Junior - Talent Acquisition Specialist

About us:
Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch: Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company, focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions, with leading positions in advanced wound care, ostomy care, continence and critical care, and infusion care. With around 10,000 colleagues, and a promise to be forever caring, our products and services are available in over 100 countries. Our solutions provide a range of benefits, from infection prevention and protection of at-risk skin, to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index (LSE: CTEC) and in 2021 revenues were over $2 billion.

Change is everywhere at Convatec. It’s transforming our business, and helping us improve millions of lives. And we’re nowhere near finished. Across every part of our business, we’re pushing for better. Join us on our journey to #ForeverCaring as a Junior - Talent Acquisition Specialist, and you’ll do the same.

We are transforming our HR function at Convatec and are now looking for great people to fill our newly created roles as part of our international HR Service Delivery Team. The role of Junior Talent Acquisition is a fantastic opportunity to join us at the start of this journey as we continue our ambition to find and select the best talents to join Convatec, across multiple geographies and functions. It will also give you the opportunity to help shape and optimise the talent acquisition services.

**Job Summary**

The role of Junior Talent Acquisition has been created to support and deliver our talent acquisition services for entry and junior roles.This role offers great development and the opportunity to support the build of tomorrow’s Convatec.

You will be part of a strong and dedicated HR community as well as the global talent acquisition team, helping Convatec to build an inclusive culture, finding the best diverse talent for our key vacancies.

As part of your role, key responsibilities include:

- Triaging and resolving recruitment queries
- Posting our vacancies both internally and externally on LinkedIn and/or other relevant job boards for your markets
- Shortlisting CVs for your hiring managers, to support hiring the best diverse talent
- Coordinating the selection process from interviews and assessments to feedback
- Raising POs for recruitment spend in SAP
- Talent pooling for future key roles
- Ensuring our Convatec brand is lived and breathed at every recruitment touchpoint.

Other opportunities in this role include:

- Supporting the build of our new talent acquisition processes as part of a shared service including optimisations to continuously improve our offering
- Supporting Talent Acquisition queries and requests as they arise, finding solutions where needed
- Ensuring we do what’s right in terms of predefined local market legislation throughout the talent acquisition process
- Capturing and inputting relevant data to enable talent acquisition reporting across quality, cost and time to hire
- Along with the wider HR team, driving the ongoing development and improvement of our knowledge bases to support the development of shared services.

**Your key stakeholders will include**:
**What you can expect**:
We will be providing a 4-week induction and training period to engage you in everything that Convatec represents for our patients, customers and employees and to upskill you in all the tools and systems you will leverage to deliver successfully in this role.

You will be joining a newly formed talent management team, with opportunities to grow, within talent acquisition or wider people management.
- Strong communication skills, ability to adapt to different styles and at different levels with impact and influence
- A customer-first mindset to fit with our “forever caring” brand and a strong focus on stakeholder management: seeking to understand and adapting to the needs of each.
- Ability to prioritise and navigate a variety and volume of talent acquisition activity
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and change
- An “own it” mindset
- Ability to network
- Attention to detail
- If you have some international experience, either personally or professionally, adapting to different and diverse cultures, this will be an added bonus.

**Language skills required**
- Good written and spoken English and Spanish is essential
- If you have other languages including Portuguese, this will be an advantage.

**Working Conditions**
- We support a hybrid working approach with a minimum of 3 days/week in our Bogota office
- As you will be supporting markets in multiple time zones, some flexibility around working hours will be needed.

Our transformation will change your career. For good. You’ll be pushed to think bigger and aim for excellence. Your ideas will be heard, and you’ll be supported to bring them to life. There’ll be challenges. But, stretch yourself and embrace the opportunitie