Talent Acquisition Lead Early in Career

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We are looking for a highly collaborative Talent Acquisition Lead focus on early-in-career hiring across the region.

This role focuses on building and scaling campus and entry-level recruitment programs leading end-to-end recruitment cycles and driving continuous improvement through best practices.

You will lead by influence partnering with HR business leaders universities to attract a diverse high-potential talent pipeline for the organization.

Key responsibilities
- Own end-to-end early-in-career recruitment across the region (e.g.: internships co-ops recent graduates entry-level roles)
- Build and nurture strategic university and college relationships across the region; design and execute campus engagement programs events and talent pipelines.
- Lead recruitment cycles and volume hiring initiatives: create sourcing strategies manage candidate experience coordinate assessment stages and ensure timely decisions.
- Act as a regional subject-matter partner for early-in-career hiring: advise hiring managers and business stakeholders influence selection decisions and ensure alignment to workforce plans.
- Drive continuous improvement of TA processes and candidate experience using internal feedback and external best practices; implement scalable solutions.
- Monitor and analyze recruitment metrics and use data to identify trends recommend improvements and prioritization.
- Manage relationships externally (campus partners assessment providers event organizers) to maximize ROI and candidate quality.
- Serve as first level of escalation for early-in-career staffing issues and coordinate resolution with relevant stakeholders.

Qualifications
- 68 years of talent acquisition experience (regional experience preferred).
- Proven track record managing full life-cycle recruitment and building university relationships.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills comfortable partnering with different levels and area across the organization.
- Data-driven mindset with experience using recruitment metrics and ATS reporting to drive decisions and improvements.
- Excellent verbal and written communication in Spanish and English; Portuguese is a strong plus.
- Familiarity with local markets across the region labor practices and privacy/compliance requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
- Highly organized project-oriented and able to run multiple hiring cycles in parallel.

Preferred
- Experience designing employer branding and campus engagement initiatives.
- Background with assessment tools campus events or early talent programs (internships rotational programs).
- Experience implementing or improving TA process playbooks and candidate experience flows.

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