Contract Experienced Recruiter

Merck & Co.; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Merck & Co. in Minneapolis seeks a seasoned Recruiter to build and engage networks, hire top talent, and drive end-to-end recruitment. You will develop creative sourcing for difficult roles, partner with HR and hiring leaders, and deliver a best-in-class candidate experience.

You will manage a full recruitment desk, champion diversity, and continuously improve recruiting practices to meet business goals, ensuring strong client satisfaction and successful hires.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma required with 6+ years in corporate or search firm recruiting.
• Experience managing multiple searches and client relationships with a focus on full-cycle recruiting.
• Experience in supply chain (corporate & field) recruiting including sourcing and diversity.
• Ability to execute recruiting strategies including employer branding and interview management.
• ATS experience for sourcing, tracking, and managing candidates.
• Strong client service, proactive, team-oriented, and professional.
• Credible influence and sound judgment.
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational and follow-up skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and use a variety of recruiting techniques to build networks and hire top talent.
• Develop and execute creative sourcing strategies for tough-to-fill roles and locations.
• Partner with HR and hiring leaders to define plans and deliver recruitment solutions.
• Advocate for clients and candidates with regular touchpoints and diligent follow-through.
• Stay current on recruiting trends, talent pools, compensation, and market shifts.
• Drive continuous improvement in sourcing and recruitment practices.
• Manage full recruitment desk to support ongoing hiring needs.
• Promote diversity sourcing and manage interview processes.
• Develop diversity and inclusion strategies with business leaders.
• Participate in community events to enhance recruitment presence.

Skills

Full life cycle recruiting

Sourcing

Candidate management

Stakeholder relations

Education

High School Diploma

Tools

ATS

Job description

Key Accountabilities:

• You will develop and use a variety of recruiting techniques to build and engage networks, assess and hire top-of-class talent to meet business hiring goals.
• Develop and execute creative sourcing strategies for tough to fill roles and locations.
• Be a thought partner with HR and hiring leaders to establish plans, define strategies, and deliver solutions that redefine the way we recruit.
• Act as an advocate for both client and candidate throughout the hiring journey; establishing regular touch points and providing diligent follow-through, resulting in best-in-class candidate and client experience.
• Proactively remains current on business and recruiting trends, shifts in talent pools and personas, compensation and other relevant trends
• Success will be driven by your ability to foster an environment of continuous improvement in finding the finest candidates through creative sourcing and emerging recruitment practices.
• Execute recruiting strategy, including employer promotion in the marketplace, candidate management, diversity sourcing and interview process management.
• Develop diversity and inclusion strategies in partnership with business hiring leaders.
• Acts as community member through hackathons, meetups, conferences and manage end to end recruitment processes.
• Communicates and embodies a clear and distinctive value proposition and a digital talent "go-to-market" strategy that evolves as the market changes.
• Manages a full recruitment desk, in support of on-going hiring needs.

Minimum Qualifications:

• High School Diploma and 6+ years of corporate and/or search firm progressive recruiting experience including sourcing (name generation, cold calling) and full life cycle recruiting.
• Experience managing and prioritizing multiple searches, projects and client relationships with a specific focus on full-cycle recruiting.
• Past Supply Chain (Corporate & Field) Technical and Digital Recruiting experience including sourcing, assessment, networking, job analysis and attracting and recruiting diverse skills sets and background.
• Ability to execute recruiting strategy, including employer promotion in the marketplace, candidate management, diversity sourcing and interview process management.
• ATS experience with sourcing, tracking and managing candidates.
• Strong client service skills: positive, pro-active and team-oriented with a high level of personal performance standards, professionalism, self-insight and perseverance.
• Strong credible influence and sound judgement required.
• Detail oriented with strong organizational, documentation and follow-up skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.