Talent Acquisition Partner

About the role

The Talent Acquisition Partner serves as a market-embedded, full-cycle hiring strategist responsible for leading talent acquisition efforts in their assigned market. This role is a true business partnership focused on modernizing hiring practices, influencing adoption of new processes, and delivering a high-touch, white-glove recruitment experience to both hiring leaders and candidates.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the dedicated TA partner for a defined market/region, with varying business needs, adoption levels, and hiring maturity.
• This is a high volume role Individual contributor role that performs self-driven, able to create complex market hiring strategies
• Influence process adoption and change management by building relationships with Market leadership and act as a strategic advisor.
• Influence hiring behavior through data discussions, talent insights, and performance metrics that guide how and who we hire
• Own the end-to-end hiring process from intake to pre-boarding handoff to HR Shared Services.
• Deliver a consistently high-standard candidate experience reflective of our employer brand
• Build and maintain pipelines for high-impact roles; reduce reliance on inbound applicants.
• Leverage multi-channel sourcing with passive talent, referrals, community partnerships, events, local schools/trade programs, etc
• Provide bi-weekly and monthly business reviews with store and district leaders to align hiring strategy with operational goals.
• Review market hiring metrics, funnel performance, and aging roles to consult store leaders on action plans and bottlenecks
• Meet or exceed department Key Performance Indicators like but not limited to; time to fill, applicant cycle time, funnel metrics, requisition fill rates, etc

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in full-cycle high volume recruiting.
• Ability to manage 50+ requisitions at a time through strong time management and recruitment skills
• Travel required up to 50% of the time Hybrid work schedule: 4 days in office, 1 day work from home
• Advanced sourcing: Boolean, talent mapping, passive outreach, competitive market research, etc
• Strength in building pipelines through colleges, technical schools and military installations
• Experience supporting 15+ stores in a market strongly preferred
• Strong relationship management skills with demonstrated success driving hiring process change, influencing leaders, and creating adoption in environments with varying readiness.
• Must be skilled in data storytelling
• Proficiency with ATS, CRM, sourcing platforms, pipeline tools, and reporting dashboards