Talent Acquisition Mgr

Overview
The Talent Acquisition Manager leads an assigned recruiting team while personally managing a portfolio of priority, complex, or business-critical requisitions. This role translates enterprise workforce priorities into market-specific recruiting strategies, drives accountability for hiring outcomes, develops recruiter capabilities and ensures disciplined execution across the full recruitment cycle. The Manager partners closely with business leaders and HR stakeholders, leverages market intelligence and analytics to inform decision-making, and remains directly involved in sourcing, candidate assessment, offer strategy, and critical hiring decisions. Success is measured through hiring results, speed-to-fill, quality of hire, stakeholder satisfaction, candidate experience, compliance, and team performance.
Responsibilities
Manage an assigned portfolio of priority, complex, hard-to-fill, or business-critical requisitions. Lead by example through hands-on sourcing, applicant review, candidate outreach, phone screens, interview coordination, offer development, closing, and pre-start engagement.
Build, lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of Talent Acquisition Specialists through goal setting. performance management, career development, workload balancing, and on-going coaching.
Partner with business leaders and HR stakeholders to translate workforce plans and market conditions into proactive recruiting strategies, intake plans, decision timelines, and clear mutual accountabilities.
Proactively monitor requisition and pipeline health, identify risks and bottlenecks, intervene in critical searches, and implement appropriate corrective actions to improve hiring outcomes.
Analyze recruiting metrics and funnel conversion data, labor-market insights, and forecasting trends to drive hiring strategies, improve team performance, and provide actionable leader recommendations.
Maintain a responsive, inclusive, and high-quality candidate and hiring-leader experience through timely communication, disciplined follow-through, constructive influence, and clear ownership.
Ensure accurate ATS, CRM, and HR-system records; drive process and OFCCP compliance; evaluate agency and vendor performance; and identify opportunities to simplify work and increase recruiter capacity.
Qualifications
Minimum Education
Required:
Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field; equivalent combination of education and relevant experience may be considered.
Preferred:
Advanced degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related discipline.
Minimum Experience
Required:
Five or more years of progressive full-cycle talent acquisition experience.
Two or more years of experience leading, coaching, or formally supervising talent acquisition professionals.
Experience leading recruiting teams with accountability for service delivery, performance outcomes, and recruiter development while also directly managing a portfolio of requisitions.
Experience using recruiting data and funnel metrics to diagnose performance and improve outcomes.
Experience establishing recruiting forecasts, workload planning, and hiring performance metrics.
Experience working with all levels of leadership.
Preferred:
Talent acquisition experience in healthcare, multi-site operations, retail, or another high-volume service environment.
Experience recruiting clinicians or other hard-to-fill professional talent across multiple geographic markets.
Experience managing staffing agencies, search partners, or contingent labor channels.
Knowledge Skills And Abilities
Player-coach leadership style with the judgment and discipline to balance people leadership and direct recruiting delivery.
Strong full-cycle recruiting, sourcing, candidate assessment, offer negotiation, and closing capabilities.
Ability to establish priorities, manage competing deadlines, and sustain execution in a fast-changing environment.
Demonstrated ability to hold self and others accountable through clear expectations, follow-through, coaching, and timely performance action.
Strong analytical skills and the ability to translate data into practical actions and executive-level insights.
Consultative influence, sound judgment, and the ability to challenge constructively and recommend decisions.
High attention to detail, process discipline, discretion, and commitment to data integrity.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office products and experience with iCIMS or a comparable ATS, CRM technology, and Dayforce or a comparable HCM platform.
Licenses and Certifications
Required:
None
Preferred:
None
Virtual Employee?
Yes
Salary Range
$115,000-$125,000 annually
Location/Org Data : Dept Number
CORPIL
Software Powered by ICIMS
ReqID 2026-31645
Job Locations US-IL-Downers Grove
Job Category Corporate - Human Resources
Pay Class Full Time

Skills
Talent Acquisition

Work arrangement
Yes