Senior Manager, Talent Corporate & Early Career, Cartier

Richemont, one of the world leaders in the luxury sector, has various Houses specializing in jewelry, watches and high-end accessories. Each Maison proudly embodies a tradition of style, quality and craftsmanship and Richemont strives to preserve the heritage and identity specific to each of them. At the same time, we are committed to innovating and designing new products in line with the values ​​of our Houses, through a process of permanent creativity.

Role Overview

As a crucial member of the talent team, you will play an essential role in executing our recruitment strategy and elevating the candidate experience for both boutique and corporate positions. Your daily tasks will involve screening and qualifying potential candidates, collaborating with HR Business Partners and Hiring Managers to provide insights on job market trends, and actively building a robust talent pipeline. Your responsibilities will encompass the full lifecycle recruitment process, with a focus on networking, fostering relationships, and crafting memorable experiences that align with our talent principles. We expect you to share our enthusiasm for people and their potential.

Responsibilities

Recruit

• Lead and conduct intake meetings with the hiring managers to understand vacancies, share potential profiles from pipeline, define the interview cadence, and share labor market intelligence.
• Interview potential candidates against position specific competencies and behaviors for current vacancies, conduct exploratory calls to identify high-potential candidates, and establish and maintain relationships with referrals while being the ultimate brand ambassador. 
• Provide Hiring Managers with a diverse short list of candidates in a timely manner.
• Establish and maintain a high-touch candidate experience throughout the hiring process.

Research

• Proactively build talent pipelines utilizing our Applicant Tracking System(ATS), social media, job boards, and market mapping– including consistent outreach to passive candidates in support of developing robust talent pools for future vacancies.
• Understand and communicate labor market trends, regional compensation benchmarks, and talent availability.
• Identify and recommend innovative recruitment initiatives, best practices, and digital enhancements. 
• Lead candidate generation and direct active sourcing and recruiting for qualified candidates utilizing various search tools, processes, and strategy.

Partner

• Develop and maintain relationships with Hiring Managers to understand their needs, create an interview matrix, provide market feedback, and consistently communicate updates throughout the interview process.
• Collaborate and partner with the HR Business Partner to enhance service delivery to internal stakeholders.
• Work closely with Talent Acquisition & Talent Management Director and VP of Talent to create recruitment strategies
• Participate in staffing committees and talent sharing meetings to identify and highlight strong candidates, facilitate talent exchanges, and maintain a robust internal talent pipeline.
• Facilitate and manage the external vendor contract process as well as engage external vendors utilized on key searches.
• Contribute to global/HQ initiatives by partnering with talent colleagues across Maisons and in other regions.
• Develop and maintain relationships with external recruitment agencies, local high schools and colleges, trade schools, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure candidates are properly onboarded via close partnership with HR generalists and hiring manager

Execute

• Lead and conduct intake meetings to understand vacancies, share potential profiles from pipeline, define the interview cadence, and share labor market intelligence.
• Interview potential candidates against position specific competencies and behaviors for current vacancies, conduct exploratory calls to identify high-potential candidates, and establish and maintain relationships with referrals while being the ultimate brand ambassador. 
• Provide hiring managers with a shortlist of candidates.
• Create unique digital job ads for social media.
• Coordinate and attend local job/college fairs, and network in the community to ensure a pipeline of candidates for hiring managers.
• Establish and maintain a high-touch candidate experience.

Report

• Track and communicate interviews, placements, retention, and agency submissions/spend in accordance with our defined talent acquisition operating model and process flow.
• Utilize and maintain our ATS, providing detailed notes and submissions on candidates, facilitating the interview/hiring process, and building our talent pools.
• Present to executives and senior leadership on recruitment activity and labor market intelligence.

Early Career & University Partnerships

• Design, implement, and manage comprehensive early career programs, including the Summer Internship Program, aligning them with Cartier’s goals and collaborating with HR and business leaders.
• Build and maintain relationships with target universities for talent pipeline development and manage key external partnerships for early career initiatives.
• Drive inclusive strategies for all early career and university programming, ensuring diverse candidate slates and fostering partnerships with organizations like College Track, and Laureus.
• Lead branding initiatives to attract top talent, develop compelling content for career sites and social media, and manage all communications for early career programs.
• Oversee recruitment, onboarding, training, and mentorship for early career talent, track program ROI and KPIs, and provide post-program evaluations and recommendations.

Qualifications

• You are a people-magnet and expert communicator!
• You are enthusiastic and passionate about luxury retail - its history, heritage and craftsmanship.
• Recruiting experience in a fast-paced environment including prioritizing and leading multiple searches simultaneously.
• Experience in agency and/or search firm preferred.
• Proven ability to cultivate and main strong collaborative working relationships with Maisons, functions, external contact, and third- party partners.
• 7 plus years of experience in full cycle recruitment including corporate, field, and temporary roles; You must be able to manage a high requisition count (20+), while maintaining strong relationships with candidates and internal clients. Corporate recruitment experience with an emphasis on high-volume recruitment preferred.
• You must love to work as a team - sharing resources, energy and candidates. No position is too small.  No partnership is too little.   
• Results-orientated with a strong track record of quality execution; continually striving for improvement and efficiency.
• Flexibility to adapt quickly to changing circumstances, Comfortable working proactively in a challenging environment and capable of prioritization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, especially pertaining to business presentations, vendor relationships, negotiations, internal/external communications.
• Solid experience with various HR and talent systems, professional networks, reference sites (ie Workday, PeopleFirst, LinkedIn, Glassdoor), and other social media is essential.
• End to end project management experience

If you're interested in telling us about yourself and learning more about our culture, principles, and company, please apply.

Travel:
Richemont North America is based in Manhattan with offices in Midtown East. Some team members are based in other locations, and periodic travel may be required to Shelton, CT; Dallas, TX; Mississauga, ON.

We Offer

We care about your health and wellbeing and offer a comprehensive benefits program to support you and your loved ones. Our core benefits include medical, dental, and vision programs. Health savings and flexible spending accounts are available to support your financial needs, along with access to the employee assistance program for you and your household members. The company offers income protection solutions including life insurance, disability benefits, and 401(k) with employer match. Understanding the importance of wellness and work-life-balance, our package includes a wellness reimbursement benefit and paid time off. We also encourage associates to give back to their local community by using their volunteer time off days to support important initiatives that drive change.

At Richemont, We Craft the Future!

Salary Range: $140,000-160,000

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