In your role, you will partner closely with your hiring teams to develop functional recruiting strategies and act as an expert recruiting partner to HR and business within Retail. Key Responsabilities: Lead the entire recruitment process for Retail Stores, including requisition approval, hiring manager briefing, job advertising, candidate sourcing, application review, candidate screening, interview strategy, and offer process and continuously work with the hiring teams to identify opportunities to improve the process. Leverage relevant advertising resources and apply other relevant candidate marketing strategies to create local awareness in order to attract qualified applications for key roles within your area of responsibility. Leverage candidate databases (internal and external) in addition to other sourcing channels (university, competitive research, job fairs, social) to identify prospective candidates to create awareness and invite them to apply for open positions. Screening resumes and conducting initial phone screens to assess qualifications as well as suitability for role, followed by in-depth interviews evaluating skills, experience and culture add. Build, engage and maintain pre-qualified as well as prospective candidate pools of strong former candidates and new candidates within the functional area that your support. Continuously identify new candidate pools and leverage existing resources and various channels, such as social media, job boards, referrals and networking, to proactively identify passive candidates to create awareness and proactively reach out to them. Provide weekly guidance to the hiring managers of retail throughout the recruitment process and update them on the status of their processes.Conduct weekly check-ins with hiring managers throughout the entire recruiting process for each role. Advocating for and driving a diverse and inclusive recruitment strategy Own responsibility for candidate and hiring manager experience results and drives standards to ensure a quality performance against all standards. Effectively utilize comprehensive knowledge of adidas brand and adidas Group offerings, benefits, comp strategies, and programs to market adidas and the adidas Group as an Employer of Choice. Lead additional recruitment initiatives as needed Experience & Technical Requirements: Minimum of 4-6 years experience in recruiting, specific expertise/experience recruiting for Retail Stores (Leadership roles & staff - including proactive outreach). Experience in retail industry Experienced working in large, international/global matrix company Demonstrated track record of driving end2end, holistic recruitment mandates (including sourcing, assessing and hiring talent in store team volume roles) and global recruiting initiatives (i.e. proactive recruiting, internal recruiting, diversity, etc.) to achieve hiring goals. Experienced in offer negotiation, awareness of local legislation and employment market/compensation trends. Knowledgeable about managing diversity & inclusion from talent acquisition perspective. Business administration degree in HR, Business or related studies Strong verbal communication skills in English.
