Blue Shield of California Hiring for Sr. Manager, Talent Acquisition at Oakland, California Full Time

Your Role

The Talent Acquisition team is seeking a Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition-Information Technology who will focus on specific business unit recruitment (IT). The position will be instrumental in managing a team of several recruiters, sourcers and coordinators, The Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition will develop relationships at all levels of Blue Shield’s business units and functional areas and collaborate with HR Business Partners on Human Capital Planning for our business units, forecasting and workforce planning. Developing and deploying long-term sustainable recruiting strategies, establishing best in class recruiting processes, pipeline maintenance, channel management, and strategic partnerships, are critical in this role.The Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition will recruit and manage a high-performing recruiting team. This position reports to the Director of Talent Acquisition.

Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Lead, manage and develop a team of Talent Acquisition Recruiters, Sourcers, and Coordinators. Manage various recruiting Talent Acquisition functions which may include, recruiting strategy, recruiting process, recruiting technology, recruiting coordination, and owns several vendor partnerships.
• Focus on several business unit recruitment needs and workforce planning. Develop relationships at all levels of Blue Shield’s business units and Talent Acquisition functional area and across all HR Centers of Excellence.
• Develop and deploy long-term sustainable recruiting strategies, establishing best in class recruiting processes, pipeline maintenance, channel management, and strategic partnerships.
• Propose and implement various controls to ensure compliance with relevant federal agencies (EEOC, OFCCP, DOL, etc.) as well as obligations under Blue Shield of CA federal, state and local contracts.
• Serve as owner and expert of all recruitment processes, technology, and practices. Research and propose changes and additions to current, processes, technology and practices.
• Extensive recruiting experience with ability to plan, source, recruit and support selection of top talent at the director and senior director levels.
• Skill with managing teams that leverage internet resources including but not limited to: resume databases, recruiting and search techniques such as LinkedIn, user group lists, social media and industry specific online professional networks, advanced Boolean searches, blogs, and job boards.
• Works with a high sense of urgency coupled with the ability to remain flexible within a highly dynamic environment and still deliver on deadlines. Works well with ambiguity.
• Strong critical thinking, problem solving, results oriented, adaptability, managerial courage and influential skills.

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Requires at least 10 years of prior relevant experience including 4 years of management experience gained as a team leader, supervisor, or project/program manager
• Requires advanced knowledge and skills including technical or Talent Acquisition functional business acumen, financial analysis skills, risk management, delegation skills, critical thinking and decision-making skills
• Coach recruitment team listening and providing alternatives to the way things have always been done finding creative ways to make the team better.
• Develop the team by providing clear expectations on performance and how to exceed their goals.
• Ideal candidate will be highly motivated, self-directed and possess strong learning agility.
• Expert task management, resource management and interpersonal skills to support time-critical staffing needs.
• Experience leveraging data and dashboards to assess what’s working and what’s not.
• Experience supporting IT requisitions and business unit is required

Please note that this range represents the pay range for this and many other positions at Blue Shield that fall into this pay grade. Blue Shield salaries are based on a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience, location (California, Bay area, or outside California), and current employee salaries for similar roles.

The pay range for this role is: $ 136400.00 to $ 204600.00 for California.