Specialist, Talent Acquisition Pharmacy

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At Shoppers Drug Mart were innovating health and wellness in Canada. From prescriptions to walk-in clinics and a beloved loyalty program were caring and supporting our customers in new ways every day.
With more than 1300 locally owned and operated stores from coast to coast the Shoppers Drug Mart network is more than a great place to shop its a great place to work. Were committed to building our talented team who champion collaboration kindness and inclusivity. Join our team and help recognize a healthy future for your career and for all Canadians.

Why this role is important

The Impact Youll Make:

Responsible for attracting pharmacy talent supporting Shoppers Drug Mart across the Atlantic region. You will act as a strategic partner to hiring teams and stakeholders to provide expert guidance and recommendations on talent attraction this role you will continually partner with hiring teams to develop and implement recruitment strategies and methodologies which meet the business needs to fill open positions effectively through sourcing and converting top.

What youll do:

• Talent Attraction - You will identify and apply creative sourcing strategies to attract top talent at all levels within our corporate environment. You will develop cost effective efficient proactive and innovative solutions to meet clients recruiting needs.
• Campus recruitment - You will support campus recruitment strategies to attract early-career talent including building strong partnerships with universities and student associations participating in campus events and developing pipelines of interns co-op students and new graduates to support future workforce needs.
• International hiring - You will manage international recruitment efforts including candidate sourcing assessment and coordination with immigration and licensing partners to support hiring in hard-to-fill roles.
• Conduct interviews to assess candidates; make hiring recommendations; provide support and counsel to hiring managers throughout the recruitment process.
• Relationship Building - You will create and maintain working relationships with internal team members to understand current and future recruitment needs and determine optimum sourcing strategies.
• Tracking - You will use Workday to maintain information during the recruitment process; ensuring all information is current and activity is updated on a regular basis.
• Commitment to promoting a workplace of inclusiveness and belonging

What you bring:

• Proven recruitment experience (combination of agency and in-house experience or only agency experience)
• Sourcing -Strong understanding of leading market sourcing and recruitment techniques and methods; effective at identifying sourcing and converting passive candidates
• Experience with strong direct sourcing (headhunting cold calling in person)
• Portfolio Management - Ability to optimally manage a corporate portfolio consisting of 30 vacancies/requisitions at one time
• Detail Oriented-Ability to pay close attention to details and maintain accurate records
• ATS Exposure to an applicant tracking system (ATS) Workday preferred
• Ability to travel to stores and recruitment events across the Atlantic Provinces (peak travel between January to April & September to November)

*Note: This is a remote opportunity based out of the greater Halifax

Why work at Shoppers Drug Mart

Acting as consultants supporting internal customers and the Associate-Owners you will get experience unique to the retail industry while working for an award-winning national brand. Benefit from a purchase discount program competitive pay and online learning through Academy.

Take ownership of your work and find more ways to care about your work co-workers customers and community.

How Youll Succeed:

At Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. we seek great people to continually strengthen our culture. We believe great people model our values are authentic build trust and make connections.

If that sounds like you and you are open-minded responsive to change and up to the challenges provided in a fast-paced retail environment apply today.

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Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. recognizes Canadas diversity as a source of national pride and strength. We have made it a priority to reflect our nations evolving diversity in the products we sell the people we hire and the culture we create in our organization. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants with disabilities in the recruitment and assessment process and when hired.

In addition we believe that compliance with laws is about doing the right thing. Upholding the law is part of our Code of Conduct it reinforces what our customers and stakeholders expect of us.

Please Note: If you have Employee Self Service (ESS) on Workday apply to this job via the Workday application.

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