Talent Acquisition Specialist – Key Accounts

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Role:
Talent Acquisition Specialist – Key Accounts

Location: Kentucky, Indiana, Northern Arkansas, Eastern NC (must reside in one of these areas)

Department: Recruiting/ Operations

Report To
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Senior Director of Operations (Key Account)

Schedule: Remote

Position Summary

The Talent Acquisition Specialist– Key Accounts manages the recruiting strategy, execution, and overall hiring outcomes for an assigned portfolio of Healthcare Services Group’s key client accounts. This role combines hands‑on recruiting expertise with responsibility for developing and executing recruiting strategies, processes, and initiatives that address critical staffing needs and improve hiring outcomes.

This position partners closely with Talent Acquisition leadership, Divisional Staffing Coordinators, and Operations leaders to understand workforce needs, identify recruiting challenges, and implement solutions across key account client locations.

Essential Functions

Talent Acquisition & Strategic Recruiting

• Lead and execute recruiting strategy and provide direct recruiting support to drive successful hiring outcomes across assigned key client accounts.
• Partner with the Director of Acquisition and Operations Leadership to develop and execute targeted sourcing strategies for difficult‑to‑fill positions using direct sourcing, talent pipelines, job boards, social media, professional networks, referrals, hiring events, and other creative sourcing channels.
• Translate talent acquisition strategy into scalable playbooks, and solutions that can be consistently executed across client locations.
• Monitor job postings to ensure optimal candidate flow and manage recruitment budgets effectively. Address severe staffing challenges to generate an adequate candidate pipeline.
• Build proactive talent pipelines for recurring, high-volume, and critical dining and environmental services positions
• Monitor candidate and requisition activity within iCIMS
• Research, register and travel to targeted hiring events, job fairs, and other HCSG initiatives designed to address staffing needs. Conduct onsite interviews to support urgent and difficult-to-fill staffing needs.
• Partner with Marketing and other internal stakeholders on recruitment marketing, targeted campaigns, employment branding, and candidate-facing materials.
• Build and maintain relationships with key client stakeholders, as needed, to understand staffing priorities and communicate recruiting plans, strategies, and actions being taken to address hiring needs.

Recruiting Technology & Process Improvement

• Support recruiting technology initiatives, including applicant tracking system enhancements, automation, AI‑enabled recruiting tools, candidate screening solutions, and sourcing platforms.
• Develop relationships with existing external recruiting resources, including job boards, programmatic advertising providers, sourcing platforms, and recruitment technology providers to achieve the better results.

Implementation, Training & Field Adoption

• Lead implementation and adoption of new recruiting programs, processes, technologies, and initiatives within the operations team across assigned key accounts.
• Assist with process documentation, interview guides, and training resources that promote consistency and effective execution.
• Provide recruiting and interviewing training for hiring managers and Operations leaders, with emphasis on candidate assessment, selection, follow‑up, and recruiting process expectations.
• Monitor adoption, gather field feedback, identify barriers, and adjust recruiting strategies and processes as needed.
• Serve as a subject matter resource to operational leaders on recruiting processes, sourcing…