Executive Talent Acquisition Partner, US Market

Role Overview

The Manager, Talent Acquisition is an experienced individual contributor responsible for leading end-to-end recruitment for selected Director-level positions across the United States and Canada. This role partners with business leaders and Human Resources partners to deliver strong talent outcomes for priority and specialized positions that support organizational goals.

The successful candidate will manage multiple concurrent searches while providing consultative guidance, relevant market insights, and a high-quality candidate and stakeholder experience. This role requires a strong service orientation, effective relationship management skills, and a disciplined, process-driven approach to recruitment while keeping the candidate and hiring leader experience at the heart of what we do.

Responsibilities

As a team member dedicated to leading end-to-end recruitment for Executive-level positions across North America, this role requires an experienced recruiter who can effectively manage a varied workload and remote client base.

The role includes but is not exclusive to:

• Manage multiple simultaneous, priority requisitions while maintaining quality, speed, attention to detail, and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Serve as a talent advisor to senior business leaders, providing guidance on hiring strategies, market conditions, talent availability, and competitive insights.
• Develop and execute proactive sourcing and talent attraction strategies to identify and engage high-quality talent, while assessing candidates against role requirements, leadership capabilities, and organizational values.
• Build strong partnerships with hiring leaders, Human Resources partners, and key stakeholders to understand talent needs and align recruitment strategies with business objectives.
• Deliver a high-touch, high-quality candidate experience throughout the recruitment lifecycle.
• Facilitate and coordinate structured interview processes involving multiple stakeholders.
• Maintain regular communication with stakeholders, providing transparent updates, managing expectations, and escalating or mitigating hiring risks as appropriate.
• Ensure adherence to recruitment processes, governance requirements, compliance standards, and service level expectations.
• Maintain data integrity top of mind, use recruitment data, market intelligence, and talent insights to support hiring decisions and improve outcomes as well ensuring individual performance commitments.
• Build and maintain talent pipelines for current and future business needs.
• Represent Talent Acquisition as a collaborative partner committed to delivering excellent service and business results.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 12 years of progressive experience in professional recruitment, in-house Talent Acquisition, executive search, retained search, or headhunting environments.
• Experience partnering with business leaders in the United States and a strong understanding of U.S. talent markets and recruitment practices.
• Demonstrable success recruiting Executive/Specialized professional positions; experience supporting selected Director-level searches is preferred.
• Experience working in complex, matrixed environments and managing visible searches with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities across business areas.
• Proven ability to manage multiple requisitions simultaneously via ATS while delivering against quality, speed, and experience expectations. Experience using Success Factors and/or Smart Recruiters would be favorable.
• Strong relationship building, stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build credibility and trust with Senior hiring leaders and Human Resources partners.
• Fluency in English, with strong verbal and written communication skills are indispensable.
• Strong sourcing, networking, assessment, and candidate engagement capabilities.
• Process-oriented, with a demonstrated ability to support consistency, governance, and operational excellence while working to SLAs and CSAT expectations.
• Customer-focused mindset with a strong commitment to service, responsiveness, and relationship building.
• Passion for Talent Acquisition and a genuine interest in identifying, attracting, and securing exceptional talent.
• Experience working in fast-paced, geographically dispersed organizations is preferred.