Seagate: Director

Company Description

At Seagate, our mission is to give people peace of mind by protecting their digital lives.

Since 1978, Seagate has been creating precision-engineered data storage technologies that deliver superior capacity, speed, safety, and performance. We help people harness and maximize the datasphere.

Seagate couldn't do any of that without its employees—a diverse workforce of 40,000 creative, hard-working, passionate people all over the world. From the Silicon Valley, the United Kingdom, Singapore, India, Thailand, through China, our people are proud to embody the values of integrity, innovation, and inclusion.

Job Description

About our group:

The Global Talent Management team is building a world-class talent strategy that aims to maximize our employees’ potential by delivering robust end-to-end talent solutions. Our goal is to create an empowered, agile, innovative workforce to meet the needs of our future business while promoting a positive employee experience. This is an excellent opportunity to be in a leadership role with one of the top organizations with a global footprint. You will have the opportunity to lead strategies in a face-paced and exciting environment.

About the role - you will:

As Director - Talent Acquisition, you will be responsible for overseeing the full recruitment life cycle for technical, non-technical, and leadership roles at Seagate. Your goal will be to minimize the time to hire critical positions without compromising quality. You will be tasked with leading and overseeing members of the recruiting team to create, organize, and implement new and enhanced Talent Acquisition processes and tools to drive efficiency and improve quality of hires.

  • Be a self-starter who thrives in a rapidly growing organization and establishes best practices
  • Assess current and future staffing needs against the business strategy and develop / oversee implementation of appropriate talent acquisition strategies/plans
  • Communicate and collaborate with business partners and stakeholders across the company
  • Provide oversight of the Talent Acquisition team of contractors/vendors
  • Partner with staffing teams to fulfill current and future staffing needs, working closely with vendors/RPO partners and teams
  • Review and monitor performance to vendor SLA/KPI and other metrics
  • Develop and review candidate and employee satisfaction metrics to understand trends and create mitigation plans for improvement
  • Partner with vendors/RPO partners to determine resources needs to support the business short and long term
  • Develop and monitor data analytics specific to Talent Acquisition and leverage insights for process enhancements.
  • Responsible for identifying and mapping the external talent pool towards critical positions within the organization and create a strong succession planning pool
  • Develop assessment tools based on required skills for each role and organization values (In line with the hiring need) to ensure hiring decision is majorly data driven

Provide guidance on global practices to do the following:

  • Design and execute short-term and long-term recruitment strategies to source passive candidates for difficult-to-fill positions and creatively source for niche roles
  • Maximize sourcing resources/channels to determine effectiveness/ROI
  • Provide guidance for global best practices for full lifecycle recruitment & selection process; identify areas of improvement to create higher impact
  • Work with global legal and TA/HR leadership team to ensure recruitment and selection procedures and practices meet operational needs, legislative and best practice requirements
  • Work with the global Total Rewards team to identify trends with regards to compensation trends and recommendations to attract/retain top talent
  • Leverage business intelligence to understand competition, market data reporting, and talent mapping for the organization

Qualifications

Your experience includes:

  • Talent acquisition with proven results in building a great team
  • Managing/Leading a team of Talent Acquisition partners
  • Proven track record of instituting hiring processes to bring efficiency in the hiring process
  • In depth expertise and understanding of talent acquisition across different geographies and business functions
  • Deep experience in recruitment, talent strategy, candidate assessments, fit analysis and on-boarding with exposure and use of technology platforms in the talent acquisition space
  • High proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and Applicant Tracking Systems
  • Proven excellence in project management skills

Additional Information

About you:

  • Ability to communicate with and influence senior leaders is essential
  • High level of integrity, ownership, and accountability
  • Ability to drive change and challenge the status quo
  • Ability to understand and articulate stakeholder's requirements, culture and other compatibility issues that are critical to making a successful hire
  • Strong process management, interpersonal, organizational, written, negotiation and presentation skills
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