Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition (Fixed Term)

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Title and Summary

Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition (Fixed Term)

Overview
• Aligns talent acquisition strategies with the Mastercard’s talent agenda for the Services Business Unit.
• Accountable for designing, planning and coordinating talent acquisition efforts; ensures the talent acquisition programs are scalable to support local, regional and global activities
• Acts as consultants to the business on a wide variety of talent acquisition strategies, programs and processes
• These include talent planning, recruiting, assessment, candidate sourcing, market research and employment branding
• Delivers strategic recruitment for high volume and complex hiring needs for the Services Business Unit in the LAC region

Role
• Develops sourcing strategies through detailed market research and data mining, using resources such as LinkedIn or social media pertaining to prospective candidates
• Conducts initial outreach to and screening of prospective internal and external candidates and serves as the direct point of contact for the prospective candidate up until their candidacy is confirmed
• Executes marketing and branding talent acquisition strategies (e.g. timed social media postings, segmentation driven visuals), and collaborates with Communications to achieve designated objectives
• May coordinate phases of the talent acquisition process for assigned talent pipeline and evaluates team recommendations of candidates
• Follows talent acquisition specific processes and systems
• Monitors progress against quarterly goals for time-to-fill, cost per hire, diverse candidate slates and candidate pipelines
• For University Talent Acquisition:
• Assists in development and deliverance of university segmentation strategy by maintaining contact and outreach to relevant universities, programs, departments etc.
• Conducts initial outreach to prospective student hires either before or following on-campus talent acquisition and marketing events or initiatives
• Collaborates with Communications to assist with designated branding and marketing strategies, offers insight from on-campus observations and feedback
• Collects and sorts the university-hire effectiveness metrics to develop insights on universities to prioritize and revisit

All About You
• Experience implementing talent acquisition programs/processes including candidate screening, assessment and selection in a fast-paced, high volume and matrixed environment
• Track record delivering hiring results that meet business needs and expectations
• Consistently delivered performance at or exceeding quarterly goals for time-to-fill, cost per hire, diverse candidate slates and candidate pipelines
• Experience screening, assessing and selecting prospective top candidates and provide a robust analysis and insight to candidate
• Experience conducting market research independently and communicating effectively and clearly with research subjects (i.e. cold-calling, interviewing), collating findings in a clear manner across multiple functions & industries
• Experience managing the candidate life cycle preferable
• Demonstrated success identifying new candidate pools and sources
• Track record of success recruiting in the LAC region across a variety of markets (Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, etc.)
• Fluent in Spanish and English
• Experience recruiting for strategy consulting is an asset

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

• Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;

• Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

• Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

• Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.