Sr. Manager, Talent Acquisition
Echo Global Logistics · Chicago, IL · 1 mo ago
Human Resources$129k–$188k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the Sales and High-Volume Recruiting team.
- Create and execute recruiting and sourcing strategies to meet hiring goals.
- Coach recruiters on sourcing, candidate engagement, and client partnership.
- Partner with business leaders to understand hiring needs and provide recruiting expertise.
- Use recruiting metrics and market data to improve hiring performance and inform strategy.
- Build talent pipelines through sourcing, recruitment marketing, referrals, and networking.
- Champion Echo's employment brand and deliver an exceptional candidate experience.
Recruiting Operations & Process Excellence
- Drive standardization of recruiting processes, workflows, and documentation across the TA organization.
- Create, maintain, and govern SOPs covering the end-to-end recruiting lifecycle (requisition, screening, interview, offer, and onboarding handoff).
- Lead change management efforts for new tools, process updates, and organizational changes, ensuring smooth adoption across recruiters and stakeholders.
- Design and deliver training programs for the recruiting team and business stakeholders on recruiting processes, systems, and best practices.
- Manage relationships with recruiting vendors and technology partners, including contract oversight, performance management, and vendor selection.
- Optimize recruiting tools, systems, and sourcing channels, partnering with HRIS/Workday and other cross-functional teams as needed.
- Identify and lead operational improvement initiatives, using data to measure impact and drive continuous improvement.
- Manage recruiting projects and communicate hiring progress, metrics, market insights, and operational updates to senior leadership.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of recruiting experience required.
- 3+ years of experience leading and developing recruiting teams.
- Demonstrated experience in recruiting operations, process standardization, or change management.
- Experience developing and maintaining SOPs, training programs, or process documentation at scale.
- Experience managing vendor relationships and recruiting technology implementations.
- Experience developing recruiting strategies and managing hiring initiatives.
- Strong sourcing, relationship-building, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience using recruiting metrics and data to drive business outcomes and inform operational decisions.
- Proficiency with ATS, CRM, LinkedIn Recruiter, AI tools, and other recruiting technologies.
- Strong communication, analytical, organizational, and project management skills.
- Proficient in Excel and other Microsoft products.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience preferred.