is highly desirable.
• Strong ability to interview and assess candidate skills based on performance driven behaviors.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office suite: Word, Excel, Outlook & PowerPoint.
• ATS experience is a must; experience with iCIMS is preferred.
• Ability to prioritize and multi-task several projects at the same time; follow thru and complete the assigned duties on time.
• Must be proactive, organized and detailed oriented.
• Must have good written & verbal communication and analytical skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills with an ability to deal with all levels of employees.
• Ability to deal with problems involving few concrete variables in complex situation.
• Must be able to maintain confidentiality.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

• This individual must possess good written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Bilingual in Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese) or Spanish is preferred.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

• Ability to add, subtracts, multiply, and divides in all units of measure.
• Using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ideal candidate must compute rates, ratios, and percentages and draw and interpret bar graphs.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Regularly required to use hands and fingers to perform daily job functions.
• Required to stand, sit, kneel and walk while performing essential job functions.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

• The noise level in the work environment is usually light.
• This position is often in office settings and may visit the plant and warehouse locations from time to time.
• This role requires to work in office during normal business hours to perform essential job functions and smooth teamwork with others.

It is Lee Kum Kee’s policy to seek and employ the most qualified persons in all jobs in a manner which will ensure equal employment opportunity as well as administer personnel actions in a manner as to not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability or protected veteran status. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.