Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

​Heidrick & Struggles is the world’s foremost advisor on executive leadership, driving superior client performance through premier human capital leadership advisory services. For more than 70 years, we’ve delivered value for our clients by leveraging unrivaled expertise to help organizations discover and enable outstanding leaders and teams. Learn more at www.heidrick.com

Job Description:

Who We Are:

Heidrick & Struggles is a premier provider of global leadership advisory and on-demand talent solutions, serving the senior-level talent and consulting needs of the world's top organizations. In our role as trusted leadership advisors, we partner with our clients to develop future-ready leaders and organizations, bringing together our services and offerings in executive search, diversity and inclusion, leadership assessment and development, organization and team acceleration, culture shaping and on-demand, independent talent solutions. Heidrick & Struggles pioneered the profession of executive search more than 70 years ago. Today, the firm provides integrated talent and human capital solutions to help our clients change the world, one leadership team at a time.®  

Additional information on the firm can be found at www.heidrick.com. 

The Role:

The Senior Specialist within the Americas Talent Acquisition Team will have ownership and accountability for full lifecycle recruitment across a variety of business areas for a premier professional services firm specializing in executive search, leadership consulting and culture shaping.  

The Senior Specialist will be responsible for leveraging and expanding employer brand awareness, building candidate and talent community engagement, proactively developing talent pipelines through direct sourcing, promoting the internal Employee Referral Program, and partnering with select agencies.  Additionally, this individual will act as a brand ambassador for Heidrick & Struggles leveraging social streams to drive applications and enhance our employer brand in the marketplace.

The successful individual will be responsible for interacting and establishing relationships with operational functions and stakeholders to lead efficient and effective recruiting processes.  Internally, the TA Recruiter will be a subject matter expert of the talent acquisition process chain and a trusted resource to the broader HR team.  At Heidrick we Win as One Firm, and the internal TA team needs to demonstrate and live by that value every day through close collaboration with our HR partners and clients.

Responsibilities:

• Host intake meetings with clients to understand job descriptions, develop key search criteria, compelling sell messages and value propositions, and lay out a comprehensive recruiting strategy and process.
• Provide regular progress updates to key stakeholders.  Lead pre-and post-interview meetings to guide stakeholders to sound hiring decisions.
• Team with HR Business Partners around future business needs and proactively build talent pipelines.
• Flawlessly execute the full-life cycle process, communicating with candidates and stakeholders throughout, including interview scheduling and gathering necessary approvals, maintaining data integrity within our systems, and negotiating offers.
• Master the Workday & LinkedIn recruiting module.
• Support early career recruiting.
• Actively use social media to build brand awareness and drive top of funnel candidate flow.
• Network internally to build strong relationships, learn the culture of the firm, create a strong internal brand and enhance awareness of hiring needs to generate employee referrals.
• Build and present candidate slates through proactive external sourcing, reviewing job applicants, connecting with your pipeline, and vetting internal referrals

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in agency or corporate recruiting.
• Undergraduate degree.
• Strong research skills; experience with data mining, lead generation, Boolean searches and other sophisticated sourcing techniques.
• Demonstrated success managing multiple, concurrent searches meeting deliverable deadlines.
• Experience identifying trends, competitive intelligence and researching information effectively through various channels and providing concise, compelling summaries.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented and able to effectively prioritize projects and deliverables.
• Proven expertise with MS Office Suite software, LinkedIn recruiter, ATS and CRM platforms.
• Demonstrable initiative, resourcefulness, self-management and personal accountability.
• Dedication to teamwork and desire to contribute in a highly collaborative environment.
• Client service mindset.
• Excellent communicator who knows when to talk and, more importantly, when to listen .
• Self-directed and driven to succeed, seeing challenges as opportunities.
• Highly ethical and professional.
• Continuous learner who appreciates and responds to feedback.
• Resilient in bouncing back from the standard challenges and setbacks that come in recruiting.
• Flexible and open to change.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a combination of both agency or corporate recruiting with corporate experience in a professional services organization PhD/ABD in Business, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or similar field.
• Experience using Workday.

Pay Range Guidelines for this Position:

Heidrick & Struggles is an equal opportunity employer committed to hiring qualified protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, or citizenship status.