Talent Acquisition Program Manager

Your Career. Your Impact. Your Future.

At Gentherm, we believe the next big breakthrough begins with you. As a global leader in thermal management and pneumatic comfort technologies, we develop advanced systems that deliver meaningful solutions to enhance health, wellness, comfort, and efficiency in everyday life. Our products and innovations are created for you, by you.

Be part of our team where a human-centric mindset drives everything we do-from the technologies we build to the careers we support. With decades of expertise, we have pioneered advanced solutions that have become a standard expectation for consumers around the world.

The same thoughtful approach we take in developing our technologies guides how we support your career: purposeful, impactful, and tailored to you. Because when you thrive, innovation thrives.

The Talent Acquisition Program Manager will play a key role in shaping how we attract, engage, and hire the talent that drives our business forward. This position will lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of global talent acquisition programs that strengthen our employer brand, elevate the candidate experience, and enable our teams to attract high-performing talent across the organization.

You will build scalable, innovative talent programs with global impact-partnering cross-functionally with Talent Acquisition, HR, business leaders, and other key stakeholders to translate business priorities into meaningful talent strategies. The successful candidate will bring a strategic mindset, strong program management capabilities, and a passion for creating talent solutions that support both today's needs and tomorrow's growth.

• Design, document, and roll out standardized talent acquisition procedures, workflows, and programs across all sites.
• Drive harmonization of recruiting practices across sites and regions, identifying inconsistencies and building scalable, repeatable processes that can flex to local needs where required.
• Partner with HR leadership to translate strategic priorities (e.g., sourcing, diversity recruitment, assessment/selection methodology, employee referral programs, onboarding) into operational programs, toolkits, and playbooks that recruiters and hiring managers can execute consistently.
• Use data and recruiter/hiring manager feedback to identify gaps in existing programs or processes and recommend improvements. Use data from new hire feedback on how to improve the talent acquisition process.
• Examine and influence overall TA spend for efficiency.
• Use new technology to augment TA process improvement.
• Own the lifecycle of TA programs from design through implementation, adoption, and continuous improvement - gathering feedback from site-level recruiters and HRBPs to refine processes over time.
• Develop training materials, job aids, and onboarding resources to ensure new and existing TA team members can execute standardized processes effectively.
• Serve as the primary business owner and subject matter expert for TA systems, including the Success Factors Applicant Tracking System (ATS).
• Identify opportunities to improve, configure, and optimize TA systems and platforms to support process efficiency, data integrity, and user experience for candidates, recruiters, and hiring managers.
• Partner with IT and HRIS teams on system enhancements, upgrades, testing, and issue resolution; act as the liaison between the TA function and technical teams.
• Maintain system documentation, user guides, and governance standards to ensure consistent platform use across sites.
• Establish and track key TA process and program metrics to measure adoption, effectiveness, and consistency across sites.
• Provide direct recruiting support for select executive-level and other high-visibility searches as needed, partnering closely with TA and business leadership to ensure a white-glove candidate experience.
• The information is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job, nor are they intended to be an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required…