Talent Acquisition (TA) Manager – Americas

Job Description:

Talent Acquisition (TA) Manager – Americas

Huntsman Corporation is a publicly traded global manufacturer and marketer of differentiated and specialty chemicals. Our chemical products number in the thousands and are sold worldwide to manufacturers serving a broad and diverse range of consumer and industrial end markets. We operate more than 70 manufacturing, R&D and operations facilities in approximately 30 countries and employ approximately 9,000 associates within our three distinct business divisions. Huntsman offers unsurpassed opportunities to build a successful future. Our diverse portfolio creates a range of career fields including manufacturing, research and development, technical services, sales and marketing, customer service – and the list goes on.

Here, you can make an impact and make a difference. Come join us.

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Manager to oversee our Americas Talent Acquisition (TA) team based in Costa Rica and join our global TA organization. This leadership role is pivotal in ensuring the team delivers a quality pipeline of candidates into our Americas organization to contribute to the strategic goals of our business. Leading efficient and effective recruitment processes, supporting our stakeholders and enhancing overall team performance are key deliverables for this position.

Key Responsibilities:

Leadership and Stakeholder Engagement

• Service Leadership: Collaborate with the key stake holders to ensure a process that delivers on cost, quality and speed to deliver the top talent to Huntsman. Ensure regular engagement and feedback with our stakeholder base to identify areas for continued improvement.
• Expert Guidance: Establish yourself as the expert on candidate search and sourcing in the Americas, helping your team work with stakeholders in understanding how to match business needs to the market, identifying solutions to recruiting challenges and working with our procedures and tools.
• Operational Management: Oversee day-to-day operations of the TA team, providing support and resolving queries from TA partners, HR Business Partners (HRBPs), and key stakeholders. Undertake key business recruitments personally.
• Performance Delivery : Regularly review team and individual requisition volumes, status and progress vs. service targets to drive overall team delivery.
• Coaching and Growth : Guide and mentor team members through the full-cycle recruiting process, enhancing their capabilities and performance in delivering TA service excellence. Develop individualized plans for team members, identifying actions to increased personal effectiveness.
• Project Oversight: Manage both personal and team projects, ensuring timely completion and updating on progress regularly.
• GBS Team: Act as a key member of the Costa Rica leadership team, providing status updates and metrics on TA activities within the GBS hub and supporting GBS specific TA programs.

Recruiting Capabilities; Candidates should be able to demonstrate Functional Expertise and have a proven track record of filling higher-level roles and challenging profiles. Key skills for both self and leading team performance include:

• Conducting in-depth intake calls with hiring managers to clarify profile needs
• Designing sourcing plans which leverage various recruiting tools (job boards, social media, LinkedIn, AI, etc.) to build a robust candidate pipeline and ensure efficient and effective screening processes.
• Engaging for feedback and calibration, continuously reviewing manager feedback and refining search strategies and candidate profiling based on ongoing insights and maintaining proactive communication throughout the recruitment process.
• Coaching for efficient process execution, ensuring effective panel interview processes, coaching managers on probing questions and candidate evaluation coupled with strong communication and prompt follow-up with candidates.
• Being able to utilize TA data effectively with both the TA team and stakeholders to convey a factual picture of the recruiting process
• Being able to use digital tools effectively (both current and new) to deliver TA service performance
• Landing the candidate and being able to sell the benefits of the role and working for Huntsman and collaborating with stakeholders to set offer expectations and finalize offers successfully

Qualifications

You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.
 
The candidate must have an unrestricted right to work for Huntsman in Costa Rica.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of experience.
• Proven experience in talent acquisition for at least 7 years, preferably in a leadership role.
• Proven experience in talent acquisition leadership for at least 3 years
• Strong understanding of full-cycle recruiting processes and sourcing techniques.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills and proven track record of stakeholder engagement
• Ability to mentor and develop team members.
• Familiarity with recruiting tools and technology, LinkedIn Recruiter and Social Media a must, knowledge of any other tools like Workday, Eightfold, CareerBuilder, Indeed & Glassdoor, AI tools, Microsoft applications a plus
• Strong organizational and project management skills.

Join Us: If you are a passionate leader with a commitment to excellence in talent acquisition and team development, we invite you to apply for our TA Manager position and help us shape the future of our workforce in the Americas. 

Huntsman is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all qualified applicants for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identification, sexual orientation and/or expression or any other characteristic protected by law in every location in which we have facilities national or local. 

 
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All unsolicited resumes presented by recruitment agencies are treated as pro bono information or service.  

Huntsman is aware of a scam involving fraudulent job offers. Huntsman does not make job offers until after a candidate has submitted a job application and has participated in a face-to-face interview. Please be advised that emails from Huntsman always end in “@huntsman.com” , and that any job offer that requires payment or requires you to deposit a check is likely a scam. If you have questions about any open positions at Huntsman, please visit our Careers website at http://www.huntsman.com/corporate/a/Careers.

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