Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisiton LAC

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisiton LAC Overview • Aligns talent acquisition strategies with the Mastercard’s talent agenda for the TECH Business Unit. • Accountable for designing, planning and coordinating talent acquisition efforts; ensures the talent acquisition programs are scalable to support local, regional and global activities • Acts as consultants to the business on a wide variety of talent acquisition strategies, programs and processes • These include talent planning, recruiting, assessment, candidate sourcing, market research and employment branding • Delivers strategic recruitment for high volume and complex hiring needs for the TECH Business Unit in the LAC region Role • Develops sourcing strategies through detailed market research and data mining, using resources such as LinkedIn or social media pertaining to prospective candidates • Conducts initial outreach to and screening of prospective internal and external candidates and serves as the direct point of contact for the prospective candidate up until their candidacy is confirmed • Executes marketing and branding talent acquisition strategies (e.g. timed social media postings, segmentation driven visuals), and collaborates with Communications to achieve designated objectives • May coordinate phases of the talent acquisition process for assigned talent pipeline and evaluates team recommendations of candidates • Follows talent acquisition specific processes and systems • Monitors progress against quarterly goals for time-to-fill, cost per hire, diverse candidate slates and candidate pipelines • Assists in development and deliverance of university segmentation strategy by maintaining contact and outreach to relevant universities, programs, departments etc. • Conducts initial outreach to prospective student hires either before or following on-campus talent acquisition and marketing events or initiatives • Collaborates with Communications to assist with designated branding and marketing strategies, offers insight from on-campus observations and feedback • Collects and sorts the university-hire effectiveness metrics to develop insights on universities to prioritize and revisit All About You • Experience implementing talent acquisition programs/processes including candidate screening, assessment and selection in a fast-paced, high volume and matrixed environment • Track record delivering hiring results that meet business needs and expectations • Consistently delivered performance at or exceeding quarterly goals for time-to-fill, cost per hire, diverse candidate slates and candidate pipelines • Experience screening, assessing and selecting prospective top candidates and provide a robust analysis and insight to candidate • Experience conducting market research independently and communicating effectively and clearly with research subjects (i.e. cold-calling, interviewing), collating findings in a clear manner across multiple functions & industries • Experience managing the candidate life cycle preferable • Demonstrated success in identifying new candidate pools and sources • Track record of success recruiting in the LAC region across a variety of markets (Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, etc.) • Fluent in English • Experience recruiting for strategy consulting is an asset ***Temporary role at least 6 months *** Corporate Security Responsibility All activities involving access to Mastercard assets,