Executive Talent Acquisition Partner (Hybrid) (Aurora (IL), United States)

Who we are

In a life without sound, our work provides meaning. As a leading provider of innovative hearing care solutions, we are not just a company that makes products: we are a team on a mission to help people enjoy the delight of hearing. To enable a life without limitations, we - through our core business brands Phonak, Unitron, Connect Hearing, and Advanced Bionics - develop, manufacture and distribute solutions that push the limits of technology and redefine the future of our industry. Our talented and committed employees all over the world know they contribute to something greater than themselves - they create sense.

The Way We Work

At Sonova we value our employees and prioritize their well-being. We believe people do their best and most innovative work in an inclusive environment that provides opportunities for engagement and collaboration across teams while offering flexibility in how work gets done. We designed our work model team by team, empowering teams to customize a working environment that balances individual team needs with business outcomes. By offering work options, we foster more flexible and individualized time management, contribute to a healthy work-life integration, increase employee satisfaction, build meaningful partnerships at work, and calibrate productivity to acknowledge you have a life outside of work. Sonova has chosen a HYBRID WORK MODEL- Customized by team that keeps our employees motivated and engaged.

Sonova Values

At Sonova, we come to work every day knowing that continuous innovation across all disciplines, our shared engagement as a team and our responsible approach to all things we do, brings the delight of hearing to millions of people: to hear better, to listen to music, to communicate effortlessly with friends and loved ones, and to fully enjoy life with all its great variety of sounds. In doing so, our shared core values reflect the corporate culture that defines and unites us as a company across all brands and regions.

1. We Care -- We care for our employees, customers and consumers, as well as our shareholders and society.
2. We drive innovation -- We courageously pioneer new ideas and approaches to come up with impactful innovations, to delight customers and consumers.
3. We strive for excellence -- We act with agility. We aim to excel. We are continuously working on improving products, services, processes and skills, to realize growth.
4. We take accountability -- We deliver on our commitments. We take accountability to provide outcomes in agreed quality and time, always acting with integrity.
5. We build the best teams -- We team up. We grow talent. We collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds to win with the best team in the market place.

Executive Talent Acquisition Partner

Join Sonova`s new initiative to roll out a global executive talent scouting capability and make your mark by helping us continue building the best teams. As part of the CoE and global Executive Talent Acquisition & Advisory function, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the Management Board and their leadership teams by actively identifying, attracting, and hiring senior executives while building robust pipelines for critical leadership talents across all businesses.

Our Offer to You:

• Improving the quality of life of millions of people suffering from hearing loss
• A challenging and motivating assignment as part of a dynamic team
• Modern mindset and processes, accommodating flexible working conditions
• Opportunities for further responsibilities and support for further training and development
• A company that values diversity and inclusion
• Sonova's outstanding opportunities and career growth

Key responsibilities:

• Define and lead effective talent scouting strategies, assignments, and initiatives, aligned to the respective business functional priorities and competencies, in order to identify and hire specialized skill and leadership talents on executive level
• Manages a pre-selected population of senior leadership roles from briefing meetings to offer extension (advisory, sourcing, selection, and offer negotiation).
• Work closely with senior leadership, talent management and global HRBPs to understand the key roles, critical gaps, and the readiness of internal pipelines in order to assess, define and advise risk areas where external talent pipelines would be most required
• Provide market intelligence data to support talent strategy course corrections, and act as enterprise-wide subject matter expert on external talent trends and executive search strategies for senior stakeholders (VP up to MB) and HR
• Build, maintain, and manage a pipeline of key external talents globally in line with capacity and needs
• Manage and continually assess key 3rd party vendors (Executive Search) from Sonova`s PSL list, seek solutions to enhance the service and delivery time and foster their role as ambassadors for Sonova.
• Manages the development, and implementation of key initiatives and programs in the executive talent acquisition space to further enhance the process and introduce innovative solutions by utilizing the SonovaX toolkit.
• Further explore, initiate, and roll out function-related enhancements and actions in executive talent acquisition to ensure alignment with industry best practices

Key requirements:

• 6+ years' experience in direct talent sourcing, pipelining, and assessment, including leading and managing end-to-end senior to executive-level searches in-house or in agency settings on an international level
• Experience in diversity recruitment-related initiatives including delivering and building diverse shortlists and candidate pools
• Knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, working at both tactical and operational levels to ensure quality and consistency across the recruitment lifecycle
• Global mindset and intercultural curiosity, with an ability to interact across all levels of the organization up to the Management Board or Executive Committee
• Excellent listening skills and a natural desire to deliver a tailored experience to all stakeholder groups
• Excellent communication skills, with fluency in business English, and any additional language (e.g Spanish, or French) is beneficial

A minimum of 200Mb/sec download and 10Mb/sec upload speed internet connectivity is required to support any remote/hybrid employee functionality at Sonova

Don't meet all the criteria? If you're willing to go all in and learn we'd love to hear from you!

We are looking forward to receiving your application via our online job application platform. For this position, only direct applications will be considered. Sonova does not recruit via app, telegram, carrier pigeon or any other format that does not include speaking with an actual human. If you are offered a job without speaking with someone please contact [email protected]

Health Benefits and Perks:

• Medical, dental and vision coverage*
• Health Savings, Health Reimbursement, Flexible Spending/Dependent Care Accounts
• TeleHealth options
• 401k plan with company match*
• Company-paid life/ad&d insurance
  • Additional supplemental life/ad&d coverage available
• Company-paid Short/Long-Term Disability coverage (STD/LTD)
  • STD LTD Buy-ups are available
• Accident/Hospital Indemnity coverage
• Legal/ID Theft Assistance
• PTO, floating Diversity Day, & paid holidays*
• Paid parental bonding leave
• Employee Assistance Program (24/7 mental health support hotline, 5 company-paid counseling sessions, and more)
• Robust Internal Career Growth opportunities
• Tuition reimbursement
• Hearing aid discount for employees and family
• Internal social recognition platform
• D&I focused: D&I council and employee resource groups

*Plan rules/offerings dependent upon group Company/location

Pay Ranges: $105,000 - $160,000

Eligible for bonus

Health Benefits & Perks:

• Medical, dental and vision coverage*
• Health Savings, Health Reimbursement, Flexible Spending/Dependent Care Accounts
• TeleHealth options
• 401k plan with company match*
• Company paid life/ad&d insurance
  • Additional supplemental life/ad&d coverage available
• Short/Long-Term Disability coverage (STD/LTD)
  • STD LTD Buy-ups available
• Accident/Hospital Indemnity coverage
• Legal/ID Theft Assistance
• PTO & paid holidays*
• Employee Assistance Program

*Plan rules/offerings dependent upon group Company/location.

Sonova is an equal opportunity employer.

We team up. We grow talent. We collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds to win with the best team in the market place. We guarantee every person equal treatment in regard to employment and opportunity for employment, regardless of a candidate's ethnic or national origin, religion, sexual orientation or marital status, gender, genetic identity, age, disability or any other legally protected status.