Martavis Crawford
NC
Summary
Dynamic Talent Manager offering 14-year progressive career across diverse industries. Proven history of designing and implementing recruitment, training and conflict-resolution initiatives for companies up to 10,000 employees. Insightful and creative with strengths in partnering with cross-functional business executives to strategize personnel-management solutions. Known for identifying improvement opportunities and spearheading projects to drive effectiveness. Experienced Talent Acquisition Manager devises strategy and recruitment processes to execute sourcing and recruiting campaigns. Finds and screens candidates and develops corporate policy for talent bench-marking, talent assessment and interviewing policies. Develops and leads strategic initiatives to recruit and select high caliber, professional and diverse workforce that identifies with business culture.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate Dir., Executive Talent Manager
Victra
01.2023 - Current
- Responsible for execution of company-wide recruitment strategy, vendor management, staffing technology, hiring compliance and leadership of Talent Acquisition Team for organization with 1600 locations in 49 states
- Collaborates with Managers to identify and develop key outreach sourcing initiatives to ensure a constant pipeline of talented and diverse applicants
- Leading efforts in implementation of new ATS system, to which I’ve had to coach and train talent acquisition team and over 500 hiring managers on new processes
- Develop sustainable hiring strategy that’s scalable for different hiring needs in our field stores
- Collaborated with HR executive team and hiring managers to identify areas of need and develop cohesive, strategic staffing plans to meet hiring goals
- Lead sourcing processes including social media, sourcing tools networking, job boards and community outreach
- Developed communication and marketing plan and leveraged talent acquisition tools, resources, and campaigns to source and attract top talent.
- Created and drove talent acquisition and job placement strategies to attract diverse candidates.
- Analyzed recruiting metrics to share reports and recommendations with stakeholders.
- Negotiated contracts and managed budget for recruiting expenses.
- Identified and implemented appropriate strategies to increase employee satisfaction and retention.
- Partnered within talent development team to identify career paths and associated development needs.
Talent Acquisition Manager
Victra
04.2022 - 12.2022
- Provided market research to support candidate geographic profiling to implement strategies to ensure reduction in attrition
- Work with hiring mangers to understand their hiring forecasts and translate it into recruitment plans
- Responsible for developing recruiters into full life cycle recruitment strategies
- Coaching and developing recruiters to build partnerships with leaders whom they ultimately are responsible for in hiring needs
- Facilitated successful policy implementation and enforcement to maintain legal and operational compliance.
- Distributed employee engagement surveys to identify areas of improvement.
Talent Acquisition Manager
Amazon
03.2021 - 04.2022
- Full lifecycle recruiting for various levels of operations
- Collaborate with HR Business partners to ensure needs are met
- Lead a team of 93 recruiters from East Coast to West Coast
- Identify needs of the business to provide information to my recruiting team to ensure business needs are met satisfactory
- Responsible for market research, demographics, and generating request to be proactive in providing candidates to sites based on trends of the market
- Collaborate with HR business partners to ensure every candidate has a fair and equal opportunity to be successful in every role
- Coordinate events at universities and career fairs virtually
- Identified and created recruitment and administrative performance metrics and data to analyze trends, drive change, and assess progress.
- Analyzed recruiting metrics to share reports and recommendations with stakeholders.
Talent Acquisition Interim Manager
Amazon
06.2020 - 03.2021
- Lead high-level recruiting events to ensure we attract the best talent in the competitive market
- Identify the perfect candidate for each role through sources such as LinkedIn, higheright, referral, social media etc
- Maintained the highest retainer rate for new candidates over a period of four weeks consecutively
- Partner with peers to organize events for groups of 300 or more
- Created and drove talent acquisition and job placement strategies to attract diverse candidates.
- Optimized sourcing networks and used proactive methods to direct source candidates.
District Leader of Talent Acquisition
Macys
11.2013 - 05.2020
- (Hiring/Recruiting), Macy’s, Recruiting talent at a high-level to ensure we could compete with our competition
- Developing HR strategies, policies, practices and agenda
- Improving relations between staff and employer
- Evaluating staffing needs and developing strategy to ensure needs are met
- Leading on boarding processes, managing internships, providing HR solutions and developing and retaining talent
- Cooperated with company leaders in change management and talent solutions to gain competitive edge in job market.
- Conducted compensation conversations with human resources and hiring managers to foster internal and external equity.
- Created and drove talent acquisition and job placement strategies to attract diverse candidates.
- Evaluated success of training programs and recommended improvements to upper management to enhance effectiveness.
- Trained and guided team members to maintain high productivity and performance metrics.
- Trained staff during demonstrations, meetings, conferences, and workshops.
- Conducted orientation sessions and organized on-the-job training for new hires.
Talent Resource Lead Expert
JC Penney
10.2006 - 11.2013
- Successfully managed a team of six department managers for an annual volume of 12 million with a 2% average increase over the years
- Training integrated support and selling associates as a new company initiative to help better service our customers
- Recognized by my district VP for interviewing skills which then presented to entire district as best practices going forward
- Hired, on board every associate and manager in my building
- Assisted with writing job postings and job descriptions for boards.
- Conducted phone interviews to assess applicants relevant knowledge, skills, experience and aptitudes.
- Met with managers to discuss vacancies, applicant qualifications and characteristics of top candidates.
- Built strong relationships with internal and external candidates to ensure an excellent hiring experience.
Education
Bachelor’s of Science - Finance
East Carolina University
Skills
- Highly organized with excellent attention to detail, multitask and drive things to completion
- Solid working knowledge of principles and practices of human resources management and administration, including ability to maintain strict confidentiality
- Demonstrated ability to serve as a knowledgeable resource for senior leadership teams and stakeholders
- Ability to maintain professional demeanor under pressure and operate with keen sense of urgency and commitment to quality
- Great communicator capable of quickly building rapport, asking insightful questions, and comprehending and reacting to an abundance of information
- Highly developed interview skills, sharp discernment, and ability to execute good judgment
- Excellent reasoning and problem-solving skills and demonstrated ability to analyze data and draw sound, actionable insights
- Applicant Tracking Systems
- Talent Acquisition Strategies
- Talent Management
- Sales Talent Acquisition
- Organizational Systems
- Learning Strategies
- Job Fairs
Timeline
Associate Dir., Executive Talent Manager
Victra
01.2023 - Current
Talent Acquisition Manager
Victra
04.2022 - 12.2022
Talent Acquisition Manager
Amazon
03.2021 - 04.2022
Talent Acquisition Interim Manager
Amazon
06.2020 - 03.2021
District Leader of Talent Acquisition
Macys
11.2013 - 05.2020
Talent Resource Lead Expert
JC Penney
10.2006 - 11.2013
Bachelor’s of Science - Finance
East Carolina University
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