Senior Consultant, Talent Acquisition

Scotiabank•Toronto, ON

4d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Consultant, Talent Acquisition contributes to the overall success of the Talent Acquisition team in Canada ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. In this role, you will champion a customer-focused culture, drive the end-to-end recruitment process for complex and specialized portfolios, and support more complex business lines by working with executives and senior leaders. You will manage complex compensation negotiations, drive the candidate's talent journey, and partner with hiring managers and senior leaders to successfully convert candidates to new hires. Additionally, you will proactively source and attract candidates, monitor external labor market trends, and understand the Bank's risk appetite and operational risk management. You will also champion a high-performance environment and implement a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops, and motivates the team by fostering an inclusive work environment, communicating vision/values/business strategy, and managing succession and development planning.

Requirements

At least 3-5 years of progressive recruitment experience
Proven ability to communicate effectively and conduct intake meetings with leaders at all levels
Experience sourcing candidates for complex roles
Experience working with aligned business/function/geography
Demonstrated expertise in behavioural interviewing techniques
Demonstrated ability to connect big picture to team and individual contributions
Demonstrated ability to identify strengths in others, and help build on those strengths to meet both individual and team goals
Demonstrated ability to anticipate business needs and provide value to hiring managers/senior leaders through innovative solutions
Demonstrated ability to encourage other to explore new ideas, and motivates others to move forward after challenges and setbacks.
Possesses clear sense of urgency and ability to make decisions at a high pace

Nice To Haves

French fluency (written/spoken) is preferred
Post-secondary degree or diploma preferred

Responsibilities

Champion a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
Drive the end-to end recruitment process for complex and specialized portfolio, including intake session with hiring manager, communication with candidates, interviews, assessments, offer management and negotiation, and exception decisions from the business on salary and benefits.
Support more complex business lines working with executives and senior leaders. Recruits for senior, complex and specialized roles.
Manage complex compensation negotiations with candidates and engages Total Rewards, as required.
Drive the candidate’s talent journey with the Bank, leading the end-to-end candidate experience; acting as a point of contact and building influential candidate relationships during the selection process.
Partner with hiring managers and senior leaders above the Director level from intake through to advising on hiring decisions to successfully convert candidate to new hires.
Proactively source and attracts candidates through various channels and build a pipeline of candidates for all critical, difficult to fill and complex roles.
Proactively monitor developments in the external labour market and broader industry, in order to bring trends and best practices into the Bank. Identifies problem areas within assigned portfolio, escalating issues to Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition and Hiring Manager, as required.
Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
Actively pursue effective and efficient operations of respective areas, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, AML/ATF risk and conduct risk, including but not limited to responsibilities under the Operational Risk Management Framework, Regulatory Compliance Risk Management Framework, AML/ATF Global Handbook and the Guidelines for Business Conduct.
Champion a high performance environment and implements a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates their team by fostering an inclusive work environment; communicating vison/values/business strategy and managing succession and development planning for the team.