What You Will Do:

• Manage the full-cycle recruitment process for roles within illumin, including initial assessments and interviews, and presentation of candidates for hiring manager review.
• Communicate with interview panels to ensure preparedness during the interview process, for example, competency questions for interview consistency and quality.
• Work closely with business leaders to influence effective recruiting approaches and set realistic expectations on time to fill, compensation, candidate pool quality, and market feedback.
• Partner with business leaders to develop talent acquisition practices, processes and systems.
• Ensure market benchmarks and internal bands are understood and managed within.
• Use recruitment and applicant tracking software to evaluate candidates from selection to onboarding.
• Draft and utilize templates for TA communications, such as application received messages, knockout notices, interview requests, rejection emails, and offer letters.
• Assist with internal hiring efforts, which includes assessing existing employees against role requirements, ensuring necessary approvals and paperwork.
• Engage with active and passive talent and connect them to current job opportunities.
• Organize and attend career fairs to source suitable candidates.
• Ensure continuous tracking through various reports and dashboards, looking at metrics, such as time-to-fill, offer acceptance rate, cost per hire, etc.
• Enhance and own the candidate experience for the interview process, building a mechanism to capture candidate feedback in a timely manner.
• Conduct technical, functional, and behavioral trainings required for performance and career development.
• Work to ensure diverse, inclusive, and equitable hiring practices.
• Partner and coordinate with external agencies for complex or hard to fill roles.
• Demonstrate understanding of illumin's business context, org composition, competencies, deliverables, and stakeholders.
• Develop effective recruitment strategies, including job posting optimization, physical and digital employment marketing, job board procurement, and talent planning.
• Collaborate with marketing, human resources and business leaders to enhance employer brand identity.
• Manage illumin's profiles on Glassdoor, LinkedIn, and other talent-related websites.
• Develop strategies to improve the shortlist ratio, acceptance to joining ratio, adherence to process timelines and optimization of talent acquisition budget.
• Oversee the completion of various talent acquisition projects and initiatives, such as talent branding, recruitment software implementation, campus placements, expansion to new geographies, industry mapping, data analytics etc.

What You Will Bring:

• Minimum 5-7 years of experience in talent acquisition space.
• Bachelor's degree in human resources, Business Administration or related field, or the equivalent in practical experience.
• Proven track record of recruiting for various roles (multitasking, prioritizing, and meeting deadlines).
• Familiarity with the industry and ability to use data analytics to measure recruiting success.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including presentation skills.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to leverage data to find and hire talent, promote jobs and strengthen employer brand.
• Experience with talent management software (UKG is illumin's HRIS).
• Ability to work independently and thrive in a fast-paced work environment.