Senior Manager/Associate Director, Recruiting Operations Europe
Updated: Yesterday
Location: London, ENG, United Kingdom
Job ID: 8703
Description
Job Summary: The Senior Manager/ Associate Director, Commercial Recruiting Operations is responsible for overseeing and optimizing the recruitment processes and systems to ensure efficient and effective hiring practices. This role involves enabling the day-to-day operations of the recruiting team, implementing best practices, and driving continuous improvement in recruitment. Additionally, provide strategic advisement to senior leadership on recruitment strategies and workforce planning.
Key Responsibilities:
- Process Optimization: Evaluate and refine recruiting workflows and processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness. Inclusive of enabling technology to support efficiency and attention to support an effective candidate experience.
- Strategic Advisement: Partner with senior leadership to provide strategic insights and recommendations on recruitment strategies, workforce planning, and talent acquisition initiatives. Contribute to the development of long-term recruitment goals and objectives.
- Problem Solving: Identify and resolve issues in the recruiting process, implementing solutions to improve operations.
- Team Management: Lead and mentor the recruiting operations team, providing guidance and support to ensure high performance.
- System Management: Oversee the implementation and maintenance of ATS (Applicant Tracking System) and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) tools, ensuring they meet the needs of the organization.
- Recruitment Marketing: Develop and execute recruitment marketing strategies to attract top talent for Europe. Collaborate with marketing and communications teams in developing engaging multimedia content-including videos, graphics, job ad copy, and social media posts-to attract and recruit top talent. Proficiency with Canva or similar design tools is preferred.
- Enabling Through Analytics: Develop and analyze recruiting metrics and reports to provide actionable insights. Use data to enable the recruiting team to make informed decisions, optimize their strategies, and improve overall performance.
- Onboarding/Compliance: Ensure recruiting practices comply with legal and regulatory requirements. Support through onboarding enablement and resolution.
- Collaboration: Work closely with recruiters, hiring managers, and other stakeholders to align recruiting operations with organizational goals.
- Training and Development: Provide training and development opportunities for the recruiting and hiring teams to enhance their skills and knowledge.
- Develop and maintain resources: In addition to training documentation maintain recruitment resources inclusive of the recruiting intranet site.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 5 years of experience in recruiting operations or a related field.
- Strong understanding of regional differences in recruitment processes, systems, laws and regulations.
- Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Previous experience supporting recruitment marketing or related field.
- Proficiency in analytics tools to track and report on recruiting metrics.
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Ability to navigate a fast-paced environment and adjust to shifting priorities.
- Ability to travel into the office for meetings as required.
- Bachelor's degree in human resources, business, or a related field.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with ATS, CRM, recruitment vendors and other relevant tools.
- Proven track record of implementing process improvements and driving operational efficiency.
- Experience leading a team of operation specialists.
- Experience in providing strategic advisement to senior leadership.
At Syneos Health, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. At times, we will consider transferable skills from previous roles.
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