PURPOSE

This role will be responsible for leading the entire recruitment process and closely partnering with HR, Business and Recruiting colleagues in order identify, to qualify and attract the best talent for adidas focusing on recruitment mandates for GCA Brand / Commercial functions.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Drive the entire recruitment process 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.
• 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 fit/add.
• Provide guidance to the hiring teams throughout the recruitment process and frequently update them on the status of the process.
• Advocating for and driving a diverse and inclusive recruitment strategy
• 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.
• Work closely with recruiting and sourcing colleagues to share candidates and jobs to encourage a collaborative hiring process.
• Apply and adapt broader talent acquisition strategies (employer branding, internal recruiting, diversity, etc.) and develop key strategies to support your areas of responsibility.
• Partner with the Employer Branding team to develop strategies and practices to build highly effective candidate marketing strategies to create local, regional and global awareness of key talent needs in order to attract qualified candidates for roles within your area of responsibility.
• Adopt, utilise and champion all TA processes and programs, including SuccessFactors as the ATM. 
• Support the development of recruiting and employer branding strategies led by the EB team by leveraging key partners within the organization.
• Manage business relationships to ensure alignment of talent needs, solve problems and develop new recruitment strategies that support the overall effectiveness of recruitment.
• Coach and influence management (business and HR) to gain alignment on all aspects of talent acquisition including candidate collaboration, resource allocation and funding requirements.
• Support and Champion broader TAEE recruiting initiatives and support change efforts to ensure harmonized implementation of strategies, standards and processes across all areas of support.
• Ensure a strong knowledge of adidas Group Functions, Markets and teams to be able to understand current and future talent requirements and build strategies to support these areas.
• Partner with overall TA organization and actively drive best practices within own remit and beyond.
• Utilizes data, trends and customer information to gather insights to drive appropriate candidate generation and talent pool strategies.
• 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.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

• Business Executives and Leadership
• HR Business Partners
• Line Managers / Hiring Managers
• External vendors
   

IDEAL EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of 6 years’ experience in global/international recruiting, leading international recruitment mandates for all level candidates through a broad range of sourcing channels
  • Specific expertise/experience recruiting for Brand or Commercial functional areas
• Industry experience and deep knowledge of the footwear, apparel and/or retail industry strongly preferred
  • Experienced working in large, international/global matrix company preferred
• Demonstrated track record of excellence in driving end2end recruitment mandates

Including sourcing, assessing and hiring talent in volume roles

• Experienced in offer negotiation, awareness of local legislation and employment market/compensation trends.

• International experience, having worked across multiple countries/regions.
• Knowledgeable about managing diversity & inclusion from talent acquisition perspective.
• Min Ma degree in HR, Business or related studies
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

KEY CRITICAL COMPETENCIES AND CAPABILITIES

Foundational:

• Self-leadership
  • continuously develop self to stay up to date on industry trends and developments in area of expertise, benchmarks performance against industry best practices, gives and receives feedback, incorporates it into their own development plan
• Commercial and business acumen
  • good understanding of the business, from a business, strategic, financial and product point of view, able to translate this to strategy/plan in own area and convey in a compelling way to the market
• Effective communicator
  • Strong interpersonal skills, communicates effectively in writing and verbally, has gravitas and able to build relationships

Role Specific Capabilities:

• Driving results
  • Strong results and delivery focus, takes personal ownership to deliver best results, manages recruitment mandates of self and team, and strives & drives operational excellence in team and projects. 
• Data & Insights
  • brings outside in perspectives, uses data and insights to influence decisions, drives broader talent/recruitment solutions. 
• Candidate development
  • Candidate centric mindset, decisions inspired by how we can impact the experience positively in every touchpoint
• Drive change and transformation
  • Embrace change and transformation, able to problem solve, bring new ideas to improve