Senior Consultant, Talent Acquisition - Scotiabank, Toronto

Day-to-day

Explore exciting Scotiabank jobs and advance your HR career. In this role, you will contribute to the overall success of the Talent Acquisition team in Canada by ensuring specific individual goals, plans, and initiatives are executed in support of business strategies.

• Champion a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge.
• Drive the end-to end recruitment process for complex and specialized portfolio, including intake session with hiring manager, communication with candidates, interviews, assessments, offer management and negotiation, and exception decisions from the business on salary and benefits.
• Support more complex business lines working with executives and senior leaders, recruiting for senior, complex and specialized roles.
• Manage complex compensation negotiations with candidates and engages Total Rewards, as required.
• Drive the candidate's talent journey with the Bank, leading the end-to-end candidate experience and building influential candidate relationships during the selection process.
• Partner with hiring managers and senior leaders above the Director level from intake through to advising on hiring decisions to successfully convert candidate to new hires.
• Proactively source and attracts candidates through various channels and build a pipeline of candidates for all critical, difficult to fill and complex roles.
• Proactively monitor developments in the external labour market and broader industry to bring trends and best practices into the Bank, identifying problem areas within assigned portfolio.
• Understand how the Bank's risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Actively pursue effective and efficient operations of respective areas while ensuring adherence to day-to-day business controls regarding operational risk, regulatory compliance risk, AML/ATF risk and conduct risk.
• Champion a high performance environment and implement a people strategy that attracts, retains, develops and motivates the team by fostering an inclusive work environment.

What you'll bring

To succeed in this challenging environment, you must possess a strong combination of recruitment expertise, talent assessment skills, and the ability to navigate complex business landscapes.

• At least 3-5 years of progressive recruitment experience
• Proven ability to communicate effectively and conduct intake meetings with leaders at all levels
• Experience sourcing candidates for complex roles
• Experience working with aligned business/function/geography
• Demonstrated expertise in behavioural interviewing techniques
• Demonstrated ability to connect big picture to team and individual contributions
• Demonstrated ability to identify strengths in others, and help build on those strengths to meet both individual and team goals
• Demonstrated ability to anticipate business needs and provide value to hiring managers/senior leaders through innovative solutions
• Demonstrated ability to encourage other to explore new ideas, and motivates others to move forward after challenges and setbacks
• Possesses clear sense of urgency and ability to make decisions at a high pace
• French fluency (written/spoken) is preferred
• Post-secondary degree or diploma preferred

Why you'll love it here

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture at Scotiabank.