Senior Recruitment Manager- US

<b> Overview / Responsibilities </b><br><br>Reporting to the Vice President of Resourcing for the Americas, you're a self-starter who thinks outside the box, coming up with creative recruiting strategies that will attract amazing candidates. Flexible, innovative, and data-driven, you understand that hiring situations are never the same. Your ability to mentor, collaborate and instill confidence in your team comes second nature. <br><br>On a day to day basis, you will be responsible for: <br><ul><li> Hands on management of day to day recruitment operations across United States for all Business Units and Service Lines through local resourcing teams </li><li> Ensure that resourcing operations and process within area of responsibility are aligned to overall business and resourcing regional strategy and objectives </li><li> Lead and maintain a resourcing service that implements high value solutions, maintaining strong understanding of best in class methods to attract, assess and select talent in assigned area of responsibility </li><li> Deliver an ethical and customer focused resourcing service </li><li> Expert in local cultural, legislative, HSE and resourcing practice; supports Vice President, Resourcing contributing to overall regional strategy to meet particular resourcing challenges in assigned area of responsibility </li><li> Act as a partner to operational and functional leaders by understanding the specific business demand lookahead and operational business needs </li><li> Responsible for multiple business units and/or locations with a medium to large team </li></ul><br> <b>Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities: </b> <br><ul><li> Provide consultative, problem-solving support for challenging business issues within assigned location(s) and deliver expert resourcing support to the business in a timely and cost effective manner </li><li> Management and administration of direct and indirect reports working locally and remotely, maintaining open and effective lines of communications </li><li> Proven people management skills; ability to manage people issues in a fair and productive manner; motivate others to strive for excellence and manage the effective allocation of resources to meet business requirements </li><li> Drive and deliver operational resourcing strategy in order to attract and engage staff, contract and key strategic hires within defined area of responsibility </li><li> Management and negotiation of local supplier agreements, ensuring optimum service provision and value for money </li><li> Work closely with local operational teams to define how the resourcing strategy aligns to specific location and/or service line needs in the short, medium and long term </li><li> Expert in local employment legislation, salary trends, the competitive landscape and the external factors that impact the supply of critical talent; understands the impact this has on local resourcing process and builds safeguards into local resourcing strategy </li><li> Makes best use of resourcing technology and tools to tackle particular resourcing challenges under area of responsibility </li><li> Plan and lead local talent attraction campaigns with support from the Talent Attraction Manager </li><li> Hire, train and develop a professional resourcing team that delivers best in class resourcing services that exceed expectations of internal customers </li><li> Maintain close relationships with S&D Business Development Team(s) to understand the business demands, future project scopes and potential diversification of service lines and provide bid/tender support with available, suitable and qualified talent </li><li> Provide intelligence to stakeholders on the internal and external talent landscape, market trends, availability and mobility of the candidate pool </li><li> Accountable for utilizing metrics and reporting KPIs to evaluate performance and identify opportunities for improvement </li><li> Pro-actively engage with resourcing colleagues across the region and global network to encourage sharing of best practice, resourcing support, discussion of key strategic appointments and effective sourcing of internal talent </li><li> Provide best in class advice to hiring managers on resource planning, assessment methods and interviewing </li><li> Communicates resourcing and business strategy to local resourcing team(s) to ensure the alignment of resourcing activities in the region and to maximise efficiencies and delivery to the business </li><li> Provide guidance and mentor-ship to recruiters, supporting them in identifying the most effective resourcing channels, tools and methods of assessment for their vacancies </li><li> Champions the responsible handling of candidate data, ensuring adherence to company and legislative processes. Conducts regular audits to ensure compliance. </li><li> Ensures consistent alignment to company values and behaviours </li><li> 10% business travel as required to support resourcing campaigns and stakeholder alignment </li></ul><br>
LI Remote <br><br><b> Skills / Qualifications </b><br><br><b>Skills/ Qualifications:</b> <br><ul><li> Degree level qualification desirable but not essential </li><li> Bilingual language skills preferred </li></ul><br><b> Knowledge, skills and experience: </b><br><ul><li> Proven experience as a Team Lead </li><li> Strong presentation skills and proven ability to negotiate and influence leadership internally and externally </li><li> Experience of delivering high volume and complex recruitment campaigns </li><li> Experience of presenting solutions to customers and working in partnership to deliver to agreed customer requirements </li><li> Experience of working with Business Development (tenders and proposals) to enable forward planning and enhance delivery </li></ul> <br><br><b> Company Overview </b><br><br>Wood is a global leader in engineering and consultancy across energy and the built environment, helping to unlock solutions to some of the world's most critical challenges. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in more than 60 countries, employing around 40,000 people. www.woodplc.com <br><br><b> Diversity Statement (EEO) </b><br><br>We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.