Sr. Specialist Talent Acquisition

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

Sr. Specialist Talent Acquisition

Overview
• Aligns talent acquisition strategies with the Mastercard’s talent agenda, supporting business unit recruiting across the North America region
• Accountable for designing, planning and coordinating talent acquisition efforts at the requisition level; 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

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


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
• Experience recruiting across multiple functions (HR, Finance, Product, etc.) is highly desired.
• Expertise recruiting across both US and Canada markets is ideal.

Mastercard is a merit-based, inclusive, equal opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We hire the most qualified candidate for the role. In the US or Canada, if you require accommodations or assistance to complete the online application process or during the recruitment process, please contact reasonable_accommodation@mastercard.com and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.

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.

In line with Mastercard’s total compensation philosophy and assuming that the job will be performed in Canada, the successful candidate will be offered a competitive pay based on location, experience and other qualifications for the role and may be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program. This posting reflects one or more current openings on our team.