Senior Director, Global Talent Acquisition

About the role

The Senior Director, Global Talent Acquisition is a strategic and operational leader responsible for developing and executing a global talent acquisition strategy for enterprise hiring excluding executive level and encompassing over ~12,000 new hires per year. This leader will play a critical role in accelerating business performance by delivering a best-in-class recruiting and hiring experience for candidates and hiring managers while ensuring speed, quality, consistency, and compliance across the enterprise.

The ideal candidate is a customer-focused and innovative leader with a proven track record of delivering business outcomes, simplifying processes, innovating with technology, and building high-performing teams. While Talent Acquisition expertise is preferred, we are also interested in candidates with transferable capabilities in talent and workforce planning, organizational effectiveness, or related disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership
  • Align and strategize with the VP, Global People Operations and Talent Acquisition to develop and execute the global talent acquisition strategy for enterprise hiring excluding executive level.
  • Elevate and execute the global employee value proposition through a comprehensive approach.
  • In close partnership with the Global Head of Talent Strategy, Learning & Leadership Development, embed innovative assessment and selection strategies to strengthen the speed and quality of hire.
  • Partner with HR and business leaders to anticipate future talent requirements and build proactive talent pipelines.
• Operational Excellence
  • Manage the global third-party RPO responsible for hiring across multiple regions and business functions.
  • Manage the MSP, overseeing ~$86M in Contingent Worker spend.
  • Create a culture of accountability focused on hiring speed, quality, customer experience, and operational efficiency.
  • Continuously evaluate and optimize recruiting processes, technology, vendor partnerships, and service delivery models.
  • Through partnership with the Head of People Analytics, leverage metrics and dashboards to measure hiring performance and drive data-informed decisions.
• Customer & Candidate Experience
  • Drive process simplification and innovation to reduce time-to-fill and improve stakeholder satisfaction to champion a world-class experience for recruiters, candidates, and hiring managers.
  • Ensure recruiting teams consistently deliver hiring outcomes with urgency while maintaining a relentless focus on talent quality.
  • Leverage technology, automation, and AI-enabled solutions to enhance recruiting effectiveness and scalability.
• Leadership & Talent Development
  • Develop a high-performing global recruiting organization.
  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, collaboration, and inclusion.
  • Develop talent capabilities within the TA organization and establish a strong succession pipeline.
• Executive Partnership
  • Establish trusted advisor relationships with senior executives and functional leaders across the enterprise.
  • Influence talent decisions and provide market insights that support strategic business priorities.
  • Serve as a key partner in workforce planning, talent forecasting, and organizational growth initiatives.

Requirements

• Required Global Experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, Organizational Psychology, or related field.
  • 12+ years of progressive leadership experience in Talent Acquisition, Human Resources, or related talent functions.
  • Demonstrable or transferable experience serving as main liaison and day-to-day manager of a global RPO.
  • Demonstrated success partnering with senior executives and influencing organization-wide decisions.
  • Strong experience leveraging data and leading through transformation, process improvement, and organizational change.
• Preferred Experience
  • Expertise in Talent Acquisition, including manufacturing, managerial, and/or early career recruiting.

Skills

• Proven ability to consistently deliver an exceptional customer experience.
• Strong business acumen and ability to connect talent strategies to business outcomes.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to balance long-term vision with operational execution.
• Excellent leadership, coaching, and team development capabilities.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to leverage data for decision-making.
• Demonstrated ability to lead globally dispersed teams and drive results across cultures.

What Success Looks Like

• Evolve BD's Employee Value Proposition into a compelling, differentiated promise that attracts and secures the talent essential to advancing BD's strategic agenda.
• Talent acquisition is viewed by internal customers as a Center of Excellence (COE) that creates business value through strategic workforce planning, attracting, and hiring top talent at optimal speed.
• Build a high-performing, cohesive global TA organization with clear career paths, strong engagement, and bench strength.
• Deliver a trusted analytics narrative—cost-per-hire, source effectiveness, funnel conversion—that shapes senior executive workforce decisions.

Benefits

• Health and Well-being
  • Medical coverage, Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts.
  • Dental coverage, Vision coverage.
  • Hospital Care Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Accidental Injury Insurance.
  • Life and AD&D insurance, Short-term disability coverage, Long-term disability insurance, Long-term care with life insurance.
  • Anxiety management program, wellness incentives, sleep improvement program, diabetes management program, virtual physical therapy.
  • Emotional/mental health support programs, weight management programs, gastrointestinal health program.
  • Substance use management program, musculoskeletal surgery, cancer treatment, and bariatric surgery benefit.
• Retirement and Financial Well-being
  • BD 401(k) Plan, BD Deferred Compensation and Restoration Plan, 529 College Savings Plan.
  • Financial counseling, Baxter Credit Union (BCU), Daily Pay.
  • College financial aid and application guidance.
• Life Balance Programs
  • Paid time off (PTO), including all required State leaves.
  • Educational assistance/tuition reimbursement, MetLife Legal Plan.
  • Group auto and home insurance, pet insurance, commuter benefits, discounts on products and services.
  • Academic Achievement Scholarship, Service Recognition Awards, employer matching donation, workplace accommodations.
  • Adoption assistance, backup day care and eldercare, support for neurodivergent adults, children, and caregivers.
  • Caregiving assistance for elderly and special needs individuals, Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
  • Paid parental leave, support for fertility, birthing, postpartum, and age-related hormonal changes.
• Leave Programs
  • Bereavement leaves, Military leave, Personal leave.
  • Family and Medical Leave (FML), Jury and Witness Duty Leave.

Pay

Salary Range: $220,700.00 - $353,100.00 USD Annual