Talent Sourcing Specialist

The Talent Sourcing Specialist will execute and manage the Maison's talent attraction strategy, with a focus on developing an end to end sourcing approach. This role involves building robust talent pipelines, conducting thorough market mapping, and cultivating talent communities to meet both current and future talent needs. In this role, you will work with recruitment platforms, leveraging social channels and technology to create efficient and best-in-class stakeholder experience.

You will act as an advisor, using market analysis and industry research to inform sourcing strategies that enable future capability building and influence stakeholders to act proactively regarding their current/future talent mix and talent market availability. This role will be based at our corporate office in NYC and will report to the Sr Manager, Talent Acquisition for Van Cleef & Arpels.

Responsibilities:

* Proactively build robust talent pipelines for future vacancies by utilizing our Applicant Tracking System (ATS), social media, job boards, and field recruitment, with consistent outreach to passive candidates.

* Understand and effectively communicate labor market trends, regional compensation benchmarks, and talent availability.

* Identify and recommend innovative recruitment initiatives, best practices, and digital enhancements.

* Lead and direct active sourcing and recruitment efforts for qualified candidates, leveraging various search tools, processes, and strategies.

* Build proactive talent pipelines by developing sourcing strategies that target critical, high-level talent in highly competitive and challenging markets.

* Proactively source passive candidates using advanced search techniques, including Boolean search on resume databases, ATS, and Linked In.

* Serve as a Sourcing expert, leveraging talent market intelligence (e.g., Linked In Insights) and historical data (e.g., ATS candidate fill data) to provide direct recommendations to business leaders, Recruiters, and Business HR.

* Develop deep expertise and pursue continuous learning within the focus area, enabling detailed understanding and discussion of functions, culture, and role responsibilities.

* Provide updates and comprehensive reporting on critical roles and sourcing activities to stakeholders.

* Develop strong partnerships with the Talent Acquisition team and candidates to build a qualified candidate bench that meets current and anticipated business needs.

Qualifications:

* You are a people-magnet and expert communicator!

* You are enthusiastic and passionate about luxury retail - its history, heritage and craftsmanship.

* Recruiting experience in a fast-paced environment including prioritizing and leading multiple searches simultaneously

* 2 or more years [YY2.1]of experience in retail recruitment at the boutique and corporate levels;
Field experience with an emphasis on high-volume recruitment of retail management and sales associates is preferred.

* You must love to work as a team - sharing resources, energy and candidates. No position is too small. No partnership is too little.

* You must have the ability to work across time zones, maintaining flexibility in your approach to meet the needs of boutique level and corporate leaders.

* We use our ATS, social media, digital platforms, and Microsoft (Excel, PowerPoint, and Word) daily - you must be digitally savvy.

* It's human resources - integrity and confidentiality are a must.

* A few more things we look for: flexibility to adapt quickly, empathy in working with people and challenging circumstances, ability to influence and negotiate, and strong presentation skills