Location:

9-3601 Joseph Howe Drive, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3L 4H8

At Shoppers Drug Mart, we’re innovating health and wellness in Canada. From prescriptions to walk-in clinics, and a beloved loyalty program, we’re caring and supporting our customers in new ways every day.
With more than 1,300 locally owned and operated stores from coast to coast, the Shoppers Drug Mart network is more than a great place to shop, it’s a great place to work. We’re committed to building our talented team who champion collaboration, kindness and inclusivity. Join our team, and help recognize a healthy future for your career and for all Canadians.

Why this role is important?

The Impact You’ll Make:

Responsible for attracting pharmacy talent supporting Shoppers Drug Mart across the Atlantic region. You will act as a strategic partner to hiring teams and stakeholders to provide expert guidance and recommendations on talent attraction strategies. In this role, you will continually partner with hiring teams to develop and implement recruitment strategies and methodologies which meet the business needs to fill open positions effectively, through sourcing and converting top.

What you'll do:

• Talent Attraction - You will identify and apply creative sourcing strategies to attract top talent at all levels within our corporate environment. You will develop cost effective, efficient, proactive and innovative solutions to meet clients’ recruiting needs.
• Campus recruitment - You will support campus recruitment strategies to attract early-career talent, including building strong partnerships with universities and student associations, participating in campus events, and developing pipelines of interns, co-op students, and new graduates to support future workforce needs.
• International hiring - You will manage international recruitment efforts, including candidate sourcing, assessment, and coordination with immigration and licensing partners, to support hiring in hard-to-fill roles.
• Conduct interviews to assess candidates; make hiring recommendations; provide support and counsel to hiring managers throughout the recruitment process.
• Relationship Building - You will create and maintain working relationships with internal team members to understand current and future recruitment needs and determine optimum sourcing strategies.
• Tracking - You will use Workday to maintain information during the recruitment process; ensuring all information is current and activity is updated on a regular basis.
• Commitment to promoting a workplace of inclusiveness and belonging

What you bring:

• Proven recruitment experience (combination of agency and in-house experience, or only agency experience)
• Sourcing -Strong understanding of “leading market” sourcing and recruitment techniques and methods; effective at identifying, sourcing and converting passive candidates
• Experience with strong direct sourcing (headhunting, cold calling, in person)
• Portfolio Management - Ability to optimally manage a corporate portfolio consisting of 30+ vacancies/requisitions at one time
• Detail Oriented-Ability to pay close attention to details and maintain accurate records
• ATS – Exposure to an applicant tracking system (ATS), Workday preferred
• Ability to travel to stores and recruitment events across the Atlantic Provinces (peak travel between January to April & September to November)

*Note: This is a remote opportunity, based out of the greater Halifax

Why work at Shoppers Drug Mart?

Acting as consultants, supporting internal customers and the Associate-Owners, you will get experience unique to the retail industry while working for an award-winning national brand. Benefit from a purchase discount program, competitive pay and online learning through Academy.

Take ownership of your work and find more ways to care about your work, co-workers, customers and community.

How You’ll Succeed:

At Shoppers Drug Mart Inc., we seek great people to continually strengthen our culture. We believe great people model our values, are authentic, build trust and make connections.

If that sounds like you, and you are open-minded, responsive to change and up to the challenges provided in a fast-paced retail environment, apply today.

Employment Type:

Full time

Type of Role:

Regular

Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. recognizes Canada's diversity as a source of national pride and strength. We have made it a priority to reflect our nation’s evolving diversity in the products we sell, the people we hire, and the culture we create in our organization. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants with disabilities in the recruitment and assessment process and when hired.

In addition, we believe that compliance with laws is about doing the right thing. Upholding the law is part of our Code of Conduct – it reinforces what our customers and stakeholders expect of us.

Please Note: If you have Employee Self Service (ESS) on Workday, apply to this job via the Workday application.

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