Talent Acquisition Business Partner

ED&F Man Commodities Ltd; Puerto Bogotá; Hybrid; COP 120,000,000 - 180,000,000; Full time

Job summary

ED&F Man Commodities Ltd. in Bogota, Colombia seeks a Talent Acquisition Business Partner (LATAM) to lead end-to-end recruitment for Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Honduras, Panama and Guatemala. This hybrid role partners with senior stakeholders to deliver high-quality hiring and an exceptional candidate experience.

You will build talent pipelines, create compelling job adverts, screen candidates, and coach hiring managers through interviews and offers while aligning with our values and EVP.

Qualifications

• Significant experience (ideally +5 years) in talent acquisition across in-house and/or search environments.
• Industry exposure from FMCG, Financial Services and/or Commodity Trading.
• Passion for talent acquisition and a commitment to deliver an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience.
• Good understanding of recruitment best practice across the whole recruitment process, including experience of critical candidate assessment.
• Strong stakeholder management experience, including influencing senior hiring managers.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport and collaborate effectively with hiring managers, HR Business Partners and candidates.
• Exceptional organizational and time-management skills, with capacity to manage and prioritize multiple priorities, deadlines, and requirements in a fast-paced environment.
• Meticulous attention to detail especially with written communication.
• Resilience and tenacity, target-driven with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Problem solving skills and ability to think innovatively to overcome recruitment challenges.

Responsibilities

• Manage the full life cycle of recruitment and search processes for junior to mid-level positions across the Latin American business, from approval to recruit through to verbal offer acceptance.
• Build a deep commercial understanding of the business and hiring manager requirements, ensuring effective talent matching in line with our company culture, values and employer value proposition.
• Partner with leadership to shape hiring strategies, providing insight on talent markets, competitor activity, and hiring trends.
• Deliver a high-quality, efficient hiring process focused on direct sourcing and exceptional stakeholder experience.
• Utilize various sourcing methods, including LinkedIn, relevant specialist job boards, social media sharing, LinkedIn headhunting, employee referrals and internal advertising.
• Create compelling and attractive job adverts and advertising on all the key platforms available.
• Candidate screening, providing consistent, clear pitches of our business and the role, assessing candidates against the hiring manager criteria, through to shortlisting for hiring manager interview.
• Manage and coordinate the hiring manager interview process ensuring interview best practice and coaching managers where needed.
• Provide detailed constructive interview feedback, managing and negotiating offers.
• Business partner with and advise a diverse range of multi-disciplinary hiring managers and HR colleagues across our global business.
• Research, build and maintain talent pipelines in key skills shortage areas as guided by the global head of talent acquisition to support future hiring needs and, where needed, external succession planning, in line with the business strategy.
• Partner and engage with carefully selected third party recruitment vendors, where appropriate and approved by the global head of talent acquisition.
• Contribute to the implementation and improvement of recruitment processes, tools, and systems to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Talent acquisition project involvement and contribution across EDI, systems enhancements/implementations and employer brand building and as guided by the global head of talent acquisition.

Skills

Talent acquisition

Stakeholder management

Communication

Time management

Problem solving

Job description

Talent Acquisition Business Partner (LATAM) | ED&F Man Commodities | Bogota Colombia

We have an exciting new opportunity for a highly impactful, tenacious and proactive Talent Acquisition Business Partner to work in a truly global environment to play a pivotal role in sourcing, attracting, and hiring top talent for our organisation across Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Honduras, Panama and Guatemala. Reporting to the Global Head of Talent Acquisition for Hartree Partners and working closely with Regional HR Director for ED&F Man, Latin America and HR Manager, Brazil, this is a highly commercial role in a rapidly growing, global, commodities trading firm. You will partner with senior and diverse stakeholders to lead end to end hiring and search processes, ensuring quality hires, an efficient and effective in-house recruitment service that prioritises direct hiring, as well as a high-touch candidate and hiring manager experience.

