Early Talent Specialist

**What are we looking for?**:
- Insert bulleted list of 2-4 most essential requirements
- can also include here 1-3 'nice-to-haves', that are identified as non-essential
**What will be your key responsibilities?**:
- Develop and implement our university recruitment and employer reputation strategy (both virtually and in-person where applicable) to attract, source and recruit a high caliber of university level talent that aligns to business needs, pushes the businesses thinking around future capabilities, and positions Mars as an employer of choice.
- Develop of thorough understanding of local market landscape (university and competitor), regularly sharing this information with the Early Talent Managers and other key stakeholders. Learn from peers to broaden knowledge of regional Early Talent landscape.
Leads the management of various projects related to Early Talent and/or Talent Acquisition by developing, communicating, and executing project plans in order to support the overall TA strategy and ones personal development.
- Strongly partner with Employer Reputation team (and Corp Affairs where applicable) to design and develop branding materials, digital strategy, marketing campaigns and career websites.
- Ownership of the end to end recruitment process, including attraction, sourcing and operational recruitment process, which includes a solid understanding of the various technology platforms we use.
Track and analyze key performance metrics at a campus level to influence data driven decisions and share results/trends with stakeholders.
- Manages vendor relationships, including creation, inventory warehousing, shipping of collateral and branding materials.
- Maintain timely and accurate data in the applicant tracking system, CRM, university websites and career pages, and other technology platforms we use to engage with early talents
- Leverage technology to create an efficient and effective Early Talent recruiting process, including CRM management and digital assessment tools. Track and analyze the recruitment process using internal reporting metrics to influence data driven decisions and share results/trends with stakeholders.
**Strategy Development & Deployment**
- Develop and deploy local ET strategies in partnership with Early Talent Manager, Early Talent Lead and key stakeholders to ensure programs and initiatives enhance value and support business growth.
- Ability to manage, influence and align geographically distributed stakeholders while consistently delivering a high level of customer service.
Use data and insights, both internal and external, to recommend new and modern ways to attract, select, onboard and develop Early Talent hires.
- Ensure Early Talent strategy aligned with overall diversity goals in order to build strong pipelines of talent across the business.
- **Operational Execution**
- Owns end to end recruitment process including attraction, sourcing and operational process.
- Designs and develops local market deployment of Early Talent attraction and sourcing initiatives.
Owns onboarding process, collaborating closely with Talent and Learning Centers of Excellence to drive all program related talent management initiatives, including and not limited to the execution of Learning and Development curriculums (where applicable).
- Monitor key metrics and key performance Indicators to track recruitment effectiveness and ensure strong ROI for Mars.
- Own and manage the operational activities within respective market; including but not limited to contract management, coaching and advising interns, Mars Intern groups and Intern LMs throughout the year.
**What can you expect from Mars?**:
- Work with over 130,000 like-minded and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

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