Sr. Specialist, Campus

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We are hiring a recruiter with demonstrated success in campus recruitment and hiring early-career DVMs. This role is based out of Banfield Pet Hospital’s headquarters in Vancouver, WA, and offers the exciting opportunity to travel up to 75% of the time – connecting with future veterinary professionals on university campuses across the country.

The primary purpose and function of the Sr. Specialist, Campus Recruitment is to develop early talent pipelines and support full lifecycle recruitment for new graduate doctors in partnership with the field and greater Talent Acquisition, execute university relations strategies, and support execution of the DVM and VT externships, student job program and student ambassador program.

This position performs full lifecycle recruiting and provides the highest level of staffing services while guiding clients/hiring managers and candidates through the selection process.

• Live and exemplify the Five Principles of Mars, Inc. within self and team.
• Partner with campus teams to build strategy and execute relationship building activities with students, faculty and staff at veterinary and veterinary technology colleges and universities.
• Organize, lead, and communicate effectively regarding the day-to-day recruitment operations for assigned client groups through the development and execution of full life cycle recruitment plans and strategies, ensuring the candidate, functional leader, team, and recruiter experiences are met.
• Provide support for development of new student experiences and lead continuous improvement efforts for existing programs.
• Partner with Campus Liaisons, Student Ambassadors, and recruiters to plan and execute campus events and sponsor ships with partnership.
• Conduct initial interviews to ensure qualified candidates are referred to managers.
• Perform selection function including pre‑screening resumes and candidates, participating as part of interview team, advising hiring managers, driving the offer process, leading, and documenting post‑interview debriefs and feedback sessions with interview teams, candidates, and all levels of leadership.
• Maintain accurate and well‑ordered documentation on all candidates, searches, hiring managers’ interactions, and other recruiting activities in the applicant tracking system.
• Meet established hiring targets, manage client relationships, and interact with hiring managers to discuss specific requirements.
• Drive facilitation of continuous improvement via measurement tools, scorecards, and recruitment analytics.
• Ensure proper and confidential protection of candidate data, recruiting and hiring practices comply with governmental regulations and company policy and procedure requirements.
• Develop search strategies leveraging a balance of creativity, drive, and political savvy.
• Source active and passive candidates that fit and will further our culture through networking, direct sourcing, and working with external executive search firms (as needed), providing exceptional service delivery by understanding our business landscape, competitive demographics, and employment value proposition to provide a qualified and diverse candidate pool.
• Build networks with strong leadership talent in the marketplace. Lead, coach, and mentor recruiters and hiring managers as needed.
• Retain and manage relationships with additional recruiting support, such as sourcers, researchers and search firms.
• Represent Banfield for recruiting purposes at identified networking and industry events, job fairs, conferences, etc., participating in special projects when necessary.
• Other job duties as assigned.

• This position requires 75% travel.
• Ability to work at a computer for long periods of time.
• Project timelines and work volume/deadlines may often require more than 40 hours per week to complete essential duties of this job.
• Must have mental processes for reasoning, remembering, mathematics and language ability (reading,…