[Hiring] Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition @Staples Canada

Role Description

The U.S. Retail Talent Acquisition team partners with store and business leaders to build strong teams that serve customers and support growth. In this collaborative, fast-moving environment, your recruiting expertise, market insight, and ideas will help strengthen talent pipelines and deliver a positive, consistent hiring experience.

As a Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition, you will lead full-cycle recruiting for U.S. Retail roles and serve as a trusted advisor to hiring managers and business leaders. You will use sourcing expertise, labor market intelligence, recruiting technology, and data to attract talent, guide hiring decisions, improve candidate experiences, and support workforce priorities.

• Manage full-cycle recruiting for exempt and non-exempt U.S. Retail roles, from intake and sourcing through assessment, hiring recommendations, and offer acceptance.
• Partner with hiring managers and business leaders to understand workforce needs, define role requirements, anticipate talent gaps, and develop effective recruiting strategies.
• Build diverse pipelines for critical and hard-to-fill roles by engaging active and passive candidates through targeted sourcing, employer branding, career events, and talent programs.
• Advise leaders using labor market trends, talent availability, recruiting metrics, and candidate insights to improve hiring decisions, time-to-fill, and the candidate experience.
• Collaborate with Human Resources and Compensation on offer development and negotiations while maintaining accurate applicant tracking, compliance, and recruiting records.
• Serve as a recruiting subject matter expert by coaching partners, leading projects, and driving practical process and technology improvements.

Qualifications

• Strategic thinking and business acumen, with the ability to connect recruiting priorities to workforce and business needs.
• Strong consultation, relationship-building, and influencing skills with hiring managers and senior leaders.
• Clear, confident communication and the ability to lead intake meetings, candidate calibrations, hiring discussions, and offer conversations.
• A data-driven, practical approach to problem-solving, paired with sound judgment and strong attention to detail.
• Adaptability, resilience, professional integrity, and a collaborative, customer-focused commitment to service and candidate experience.

Requirements

• Associate degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Psychology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 6+ years of progressively responsible talent acquisition, recruiting, sourcing, workforce planning, or related Human Resources experience.
• Experience managing full-cycle recruiting and partnering directly with hiring managers and business leaders.
• Demonstrated success developing pipelines and filling difficult-to-source positions.
• Experience using applicant tracking systems, LinkedIn Recruiter or similar sourcing platforms, and Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Knowledge of employment law, recruiting compliance, and hiring best practices, with experience maintaining accurate recruiting data.
• Experience using recruiting metrics to improve outcomes and negotiating employment offers to influence successful hires.

Benefits

• Bonus plan and generous amount of paid time off, including one Floating Holiday each year.
• Flexible work arrangements, including flexible work hours.
• 401(k) plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance with many more optional benefits.
• Associate store discount and more perks, including discounts on mobile plans, movie tickets, etc.