This is a temporary position.
About Our Team
Flex Talent Solutions is Marriott Internationals internally managed contingent workforce program headquartered in Bethesda MD. We provide streamlined access to temporary talent program governance and tools (including SimplifyVMS) that empower managers to hire efficiently and compliantly.
Job Summary
This role sits at the center of Marriotts Total Talent approach primarily supporting the Global Technology organization. The Flex Recruitment Operations & Vendor Lead splits time evenly across:
- (50%) External vendor / contingent workforce management: Own the lifecycle for contract workers from onboarding through offboarding while leading vendor management and first line support for managers and suppliers.
- (50%) Internal recruitment operations: Audit requisition and recruitment reports manage escalations and partner closely with the Client Services Manager to keep process flow data integrity and stakeholder communication tight.
Youll be the go to advisor for hiring leaders suppliers and HR partners - driving process improvements ensuring system accuracy in SimplifyVMS and elevating the candidate and manager experience.
Core Work Activities
Vendor & External Workforce Operations (50%)
- First level customer support: Provide timely guidance to hiring managers and suppliers on job creation assignment management time approval and offer workflows.
- Manage the contingent lifecycle: Oversee SimplifyVMS requisition management lead collaboration sessions onboarding assignment changes extensions and offboarding.
- Lead vendor management: Build strategic supplier relationships guide sourcing strategies monitor performance and drive corrective actions where needed.
- Conversion & offers: Lead agency conversion process including stakeholder guidance extending verbal offers aligned with compensation guidelines.
Internal Recruitment Operations (50%)
- Audit & data integrity: Reconcile SimplifyVMS requisitions with internal recruiting systems (e.g. mHub) and ensure reports accurately reflect requisition status assignments and approvals.
- Recruitment management: Track and monitor recruitment efforts to ensure strong candidate flow/hiring processes elevate challenges and provide recommendations on alternative solutions. Drive alternative solutions as needed.
- Escalation management: Triage and resolve process or system escalations; coordinate fixes with HR and vendor contacts; communicate outcomes to stakeholders.
- Stakeholder collaboration: Partner closely with the recruiters Client Services Manager HR Business Partners and hiring leaders to align intake selection and offer processes.
- Continuous improvement: Identify bottlenecks recommend workflow changes and influence managers and recruiters to adopt best practices that reduce cycle time and errors.
Education & Experience Requirements
- Bachelors degree from an accredited university
- 2-3 years of relevant experience in contingent labor staffing and/or recruiting environment
- Contingent labor ecosystem experience (PMO/MSP/EOR/AOR or staffing agency)
- Vendor Management System (VMS) proficiency (e.g. SimplifyVMS Fieldglass Beeline etc.)
- Familiarity with recruitment and/or talent acquisition processes in a hiring and onboarding capacity
- Prior experience managing vendor relationships and monitoring KPIs/SLAs
Skills & Competencies
- Recruiting experience in IT/Technology roles preferred.
- Advisory mindset with strong interpersonal consulting and communication skills; adept at building collaborative relationships with senior stakeholders.
- Analytical & problem solving excellence; comfortable interpreting metrics to drive decisions.
- Process influence & innovation: Ability to influence managers/recruiters think outside the box and implement pragmatic improvements.
- Detail oriented self motivated and organized with excellent documentation and follow up discipline.
- Prioritization & multitasking in a dynamic client facing environment; able to work independently.
- Strong work ethic and sense of commitment.
- Experience with tools such as Oracle HCM Microsoft 365 (Outlook Teams Excel).
Work Location:
Bethesda MD (Global Headquarters); hybrid schedule with 2-3 days in office weekly preferred. Open to remote for strong candidates.
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