Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition (12 Month FTC)

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

Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition (12 Month FTC)

Who is Mastercard?
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential.

Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all.

Overview
The Talent Acquisition team is looking for a Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition on a 12 month fixed term contract to support our Core Payments, Commercial New Payment Flows and International Marketing Communications organisations with a primary focus on sales and product recruitment across Europe. You would be responsible for managing the end to end hiring process for our candidates, sourcing great talent for our teams and proactively delivering a high-quality experience for both candidates and hiring managers alike.

The ideal candidate is passionate about the candidate and hiring manager experience journey, highly motivated, intellectually curious, loves engaging and sourcing new talent, and possesses an organised mindset (with the ability to navigate complex matrix environments).

All About the Role
• Managing requisitions across three business units with a focus on but not limited to product and sales.
• Serves as the point of contact for internal and external candidates, initial hires, business groups and divisions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to tailor strategies to attract the best talent in the external market.
• Collaborating with hiring managers to create job ads for current openings.
• Advertising job openings on careers pages, job boards and social networks such as LinkedIn.
• Conducts initial screening of identified passive external candidates.
• Pipeline talent in CRM for future roles.
• Responsible for upholding designated TA processes and systems.
• Monitors sourcing effectiveness through key performance indicators to identify improvements to sourcing strategies (direct source hires, time-to-fill, candidate pipeline quality, applicant tracking system functionality and data integrity).
• Supporting and managing key strategic TA projects to drive operational excellence.

All About You
• Agency or in house recruitment background.
• A strong communicator and influencer.
• An agile mind with the ability to absorb and interpret technical and business information.
• A ‘can-do’ and ‘will-do’ attitude. The ability to build cross-functional relationships and to collaborate with different teams.
• A commercial focused mind-set.
• End to end ownership of full 360 recruitment for agreed roles.
• Tenacity (use to working to TA SLA’s on time to hire etc.)
• Commercial awareness (understand the impact that TA has on the wider business).
• Reporting on data to present to key stakeholders.

Desirable:
• Working in or with matrix organisations to COE model.
• Recruiting for sales or product positions.
• Experience using Workday as an ATS.

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.