Human Resources - Talent Acquisition Assistant Manager
About the role
Description
Job Title**:** Human Resources - Talent Acquisition Assistant Manager
Location**:** Toronto
Reporting to**:** Human Resources Director
About UNIQLO
UNIQLO is a brand of Fast Retailing Co. (FR), a leading global Japanese retail holding company that designs, manufactures and sells clothing under five brands: GU, Theory, COMPTOIR DES COTONNIERS, PRINCESSE TAM.TAM, J Brand, and UNIQLO. FR is the world’s third largest apparel retail company and UNIQLO is Japan’s leading specialty retailer.
At UNIQLO, we are committed to providing our employees with enriching and challenging opportunities where achievements and personal growth are acknowledged and rewarded. We are dedicated to offering our employees training, performance-based increases, and unlimited growth opportunities. If you are an ambitious, hard-working individual who welcomes new challenges, have a drive for success, and embrace the responsibility of leadership—then you belong at UNIQLO!
Key Responsibilities:
- Build relationships with key universities in Canada and recruit, hire and retain high potential management candidates from new-graduates (these talents are called as UMC; UNIQLO Manager Candidate). Corporate with regional HR partners and hiring managers and lead screening process and on-boarding. Keep following up UMCs to assist them to have a brilliant career path and improve whole talent acquisition by grasping the company’s opportunity area through conversation (including exit interview) with UMCs.
- Lead and assist hiring projects to fulfill open positions at Canadian headquarters (headquarters office is called as SSC; Store Support Center). Not only searching candidates and arranging interviews, but also evolving company’s hiring strategy and improving efficiency/accuracy of hiring process. Be expected to understand the business and each function with a mind-set as a business partner.
- Oversee recruiting/hiring strategy of store associates at each store, keep tracking the progress and assist stores to accelerate hiring by consultation. Lead country-wide mass advertisement for employer branding and take hands-on project management for store opening at new markets, where UNIQLO has not opened stores.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- 3-5 years in previous Talent Acquisition/Recruiting experience
- Active to visit real places such as universities and stores in each province (ON/QC/BC/AB)
- New graduates recruiting experience at career fairs of top universities in Canada
- User experience of LinkedIn, ATS Workday (Applicant Tracking System) and TMS (Talent Management System)
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft office products.
- Mind-set to understand the reality of business / function / store as a business partner
- Ability to work well with people at all levels of the organizations
- Able to work with global teams at global time zones (not frequently)
- Able to work in a highly organized and detail-oriented manner
- Bilingual (French) is a plus.
About UNIQLO
About UNIQLO LifeWear Apparel that comes from the Japanese values of simplicity, quality, and longevity. Designed to be of the time and for the time, LifeWear is made with such modern elegance that it becomes the building blocks of each individual’s style. A perfect shirt that is always being made more perfect. The simplest design hiding the most thoughtful and modern details. The best in fit and fabric made to be affordable and accessible to all. LifeWear is clothing that is constantly being innovated, bringing more warmth, more lightness, better design, and better comfort to people’s lives.
About UNIQLO and Fast Retailing UNIQLO is a brand of Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., a leading Japanese retail holding company with global headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. UNIQLO is the largest of eight brands in the Fast Retailing Group, the others being GU, Theory, PLST, Comptoir des Cotonniers, Princesse tam.tam, J Brand and Helmut Lang. With global sales of approximately 2.77 trillion yen for the 2023 fiscal year ending August 31, 2023 (US $18.92 billion, calculated in yen using the end of August 2023 rate of $1 = 146.2 yen), Fast Retailing is one of the world’s largest apparel retail companies, and UNIQLO is Japan’s leading specialty retailer.
UNIQLO continues to open large-scale stores in some of the world's most important cities and locations, as part of its ongoing efforts to solidify its status as a global brand. Today the company has a total of more than 2,400 UNIQLO stores across the world, including Japan, Asia, Europe, and North America. The total number of stores across Fast Retailing's brands is now close to 3,600.
