Talent Acquisition Specialist (6 month FTC)

ELEMIS; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid NYC office three days/week

Paid Time Off

401(K) with 100% match on first 5%

Company Holidays

Paid Parental Leave

Product discount

Life Insurance

Dental & Vision

Commuter benefits

Job summary

ELEMIS is seeking an immediately available Talent Acquisition Specialist to support our US team for a busy growth period. You will join a global People and Purpose Team and report to the Director of People, North America, based in NYC.

This hybrid role balances hands-on recruitment with strategic workforce planning for the North America market. You will own end-to-end recruitment across a range of roles, build strong relationships with leaders, and drive continuous improvements in our hiring

Qualifications

• Experience in luxury consumer goods and delivering high-quality recruitment.
• Strong stakeholder management across senior leaders and teams.
• Data-driven, able to interpret metrics and optimise delivery.
• Proactive in building talent pipelines for future hiring needs.
• Comfortable with AI-enabled recruitment tools and experimentation.

Responsibilities

• Manage full recruitment lifecycle for North America roles.
• Drive momentum in hiring to meet on-time needs.
• Excel at stakeholder communication and partnership to deliver outcomes.
• Embed talent assessment frameworks for data-driven hiring decisions.
• Support development pathways and progression for employees.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Analytical

Project management

Problem solving

AI fluency

Tools

Pinpoint

Job description

Talent Acquisition Specialist (6 month FTC)

Department: HR Business Partnering

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Head Office, New York

Compensation: $85,000 - $95,000 / year

Description

ELEMIS are looking for an immediately available Talent Acquisition Specialist to support our US team during a busy time of growth. You will be part of a Global People and Purpose Team (who are based across the London office and NYC office) and report directly to the Director of People, North America based in the Manhattan offices.

We have a headcount of roughly 80 talented people spread across our corporate NYC office and the North America Field. We're growing our teams to support of expansion and growth in the North America market, and that's where you come in!

As a Talent Acquisition Specialist for North America, you will be responsible for delivering an exceptional end-to-end recruitment experience while attracting, engaging, and hiring outstanding talent across a wide range of roles. Working closely with leaders across our business you will build strong relationships with stakeholders and build talent pipelines to support strategic workforce planning, and ensure recruitment activity aligns with business priorities.

This is a fast-paced, relationship-driven role requiring excellent stakeholder management, organisation, and the ability to balance multiple recruitment projects across our business.

What You Will Do:

• Manage the full recruitment lifecycle for all vacancies across our North America business, sourcing and securing diverse and high-quality talent for ELEMIS.


• Approach open and upcoming vacancies with speed, driving momentum in the hiring process to deliver the needs on-time.


• Self-manage key metrics to reflect your productivity and performance against SLA’s, joining the dots in the data to continuously optimise delivery, sharing insights with key stakeholders.


• Deliver a high-touch candidate and stakeholder experience that reflects our brand values, prioritising continuous communication, support and partnership to all parties.


• Embed talent assessment frameworks for hiring managers to better assess candidates against criteria enabling data driven decision making and improving the quality of each hire.


• Advocate for our talent development initiatives and progression pathways for our employees, supporting individuals on their journey to develop within ELEMIS.


• Partner with hiring managers and key People Team stakeholders to understand hiring priorities, organisational changes, strategic workforce plans, and future talent needs.


• Utilise the Applicant Tracking System (Pinpoint) to manage recruitment activity, maintain accurate candidate records, and ensure compliance with recruitment processes.


• Continuously identify opportunities to improve recruitment processes and increase hiring efficiency.

What We Are Looking For:

• Experience and passion for luxury consumer goods: you know what exceptional service looks and feels like and stay connected to what’s happening on the ground in the field, maintaining a strong understanding of the beauty landscape.


• Strong stakeholder management: you build trust at all levels and are able to influence.


• Problem solver: you are curious, gather information and can work things through to identify solutions to problems big or small.


• Proactive approach: you build intelligence to inform sourcing activity and nurture talent pipelines for future hiring needs.


• Project management: able to take initiatives and projects through from idea to delivery, collaborating, and managing milestone to deliver on-time and to standard.


• Analytical: you own your data, analysing this tell the story of your performance, spotting opportunities to optimise delivery.


• AI fluency: you embrace AI, engaging in experimentation and applying learnings to your everyday work to boost productivity and quality of output.

What We Offer You!

• This is a Hybrid role based three days per week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) in our NYC office, and two days (Monday and Friday) working from home


• Paid Time Off


• 401(K) with 100% match on the first 5%


• Company Holidays


• Paid Parental Leave


• Generous ELEMIS product discount


• Supplemental & Basic Life Insurance


• Dental & Vision


• Commuter benefits


• ...and more perks designed around wellbeing and balance