Talent Acquisition Partner/Senior Recruiter, Go to Market

As a Talent Acquisition Partner/Senior Recruiter, you will help build the pipeline of future D2Lers, own hiring targets, drive results, and evolve the Talent Acquisition strategy.   As an extraordinary recruiter – you can source, screen, and interview candidates – driving exceptional candidate experience. You are in a unique position to impact both growth and culture of D2L. 

Reporting to the Director, Talent Acquisition & Candidate Experience, you will support our global Go to Market (Sales & Marketing) client groups to provide recruitment advice, consultative support and decision-making insights, while helping to drive Talent Acquisition strategies and programs across D2L. This position will focus on hiring exceptional candidates into roles like Sales Executives, Solutions Engineers, and Client Sales Executives for all of D2L's global locations.

You successfully manage, prioritize and close searches against a timeline and have experience setting benchmarks, metrics, and understand how to prioritize to hit all customer SLAs. You manage the entire candidate process: our process is high-tech, but our practice is high touch. The incumbent demonstrates a passion for sourcing, hiring, and innovation. We expect our Talent Acquisition Partners to think like an owner and have an impact outside of the core recruiting function. In addition to partnering with the business, this role will partner closely with many members of our People & Culture team to leverage external expertise that will ensure a positive candidate experience, new hire job fit, and to evolve the Talent Acquisition strategy.  

As a 7x winner of Survale's Candidate Experience Award, it is critical that the successful candidate has a scalable white glove hiring approach and a continuous improvement mindset when it comes to processes and Hiring Manager/Candidate Experience. 

How will I make an impact?

• Develop recruiting strategies for open positions in partnership with Hiring Managers
• Identify and implement methods of attracting and acquiring high performance talent for technical roles like Sales Executives, Marketing Specialists, and Business Development Representatives
• Define and build out effective recruiting processes
• Ensure a high touch candidate experience from beginning to end while owning full life cycle responsibilities
• Ensure data integrity in relation to recruitment reporting and information
• Leverage data to keep abreast of potential issues, trends and to assist in driving strategy
• Source, build and nurture a network of contacts and a pipeline of talent to facilitate timely solutions to future resourcing requests
• Proactively source and recruit passive talent to join the D2L team globally
• Manage full cycle recruiting process with a focus on strong hiring manager partnership and candidate advocacy
• Work with Hiring Managers by providing expertise, and collaboration to hire the best talent
• Combine social media, networking, the employee value proposition, technology and process to enhance recruiting both inside and outside D2L and drive the talent brand
• Elevate the candidate experience both internally and externally
• Increase business visibility externally and establish D2L as a destination employer by sourcing and managing talent meet-up’s
• Highly involved in various talent acquisition projects, programs and events, including delivering training session for managers, people and culture events, and other programs.
• Align Talent Acquisition strategy to business needs and actively participate in the development of a global recruitment strategy
• Conduct various research projects and prepare recruiting reports as needed
• Provide an inclusive candidate experience for individuals from all backgrounds
• Work collaboratively across our PnC Team – with an attitude of no matter if it’s in my role or not, "it simply needs to get done".
• Ensure a high level of data integrity with our ATS and other People systems, processes
• Serve as a mentor through creative thinking and acting as a subject matter expert on all recruiting related activities to all members of the team

What you’ll bring to the role:

• At least 5 years of experience in full-cycle recruitment, with a focus on Go to Market roles, within a fast paced, demanding, global environment
• Experience hiring in regions outside of North America is an absolute requirement
• Savvy with creative sourcing techniques, such as social media, networking events, job postings, networking, and LinkedIn and an ability to adapt based on regional norms and expectations
• Must be a go-getter individual that can work in a fast-paced environment
• Have a demonstrated capability of remaining calm under pressure and handling a high volume of competing priorities simultaneously, driving results
• Be able to demonstrate that you see recruitment beyond the transactions and understand the importance of talent brand to a successful global talent acquisition strategy
• Creative, resourceful and proficient with social recruitment technologies
• Outstanding collaborative abilities, with demonstrated leadership skills 
• Past experience with building effective relationships with diverse teams, candidates, clients, and Hiring Managers with an ability to communicate effectively with candidates and business leaders at all levels
• Proficiency with ATS systems and MS Office

Location Requirements:

Kitchener, Toronto, or Remote Ontario; our Kitchener and Toronto offices have hybrid in-office expectations, with a high degree of flexibility to accommodate for international hiring requirements. 

Education Requirements:

Education background in Human Resources, Business, and/or in a relevant program