About the role:
The Global Business Services (GBS) Recruiter supports recruitment activities across North America, partnering with hiring managers and senior leaders to attract and hire top talent for both white-collar and blue-collar roles. The role develops sourcing and recruitment strategies, leads networking and diversity hiring initiatives, and serves as a trusted advisor throughout the hiring process. By leveraging local labor market knowledge and recruitment expertise, the recruiter helps drive informed hiring decisions while delivering an exceptional candidate experience.
Key responsibilities include:
Adhere strictly to global recruitment processes from start to finish.
Lead end-to-end recruitment processes for White Collar and Blue Collar positions, ensuring timely fulfillment through alignment with hiring managers and post-interview debrief sessions with interview teams.
Establish and maintain a robust talent pipeline for future hiring needs.
Conduct comprehensive candidate assessments and guide hiring managers through decision making process.
Deliver diverse talent pools for current requisitions and proactive introductions for future needs.
Provide market insights to influence growth-oriented discussions and stay abreast of national labor trends.
Prioritize delivering a positive candidate experience throughout the recruitment journey.
Educate candidates on company culture, history, benefits, and work environment.
Skillfully negotiate offers within appropriate compensation ranges and ensure successful candidate closures.
Utilize various sourcing techniques and platforms, including LinkedIn Recruiter, while employing creative strategies to attract and engage passive candidates and adapting sourcing approaches to talent market changes.
About you:
Bachelor’s degree.
5+ years of demonstrated full-cycle recruiting practices, principles, applications, and methods, including interviewing and assessment skills, with experience supporting international multi-site recruitment.
Recruitment experience involving a proactive sourcing model and engaging with passive operations candidates and networks.
Fluent in English, both written and oral.
Mandatory experience recruitment within a manufacturing environment.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Excellent organizational skills.
Ability to assess candidate qualifications and cultural fit.
Exceptional market research and sourcing skills.
Experience using an ATS and Linkedin.
With annual sales of about CHF 14.8 billion in fiscal year 2024/25, the Zurich-based Barry Callebaut Group is the world’s leading solutions provider of high-quality chocolate experiences across the full spectrum of chocolate, cocoa, cacao coatings and non-cocoa alternatives – from sourcing and processing cocoa beans to crafting premium chocolates, fillings and decorations.
The Group operates more than 60 production facilities worldwide and employs a diverse, committed workforce of over 13,000 people. Barry Callebaut serves as a trusted partner for the entire food industry, from large-scale food manufacturers to artisanal and professional users such as chocolatiers, pastry chefs, bakers, hotels, restaurants and caterers with Callebaut® as its main global brand.
The Barry Callebaut Group is dedicated to making sustainable chocolate the norm – helping secure the future of cocoa and improving the livelihoods of cocoa farmers. It supports the Cocoa Horizons Foundation, which aims to shape a sustainable future for cocoa and chocolate.
