Talent Acquisition Manager

About the role

Armstrong Transport Group (ATG) is seeking a Talent Acquisition Manager to strategically lead the Talent Acquisition function. This role combines hands-on team leadership with systems ownership: you will manage and coach a team of recruiters while designing, configuring, and continuously improving the ATS environment — including pipelines, sourcing/CRM workflows, requisition and approval processes, scorecards, reporting, and integrations with UKG Ready and other HR systems. You will be the primary architect of how ATG attracts, tracks, and converts talent across anational workforce.

Responsibilities

• Manage, coach, and develop a team of recruiters, setting clear goals, hiring plans, and performance expectations.
• Partner with hiring managers and People Operations team members across departments to forecast hiring needs and prioritize open requisitions.
• Own recruiting metrics (time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, source effectiveness, pipeline conversion) and report performance to HR leadership.
• Build and maintain scalable, repeatable recruiting processes for both standard roles and high-volume or hard-to-fill positions.
• Serve as the lead recruiter for director-level and above roles within the organization, managing these searches personally from intake through offer.
• Partner directly with senior leadership and executive stakeholders on role scoping, candidate slates, and offer a strategy for these searches.
• Lead the end-to-end build-out of the Applicant Tracking System, including candidate sourcing pools, nurture campaigns, and talent pipelines.
• Design and configure job templates, pipeline stages, interview kits, scorecards, approval workflows, and offer processes within the ATS.
• Establish data standards, tagging conventions, and reporting dashboards so recruiting data stays clean, consistent, and actionable.
• Manage the integration and data flow between the ATS and other systems, ensuring accurate handoff from