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As Talent Acquisition Manager for our Commercial LATAM business, you will be the single point of accountability for your stakeholders, responsible for ensuring quality oriented, efficient and cost-effective recruiting delivery for your business. This will include leading and developing a team of aligned resources that support critical hiring for LATAM commercial organization with team members based in Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Brazil.
You will be responsible for owning and developing relationships with senior stakeholders for your function and successfully partnering to ensure Talent Acquisition is aware of hiring volumes, people challenges, business strategy and other critical data required to be a trusted Talent Advisor.
You will be accountable for driving team performance. You are responsible for managing, coaching and mentoring your team to set up them up for success: to be a Talent Acquisition team that truly partners with and adds value to the business. You will be responsible for driving effective change management to assist in behavioral change and the evolution of services Talent Acquisition provides to our internal clients.
Key responsibilities:
Manage team recruiting activities through to consistently successful hiring outcomes with a strong focus on sourcing effectiveness, recruiter capability, team work bench / capacity management, diversity, req aging and stakeholder satisfaction
Responsible for collaborating with Hiring Managers and HR to identify opportunities to upskill and educate on Talent Acquisition, HR and business topics to evolve the service from transactional to trusted advisor, consulting oriented status
Own the relationships with senior leaders within the region and engage them to new ways of working relating to best practice Talent Acquisition
Accountable for effective development and utilization of recruitment marketing and branding materials aligned to business priorities and talent challenges
Drive your team to consistently present meaningful, market insights and external talent acquisition trends to Hiring Managers to influence the right sourcing strategies
Critically analyze Talent Acquisition data to identify trends / opportunities for process improvement and strategy realignment
Responsible for recruiting, onboarding and training new team members
Accountable for ensuring compliant, accurate and timely data management by your team in recruiting systems and adherence with HR processes
Responsible for management of risk and compliance issues
Responsible for defining and implementing your functional talent acquisition and pipelining strategy
Know Your Customer: proactively maintain enhance your team?s knowledge of Baxter, ensuring you are evolving your business understanding including development and mentoring of your team which then allows alignment to the overall business goals and strategy
Prepare and present team recruitment activity and performance data for your function to educate and facilitate meaningful conversation around volumes, forecasting and sourcing effectiveness (including agency usage)
Foster, drive and advocate continuous improvement and strategic project delivery
Lead change management efforts as they relate to TA in the function
Experience & Qualification
Bachelor?s degree or equivalent
8-10 years? experience in Talent Acquisition, including a minimum of 3 years in a management roles and 5 years working for an in-house recruitment team in a global multinational business
Previous experience leading a performance oriented, recruiting team within a global organization, ideally within the healthcare, medical technology or pharmaceutical sector
Experience driving interview best practices and assessment methodologies
Advanced communication and interpersonal skills including capability to transact and influence senior leaders
Advanced project management skills
Excellent business acumen and judgement
Proven ability to align TA strategy and candidate attraction to the organization?s business strategy
Proven capability using and optimizing recruiting technologies
Deep understanding of recruitment best practices, ideally across multiple regions and experience with Employer Branding and Employer Value Proposition activation
Previous experience thriving in a transformative environment with proven ability to manage effectively with ambiguity
Strong people, performance and change manager
Strong influencing skills at the senior manager, director and VP level
Able to accommodate ~20% travel to develop stakeholder and team relationships
Fluency in English, Spanish and Portuguese preferred
Reasonable Accommodations
Baxter is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process, please send an e-mail to ********** and let us know the nature of your request along with your contact information.
