Senior Recruiter

The Senior Recruiter / Recruiting Lead will play a key role in attracting and acquiring high caliber talent through creative sourcing strategies that help us perpetuate and evolve our company culture and meet business goals.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Sr. Leadership to understand staffing needs and priorities to develop both short-term and long-term recruiting strategies ensuring that all staffing efforts meet the business objectives.
• Manage all aspects of the search process for identified roles-from sourcing through candidate close and prompt on-boarding.
• Develops a fundamental knowledge of business units, including customers, competitors, products, markets and key business metrics to assist with and advise on talent placement.
• Works collaboratively with the HR team to identify bottlenecks in the hiring to on-boarding process, propose solutions, implement and communicate the successful solutions more broadly.
• Collaborate with leaders in the development and implementation of sourcing strategies focused on rapid identification of external talent.
• Develops expertise in company's Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to maximize its benefits. Audit ATS setup and create/refine supporting processes. Maintain thorough documentation of requisition status, candidates considered and selection decisions.
• Implement and maintain process improvements that will enhance the candidate and new hire experience.
• Lead and implement small to large scale recruiting projects with high impact to the firm.
• Partner to develop/define the Talent Brand Internally & Externally.
• Develop collateral material in partnership with marketing to effectively articulate the company culture and represent a positive reflection of our brand and company.
• Partner to implement and maintain legally defensible and effective hiring processes for the firm.
• Maintains relationships with business networks and professional organizations to gain knowledge and obtain referrals.
• Provide the HR department with market intelligence, best practices on interview, sourcing and selection methodologies.
• Create and exceed expectations for all 'leadership in the basics' for recruiting role (i.e. Fill roles within established timelines, Hiring Manager and new Hire survey rate/responses, time to fill quality of hire etc. Adhere to quality standards surrounding recruiting processes such as ATS tracking/notes, reference check process, offer letter requests, etc.).
• Diagnose gaps within processes and provide solutions/training (employee referrals, internal posting etc.).
• Create and suggest new and effective interviewing procedures and techniques and train leaders in best practices.

Job Qualifications & Requirements

• 10+ years of proven experience in recruitment
• Exceptional work ethic; consistently meets/exceeds deadlines
• Exemplary communication skills both oral and written
• Proven expertise in developing strategic partnerships with senior management and influencing key hiring decisions, preferably in a fast-paced organizational environment
• Demonstrated ability to manage searches at both the strategic and tactical levels
• Ability to operate efficiently and effectively within a matrixed, geographically dispersed organization
• Ability to work on a variety of projects simultaneously - and, be willing to support recruiting initiatives (new systems, improving processes etc.)
• Ability to adapt to a changing environment and conditions and be able to look at new approaches to old problems
• Ability to interact and interface with all levels within the company
• Superior candidate negotiation skills
• Ability to work at a high-level of independence and autonomy; intellectual acumen, leadership, sound judgment, professional and personal integrity, initiative and flexibility
• Remains flexible and operates with a collaborative mindset.

Education:

Minimum qualifications include a BA or BS degree.

Location:

Romeoville, IL or Cleveland, OH / Hybrid