*This position is located in Boston, MA and is 4 days in office, 1 day WFH

The Wayfair Campus and Early Careers Hiring team is strategic to the company's overall success and continued growth. Our recruiters are true business partners and charged with finding, attracting, and hiring top talent into entry level roles across all parts of the company against a high bar for performance, potential, and culture. 

The team is looking for a highly motivated, detail-oriented manager who would focus on defining, building and driving an early career recruiting strategy, focused on acquiring top talent in the early stages of their career (1-3 years of experience) and placing them into high priority roles within the organization. You will partner closely with Campus recruiters to meet the fluctuating entry level needs of our hiring managers based on business priorities, attrition, and campus recruiting seasonality. Applicants should be excited to create and formalize a recruitment strategy to engage with this currently untapped talent pool, possess exceptional communication skills coupled with an operational mindset that enables them to excel in the high-volume recruiting arena. 

If you’re enthusiastic about attracting and recruiting early career talent, passionate about combining strategic thinking with scrappy start-up execution, comfortable with ambiguity, have a high standard for excellence, and are looking for a chance to step outside the classic Talent Acquisition box, the Early Careers Recruiting Manager role could be for you!

What You’ll Do

• You’ll be responsible for defining and building Wayfair’s early career recruitment strategy, creating & fostering a pipeline targeting early career (non-student) talent, and ultimately driving the hiring process from beginning to end.
• Manage a team to drive the full recruitment life cycle including sourcing, screening, interviewing, evaluating, and offer processes, while advising your business partners along the way.
• Potential to manage up recruiters by ensuring real time coaching, leading developmental discussions, and promoting Wayfair’s robust performance culture.
• Partner closely with the Campus team to ensure you are delivering and meeting the business’s entry level hiring needs via campus and the early careers pipeline.
• Manage relationships with key functional partners, Candidate Experience, and Talent Strategy Business Partners to set targets, coordinate interview rosters, processes, debriefs, and team placements.
• Manage relationships with key external partners including alumni associations, young professional networks, clubs/organizations, etc. to build efficient channels for sourcing and attracting folks early in their career
• Use data driven metrics and analysis to solve recruiting challenges and define success, translating metrics data into usable insights for stakeholders.
• Work to improve upon existing processes and develop innovative approaches around finding future talent.
• Represent Wayfair’s culture by ensuring an excellent candidate experience through transparent communication and timely feedback, as well as interviewer preparedness.

What You’ll Need

• 7+ years of progressive experience in a relevant field preferably within corporate recruitment or in a high-growth, fast paced environment.
• Experience managing recruiters and leading a team.
• Demonstrated experience building out a recruitment strategy and processes.
• Proven full lifecycle campus or university, higher education, career services, or high volume recruiting experience.
• Strong relationship management skills with an ability to build trust and credibility with stakeholders (across all functions) and candidates across varying job profiles. 
• Ability to handle internal client management, work cross-functionally, action-oriented min-set, provide strong customer consultative skills, with an ability to be responsive, tactful, and diplomatic.
• Proven organizational skills with attention to detail and the ability to prioritize and work well in an environment with competing demands.
• Drive and own the build and execution of end to end recruiting strategy.
• Demonstrated ability to use metrics and data to guide decision-making and measure ROI.
• Familiarity and comfort managing a defined budget.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities

Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, Wayfair will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business operations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please let us know by completing our Accomodations for Applicants form.

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About Wayfair Inc.Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston or Berlin, or in our warehouses or offices throughout the world, we’re reinventing the way people shop for their homes. Through our commitment to industry-leading technology and creative problem-solving, we are confident that Wayfair will be home to the most rewarding work of your career. If you’re looking for rapid growth, constant learning, and dynamic challenges, then you’ll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.

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