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Defined by inclusivity rather than exclusivity, Tapestry embraces the exploration of individuality and invests in helping you grow personally and professionally. Every individual in our global house has the opportunity to make an impact, learn and be part of our growing and unique story.

At Tapestry, we have the freedom to express ourselves and run with our best ideas across Coach, Kate Spade New York, and Stuart Weitzman. We share a profound belief in both our individual and collective potential, and know that with hard work and dedication, anything is possible.

Primary Purpose:

Reporting into the Senior Director, Talent Acquisition, North America, this role will drive recruiting initiatives and process improvements for the Tapestry Talent Acquisition organization.

The ideal candidate will possess a team-oriented mindset with demonstrated ability to design, implement and execute process improvements, resource allocation plans, recruiting metrics and status reports for the department. Key to this role is the ability to partner cross functionally with multiple stakeholders to influence the recruiting process and programs through the use of data in order to drive change. The Associate, Recruiting Operations will have a good command of reporting and analytics, and use data to influence change for the investment of resources (funding, headcount, vendor partnerships).

The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in Recruiting Operations to...

• Define, implement and maintain all recruiting operations for department to increase efficiency and overall recruitment ROI.
• Drive recruitment process improvements to increase team efficiency; implement requisition allocation.
• Create, review and analyze recruiting dashboard to identify areas for improvement on time to fill, aged requisitions, open requisitions, recruiter activity, platform usage, etc.
• Manage requisition allocation by assigning requisitions to recruiters; forecast future workforce talent needs to ensure recruitment team is able to meet those goals.
• Work cross functionally with HR Business Partners (HRBPs), HR Technology Solutions (HRTS), Asset Protection (Background checks), IT (onboarding) on process enhancements / improvements/new hire equipment.
• Partner with Communications and Legal to ensure compliance to all laws and policies, related to systems and hiring.
• Optimize the effectiveness of talent as an operation and drive consistency across the team.
• Research cutting-edge technologies, evaluate impact, risk and make recommendations.
• Research technologies and evaluate the recruiting tech stack.
• Research, track and circulate key industry updates to the TA team regularly to drive strategic sourcing efforts.
• Additional ad hoc projects and responsibilities as needed.

Reporting & Analyzing Data

• Own bi-weekly and quarterly reporting needs for the NA HR Team; handle ad hoc reporting for TA/HR team as needed.
• Build out reports and dashboards to measure quarterly recruiting performance.
• Collect & analyze data, use quantitative and qualitative mechanisms to make decisions and recommendations on critical strategic issues.

Branding, Vendor and Budget Management

• Develop and manage relationships with recruiting partners and vendors.
• Submit and track TA team's expenses through company invoicing portal.
• Partner with procurement team and external vendors to confirm payments are made.
• Interface and partner with select Tapestry recruitment vendors e.g., Glassdoor, Indeed, LinkedIn, Business of Fashion, BuiltIn for various components of contract.
  
  • Audit Glassdoor & Indeed Reviews- becoming key point of contact.
  • Delegate LinkedIn licenses to new Recruiters.
  • Host quarterly business reviews with vendor partners.
  • Own monthly metrics / analytics reporting for vendors.
  • Update company pages across sites, collaborating with brand creative teams, as needed.
• Track employer branding and sourcing metrics across vendors to determine effectiveness and ROI.

The accomplished individual will possess...

• BA / BS degree preferred
• 3-5 years of recruitment operations or strategic planning experience
• 3+ years of project management experience
• 1-2 years recruiting experience preferred
• Experience with recruiting processes or ATS systems; SuccessFactors experience highly preferred

An outstanding professional will have...

• Experience translating business challenges and questions into solutions
• Proven strategic, analytical, reporting and problem solving skills
• Clear and effective communication skills, both verbally and written
• Self-starter, ability to work autonomously and comfortable operating without overly defined processes

Our Competencies for All Employees

• Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
• Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
• Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
• Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
• Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.

Our Competencies for All People Managers

• Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
• Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
• Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.

Tapestry, Inc. is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant’s or employee’s qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law. #LI-KS1 Visit Tapestry, Inc. at http://www.tapestry.com/