Human Resources - Talent Acquisition Assistant Manager
About the role
Description
Job Title**:** Human Resources - Talent Acquisition Assistant Manager
Location**:** Toronto
Reporting to**:** Human Resources Director
About UNIQLO
UNIQLO is a brand of Fast Retailing Co. (FR), a leading global Japanese retail holding company that designs, manufactures and sells clothing under five brands: GU, Theory, COMPTOIR DES COTONNIERS, PRINCESSE TAM.TAM, J Brand, and UNIQLO. FR is the world’s third largest apparel retail company and UNIQLO is Japan’s leading specialty retailer.
At UNIQLO, we are committed to providing our employees with enriching and challenging opportunities where achievements and personal growth are acknowledged and rewarded. We are dedicated to offering our employees training, performance-based increases, and unlimited growth opportunities. If you are an ambitious, hard-working individual who welcomes new challenges, have a drive for success, and embrace the responsibility of leadership—then you belong at UNIQLO!
Key Responsibilities:
- Build relationships with key universities in Canada and recruit, hire and retain high potential management candidates from new-graduates (these talents are called as UMC; UNIQLO Manager Candidate). Corporate with regional HR partners and hiring managers and lead screening process and on-boarding. Keep following up UMCs to assist them to have a brilliant career path and improve whole talent acquisition by grasping the company’s opportunity area through conversation (including exit interview) with UMCs.
- Lead and assist hiring projects to fulfill open positions at Canadian headquarters (headquarters office is called as SSC; Store Support Center). Not only searching candidates and arranging interviews, but also evolving company’s hiring strategy and improving efficiency/accuracy of hiring process. Be expected to understand the business and each function with a mind-set as a business partner.
- Oversee recruiting/hiring strategy of store associates at each store, keep tracking the progress and assist stores to accelerate hiring by consultation. Lead country-wide mass advertisement for employer branding and take hands-on project management for store opening at new markets, where UNIQLO has not opened stores.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- 3-5 years in previous Talent Acquisition/Recruiting experience
- Active to visit real places such as universities and stores in each province (ON/QC/BC/AB)
- New graduates recruiting experience at career fairs of top universities in Canada
- User experience of LinkedIn, ATS Workday (Applicant Tracking System) and TMS (Talent Management System)
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft office products.
- Mind-set to understand the reality of business / function / store as a business partner
- Ability to work well with people at all levels of the organizations
- Able to work with global teams at global time zones (not frequently)
- Able to work in a highly organized and detail-oriented manner
- Bilingual (French) is a plus.
About UNIQLO
About UNIQLO LifeWear Apparel that comes from the Japanese values of simplicity, quality, and longevity. Designed to be of the time and for the time, LifeWear is made with such modern elegance that it becomes the building blocks of each individual’s style. A perfect shirt that is always being made more perfect. The simplest design hiding the most thoughtful and modern details. The best in fit and fabric made to be affordable and accessible to all. LifeWear is clothing that is constantly being innovated, bringing more warmth, more lightness, better design, and better comfort to people’s lives.
About UNIQLO and Fast Retailing UNIQLO is a brand of Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., a leading Japanese retail holding company with global headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. UNIQLO is the largest of eight brands in the Fast Retailing Group, the others being GU, Theory, PLST, Comptoir des Cotonniers, Princesse tam.tam, J Brand and Helmut Lang. With global sales of approximately 2.77 trillion yen for the 2023 fiscal year ending August 31, 2023 (US $18.92 billion, calculated in yen using the end of August 2023 rate of $1 = 146.2 yen), Fast Retailing is one of the world’s largest apparel retail companies, and UNIQLO is Japan’s leading specialty retailer.
UNIQLO continues to open large-scale stores in some of the world's most important cities and locations, as part of its ongoing efforts to solidify its status as a global brand. Today the company has a total of more than 2,400 UNIQLO stores across the world, including Japan, Asia, Europe, and North America. The total number of stores across Fast Retailing's brands is now close to 3,600.