Senior Consultant, Talent Acquisition - Technology

Scotiabank; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Scotiabank is seeking a Senior Consultant, Talent Acquisition in Toronto, Canada. You will drive end‑to‑end recruitment for complex portfolios, partnering with hiring managers and executives to fill senior and specialized roles and to craft competitive offers.

Join a customer-focused bank with a strong commitment to inclusion and operational excellence, and lead the talent journey from intake to onboarding while shaping recruitment strategy across business lines.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of progressive recruitment experience
• Ability to conduct intake meetings with leaders at all levels
• Experience sourcing candidates for complex roles
• Experience working with aligned business/function/geography
• Demonstrated expertise in behavioral interviewing techniques

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end recruitment process for complex portfolios
• Lead intake sessions with hiring managers and communicate with candidates
• Negotiate offers with candidates with Total Rewards input as needed
• Manage recruitment for senior, complex, and specialized roles
• Build and maintain a strong candidate pipeline for critical roles
• Monitor external labour market trends and share insights with the team

Skills

Recruitment experience

Effective communication

Behavioral interviewing

Candidate sourcing

Stakeholder management

Decision making

Education

Post-secondary degree or diploma

Job description

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Senior Consultant, Talent Acquisition contributes to the overall success of the Talent Acquisition team in Canada ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives.

Is this role right for you? In this role you will:

• Champion a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Drive the end-to end recruitment process for complex and specialized portfolio, including intake session with hiring manager, communication with candidates, interviews, assessments, offer management and negotiation, and exception decisions from the business on salary and benefits.
• Support more complex business lines working with executives and senior leaders. Recruits for senior, complex and specialized roles.
• Manage complex compensation negotiations with candidates and engages Total Rewards, as required.
• Drive the candidate’s talent journey with the Bank, leading the end-to-end candidate experience; acting as a point of contact and building influential candidate relationships during the selection process.
• Partner with hiring managers and senior leaders above the Director level from intake through to advising on hiring decisions to successfully convert candidate to new hires.
• Proactively source and attracts candidates through various channels and build a pipeline of candidates for all critical, difficult to fill and complex roles.
• Proactively monitor developments in the external labour market and broader industry, in order to bring trends and best practices into the Bank. Identifies problem areas within assigned portfolio, escalating issues to Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition and Hiring Manager, as required.
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Actively pursue effective and efficient operations of respective areas, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, AML/ATF risk and conduct risk, including but not limited to responsibilities under the Operational Risk Management Framework, Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Framework, AML/ATF Global Handbook and the Guidelines for Business Conduct.
• Champion a high performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment; communicating vison/values/business strategy and managing succession and development planning for the team.

Do you have the skills that will enable you to succeed? We'd love to work with you if you have:

• At least 3-5 years of progressive recruitment experience
• Proven ability to communicate effectively and conduct intake meetings with leaders at all levels
• Experience sourcing candidates for complex roles
• Experience working with aligned business/function/geography
• Demonstrated expertise in behavioural interviewing techniques
• Demonstrated ability to connect big picture to team and individual contributions
• Demonstrated ability to identify strengths in others, and help build on those strengths to meet both individual and team goals
• Demonstrated ability to anticipate business needs and provide value to hiring managers/senior leaders through innovative solutions
• Demonstrated ability to encourage other to explore new ideas, and motivates others to move forward after challenges and setbacks.
• Possesses clear sense of urgency and ability to make decisions at a high pace
• French fluency (written/spoken) is preferred
• Post-secondary degree or diploma preferred

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know.