Job Description
ABOUT GENUINE FOODS
At Genuine Foods we create nourishing food environments at schools and workplaces through great-tasting and wholesome meals, made from genuine ingredients. We are a growing social enterprise that uses food to enhance health, productivity and happiness. We believe that fresh, scratch-made food together with unparalleled service and meaningful enrichment programs can transform lives and build community. Food service management is what we do, but what we achieve together with our customers, our partners and our dedicated team goes beyond the plate.
ABOUT THIS POSITION
The Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist is a human resources professional responsible for sourcing, attracting, interviewing, hiring and onboarding top talent. This role will focus primarily on exempt and management positions and must have a demonstrated history of leading and filling searches for food service business functions. This is a high volume, relationship and technology driven position. Position is remote, with flexibility to travel throughout the US occasionally.
This is a fully remote role with travel.
ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Plan and implement company talent acquisition strategy
- Manage recruitment and selection processes (resume screening, screening calls, interviews etc.)
- Conduct sourcing activities in order to fill open positions
- Schedules and participates in collaborative interviewing
- Administer all onboarding activities including generating offer letters and introduction to HRIS system
- Suggest process improvements to company’s policy for talent benchmarking, talent assessment and interviewing
- Perform analysis of organizational development and anticipate future employment needs
- Design job descriptions and interview guides that reflect each position’s requirements
- Serve as brand ambassador at various events, like career fairs or on-campus recruiting events
- Represent company internally and externally at events with a goal of networking and relationship building with potential candidate communities
- Counsel the candidate on company provided benefits, salary, and culture
- Build long-term relationships with past and potential candidates
- Manage respective candidate pools to ensure qualified candidates remain engaged in current or future opportunities
- Drive efforts toward top talent and a diversified workforce
- Generate monthly updates for company’s leadership about upcoming talent acquisition initiatives
- Create and report on monthly reports on key talent acquisition metrics
- Serve as a consultative business partner to hiring managers to influence action and decision making
- Communicate regularly with all departments to get a clear view of company’s hiring needs and organizational goals
- Work closely with marketing department to develop creative ways for addressing talent acquisition challenges
- Proactively seek market intelligence to gain competitive advantage in attraction, assessment and sourcing methodologies
- Suggest new ideas for improving talent acquisition activities
- Research talent acquisition trends in the staffing industry
- Completion of various HR related projects and tasks as assigned
QUALIFICATIONS
- Previous working experience as a Talent Acquisition Specialist in food service industry or highly competitive business development environment required.
- In-depth knowledge of candidates selection methods
- Creative sourcing and pipelining experience including use of social media
- Strong business development/sales talent pipeline relationships preferred
- Excellent understanding of full cycle recruitment processes
- Hands on experience with Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and/or HRIS systems
- Outstanding communications and interpersonal skills
- Impactful presentation style
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Ability to multitask and prioritize daily workload
- Creative thinker and proactive problem solver
- A positive, “can do” attitude
Benefits and Perks:
- Health and retirement benefits
- Paid time off
- 401K
- Performance-based bonuses
GENUINE VALUES
TRUSTWORTHINESS: We operate by our commitment to integrity,reliability, and
consistency. Our clients deserve our very best—every single time.
PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY: We are creative problem-solvers who own our results and can immediately identify solutions. We learn from our mistakes.No excuses.
PEOPLE FIRST: We are first-and-foremost a people-centered organization. It's
backbone of hospitality. Every person matters and every person is seen.
TRANSPARENCY: We are proud to offer openness and candor in every aspect of our
business—from service standards,to purchasing,to financials. That’s what successful
partnerships are based on.