Global Director Talent Acquisition (Flexible work location)

Alcoa • Montreal, QC

6d • Remote

About The Position

Alcoa is seeking a Global Talent Acquisition Leader to enhance its talent acquisition capabilities. This role is crucial for attracting and hiring talent to support operations, drive strategy, and prepare the organization for the future. The position reports to the Global Organizational Development Director and oversees Alcoa's global Talent Acquisition function across operations and enterprise functions. The leader will manage a geographically dispersed team, ensuring global recruitment performance, organizational capability, and the evolution of the Talent Acquisition operating model. The role requires managing a large-scale function with an enterprise perspective and operational discipline, involving strategy setting, delegation, adaptability to business demands, and prioritization. The goal is to ensure consistent execution across diverse labor markets and operating environments.

Requirements

• Significant Talent Acquisition leadership experience in large, complex, global and/or geographically dispersed organizations.
• Proven ability to lead through regional, functional, or business-based TA leaders, building capability, accountability, and consistent delivery.
• Broad sourcing experience across complex hiring environments, including operational, technical, professional, high-volume, leadership, and executive roles.
• Strong track record of improving hiring outcomes, recruitment performance, stakeholder experience, and service delivery effectiveness, through robust processes and systems.
• Ability to manage changing demands, competing priorities, capacity constraints, and complex delivery challenges with sound judgement and commercial discipline.
• Experience connecting Talent Acquisition with workforce planning, business strategy, future skills, succession planning, and broader talent priorities.
• A proven track record of using data, metrics, market intelligence, and business insight to guide decisions, influence stakeholders, and improve outcomes.
• Strong executive presence, communication, people leadership, and influencing skills within a global matrix environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead Alcoa’s global Talent Acquisition function, setting strategic direction, performance expectations, governance, and accountability.
• Deliver consistent, high-quality recruitment outcomes across executive, professional, technical, operational, early-career, and high-volume hiring environments.
• Translate business priorities, workforce plans, and changing market conditions into practical sourcing strategies, resource plans, and delivery priorities.
• Build proactive talent pipelines and attraction strategies for critical, scarce, safety-sensitive, remote-location, and hard-to-fill roles.
• Leverage talent intelligence, workforce insights, labor market trends and emerging technologies, including AI, to anticipate future capability needs, strengthen talent pipelines and inform long-term talent strategies.
• Connect external hiring with enterprise talent priorities, including internal mobility, succession planning, skills strategies, and future workforce needs.
• Use data, analytics, market intelligence, technology, and operational reviews to improve hiring quality, speed, pipeline health, candidate experience, and efficiency.
• Strengthen hiring quality through consistent, inclusive, evidence-based assessment and selection practices aligned with Alcoa’s values and safety expectations.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior business and HR leaders, navigating priorities, risks, resources, trade-offs, and stakeholder expectations with clarity and commercial discipline.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed