Senior Director, Executive Talent Acquisition

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The Senior Director, Executive Talent Acquisition shapes and aligns hiring priorities with business objectives, workforce plans, and market conditions. This role drives the full life-cycle recruitment process across functional areas, manages and develops a high-performing recruiting team, and partners with senior leaders and HR business partners to attract, assess, and acquire top talent. The Senior Director establishes enterprise recruiting standards, champions process innovation, and builds organizational capability through reusable tools, frameworks, and best practices that deliver consistent, scalable, and compliant hiring outcomes across all business units.

Strategic Leadership & Planning

• Frames the enterprise talent acquisition strategy, roadmap, and operating model to align hiring priorities with workforce plans, business needs, and evolving market dynamics.
• Influences senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders on recruiting priorities, hiring decisions, and enterprise talent acquisition practices.
• Assists with workforce planning, retention program support, and succession-aligned talent pipeline development.
• Stays abreast of industry trends, best practices, legal developments, and technological advancements; functions as a subject matter expert on all business unit recruitment activities.

Recruiting Operations & Process Excellence

• Manages the full life-cycle recruiting process for select functional areas, including job specification development, candidate sourcing and assessment, interviewing, offer negotiation, and onboarding handoff.
• Designs and improves talent acquisition processes, tools, and decision frameworks to strengthen execution, transparency, and operational effectiveness.
• Establishes enterprise recruiting standards, governance mechanisms, and performance measures to support consistent adoption across business units.
• Researches and recommends innovative practices and assessment methods — including skills testing and other evaluation tools — to continuously improve hiring quality.
• Ensures all recruitment files and activities are completed in accordance with compliance standards, including OFCCP, AAP, EEO, and compensation guidelines.

Sourcing & Candidate Attraction

• Leads the development of innovative, multi-channel candidate sourcing strategies — including the creative use of digital platforms, networking, research, and talent databases — with a particular focus on hard-to-fill and executive-level positions.
• Establishes aggressive sourcing approaches to build diverse, high-quality candidate pipelines aligned with organizational equity and inclusion goals.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partners with HR business partners and department heads to identify staffing requirements and develop highly effective processes to attract best-fit talent.
• Collaborates closely with hiring managers, HR leadership, and external vendors and community partners to build strong internal and external relationships.
• Leads highly visible, multidisciplinary talent acquisition initiatives that improve hiring quality, candidate experience, and recruiting scalability across business units.

Analytics, Reporting & Capability Building

• Interprets labor market, workforce, and recruiting data to identify risks, inform priorities, and recommend enterprise-level actions.
• Defines, tracks, and…