Lead Talent Acquisition Partner

Build a career powered by innovations that matter!  At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible.  We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.  Looking for a great place to work?  You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment.  Come explore Novanta.

Company Overview

Build a career powered by innovations that matter!  At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible.  We serve as a trusted technology partner to medical and advanced industrial original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide, engineering components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

Novanta is a global organization with offices located throughout EMEA, The Americas and Asia Pacific.  Novanta is a publicly traded company on NASDAQ under symbol NOVT.

Business Overview

Novanta’s Corporate and Shared Services teams play an important role in executing the company’s strategic mission and operations. Included in Corporate and Shared Services are the business functions including Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Information Technology, Legal, Compliance, Corporate Development and Corporate Marketing. The Corporate and Shared Services teams work closely with all Novanta business units to support operating initiatives contributing to the organization’s financial success.

Summary

You will be responsible for managing the end-to-end recruitment process for a variety of positions including Engineering, R&D, Supply Chain, Quality, Sales, Product Management and Manufacturing operations across multiple Novanta businesses.  You will source candidates through various channels, plan interview and selection procedures and educate your hiring managers on market data. You will develop long-term recruiting strategies and nurture trusting relationships with managers and Novanta leaders. This will entail creating strong talent pipelines for current and future hiring needs.

Primary Responsibilities

• Serve as a Senior Talent Advisor to multiple business segments within Novanta
• Partner and collaborate with the broader HR team and hiring team during the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle and develop effective and scalable recruitment strategies that align to Novanta’s continued success.
• Utilize talent insights (talent landscape and talent mapping information) to build out strong recruitment strategies.
• Recruit/attract qualified candidates through the full cycle recruiting process for multiple sites and regions.
• Source potential candidates through online channels (e.g. social platforms and professional networks) and champion Novanta as a top employer.
• Plan interview and selection procedures, including telephone and/or video interviews, assessments and in-person interviews.
• Assess candidate information, including resumes and contact details, using our Applicant Tracking System and provide qualified screened resumes for hiring teams in a timely manner.
• Lead Novanta employer branding initiatives as part of the Novanta overall strategy.
• Develop meaningful metrics for hiring and work to improve results over time.
• Participate in various projects across talent acquisition.

General Tasks

• Maintain strict compliance with the quality, environmental and occupational health and safety regulations and implementation of the instructions of the quality, environmental management and/or occupational health and safety officer.

Required Experience, Education, Skills, Training and Competencies

• Bachelor's Degree preferred or equivalent in Human Resources, Business, Organization Development, or a technical discipline.
• 7+ years direct HR recruiting experience with a minimum of 3 years in-house, corporate experience.
• Proven professional experience in filling both technical and non-technical positions of varying responsibilities across an organization.
• Strong sourcing abilities and the ability to build solid pipelines for future growth.
• Experience building diverse candidate pipelines for underrepresented candidate groups in the market.
• Skilled in using market data to influence recruiting strategy with hiring managers.
• Experience with talent attraction, employer branding and strong networking abilities.
• Proficiency with Applicant Tracking Systems (Workday preferred), LinkedIn Recruiter, MS Office and a familiarity with HRIS systems. 
• Ability to work independently, handle multiple tasks, effectively problem solve and adapt to changing priorities without compromising quality.
   

Travel Requirements   

• Up to 10%

Physical Requirements

• Mobility to work in a standard office setting and to use standard office equipment, including a computer.
• Ability to use vison to read computer screen and read printed materials.)

(*) Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)

Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.

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