Job Title:

Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition LAC

Overview:

Job Description Summary
At Mastercard, we are dedicated to strengthening our teams with the best diverse talents. As we continue to expand and evolve, we are looking for a passionate and strategic Talent Acquisition Senior Specialist to support our recruitment efforts across the Latin America and Caribbean region. In this role, you will be responsible for sourcing, identifying, screening, and hiring top candidates for a wide range of positions. You will play a critical part in ensuring that we attract and onboard diverse, high-quality talent to meet our business needs.

The ideal candidate will possess exceptional communication and organizational skills, with a proven ability to develop and execute sourcing strategies to attract the best applicants. You will work closely with business leaders to align talent acquisition efforts with Mastercard's overarching talent agenda, ensuring that our programs are scalable and effectively support local, regional, and global needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Align talent acquisition strategies with Mastercard’s talent agenda.
• Design, plan, and coordinate talent acquisition efforts, ensuring scalability across regional and global activities.
• Serve as a trusted consultant to the business, providing expertise in talent planning, recruiting, candidate sourcing, market research, and employment branding.
• Develops sourcing strategies through detailed market research and data mining, using resources such as LinkedIn or social media pertaining to prospective candidates
• Executes marketing and branding talent acquisition strategies (e.g. timed social media postings, segmentation-driven visuals), and collaborates with Communications to achieve designated objectives
• May coordinate phases of the talent acquisition process for assigned talent pipeline and evaluates team recommendations of candidates
• Follows talent acquisition specific processes and systems
• Monitors progress against quarterly goals for time-to-fill, cost per hire, diverse candidate slates and candidate pipelines.


All About You
• Experience implementing talent acquisition programs/processes including candidate screening, assessment and selection in a fast-paced, high volume and matrixed environment
• Experience and familiarity supporting talent acquisition for Latin America & The Caribbean markets.
• Track record delivering hiring results that meet business needs and expectations
• Consistently delivered performance at or exceeding quarterly goals for time-to-fill, cost per hire, diverse candidate slates and candidate pipelines
• Experience screening, assessing and selecting prospective top candidates and provide a robust analysis and insight to candidate
• Experience conducting market research independently and communicating effectively and clearly with research subjects (i.e. cold-calling, interviewing), collating findings in a clear manner across multiple functions & industries
• Experience managing the candidate life cycle preferable
• Demonstrated success identifying new candidate pools and sources
• Fluent in English and Spanish is required; Fluency in Portuguese is strongly desired but not required.
• Bachelor Degree.

The candidate should preferably be based in Sao Paulo (Brazil) or Bogota (Colombia). We are working in a hybrid mode, so the candidate should be available to go to the Mastercard office 3 times a week.To find US Salary Ranges, visit People Place. Under the Compensation tab, select "Salary Structures." Within the text of "Salary Structures," click on the link "salary structures 2025," through which you will be able to access the salary ranges for each Mastercard job family. For more information regarding US benefits, visit People Place and review the Benefits tab and the Time Off & Leave tab.