Executive Recruiter, GSR, Global Speciality Recruiting

Amazon needs an Executive Recruiter to help the business scale by recruiting senior leaders across EMEA. Few rewards in search match seeing your hired candidates drive a positive measurable impact on the business.

The Executive Recruiter owns and executes the research strategy senior-level (L8) searches. Qualified candidates are strong across the full search lifecycle with a particular focus on research strategy development market & candidate mapping/ identification candidate sourcing generation development and engagement. You will partner with senior recruiters on the most complex Director searches and lead your own searches end to end.

The role also includes:

Conducting research to map target companies and top talent for Amazon
Building search strategies to identify and attract strong candidates
Improving how Amazon recruits talent
Calibrating candidates with other recruiters and hiring managers
Developing prospects into candidates through engagement and assessment
Contributing to GSRs knowledge base by sharing insight on relevant industries and talent pools
Building talent networks and tapping industry sources to maintain a candidate pipeline
Leading update meetings on active searches with hiring managers
Partnering with hiring managers and senior recruiters to guide search decisions

- Experience in advising and influencing executive leadership
- Bachelors degree
- Experience in progressive corporate or search firm recruiting with a focus on passive L8 candidate generation
- Experience building and driving passive L8 talent sourcing initiatives and pipelines
- Experience creating measuring and scaling workflow among candidates hiring managers and the recruiting team
- Experience managing and prioritizing multiple searches projects and client relationships
- Experience delivering L8 talent across multiple industries and geographies with demonstrable expert

- Experience with executive recruiting in either a blue-chip global in-house executive search team or a top executive search firm
- Experience working with recruiting and people-related tools CRM systems and complex spreadsheets

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