Talent Acquisition Manager

About the role

This role leads recruiting activities, including discovering top talent, building a strong employment brand, and fostering great relationships with both candidates and team members. The Talent Acquisition Manager will set strategic direction for a team of recruiters operating within a flexible recruiting model, while remaining hands-on in recruiting for select corporate, leadership, critical, or hard-to-fill positions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business and HR leaders to develop proactive staffing and talent acquisition strategies.
• Serve as a talent advisor by identifying workforce challenges and recommending solutions based on business needs, market conditions, recruiting results, and talent trends.
• Analyze recruiting, retention, quality of hire, pipeline, sourcing, and hiring data to identify trends and opportunities. Translate insights into actionable recommendations and continuously improve recruiting strategies and processes.
• Develop and implement innovative talent attraction strategies, including sourcing channels, talent pipelines, recruiting campaigns, community partnerships, employment branding, technology, and other approaches tailored to specific markets and positions.
• Lead and continuously evaluate the organization’s flexible recruiting support model, ensuring the appropriate level of Talent Acquisition partnership based on business needs. Identify opportunities for additional recruiting support, consultation, and training.
• Build strong partnerships with hiring managers and business leaders by providing guidance on recruiting strategy, candidate selection, interviewing, market conditions, and hiring best practices.
• Provide leadership, direction, coaching, and support to the Talent Acquisition team. Set strategic priorities, drive accountability, and foster collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee recruiting efforts across the organization, utilizing a variety of sourcing and selection strategies. Personally manage select corporate, leadership, critical, and hard-to-fill positions as needed.
• Lead employment branding and talent attraction initiatives that strengthen candidate awareness, engagement, and the organization’s ability to attract qualified talent.
• Oversee recruitment and selection activities, including screening, interviews, assessments, pre-employment checks, offers, and other selection processes.
• Stay current on recruiting practices, technology, candidate behaviors, and labor market trends to identify opportunities to strengthen the organization’s talent acquisition strategy.
• Lead or participate in additional projects and perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Experience and expertise in a variety of interviewing skills and techniques.
• Knowledge of state and federal employment law.
• Proven track record of building strong, mutually respectful relationships with hiring managers.
• Able to give and receive feedback appropriately.
• Excellent communication skills at all levels, adapting communication to suit the receiver.
• Proven ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Ability to develop and motivate others.
• Ability to use creative sourcing techniques.
• Ability to develop, use, and apply recruiting metrics.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience leading or supervising a team.
• 5-7 years of corporate recruiting experience.

Physical Demands

• Must be able to constantly remain in a stationary position.
• Occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.
• Occasionally may require light lifting up to 25 pounds.

Work Environment

Office environment. Occasional travel may be required.