Role Overview

When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive.

Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life’s moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this, we provide: 

• Award-winning culture 

• Inclusion and diversity as a priority 

• Performance Based Incentive Plans

• Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability 

• Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!) 

• Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution 

• Mental health support 

• Career advancement opportunities 

• Student loan repayment options 

• Tuition reimbursement

• Flexible work environments 

*All the benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual Plans.

And that’s just the beginning…  

With 10,000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide, every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether you’re directly supporting a growing family, or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss, customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others, and join Team Unum today! 

General Summary:

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Partner with leadership and HRBPs on workforce plans that support the entire talent strategy, future talent needs of the business, including understanding key roles, retention, growth initiatives, and succession planning impacts.
• Execute innovative recruiting and sourcing strategies and processes aligned with business needs that maximize quality, speed, efficiency, mitigate unconscious bias and generate inclusive and diverse candidate pools.
• Partner with the Inclusion and Diversity team to build strategic and maintain relationships with educators, professional organizations, institutions, and non-profits that deliver robust pipelines of candidates from underrepresented and underserved communities for all roles at all levels.
• Leadership of a diverse team, including all aspects of people management, selection, training, resource capacity, job design and performance management that creates a high-performance operating environment.
• Ensures quality, audit, and control standards through the development of effective standards, policies, education and creative training programs for direct reports and broader talent acquisition team.
• May develop workflow and/or identify and implement new technology solutions to meet specialized needs of the assigned business function(s).
• Manages internal and external customer expectations through project planning and partnering efforts throughout the corporation.
• Manages talent acquisition relationship with assigned business function(s), developing deep understanding of ongoing talent needs and resulting implications to talent acquisition to provide expertise and recommended solutions.
• Serve as Subject Matter Expert for Workday Recruiting, testing new release functionality, developing, and delivering training to new hires and broad talent acquisition team.
• Provides leadership and direction to project teams who are involved with projects specific to talent acquisition and communicates project strategies and status to all impacted parties.
• Meets challenges head-on by the efficient and timely development, identification, and implementation of new strategies, solutions, and opportunities to acquire great talent.
• Coordinates training, staffing and system changes as dictated by project plans.
• Ensure hiring strategies and sources provide equal employment opportunity to drive an inclusive and diverse workforce, creating a competitive advantage. Manage EEO and AAP reporting requirements for Talent Acquisition team in partnership with Inclusion and Diversity team.
• May perform other duties as assigned.

Job Specifications

• Associate degree required. Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• 5+ years of talent acquisition or broad HR functional experience required.
• 2+ years of proven success leading a corporate talent acquisition or HR team preferred.
• Proven ability to make sound business decisions and deliver results
• Demonstrated experience in motivation, team building and collaboration
• Strong interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills – both written and verbal
• Strong project management, leadership, and organization skills
• Demonstrated success in influencing with and without authority

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Unum and Colonial Life are part of Unum Group, a Fortune 500 company and leading provider of employee benefits to companies worldwide. Headquartered in Chattanooga, TN, with international offices in Ireland, Poland and the UK, Unum also has significant operations in Portland, ME, and Baton Rouge, LA - plus over 35 US field offices. Colonial Life is headquartered in Columbia, SC, with over 40 field offices nationwide.

Unum is an equal opportunity employer, considering all qualified applicants and employees for hiring, placement, and advancement, without regard to a person's race, color, religion, national origin, age, genetic information, military status, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or protected veteran status.

The base salary range for applicants for this position is listed below. Unless actual salary is indicated above in the job description, actual pay will be based on skill, geographical location and experience.

Additionally, Unum offers a portfolio of benefits and rewards that are competitive and comprehensive including healthcare benefits (health, vision, dental), insurance benefits (short & long-term disability), performance-based incentive plans, paid time off, and a 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 5% and an additional 4.5% contribution whether you contribute to the plan or not.  All benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of individual Plans.

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