Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

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At Lactalis in the USA, we're committed to providing meaningful opportunities for our people to learn, grow, and thrive-whether you're just starting your journey with us or looking to take the next step in your career. From day one, we offer the tools and support to help you succeed.

As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we're proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together.

In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani Italian cheeses and ricotta, President specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone's cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel, Black Diamond cheddar, and Parmalat milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi's, Stonyfield Organic, Brown Cow, Oui, Yoplait, Go-Gurt, :ratio, Green Mountain Creamery, and Mountain High, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun, Gopi, and Arz.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values-Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone's unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don't meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy.

From your PASSION to ours

Lactalis American Group, part of the Lactalis family of companies, is currently hiring a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist based in Buffalo, NY.

The Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist is responsible for providing support in a HR environment by managing the full life-cycle recruitment process. This role supports recruitment for Quality, R&D, and Engineering positions across the United States. You will be responsible for ensuring the overall recruitment strategy attracts, recruits, and selects high-performing employees that drive the business forward. Full-life-cycle recruiting involves partnering with hiring managers; sourcing candidates; delivering creative and proactive solutions, fostering relationships with external agencies, and providing advice and guidance to hiring managers on candidate selection. You will lead and/or support projects that focus on improving the candidate experience and recommend process and tools that drive a successful recruitment model.

From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Manage full life-cycle recruiting process from in-take to offer acceptance, including job postings, sourcing, pre-screen, interview scheduling, and preparing and extending offers.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with hiring managers, candidates, and cross-functional partners to create a best-in-class hiring experience for internal partners and candidates.
• Create and manage comprehensive recruiting strategies, selection criteria, recruitment processes and procedures, and leverage internal and external resources to hire top talent.
• Build and maintain an external talent pipeline, and maintain relationships with talent for future opportunities.
• Providing research and statistical information, collecting, preparing, and analyzing information to use as resources for Talent Acquisition
• Proactively identify, source, and build pipelines of candidates for specialized roles.
• Travel to various corporate offices and plant locations to support hiring events, interviews, and talent-related initiatives.
• Collaborate with teams across multiple time zones and provide occasional off-hours support to meet business needs.

From your STORY to ours

Qualified applicants will contribute the following:

Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

• 4+ years agency and/or in-house recruiting experience
• 1+ years of Industrial recruitment experience preferred
• Knowledge and experience working within an Applicant Tracking System
• Experience working with LinkedIn Recruiter, and other recruiting sites (i.e. Indeed)
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook, and Power Point)

At Lactalis, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards Program with a variety of affordable benefits and coverage options. We support insurance costs significantly, contribute generously to retirement plans, and offer Paid Time Off from day one. We are committed to your professional growth, providing training and development opportunities, including Education Reimbursement. Join us and grow your career.

Lactalis is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities. Further, any division of the Company that is an Affirmative Action Employer will comply with all related legal obligations.