Job Description

The primary purpose of a Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partner Lead is to partner with the Media Talent Acquisition Lead as well as hiring managers, recruiters and Talent Leads to develop and maintain a strong candidate pipeline for core roles within assigned Media Services business units ultimately leading to a new hire within 45-60 days.  The scope of the role includes serving as a recruiting specialist, pipeline manager, and process expert leveraging multiple recruiting tools including: LinkedIn, job boards and aggregators, social media, and other sourcing techniques to drive positive outcomes for hiring managers and candidates.  You will also serve as a career advocate to an experienced team of talent partners and recruiters, and a recruitment process expert to ensure that the company has access to and is acquiring world-class talent. This role reports directly into the Talent Acquisition Lead.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and execute strategic approach to attracting and engaging top media talent including: programmatic, paid search, paid social, SEO, media analytics, planning, video, etc.
• Develop direct reports by inspiring them to realize their strengths and importance to dentsu while providing them with actionable, timely feedback.
• Partner with Media Talent Acquisition Lead and individual team members to define Media TA team performance goals; motivate team to achieve goals.
• Leverage multiple recruiting sources and techniques to identify and engage active and passive candidates, including LinkedIn, search engines, niche job boards, social media, user groups, and blogs
• Manage 3-5 requisitions at a given time with potential to take on more as business needs dictate
• Review candidate profiles, screen resumes, and update candidate status in Merkle’s applicant tracking system (ATS) - SmartRecruiters
• Conduct a thorough prescreen of all prospects prior to presenting to hiring manager for consideration
• Coordinate closely with hiring teams and Recruiting Coordinators to shepherd candidates through the process
• Extend offers to candidates, coordinating closely with career advocates and hiring managers
• Implement and execute sourcing programs and strategies to fill current openings and help build a healthy pipeline of qualified candidates for future openings
• Mine SmartRecruiters (ATS) to identify candidates for assigned requisitions
• Maintain knowledge of the Digital Media and overarching industry landscape
• Capture and leverage key intelligence from each prospect interaction to generate additional leads, networks, and pipelines
• Foster and cultivate an atmosphere of collaboration and teamwork across all relevant internal stakeholders

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant work experience in digital media or recruiting environment
• Self-starter mentality and team-first attitude
• Ability to develop and lead teams, and drive team engagement.
• Ability to delegate tasks to team members, where appropriate.
• Ability to manage and prioritize a complex and diverse workload with a high degree of organization
• Effective communication, influencing, and persuasiveness skills
• Possess poise, confidence and presence to be able to deal effectively with executives, external customers, vendors, and clients at all levels
• Strong, self-confident, decisive individual with excellent listening skills and emotional maturity
• Ability to manage and resolve complex customer situations while maintaining a team culture that has a high level of responsiveness to its customers
• Flexibility in adapting to and responding quickly to changing priorities and deadlines with a high sense of urgency
• Attention to detail and consistent follow-up is essential
• Proficiency in MS Office

Additional Information

Employees from diverse or underrepresented backgrounds encouraged to apply. Dentsu (the "Company") is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee of the Company, on the basis of age, sex, sexual orientation, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage or citizenship, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, genetic information, or any other legally-recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and/or certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done that will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing an undue hardship on the Company. Please contact recruiting@dentsuaegis.com if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process or to request or discuss an accommodation in connection with a job at the Company to which you are applying.

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