Recruitment Partner

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

This rolewill be responsible leading the entire recruitment process and closely partnering with HR Business Partner (HRBP) and Recruiting colleagues in order to identify and attract the best talent for adidas in Hong Kong and Taiwan. As the Recruiter Partner, you will focus on recruitment mandates for responsible business functions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the entire recruitment process including requisition approval, hiring manager briefing, job advertising, candidate sourcing, application review, candidate screening, interview strategy, and offer process and continuously work with the hiring teams to identify opportunities to improve the process.
• Leverage relevant advertising resources and apply other relevant candidate marketing strategies to create local, regional and global awareness (if needed) in order to attract qualified applications for key roles within your area of responsibility.
• Leverage candidate databases (internal and external) in addition to other sourcing channels (university, competitive research, job fairs, social) to identify prospective candidates to create awareness and invite them to apply for open positions including cold calling prospects.
• Screening resumes and conducting initial phone screens to assess qualifications as well as suitability for role, followed by in-depth interviews evaluating skills, experience and culture fit/add.
• Build, engage and maintain pre-qualified as well as prospective candidate pools of strong former candidates and new candidates within the functional area that your support.
• Partnerclosely with HR Business Partners to ensure a collaborative hiring process and best candidate and hiring manager experience.
• Continuously identify new candidate pools and leverage existing resources and various channels, such as social media, job boards, referrals and networking, to proactively identify passive candidates to create awareness and proactively reach out to them.
• Provide guidance to the hiring teams throughout the recruitment process and frequently update them on the status of the process.
• Advocating for and driving a diverse and inclusive recruitment strategy
• Conduct weekly check-ins with active candidates and hiring managers throughout the entire recruiting process for each role.
• Own responsibility for candidate and hiring manager experience results and drives standards to ensure a quality performance against all standards.
• Effectively utilize comprehensive knowledge of adidas brand and adidas Group offerings, benefits, comp strategies, and programs to market adidas and the adidas Group as an Employer of Choice.
• Lead additional recruitment initiatives as needed.
• Plan and participate in strategic planning meetings with functional/market leadership and key business partners of all levels to understand current and upcoming requirements in order to build a strategy on effective recruitment activities for positions within your area of responsibility.
• Conduct quarterly review meetings with business leaders and key business partners to provide an overview of recruiting achievements as well as opportunities to improve hiring performance moving forward.
• Utilize recruitment systems effectively following key standards, documenting key actions, recommending improvements and ensuring all data is accurate for reporting purposes.
• Apply and adapt broader talent acquisition strategies (employer branding, internal recruiting, diversity, etc.) within your designated function or market.
• Act as a key point of contact to support the implementation of global initiatives within your designated function or market.

Key Relationships:

• Business Executives and Leadership
• HR Business Partners
• Line Managers / Hiring Managers
• External vendors

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Demonstrated track record of driving end2end, holistic recruitment mandates (including  sourcing, assessing and hiring talent in volume roles )and global recruiting initiatives (i.e. proactive recruiting, internal recruiting, diversity, etc.) to achieve hiring goals.
• Experienced in offer negotiation, awareness of local legislation and employment market/compensation trends.
• International experience, having worked on projects in multiple geographies
• Knowledgeable about managing diversity & inclusion from talent acquisition perspective.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• Min BA degree in HR, Business or related studies
• Minimum of 5 - 7 years’ experience in international/global recruiting, leading local, international and global recruitment mandates for all level candidates through a broad range of sourcing channels (including proactive outreach).
• Retail industry experience is preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English, Mandarin and Cantonese