Recruiter

Want to do something Giant with your career? At Giant Creative Strategy, we strive to consistently exceed our clients' expectations through Giant insights, ideas, and execution. We're an award-winning, full-service healthcare communications agency specializing in positioning, branding, and strategic and creative development for pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and diagnostics companies. We have doubled our size in the last 24 months and are positioned for continued growth.

We're currently looking for a Recruiter who is ready to hit the ground running in our fast-paced environment. Reporting to the VP, Director of HR, the Recruiter will play a significant role in attracting the best talents to the agency and lead the recruiting process for full-time as well as contract and temporary employees.

This is a great opportunity for a driven and energetic individual with current and/or prior advertising agency experience. The ideal candidate must have strong EI and a flexible, roll up the sleeve work style and be able to manage between 15-20 req load.

Responsibilities:

• Manage entire recruitment lifecycle for a variety of positions ensuring a smooth and positive candidate experience. This may include but not limited to sourcing, interviewing, checking references, and extending offers.


• Partner with hiring managers on sourcing strategies, focus on developing and maintaining strong relationships with candidates, employees and external business contacts


• Implement and introduce recruiting best practices and processes that are both effective and efficient to achieve operational excellence


• Maintain an extensive network and a large candidate pool in order to fill positions quickly and effectively


• Partner with multiple teams to create detailed job descriptions, select interview panels, and define the feedback criteria


• Develop, launch, and own strategic initiatives to help Giant continuously improve its recruiting processes and systems


• Track and maintain recruiting metrics for reporting purposes


• Coordinate the temporary staffing relationship. Manage on-going communications with staffing agencies and act as the liaison between departments and the agencies for recruitment/placement of temporary employees.


• Continue to develop and manage 3rd party relationships


• May perform other HR duties as assigned (we have a small but growing HR team after all)

Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in HR or similar and at least 3 years' recruiting experience in an advertising agency is extremely desirable


• Passion for attracting the best talents to Giant


• Must have high EI that allows you to confidently and easily connect with a variety of candidates at various levels


• Excellent team building and relationship building skills required


• Collaborative, team player with high standards and ethics


• Extensive and creative sourcing strategies that extend beyond LinkedIn and online job boards


• Exceptional communication skills, including written, verbal, and interpersonal communication


• Must have experience implementing and working with a variety of Applicant Tracking Systems


• Highly organized with strong attention to detail; ability to establish new work processes and methods


• Must have strong computer skills, MAC environment desirable