The posting
Who are we?
A High Jewelry Maison with a strong heritage who promotes exceptional know-how in an enchanting and creative environment. Our Maison is looking for talented individuals who contribute to developing and transmitting their expertise with care and no compromise. At Van Cleef & Arpels you will be surrounded by passionate experts and will contribute to many new projects which allows our Maison to regularly reinvent itself. At Van Cleef & Arpels, we are proud to hire talents from many different backgrounds and experiences. We believe that when diversity and inclusion are fully embraced and empowered, creativity and knowledge emerge to deliver excellence.
Role Overview
As a crucial member of the Van Cleef & Arpels Talent Team, you will play an essential role in executing our recruitment strategy and elevating the candidate experience for both boutique and corporate positions. Your daily tasks will involve screening and qualifying potential candidates, collaborating with HR Business Partners and Hiring Managers to provide insights on job market trends, and actively building a robust talent pipeline. Your responsibilities will encompass the full lifecycle recruitment process, with a focus on networking, fostering relationships, and crafting memorable experiences that align with our talent principles. We expect you to share our enthusiasm for people and their potential.
Responsibilities
Recruit
- Lead and conduct intake meetings with the hiring managers to understand vacancies, share potential profiles from pipeline, define the interview cadence, and share labor market intelligence.
- Interview potential candidates against position specific competencies and behaviors for current vacancies, conduct exploratory calls to identify high-potential candidates, and establish and maintain relationships with referrals while being the ultimate brand ambassador.
- Provide Hiring Managers with a diverse short list of candidates in a timely manner.
- Establish and maintain a high-touch candidate experience throughout the hiring process.
Research
- Proactively build talent pipelines utilizing our Applicant Tracking System(ATS), social media, job boards, and field recruitment – including consistent outreach to passive candidates in support of developing robust talent pools for future vacancies.
- Understand and communicate labor market trends, regional compensation benchmarks, and talent availability.
- Identify and recommend innovative recruitment initiatives, best practices, and digital enhancements.
- Candidate generation lead and direct active sourcing and recruiting for qualified candidates utilizing various search tools, processes, and strategy.
Partner
- Develop and maintain relationships with Hiring Managers to understand their needs, create an interview matrix, provide market feedback, and consistently communicate updates throughout the interview process.
- Collaborate and partner with the HR Business Partner to enhance service delivery to internal stake holders.
- Team oriented with ability to interact with personnel across the organization
- Participate in staffing committees and talent sharing meetings to identify and highlight strong candidates, facilitate talent exchanges, and maintain a robust internal talent pipeline.
- Work closely with our Talent Specialist to ensure data integrity.
- Facilitate and manage the external vendor contract process as well as engage external vendors utilized on key searches.
- Contribute to global/HQ initiatives by partnering with talent colleagues across Maisons and in other regions.
- Develop and maintain relationships with external recruitment agencies, local high schools and colleges, trade schools, and other relevant stakeholders.
- Ensure candidates are properly onboarded via close partnership with HR generalists and hiring manager
Execute
- Lead and conduct intake meetings to understand vacancies, share potential profiles from pipeline, define the interview cadence, and share labor market intelligence.
- Interview potential candidates against position specific competencies and behaviors for current vacancies, conduct exploratory calls to identify high-potential candidates, and establish and maintain relationships with referrals while being the ultimate brand ambassador.
- Provide hiring managers with a shortlist of candidates.
- Create unique digital job ads for social media.
- Coordinate and attend local job/college fairs, and network in the community to ensure a pipeline of candidates for hiring managers.
- Establish and maintain a high-touch candidate experience.
Report
- Track and communicate interviews, placements, retention, and agency submissions/spend in accordance with our defined talent acquisition operating model and process flow.
- Utilize and maintain our ATS, providing detailed notes and submissions on candidates, facilitating the interview/hiring process, and building our talent pools.
- Present to executives and senior leadership on recruitment activity and labor market intelligence.
Qualifications
- You are a people-magnet and expert communicator!
- You are enthusiastic and passionate about luxury retail - its history, heritage and craftsmanship.
- Recruiting experience in a fast-paced environment including prioritizing and leading multiple searches simultaneously
- 3-5 years of experience in retail recruitment at the boutique and corporate levels; You must be able to manage a high requisition count (20+), while maintaining strong relationships with candidates and internal clients. Field experience with an emphasis on high-volume recruitment of sales associates is preferred.
- You must love to work as a team - sharing resources, energy and candidates. No position is too small. No partnership is too little.
- You must have the ability to work across time zones, maintaining flexibility in your approach to meet the needs of boutique level and corporate leaders.
- We use our ATS, social media, digital platforms, and Microsoft (Excel, PowerPoint, and Word) daily - you must be digitally savvy.
- It's human resources - integrity and confidentiality are a must.
- A few more things we look for: flexibility to adapt quickly, empathy in working with people and challenging circumstances, ability to influence and negotiate, and strong presentation skills
Richemont offers a generous compensation and benefits package for eligible employees. Only candidates selected for further consideration will be contacted.
We Offer
Employee wellbeing is a top priority at Richemont. We offer a comprehensive benefits program to support employees and their loved ones. Our core benefits include medical, dental, and vision programs. Health savings and flexible spending accounts are also available. The company offers income protection solutions including life insurance, disability benefits, and 401(k) with employer match. Understanding the importance of work-life balance, our total rewards include paid time off, a wellness reimbursement benefit, and access to the employee assistance program. Employees are encouraged to make a difference in their local communities with volunteer days off, supporting initiatives that drive change.
At Richemont, We Craft the Future!
Expected Salary Range: $54-57.00/hr
Salary will be determined based on relevant skills anexperience.
