Talent Architect

SAPRO is a mission driven firm, with goals of revolutionizing the public accounting, audit, and tax industries while building better futures for our people, clients, and our global community. SAPRO serves three key audiences our people, clients, and our communities.

For our clients, we strive to be a trusted partner, providing full-service consulting services that specialize in enhancing their workforce and removing the stress from clients' year-round resourcing needs with white glove service and support.

For our people, we strive to provide meaningful career opportunities, supporting each team member's unique career goals and journeys. We are focused on building an experience of a "SAPRO Community, " with unique and meaningful employee value propositions guiding our high-level support and employee offerings for each team member.

ROLE PURPOSE

The purpose of the Talent Architect role is to work in close collaboration with the Chief Talent Architect in building, managing and driving the continuous improvement of SAPRO's Talent Acquisition and Talent Management processes.

Primary Tasks

As the Talent Architect, the incumbent will primarily be responsible for the following:

• Implement, manage and optimize SAPROs digitized and scientific talent acquisition processes that support the overall talent acquisition strategy and enable the efficient and effective identification, assessment, and acquisition of top talent.
• Collaborate with the Chief Talent Architect and internal teams to gather requirements to understand the organization's talent needs, draft business requirements specifications based on those needs and develop processes/solutions that align with those needs.
• Collaborate with the Business-to-Talent Marketing team to develop and implement recruitment marketing strategies to attract top talent to the organization.
• Develop and maintain relationships with industry experts and thought leaders to stay up to date on best practices in talent acquisition and talent pooling.
• Stay up to date on relevant software and tools for talent acquisition and management and make recommendations for implementation as needed.
• Utilize data and analytics to track the success of talent acquisition processes and make data- driven decisions for continuous improvement.
• Co-create a vision for, and plan of, an exceptional candidate experience.

CORE COMPETENCIES

The following core competencies will be beneficial:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to use data to drive decision making.
• Background and orientation towards digitization and facts-based problem solving
• Evaluating relevant software and related smart applications for talent acquisition and onboarding.
• Strong project management skills and ability to lead cross-functional projects.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams internally to SAPRO and with external service providers.
• Able to manage and develop recruitment teams internally and virtually.
• Experience in drafting business requirement specifications
• Ability to map business processes and optimize or re-engineer processes to reduce wastage.

Requirements:

• 6 8 years' work experience in a similar environment
• Relevant bachelor's degree
• Experience building and managing talent acquisition & evaluation, and talent management processes
• Experience dealing with a contingency workforce an advantage

The above is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities.