Talent Acquisition Partner

Overview

Summary: The Talent Acquisition Partner (TAP) is a strategic recruitment professional responsible for managing full-cycle recruitment while partnering closely with hiring leaders and the broader Talent Acquisition team to deliver high-quality hiring outcomes. Based in Calgary, this 18-month contract role plays a critical role in executing HUB International’s recruitment strategy, driving a strong candidate and hiring leader experience, and ensuring all hiring activities align with enterprise standards, governance, and compliance requirements.

Location: Calgary, AB

Term: 18-Month Contract

This role blends hands-on recruiting with consultative partnership, systems expertise, and operational excellence in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

• Lead end-to-end recruitment for assigned requisitions, including intake meetings, sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer management, and onboarding support.
• Partner closely with hiring managers to understand business needs, role requirements, and workforce plans, providing consultative guidance on talent strategy, market insights, and hiring best practices.
• Build and maintain strong pipelines of qualified candidates through proactive sourcing, networking, referrals, and talent community engagement.
• Develop and execute proactive sourcing strategies to attract high-quality talent across assigned lines of business, leveraging a mix of direct sourcing, networking, referrals, talent communities, and external partnerships.
• Build, maintain, and nurture robust candidate pipelines for current and future hiring needs, with a strong focus on hard-to-fill, niche, and high-impact roles.
• Utilize advanced sourcing techniques across platforms such as Linked In Recruiter, Phenom CRM, Indeed, Handshake, and other channels to identify, engage, and convert passive and active candidates.
• Partner with hiring leaders to forecast hiring needs and develop forward-looking talent pipelines aligned to workforce planning and business growth strategies.
• Conduct ongoing market mapping and competitive intelligence to understand talent availability, compensation trends, and competitor hiring activity, providing strategic insights to hiring managers and TA leadership.
• Actively promote HUB’s employer brand through targeted outreach, relationship building, and talent engagement initiatives to strengthen long-term talent communities.
• Track and manage pipeline activity within Workday and Phenom, ensuring accurate documentation, compliance, and effective utilization of CRM tools to drive hiring outcomes.
• Continuously evaluate sourcing effectiveness and pipeline health, adjusting strategies to improve quality of hire, time-to-fill, diversity outcomes, and candidate experience.

• Deliver a high-touch, “white-glove” recruitment experience for candidates and hiring leaders, ensuring timely communication, professionalism, and a positive employer brand at every stage of the process.
• Act as a trusted advisor to hiring managers on interview strategies, selection decisions, compensation considerations, and offer processes.

• Manage recruitment activity within HUB’s HRIS (Workday) and CRM (Phenom), including requisition creation, candidate tracking, dispositioning, and reporting.
• Leverage recruiting platforms and sourcing tools such as Linked In, Indeed, and other channels to attract and engage top talent.

• Ensure all recruitment activity is executed in alignment with HUB policies, regulatory requirements, employment standards, and internal governance frameworks.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition Operations to ensure consistency, data integrity, and adherence to standardized recruitment workflows and best practices.

• Track recruitment activity, pipelines, and performance metrics; provide regular updates and insights to TA leadership and hiring stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to improve recruitment processes, candidate experience, and operational efficiency, contributing to enterprise-wide TA initiatives and projects.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent…