Senior Staffing Specialist

Overview

At Amazon we’re working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. If you’d like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history by joining the amazing Workforce Staffing team at Amazon. We need an exceptionally talented Staffing Specialist to help us find the best talent in the world to support our growth.

We are looking for a dynamic and innovative leader who will enable this growth through implementation and support of our high volume-hiring platform. Key to this mission is strategic, large-scale project management initiatives that will allow us to scale our organization for the future in a dramatic way. This role is both a strategic and hands-on leadership role, currently on our Workforce Staffing Team, supporting network wide growth of our Amazon Fulfillment Centers by initially functioning as a critical Sr. Staffing Specialist focused on high volume recruitment.

· Are you passionate about developing and preserving a positive relationship with candidates?
· Does the development and delivery of exceptional training programs, which create staffing expertise in operations, excite you?
· Do you believe that automation trumps manual processes every time.
· Can you “think big” in the creation of processes and tools that are designed for global, long-term use?

The Sr. Staffing Specialist plans, directs and leads all phases of successful operation for sourcing, screening, hiring and onboarding new employees within new launch fulfillment centers. The Specialist also develops staff members so that everyone on the team is fully trained and utilized to the optimum level.

Responsibilities:

· Create and drive innovative and scalable system, process and selection mechanisms to support our high volume hiring growth.
· This role needs a leader that is exceptional at developing and driving critical people initiatives, large projects and providing great internal stakeholder and candidate customer support.
· Driving network HR and Recruiting functional process excellence.
· Design scalable new site launch processes to address both selection and recruitment challenges.
· Support large scale recruitment events such as job fairs, direct hire events and other community events at new site locations.
· Report and follow up on metrics for all recruiting activities (non-exempt) for each member of the team.
· Provide metrics inputs to various reporting decks; communicate key performance indicators to Amazon Fulfillment Centers in support of staffing objectives.
· Lead and participate in our team efforts of driving and developing standard work through creating scalable, repeatable processes and platforms to successfully launch our buildings in a consistent fashion.
· Serve as a critical mentor and influencer of a cross functional group of Sr operations and HR leadership, also serving as a liaison between Centralized Sourcing/Funnel Management teams and field based Workforce Staffing and Operations Leadership/HR teams.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Bachelor’s degree in Business, HR or related field
· 5+ years of large scale project management experience, with a focus on continuous improvement, lean principles and process standardization
· 8+ years’ previous Staffing or Human Resources with a focus in high volume hiring or staffing initiatives.
· 3+ years’ experience managing a team of direct reports
· Ability to travel 50% of the time is required.
· Previous experience utilizing recruiting resources such as job postings, job site aggregators, ATS and job distribution tools

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· The ability to identify process improvements and make sound recommendations
· Must have working knowledge of labor and employment laws
· Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines
· Possess excellent problem solving, organizational, interpersonal and motivational skills
· Drive and ability to continuously improve processes and procedures
· Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion
· Ability to identify and resolve issues independently with initiative
· Solid sense of accountability and sound personal judgment
· Excellent customer service and bias for action
· Relentless focus on customer experience
· Ability to handle a high volume, transactional load

Amazon Operations and Distribution is a 24/7 environment and shifts may change due to business needs.

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation