Lead Talent Acquisition Partner

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National Grid is hiring a Lead Talent Acquisition Partner in our Global Talent Acquisition department Waltham, MA or Brooklyn, Long Island, or Syracuse, NY.

National Grid lies at the heart of a transforming energy system, spanning the UK and the US. Our businesses supply gas and electricity, safely, reliably and efficiently to millions of customers and communities. But we also drive change through engineering innovation and by incubating new ideas with the power to revolutionize our industry.

As the world changes to embrace cleaner energy and businesses shift to operate in a more responsible way, we are leading that charge. We are focused on finding ways to decarbonize the energy system; from building interconnectors to allow the UK to share clean energy with our neighbors in Europe, to investing in renewable energy generation in the US.

We connect people to the energy they need to live their lives. We continually strive to find a better way. We Bring Energy to Life.

It is an exciting time to join our Global Talent Acquisition Team. We are taking bold steps to create best in market experiences by leveraging Talent Acquisition, Assessment and Analytics approaches and technologies. We are a global group of talented and driven colleagues with a focus on data driven decisions and operational excellence, with a mission to enable National Grid and current and future employees to reach their highest potential, by matching their interests and strengths with National Grid’s career opportunities.

At National Grid, we create power for the communities we serve but more importantly, we are powered by OUR people. Finding, cultivating, developing, people is our most critical capability and what allows us to serve our customers in a meaningful way.

As a Lead Talent Acquisition Business Partner, you get to be a key part of helping us find critical talent and to help us continue on our key mission to bring energy to life. The Talent Acquisition Business Partner delivers effective recruitment advice and strategies to deliver the business area’s current and future people requirements.

Be strategic and tactical:

• Manage high volume full-cycle recruitment for your assigned business area
• Become deeply embedded with your hiring managers, understand what their business does and the types of people they need to hire to succeed.
• Go above and beyond as a partner to be a part of understanding at a deep level what they do and how they do it
• Leader in evaluating and screening resumes and cover letters as they come into the ATS, conduct initial phone and/or video interviews. Provide a shortlist of qualified candidates to hiring manager
• Willingness to help evaluate processes that need revamping
• Operate a stellar candidate experience allowing us to create a pipeline of talent
• Completing other duties and projects as assigned

Use analytical tools for hiring and branding:

• Use those tools and skills to reinforce National Grid as an employer of choice
• Ensure brand standards are understood, maintained and consistently executed in all external communication
• Understanding of ATS and ways they can perform and ideas on how to maximize their use
• Build a pipeline of candidates using various recruiting channels
• Stay up to date with current recruiting methods and best practices
• Attend regional job fairs and careers events as needed and able

Communicate effectively:

• Consulting/partnering with hiring managers to discover staff needs, requirements and specific job objectives
• Ability to influence and engage stakeholders

Champion our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives:

• Execute on diverse recruitment strategies
• Identify, source, engage, and establish talent through active recruiting efforts

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  7 plus years of experience in recruiting for Operational roles, including Transformation, Customer, and and Engineering functions
• LinkedIn Recruiter experience
• A genuine healthy desire to be curious, both in the job but as part of your nature
• A consultative approach, this is a collaborative hiring environment!
• Able to deal with ambiguity and is excited by creating order where there may not be much order now
• Be both technology-oriented and people-focused
• Experience with more complex or higher-level recruitment projects
• Experience in strategic planning for recruiting
• Experience in leading and motivating stakeholders
• Ability to leverage data and analytics
• Excellent oral & written communications, interpersonal, organizational, customer-focus, analytical, innovative, problem-solving skills

National Grid is an equal opportunity employer that values a broad diversity of talent, knowledge, experience and expertise. We foster a culture of inclusion that drives employee engagement to deliver superior performance to the communities we serve. National Grid is proud to be an affirmative action employer. We encourage minorities, women, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans to join the National Grid team.