Talent Acquisition Consultant

Responsible for full life cycle recruiting and serving as a talent advisor to leaders. Leverages expertise to acquire top talent while delivering world-class experience for candidates and hiring managers throughout the planning and tactical recruiting processes. Contributes as an integral and highly visible part of our high touch, high performance, and innovation-based talent strategy that has a direct impact on the organization’s direction, growth, and success.

At Butterball, we exist to help people pass love on. As the most recognized name in turkey, the brand represents more than 60 years of cherished memories, providing quality, great tasting products that make meals something to celebrate every day.  We proudly believe that life at Butterball means having a team who supports you, having the opportunity to grow personally and professionally, and making an impact on the health of others daily.   

Whether you choose to work at one of our five (5) manufacturing facilities in NC, AR, MO, farms in AR, NC, and KS, corporate office in NC, IL, or in the field, we believe we have an opportunity for everyone to succeed.   At Butterball, we believe in fostering a culture where every team member is valued, has the opportunity to grow professionally and contribute to our success. Join us in our Purpose and apply for an opportunity today! 

Key Responsibilities 

• Engages internal clients to develop and maintain a full understanding of the function, the role it has within the organization, and the current talent capabilities. Identifies, documents, and provides consultation that supports client’s goals. 
• Provides value-add strategic services such as training and execution on performance calibrations, succession and workforce planning, early talent development programs, and surveys that support developing and delivering workforce and succession plans. 
• Enhances and properly aligns strategies with client needs and talent community development through pipelining. 
• Responsible for a diverse portfolio of roles and completes the full life cycle recruiting function for assigned departments to include advisory meetings, market research, intake sessions, recruiting strategy (posting + sourcing), candidate review (screening and interviewing), calibrations, and extending and negotiating offers. 
• Collaborates to confirm requirements and success profile, coordinates outreach and communications strategies, and produces a top talent pool from which the winning candidate will be packaged and presented to the hiring manager in a timely manner. Provides high-touch, high-performance communications with internal business partners throughout the talent acquisition life cycle. 
• Works with the Talent Acquisition Specialist to organize interview teams and provide appropriate training/resources for interviewers to conduct effective behavioral-based interviews. 
• Facilitates calibration sessions with interview teams to gather post interview feedback. Advises on candidate selection. 
• Ensure KPIs are met such as time-to-fill, time-to-present-winning-candidate, quality of candidates presented, quality of hires, offer acceptance rate, hiring manager satisfaction, new hire satisfaction, and candidate experience scores. 
• Partners to amplify Butterball’s employer and talent brand. 
• Represents Butterball in the marketplace both as part of providing a world-class candidate experience and in support of talent acquisition goals. Supports alignment with Talent Management to ensure these relationships align with future hiring needs and possible development opportunities. 
• Ensure consistency and accuracy of all processes and policies. 
• Attends and/or presents at huddles, partner events, and/or conferences. 

Minimum Qualifications (Educations & Experience) 

• High school diploma / GED 
• 3+ years of relevant experience or the knowledge, skills, and abilities to succeed in the role 

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities 

Butterball Core Competencies 

Caring about people, valuing contributions, and empowering to succeed is the Butterball Way. We recognize the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to Butterball and seek to create an environment where everyone can thrive. Everyone has a seat at the table and is expected to embody our core competencies: 

• Safety First: We put safety first. The health, safety, and well-being of our people, products, and turkeys is everyone's responsibility and everyone's jobs. 
• Integrity: We trust each other to do the right thing. We act with integrity and gain the confidence and trust of others through honesty, respect, and authenticity. 
• Stewardship: We take care of what matters. We are accountable to our commitments and take responsibility for the well-being of our teams, our quality, our customers, our business, our brand, and our communities. We are always answerable for our actions and those we lead. 
• Enthusiastic Attitudes: We create a climate where everyone feels they belong and can be engaged, every day. Where our people are enthusiastic and motivated to do their best and work together to make great things happen. 
• Continuous Improvement: We are committed to continuous improvement. We challenge ourselves and our company to constantly learn, develop, grow, improve, and innovate 

Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities  

• Proficient technology skills, including applicant tracking tool(s) 
• Ability to manage a substantial portfolio of concurrent requisitions (10+) 
• Skilled at creating and fostering authentic, trust-based, and long-lasting relationships with internal and external clients and customers 
• Solid collaboration, interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills with the ability to connect at any level internally and externally 
• Solid business acumen and ability to serve as a strategic advisor 
• Firm problem-solving, time-management, and project-management skills with ability to effectively handle multiple clients, requisitions, and projects simultaneously 
• Skilled at training and supporting junior team members and business partners 
• Ability to identify opportunities 
• Proven ability to deal with ambiguity while working in a fast-paced environment 

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities  

• Bachelor's degree in related field (Business, Management, Communications, HR, etc.) 
• Taleo/SAP/UKG experience 
• Experience working with 9-box grids, competency models, scenario planning maps, Gantt charts, etc. 

Physical Demands  

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be regularly required to stand, sit, talk, hear, reach, stoop, kneel, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer, telephone, keyboard, and occasionally lift up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, color vision and the ability to adjust focus. 

Working Conditions  

• Work may be performed remotely; in a climate-controlled office environment; or a combination of the two. For remote work, the employee must have a dedicated workspace to safely setup and use assigned IT equipment, preferably free from distractions. The employee is responsible for ensuring adequate internet service is available when working remotely (the recommended minimum speed is 20mb download and 5mb upload). 
• The noise level of the environment is usually moderate. 
• Minimal travel may be required. 

Disclaimer  

We embrace equal opportunity employment. Butterball is committed to the fair and impartial treatment of all employees and applicants for employment without regard to gender, age, race, religion, color, national origin, physical or mental disability, military/veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, genetic information, marital status, parental status, pregnancy, or any other status protected by law.  

This position is deemed Safety Sensitive for purposes of Butterball’s Drug/Alcohol Screening & Testing Policy. Details will be provided to individuals who receive a conditional job offer, or upon request. 

The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of what is required of personnel so classified. Furthermore, they do not imply or establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the employer.