Manager, Talent Acquisition

Liberty Latin America Communications, Inc.

About The Position

As Manager, Talent Acquisition, you will lead and elevate our recruitment function across Puerto Rico and the USVI during a critical phase of growth and transformation. This role goes beyond filling roles — it’s about building a scalable, compliant, data-driven TA engine while delivering an outstanding candidate and hiring-manager experience. You will work toward creating and implementing effective talent acquisition strategies to source viable candidates and assess their suitability for open positions. Also, for the full execution of the recruitment process and working closely with company partners, applying recruitment, talent knowledge and expertise to hire the best talent for Liberty Puerto Rico, by the most appropriate and cost-effective sources. This position has a high impact in our organization, since it’s supposed to represent our values to understand our cultural fit.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Human Resources or related field. Master’s degree preferred.
5-8 years in Human Resources Management, passionate about recruitment & selection of employees from entry level non-exempt positions to Senior Leadership positions.
Experience with LinkedIn recruitment tool and Applicant Tracking Systems.
Fully Bilingual (Spanish and English).
Knowledge of full life cycle recruiting (screening, assessment & selection).
Experience in talent-pooling.
Experience of direct sourcing techniques.
Solid ability to conduct different types of interviews (structured, proficiency based).
Knowledge of various functions (customer service, quality, sales, marketing, engineering, information systems, etc.) within an organization and the challenges of filling positions within those departments.
Knowledge of HR policies, processes, and workflow, including familiarity with HR-related state and federal laws.
Solid communicator with the ability to influence and persuade across any levels of the organization, exercising a high degree of confidentiality, integrity, poise, tact, and diplomacy to accomplish objectives.
Ability to accurately maintain confidential or critical information.
Ability to coordinate a project to completion utilizing given tools, resources, and deadlines.
Ability to efficiently respond to and interact with all levels of interpersonal staff, including executives.
Requires high level computer expertise, including use of database, word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation applications.
Excellent analytical skills, resourcefulness, and strong organization skills.
Excellent communication and social relationship skills.

Responsibilities

Establish recruiting requirements by meeting with managers to discuss staffing needs.
Establish talent and workforce requirements by studying organization plans and objectives; meeting with managers to discuss needs.
Lead the Amazing Talent Acquisition team in Puerto Rico.
Build and implement central initiatives and approaches for attracting and recruiting diverse talent in a multi-site organization.
Partner with leaders across the organization to understand hiring objectives and develop recruiting strategies.
Improve organization attractiveness by recommending new policies and practices; auditing job offers and compensation practices; emphasizing benefits and perks.
Drive intern and graduate program by conducting orientations; scheduling rotations and assignments; developing intern role contributions; mentoring interns; advising managers on training and mentoring.
Screen, refer applicants and serve on selection and examination boards to evaluate applicants according to test scores.
Conduct interviews, reference, drug tests, background checks and NPS Employee Experience survey on applicants and Hiring Managers.
Create and maintain all company job descriptions updated and revised.
Conduct first day Liberty U onboarding process to ensure all documentation required for new employees is obtained and all new team members feel welcome and engaged.
Avoid legal challenges by understanding current legislation; making sure regulations with managers; recommending new procedures; conducting training.
Build applicant sources by researching and contacting community services, colleges, employment agencies, recruiters, media, internet sites and job fairs participation; providing organization information, opportunities, and benefits; making presentations; maintaining rapport.
Drive proactively local & international sourcing to build diverse candidate pools while using all available talent channels to expedite the recruitment of technical roles.
Drive internal mobility and promotions of company employees.
Partner with marketing to develop employer branding to attract new hires and maintain a solid relationship with the Finance team to ensure open roles are appropriately being tracked for forecasting purposes.
Implement a strong EEO policy that all levels of the organization embrace. Conduct annual audits to ensure alignment with the Affirmative Action Plan and Federal Communications Commission.
Prepare and drive the local annual Talent Acquisition budget.
Provide analysis, applicant logs, statistical summaries, and important metrics of the talent acquisition function to local managers and Liberty Latin America People team.
Demonstrates and maintains compliance with the Customer First Philosophy, all Liberty Latin's policies and procedures including the Code of Conduct and Liberty safety standards and procedures.
Other functions may be assigned.