Talent Acquisition Manager

Job Description

Who are we?

Live Nation Entertainment is the world's leading live entertainment company, comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship. Ticketmaster is the global leader in event ticketing with over 500 million tickets sold annually and more than 12,000 clients worldwide. Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world promoting more than 30,000 shows and 95+ festivals annually for nearly 4,000 artists in over 40 countries. These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs that connect over 900 brands with the 86 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com.

Who are you?

We are looking for a creative, passionate, thinks-outside-of-the-box Talent Acquisition Manager to join our team.

The recruitment landscape is changing rapidly, and we are looking for a strong candidate to lead our recruitment function who will optimize this disruption and ensure we are capitalizing on trends like agile working environments. The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker, demonstrating strong business acumen and judgement with excellent operational capabilities in order to influence the best hiring decisions nationally.

The Talent Acquisition manager will be responsible for planning, developing, and implementing an effective Talent Acquisition strategy nationally, including playing a key support role for year-round and seasonal venue positions. We are looking for someone who will take ownership for sourcing and attracting industry leading professionals in marketing, finance, production, partnerships, promotions, venue operations, and ticketing functions. The Talent Acquisition Manager will also be responsible for establishing qualified diverse talent pipelines, while collaborating with the greater Human Resources team to deliver excellent people strategies to over 500 employees across Canada.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
• Understand our business imperatives in order to identify recruitment solutions which best deliver high performing, diverse teams
• Define and develop winning sourcing strategies, capitalizing on digital recruitment resources including tapping into passive candidate pools
• Develop an understanding of the external market and trends that impact our business, such as understanding key players, mapping of relevant skillsets and maintaining a pipeline of ready to hire candidates
• Enhance the current recruitment process; including an internal bias audit and an Employer Brand audit to drive better resourcing solutions across Canada
• Ensure diversity hiring practices are woven into all recruitment initiatives and sourcing techniques nationally
• Establish benchmarks and metrics that will define our internal talent management practice and successfully prioritize and close searches against those defined timelines
• Build strategic relationships with hiring managers and leaders to take our recruitment capability to the next level
• Drive the delivery of a ''best-in-class'' experience for all candidates, including contributing to the enhancement of our onboarding program
• Support hiring managers throughout the interview process and develop tools to ensure equitable hiring practices
• Manage the full Workday recruitment approval processes, working closely with our Head of Finance on forecasting and ensuring appropriate budget approval processes are in place
• Collaborate with the Human Resources team on ad hoc initiatives relating to talent attraction and retention

Skills & Qualities Desired:
• 6+ years of corporate and or search firm progressive recruiting experience including sourcing and full life cycle recruitment
• Proven track record of executing volume recruitment and solid experience in recruiting candidates from a variety of sources; headhunting candidates, job boards, LinkedIn recruitment portals etc.
• Ability to thrive in an innovative, fast-paced environment with a roll-up-your-sleeves, work hard, play hard attitude
• A reputation for being exceptional at candidate generation, client/account management, organization, and prioritization.
• Experienced user of LinkedIn Recruiter and tapping into passive talent pipelines and ability to effectively use social media tools and online databases to attract and source talent
• Experience building qualified diverse talent pools
• Excellent communication skills with capability to engage internally and externally at all levels
• Confident in negotiating and selling opportunities to candidates
• Highly organized with strong time and task management skills
• Aware of market trends and identify new potential attraction sources

Desired Education
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Bilingual considered an asset

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those chosen for an interview will be contacted.

Physical Requirements/Work Environment

Sits for extended periods of time at a computer station or work desk; stands and walks throughout the day; occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.; uses hands and fingers to operate computers and office equipment for up to 8 hours each day; lifts up to 10 pounds regularly; exposed to typical office environment conditions and noise levels.

Employment Equity

Live Nation Canada strongly supports

This job description is a summary of duties that are expected to be performed. Duties outlined on this job description may not be all-inclusive, and can be modified at any time if requested by management.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g4540y-3-141-24-134-42 in your application.