Talent Acquisition Partner

Hayward Holdings Inc. (NYSE HAYW) is the largest manufacturer of residential swimming pool equipment in the world with a significant presence in the commercial pool market that is continuously growing. Hayward designs manufactures and markets a full line of residential and commercial pool and spa equipment including pumps filters heating cleaners salt chlorinators automation lighting safety flow control and energy solutions at our company owned facilities. Headquartered in Charlotte North Carolina Hayward also has facilities in Tennessee Arizona and Rhode Island as well as Canada Spain France Australia and China. This position is based in Clemmons NC.

Reporting directly to the Director of Talent Acquisition you are a critical part of the talent acquisition team supporting talent planning and strategy. You will work with a team of human resource professionals and people leaders across various locations to deliver key talent in support of the continued growth of Hayward! This role will be equal parts strategy and . You will have the opportunity to manage and deliver fullservice recruitment support for a variety of professional roles. Through research talent intelligence and your technical skills you will learn about the market and proactively target talent of companies and industries for these assigned roles.

• Design and implement endtoend recruitment plan for assigned positions to attract a strong and diverse pipeline of talent that aligns with the business goals. This includes a timeframe from the initial recruiting strategy session to Day 1.
• Lead & execute internship and early career talent recruiting.
• Your full cycle recruitment ownership process will include but not limited to
  • Collaborating with the hiring manager and HRBP to determine what the right talent profile for a role assist in creating the job description for that role.
  • Creating rolebased interview guides ensuring alignment with hiring manager on competencies to assess and interview stages and process.
  • Proactively source and manage candidates through the recruitment process and updating hiring managers and leadership on status.
  • Prescreen and/or interview applicants to assess interests job match and qualifications in comparison to the job requirements and Haywards Mission Vision and Values.
  • Schedule candidate interviews with the hiring manager and interview team.
  • Facilitating the decision meetings including convening interviewers and documenting decisions and next steps.
  • Monitor job offers and proactively raise concerns regarding alignment of candidate expectations as compared to current compensation practices.
  • Manage the preemployment and onboarding process for new hires.
  • Assist with facilitating the new hire orientation.
• Partner with employment agencies community organizations colleges and universities to attract talent.
• Execute sourcing searches which may include cold calling networking identifying applicant associations/pools/professional groups and affiliations websites Boolean searches targeted companies/individuals use of analytics tools etc.
• Leverage online recruiting resources such as niche job boards associations LinkedIn Indeed Handshake career center websites and ATS to identify and recruit the very best candidates.
• Utilize appropriate social media sourcing and branding tools to support talent attraction.
• Communicate positive candidate impressions of Haywards culture work environment and total rewards practices; clear understanding and communication of benefits and perks.

• Bachelors Degree
• 3 years experience of full cycle corporate recruiting for a variety of disciplines including technical and nontechnical professions.
• Strong Sourcing skills and excellent understanding of Social Media sites LinkedIn Boolean Web Strings etc.
• Highly developed passive recruiting skills i.e. prospect identification cold calling referral generation competitive intelgathering.
• Experience with applicant tracking system
• Technical recruiting is preferred
• HR Certification is preferred

Other Skills and Attributes:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (written and oral) clientsupport orientation and the ability to work effectively with all levels of the organization and with a wide range of clients.
• Able to thrive in a fastpaced highperformance team environment
• Interest in related projects and responsibilities when hiring needs slow (e.g. recruiting operations ATS migration professional development L&D employee relations etc.
• Must be able to work well under pressure and have the flexibility to assist team in meeting client demands on accelerated schedules.
• Ability to manage multiple open requisitions simultaneously.
• Competitive nature with a bias toward action.
• Sound and proven judgement and decisionmaking skills. Ability to maintain professionalism and handle sensitive documents and confidential information with discretion.
• Ability to communicate and build relationships with leaders both domestically and globally.
• Working knowledge of applicable market employment laws.
• Flexibility to work independently and collaboratively with various project teams on multiple tasks within a crossfunctional matrixed reporting structure.
• Critical thinking skills able to analyze and interpret data information and identify pattern trends and insights to develop appropriate solutions.