Talent Acquisition Leader - Americas

at  ALSTOM

Req ID:477144
Leading societies to a low carbon future, Alstom develops and markets mobility solutions that provide the sustainable foundations for the future of transportation. Our product portfolio ranges from high-speed trains, metros, monorail, and trams to integrated systems, customised services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility solutions. Joining us means joining a caring, responsible, and innovative company where more than 70,000 people lead the way to greener and smarter mobility, worldwide

YOUR FUTURE ROLE

Take on a new challenge and leverage your seasoned talent acquisition background, drive and potential with us. There cannot be a more exciting time to consider a career in a talent acquisition function!
You’ll spearhead the adaptation and implementation of Alstom’s global talent acquisition strategy within the Americas Region (12 countries, 12,000 employees), with a strong focus on hiring performance and change management as well as stakeholders’ engagement.
You will lead, coach and inspire and expert talent acquisition team on a full hiring scope including Engineers & management levels, Blue collars and Contingent workforce across our 3 business lines and 90 sites while ensuring end-to-end recruitment efficacy. In this role, you lead a team of 21, report to the Vice-President Human Resources for AMERICAS (based in Montreal) and to the Global Talent Acquisition Director (based in Paris).

DAY-TO-DAY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work closely with teams across the business (HR Directors, Product Lines / Site Business Leaders, Procurement, Communication, Finance) to define and deploy regional talent acquisition strategies relevant to the Americas’ Region current and future workforce needs.
• Partner with Business / HR leadership to identify and adjust annual recruitment plans and drive continuous process to continuously increase hiring performance.
• Build a resourcing plan and budget to best support business needs
• Help accelerate our gender diversity ambition by promoting skills-based hiring practices across the organization and deploy supportive programs to attract and retain women talent across our sites
• Contribute to localize Alstom’s new employer brand strategies through various on-line channels, including social media, job fairs, and networking events. Ensure a positive candidate experience is offered throughout the recruitment process.
• Ensure high-quality, cost-effective, and timely hiring performance, supporting the digital roadmap orientation, process and tool adoption strategies.
• Is able to propose, deploy and adapt the right organizational talent acquisition set-up to best support our business and siteLead change management initiatives to align stakeholders with the new talent acquisition ambition as part of our “Attract” strategic pillar of our HR strategy.

We value passion and attitude over experience. That’s why we don’t expect you to have every single skill. Instead, we’ve listed some that we think will help you succeed and grow in this role:

• Proven talent acquisition functional credibility and experience / proven potential to drive Talent Acquisition transformation. Very strong business partnering ability.
• You will need superior levels of empathy, an ability to listen and incorporate stakeholders input, you are naturally solution-oriented as we are going through a profound evolution of our hiring practices and to meet challenging business goals
• Drives performance on data and bring our talent acquisition practices
• Talent Acquisition operational excellence culture with a results-oriented mindset.
• Understanding of talent market dynamics across functions and locations
• Excellent interpersonal skills and industry networking capabilities.
• Inclination towards coaching and empowering Team Members
• Very strong collaborative skills