Position Title: Talent Acquisition Business Partner (Latam)

Business area: Human Resources

Division: Agricultural Soft Commodities

Location: Bogota, Colombia

Position Type: Full-time

Schedule: Hybrid

Business Overview

ED&F Man Commodities is a specialist global agricultural commodities merchant trading in sugar, coffee, molasses, animal feed and pulses. ED&F Man is owned by Hartree Partners, LP , a leading global merchant commodities firm facilitating the flow of energy, metals, agriculture, and environmental products across the full commodity supply chain, connecting producers and consumers. Hartree was founded in 1997, is jointly owned by senior management and funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, LP, and employs around 5,000 individuals worldwide.

Key Accountabilities

• Manage the full life cycle of recruitment and search processes for junior to mid-level positions across the Latin American business, from approval to recruit through to verbal offer acceptance.
• Build a deep commercial understanding of the business and hiring manager requirements, ensuring effective talent matching in line with our company culture, values and employer value proposition.
• Partner with leadership to shape hiring strategies, providing insight on talent markets, competitor activity, and hiring trends.
• Deliver a high-quality, efficient hiring process focused on direct sourcing and exceptional stakeholder experience.
• Utilize various sourcing methods, including LinkedIn, relevant specialist job boards, social media sharing, LinkedIn headhunting, employee referrals and internal advertising.
• Create compelling and attractive job adverts and advertising on all the key platforms available.
• Candidate screening, providing consistent, clear pitches of our business and the role, assessing candidates against the hiring manager criteria, through to shortlisting for hiring manager interview.
• Manage and coordinate the hiring manager interview process ensuring interview best practice and coaching managers where needed.
• Provide detailed constructive interview feedback, managing and negotiating offers.
• Business partner with and advise a diverse range of multi-disciplinary hiring managers and HR colleagues across our global business.
• Research, build and maintain talent pipelines in key skills shortage areas as guided by the global head of talent acquisition to support future hiring needs and, where needed, external succession planning, in line with the business strategy.
• Partner and engage with carefully selected third party recruitment vendors, where appropriate and approved by the global head of talent acquisition.
• Contribute to the implementation and improvement of recruitment processes, tools, and systems to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Talent acquisition project involvement and contribution across EDI, systems enhancements/implementations and employer brand building and as guided by the global head of talent acquisition.

Skills and Experience

If you’re a driven talent acquisition professional looking to make an impact in a fast-paced, global environment, we’d love to hear from you!

• Significant experience (ideally +5 years) in talent acquisition across in-house and/or search environments.
• Industry exposure from one or more of the following: FMCG, Financial Services and/or Commodity Trading.
• Passion for talent acquisition and a commitment to deliver an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience.
• Good understanding of recruitment best practice across the whole recruitment process, including experience of critical candidate assessment.
• Strong stakeholder management experience, including influencing senior hiring managers.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport and collaborate effectively with hiring managers, HR Business Partners and candidates.
• Exceptional organizational and time-management skills, with capacity to manage and prioritize multiple priorities, deadlines, and requirements in a fast-paced environment.
• Meticulous attention to detail especially with written communication.
• Resilience and tenacity, target-driven with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Problem solving skills and ability to think innovatively to overcome recruitment challenges.

We recognise that talent comes in many forms, and we value potential just as much as experience. If this role excites you but you don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

Our Offer

We provide a fast-paced, stimulating and truly global environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the global leaders in soft commodity trading.

Our Values

Our values define who we are. They are the fundamental beliefs that determine our actions and guide our behaviour. They influence the way we communicate and collaborate, and define the way we engage with our clients, partners, and communities. Our values are underpinned by a set of essential behaviours, which form part of our performance management approach. Delivering on our objectives is very much about ‘what’ we do, but these essential behaviours also provide a guide and measure for ‘how’ we do things.

Our Commitment

We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and are focussed on actively building and developing diverse teams. All qualified applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to race, colour, sex, gender, age, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, marital or civil partner status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment (identity, gender expression), genetic information or any characteristic protected by local law.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

To apply you must have the right to work for the provided location.

We encourage everyone to speak up if they witness any behaviour that violates laws, regulations, or our internal policies, values, or standards of conduct. If you wish to raise a concern or report a grievance, please visit: https://edfman.speakup.report/edfman.