Req ID: 26471BR
Sr. Executive Recruiter
Our company:
Founded in 1853 in Hartford, Connecticut, Aetna is one of the nation's leading providers of health care, dental, pharmacy, group life, and disability insurance, and employee benefits.
Our work and activities:
We serve employer groups, individuals, college students, part-time and hourly workers, health plans, health care providers, governmental units, government-sponsored plans, labor groups and expatriates. We are dedicated to helping people achieve health and financial security.
We put information and helpful resources to work for our members to help them make better-informed decisions about their health care.
We also work hard to improve health care in America. We want to make sure everyone has access to affordable, quality health care.
Some essential facts:
Aetna (NYSE: ΑET) is one of the nation's leading diversified health care benefits companies, serving people with information and resources to help them make better informed decisions about their health care. Aetna offers a broad range of traditional, voluntary and consumer-directed health insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmacy, dental, behavioral health, group life and disability plans, and medical management capabilities, Medicaid health care management services, workers' compensation administrative services and health information technology services. As of March 31, 2014:
Membership:
• 22.719 million medical members
• 14.565 million dental members
• 14.183 million pharmacy members
Health care networks:
• More than 1 million health care professionals
• More than 616,000 primary care doctors and specialists
• More than 5,400 hospitals
• A network of specialist physicians, recognized with Aexcel® designation, based on clinical performance and cost efficiency1
Products and programs:
• Aetna offers a broad range of insurance and employee benefits products.
• The first national, full-service health insurer to offer a consumer-directed health plan, Aetna continues to lead the way with its Aetna HealthFund2 line of products, including HSA, HRA and RRA options.
• Aetna offers a wide array of programs and services that help control rising employee benefits costs while striving to improve the quality of health care, such as case management; disease management and patient safety programs; integrated medical, dental, pharmaceutical, behavioral health and disability information.
• Aetna provides members with access to convenient tools and easy-to-understand information that can help them make better-informed decisions about their health and financial wellbeing.
National presence:
• Aetna provides benefits through employers in all 50 states, with products and services targeted specifically to small, mid-sized and large multi-site national employers.
• Aetna also serves individuals and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries in certain markets.
The Opportunity
Reporting Relationship:
This role reports to the Head of Executive Recruiting within the Talent Acquisition function in Human Resources. The Executive Recruiting function is a 10 person team.
Summary:
Over the past 12 months, Aetna has been building out its internal Executive Recruitment function. With the advent of the Affordable Care Act, the way Aetna delivers its products and services is dynamically changing and so too is our organization. With many new business lines being developed, Aetna is committed to growing our internal talent acquisition capability to be able to go out and attract top talent who can meet the demands of our evolving workplace.
We are looking for team members within Executive Recruiting who are able to work directly with our Executive C-Suite leaders and provide strategic, consultative recruitment support. As our leadership plans their organizational design, we need individuals who can help our leaders understand the talent market in that respective area and advise, design and executive innovative sourcing strategies to attract top talent. This individual will build opportunistic candidate pipelines for current and future openings. They will be accountable for leading senior executives through the end to end selection process and will influence and negotiate and extend offers. When appropriate, this individual will manage the selection of executive recruiting firms and manage the search assignments.
Responsibilities:
• Develop and adapt executive recruiting strategy to meet business needs.
• Consult with senior management and HRBPs on executive-level openings to identify job specifications, candidate criteria and develop a sourcing strategy.
• Provide ongoing consulting to stakeholders throughout the hiring process. Give guidance on the interview, selection process and all aspects of the offer package.
• Search for qualified candidates through multiple and diverse sources and vehicles.
• Assess qualifications of candidates and conduct pre-screen interviews. Refer qualified candidates to hiring manager.
• Partner with HRBP to develop the assimilation plan.
• Partner with executive compensation and legal to develop and receive approvals on offer package.
• Extend and negotiate the offer with the candidate.
• Ensure that non-selected candidates receive appropriate communication.
• Collaborate with senior management and Human Resources Business Partners on human capital plans to develop pipelines of candidates for future openings.
• Select executive recruiting firms, negotiate contracts, and maintain ongoing relationships when necessary and advise the business on which firms to use based upon the respective business area and functional expertise.
• Manage all phases of search assignments with executive recruiting firms including interviewing and assessing all presented candidates.
• Build and maintain an external pipeline of diverse, qualified candidates and well as those who are veterans.
• Utilize feedback and data to provide best-in-class recommendations to clients related to sourcing and strategy.
• Handle additional responsibilities as requested by management.
Background/Experience Desired:
• 10+ years of experience in Executive Sourcing/Talent Acquisition or demonstrated equivalent experience level, including: a) Min. 7 yrs. conducting full cycle recruiting, including sourcing senior level candidates, candidate assessment and consulting with stakeholders, in a high touch, matrixed corporate environment, and b) Min. 5 yrs. experience researching and sourcing, including the use of diverse strategies, technologies and tools.
• Demonstrated broad knowledge and successful use of compensation and benefits programs as they relate to executive recruiting.
• Demonstrated consulting skills working with senior level management.
• Demonstrated negotiation skills.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the healthcare industry preferred.
• Demonstrated established network of executive recruiting resources preferred.
Education and Certification Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent work experience.
Job Function: Human Resources