Recruitment Partner - Talent Acquisition Retail

Overview

In this role, you will be responsible for leading the entire recruitment process and closely partnering with HR, Business and Recruiting colleagues in order to identify, qualify and attract the best talent for adidas. As the Recruitment Partner for Retail, you will focus on recruitment mandates for Europe Retail Stores, and drive strategic talent acquisition topics within Europe Retail. You will support Retail leadership teams in the recruitment process within their own teams.

You will manage the entire recruitment process from sourcing, screening, interviewing, to offer stage. You will have a true passion for engaging with candidates and hiring teams and delivering exceptional candidate experience and recruitment services. Your business acumen, passion for recruiting and a genuine commitment to thinking outside of the box are core skills needed in this role.

In this role, you will partner closely with your hiring teams to develop functional recruiting strategies and act as an expert recruiting partner to HR and business within Europe Retail. You will leverage adidas’ local sourcing hubs and work closely with recruiting and sourcing colleagues to share candidates and roles to encourage a collaborative hiring process. Maintaining an ‘always on’ approach, you will continuously utilize various channels to attract the best talent including proactive outreach to passive candidates for every search.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the entire recruitment process including requisition approval, hiring manager briefing, job advertising, candidate sourcing, application review, candidate screening, interview strategy, offer process, and continuously work with the hiring teams to identify opportunities to improve the process.
• Leverage relevant advertising resources and apply other candidate marketing strategies to create local, regional and global awareness to attract qualified applications for key roles within your area of responsibility.
• Leverage candidate databases (internal and external) in addition to other sourcing channels (university, competitive research, job fairs, social) to identify prospective candidates, create awareness and invite them to apply, including cold calling prospects.
• Screen resumes and conduct initial phone screens to assess qualifications and suitability, followed by in-depth interviews evaluating skills, experience and culture add.
• Build, engage and maintain pre-qualified as well as prospective candidate pools within the functional area that you support.
• Partner with recruiting and sourcing colleagues to share candidates and jobs to encourage a collaborative hiring process.
• Continuously identify new candidate pools and leverage existing resources and various channels to proactively identify passive candidates and reach out to them.
• Provide guidance to the hiring teams throughout the recruitment process and frequently update them on status.
• Advocate for and drive a diverse and inclusive recruitment strategy.
• Conduct weekly check-ins with active candidates and hiring managers throughout the entire recruiting process for each role.
• Own responsibility for candidate and hiring manager experience results and drive standards to ensure quality performance against all standards.
• Effectively utilize knowledge of adidas brand and offerings, benefits, compensation strategies, and programs to market adidas as an Employer of Choice.
• Lead additional recruitment initiatives as needed.
• Plan and participate in strategic planning meetings with functional/market leadership and key business partners to understand current and upcoming requirements and build a strategy for effective recruitment activities.
• Conduct quarterly review meetings with business leaders to provide an overview of recruiting achievements and opportunities to improve hiring performance.
• Support retail teams with TA upskilling, trainings, best practices, hiring events, assessment centers, and toolkits rollout.
• In partnership with HR and Legal, advocate for Retail leadership to ensure all interviewing and hiring practices align with TA policy and local and federal regulations.
• Drive strategic talent strategies with Retail Leadership to proactively build candidate pipelines within retail stores and teams.
• Actively participate in retail events including Retail Sales Meetings, Store Visits, Hiring Events, and District/Regional market meetings.
• Participate in onboarding trainings for new hires within Retail leadership to conduct training on TA topics.
• Apply and adapt broader talent acquisition strategies (employer branding, internal recruiting, diversity, etc.) within your designated function or market.
• Act as a key point of contact to support the implementation of global initiatives within your designated function or market.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4-6 years’ experience in international/global recruiting, leading local, international and global mandates for all level candidates through a broad range of sourcing channels (including proactive outreach).
• Specific expertise/experience recruiting for Retail business strongly preferred.
• Industry experience and deep knowledge of the footwear, apparel and/or retail industry.
• Experience working in a large, international/global matrix company.
• Experience working with vendors and managing relationships to drive results through collaboration.
• Demonstrated track record of driving end-to-end, holistic recruitment mandates (including sourcing, assessing and hiring talent in volume roles and global recruiting initiatives) to achieve hiring goals.
• Experience in offer negotiation and awareness of local legislation and employment market/compensation trends.
• International experience in projects across multiple geographies.
• Knowledgeable about managing diversity and inclusion from a talent acquisition perspective.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English plus local languages: Italian is required.

Why adidas?

• Employees are eligible to earn an annual bonus based on both company and personal performance.
• This position will follow a hybrid working environment, with 3 days in office or store and 2 days remote. The working location is Milan, Italy.
• This position may require up to 25% travel for the markets supported.
• Our working language is English.

adidas celebrates diversity, supports inclusiveness and encourages individual expression in our workplace. We do not tolerate harassment or discrimination toward any of our applicants or employees. We are an equal opportunity employer.