Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Build engage, manage and develop a team of high-performing recruiting staff in an extremely fast-paced and ambiguous environment.

• Set team performance goals and metrics, timelines and a formal tracking process to measure and manage progress.

• Develop and execute plans to identify and drive productivity improvements that enable the team to deliver to hiring goals.

• Periodically lead and/or participate in cross-business/cross-company special projects and initiatives related to talent attraction.

• Lead by example through following, setting or sharing recruiting best practices

• Ensuring recruiters and/or sourcers are managing to milestones and metrics

• Providing innovative, scalable solutions to drive our hiring to meet Zeiss business objectives

• Creating innovative sourcing strategies and ensuring a high-touch candidate experience

• Support and manage all aspects of team's searches including resourcing, forecasting, reporting and managing competing expectations

• Compile, analyze and capture insights from data to support business decisions

• Define, design and implement recruiting programs for a variety of recruiting positions including understanding and mapping the talent landscape, internal calibration and referrals, and matching those data points with the external talent supply

• Drives diversity recruiting strategy and impacts results in support of broader teams

• Resposible for team, goals, delivery and people planning to meet both short term and long term goals

• Work closely with business leaders to influence and deliver quality assessment and high touch candidate experience through all aspects of the recruitment funnel.

• Partner with key stakeholders (Business Leaders, Hiring Managers, HR Business Partners) to determine future talent needs and set and drive enabling sourcing strategies; this requires a deep understanding through extensive market research of the channels where we can find the best, diverse talent who fit our technical and cultural demands.

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience required.

• 8+ years of recruiting experience in a high tech corporate environemnt

• 4+ years of experience leading, building, and coaching a recruiting team of at least 4 recruiters, in a high-tech corporate environment.

• Workday Recruiter experience strongly desired

• Experience communicating and working with cross-functional teams.

• Experience partnering with senior leaders to deliver results.

• Experience working with recruiting tools and systems, including Workday, internet sourcing tools, and spreadsheets.

• The ideal candidate should have demonstrated technical recruiting skills preferably with a large System Integration company with a global presence.

• The position is part of a large team that works in fast-paced environment needing the individual to be able to multi-task and be a self-starter.

• Great communication skills is a 'must' and the candidate should be able to interact with internal Hiring Managers and be able to win their trust in a short period of time

• This position does not require regular travel but being a recruiters' job there might be need to take calls after work hours at times depending on candidate availability

• A proven track record of influencing senior leaders on recruiting strategies.

• Demonstrated ability to work in a team environment, as a team leader and member.

• Skilled at partnering with hiring teams to build effective sourcing, assessment, and closing approaches with an ability to manage customer/partner expectations through a deep understanding of ROI.

• Experience utilizing metrics and data to drive decision-making.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 

• Experience utilizing data and analytical skills to create, measure, and scale workflows to achieve accelerated hiring goals.

Your ZEISS Recruiting Team:

Debra Ann Rybolt

About Us

Step out of your comfort zone, excel and redefine the limits of what is possible. That’s just what our employees are doing every single day – in order to set the pace through our innovations and enable outstanding achievements. After all, behind every successful company are many great fascinating people.

In a spacious modern setting full of opportunities for further development, ZEISS employees work in a place where expert knowledge and team spirit reign supreme. All of this is supported by a special ownership structure and the long-term goal of the Carl Zeiss Foundation: to bring science and society into the future together.

Join us today. Inspire people tomorrow.

Diversity is a part of ZEISS. We look forward to receiving your application regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, philosophy of life, disability, age, sexual orientation or identity.

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