Sr. Talent Acquisition Specialist

Intertek is hiring a Sr. Talent Acquisition Specialist to strengthen its US HR & Recruiting teams in the Grand Rapids, MI market. This role is remote-based with in-office time required at the Kentwood office 1 to 2 days per week. You’ll work with hiring managers and leadership in a fast-moving environment while contributing to a recruiting process built around a high-touch, differentiated candidate experience.

What Intertek offers

• Comprehensive benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability
• Retirement support: 401(k) with company match
• Time off: Generous vacation and sick time (PTO)
• Learning support: Tuition reimbursement
• Culture and community: A team that values diversity and inclusion to drive corporate culture
• Growth across industries: Opportunity to develop recruitment skills across various business industries
• Professional exposure: Work in an environment interacting with all levels of leadership
• Impact: Be part of an HR & Recruiting team that is key to Intertek’s success

Responsibilities

• Partner with hiring managers to understand business needs, role objectives, and culture
• Create job profiles and ideal candidate profiles; define interview processes that may vary by role
• Build role recruiting strategies, research the market, and write job advertisements
• Use diverse sourcing and networking approaches to attract both active and passive candidates
• Screen and connect with candidates, support applications, conduct interviews, and prepare summaries for hiring managers and key stakeholders
• Identify focus areas for subsequent and final interviews
• Manage candidate and hiring manager expectations, including compensation discussions
• Advise candidates on new employee onboarding, benefits, and compensation
• Provide a high-touch candidate experience and extend employment offers according to the process
• Manage highly sensitive and confidential candidate searches
• Research and analyze recruiting market trends to improve sourcing and employer brand strategies
• Promote Intertek across multiple platforms, including social media, with clear messaging on reasons to join
• Conduct outreach to females, minorities, veterans, and individuals with disabilities to support diversity and inclusion efforts
• Complete special projects as needed

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management, Business Administration, or a related field (required)
• 7+ years recruiting experience in a diverse and fast-paced environment (required)
• 5+ years recruiting and hiring for professional and highly technical roles, including Finance, HR, IT, Senior Operations Leadership, and Executive-Level positions (required)
• Experience across all aspects of talent search, including internet search optimization, innovative sourcing programs, passive candidate mining and networking, pre-screening, interviewing, presenting, and negotiating professional-level compensation packages (required)
• Experience supporting EEO requirements, coaching hiring teams on processes, and maintaining documentation of fair hiring practices (required)
• Demonstrated technical skills in social media recruiting, job boards, Microsoft suite, and presentation software (required)
• Judgment: ability to act independently on information and make decisions that achieve optimal results (required)
• Writing/marketing: experience writing job ads and clearly articulating manager job needs for effective postings (required)
• Customer service: demonstrated appropriate service across settings, including with hiring managers and other recruiting team members (required)
• Flexibility: ability to adapt to a range of recruiting issues with successful outcomes and openness to new ideas and approaches (required)
• Location and work authorization: applicants must reside in and be able to legally work in the United States; this role is not eligible for work authorization sponsorship now or in the future

Technologies

• Oracle Recruiting Cloud (ORC)
• Internet search optimization
• Job boards
• Microsoft suite
• Presentation software
• Social media

Preferred requirements & qualifications

• Advanced recruiter or sourcing designation and/or HR Certification (preferred)
• Experience with an ATS such as Oracle Recruiting Cloud (ORC) (preferred)
• Business acumen, including sufficient understanding of engineering and/or relevant field (preferred)
• Teamwork and collaboration skills demonstrated through team or project-oriented activities (preferred)

Drug-free workplace: As a condition of employment, certain positions may require a pre-employment drug test based on the type of work performed.

Equal opportunity and diversity: Intertek is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer that values inclusion and diversity, and takes affirmative action to ensure qualified applicants receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics.