Job Description

Talent Acquisition at Marriott is positioned to fuel company performance by identifying, attracting, and hiring world class talent. It is an integral function that directly impacts and supports business performance and drives the organization’s priorities around growing great leaders, investing in associates, and providing access to opportunity. The Recruiting Manager is a key member of the Talent Acquisition team and plays a critical role in helping to shape the workforce at Marriott International.

The Recruiting team owns the end-to-end hiring processes, candidate experience and hiring manager relationships. In this role, you’ll deliver exceptional leadership across the recruiting team with a core focus on managing and developing recruiting coordinators and analysts along with overseeing TA Operations for this group.

As the Recruiting Manager you will:

Act as a strategic partner to HR and Hiring Managers to optimize the efficiency of the recruitment funnel. This includes anticipating business needs, aligning talent acquisition plans with organizational goals, and ensuring a proactive approach to sourcing and attracting non-management talent.

Assist in carrying out the daily activities of the Talent Acquisition function related to the non-management centralized recruitment including facilitating the flow of positions assigned to each recruiting coordinator, overseeing the effectiveness of applicant flow and necessary marketing of roles, monitoring screening and interviewing logistics, tracking candidate progress in our recruiting systems via reporting, and triaging and resolving.

Engage as a leader on the team managing daily operational deadlines, providing coaching, training and development. Assist in ensuring all TA processes are completed, accurately and timely; as well as ensuring compliance with all applicable laws, regulations and operating procedures.

The Recruiting Manager will have 3 areas of focus: program management, team development and support, and leading project work.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Education and Experience

Required

• Bachelor's degree, or related degree
• 3+ years' experience preferably in an agency recruiting environment
• Masterful negotiating skills that work on behalf of the company and the talent
• Knowledgeable pulse on the hiring market and understand how to use that data to improve our hiring strategy
• Highly resourceful with strong problem-solving and analytical skills

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES

• Recruitment Strategy: Be a strategic partner to HR and the Hiring Manager by providing talent mapping, market insights, recruiting metrics, and strategies to improve the efficiency of the funnel
• Talent Sourcing: Partner with our sourcing team to develop creative recruiting strategies and proactively build a robust pipeline of A+ talent at all levels through research, social media, cold calls, referral generation, events, and sourcing campaigns to accomplish hiring goals
• Hiring Manager Collaboration: Ensure team is trained and effective with their respective hiring managers prior to activating posting to identify known candidates, encourage referrals, and align further on need + interview strategy.
• Candidate Screening: Ensure team is trained to review resumes, conduct phone screens, and assess candidates' qualifications and fit for the role.
• Interview Coordination: Ensure team is trained to leverage technology with supporting scheduling and coordination of interviews between candidates and hiring managers, ensuring a smooth and efficient process.
• Relationship Building: Develop and maintain strong relationships with centralized team, HR partners, and continent office HR leadership to ensure a positive and effective recruitment experience.
• Employer Branding: Promote Marriott International as an employer of choice by showcasing our company culture, values, and career opportunities.

Skills/Attributes

• Possesses leadership presence and professional demeanor; a leader who collaborates and resolves issues; influences without authority
• Is a team player with credibility who works with a high degree of independence
• Is results oriented; delivers results under difficult conditions and demonstrates balanced judgment under pressure; persistent-- drives ideas
• Develops and maintains effective relationships with a broad group of stakeholders, whether in person or via phone/email, in order to foster trust and influence key decisions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills that conveys key information, recommendations, etc. concisely to an executive audience and thoroughly to individuals supporting the recruiting process
• Makes decisions in a timely manner, sometimes with incomplete information
• Analyzes and assesses situations to find effective solutions; creative problem solver; engages in fixing the problem; makes decisions using data
• Possesses strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple tasks
• Strong mediation skills to facilitate a constructive approach to deal with conflict
• Quickly builds rapport and trust to influence stakeholders, vendors, and project teams; sells ideas persuasively, settling differences and winning concessions without damaging relationships; can be both direct and assertive while remaining diplomatic.
• Always maintains a positive attitude, especially if strategy and process improvement recommendations are met with resistance and disagreement; effective at addressing difficult issues and guiding others toward the accomplishment of identified goals.
• Proficient in the “mechanics” of applicant tracking system(s); computer literate (sound understanding of databases and supporting systems)
• Stays current with Talent Acquisition trends and best practices
• High degree of integrity in dealing with sensitive and confidential information in accordance with the company’s global data privacy regulations (GDPR)
• Integrates and balances priorities, work activities and resources for the benefit of multiple key stakeholders
• Active learner -- enhances personal, professional, and business growth through new knowledge and experiences; pushes the organization to learn from other industries’ standards and practices

Marriott International is an equal opportunity employer. We believe in hiring a diverse workforce and sustaining an inclusive, people-first culture. We are committed to non-discrimination on any protected basis, such as disability and veteran status, or any other basis covered under applicable law.