Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition & Workforce Strategy

Trident Seafoods is North America's largest vertically integrated seafood company- partnering with fishermen, employees, and communities to responsibly harvest, process, and share wild Alaska seafood with the world. With deep roots in Alaska and operating across the globe, Trident is a privately held company headquartered in Seattle, committed to nourishing the world while upholding the highest standards for safety, sustainability, and excellence.

At Trident Seafoods, we work together for something bigger than ourselves. From nourishing the world with the best protein on earth to protecting our oceans, serving our fishermen, and supporting communities in Alaska and beyond, here, you’ll find a values-driven culture where your growth matters, your work has purpose and your contributions are recognized and appreciated—because at Trident, we believe meaningful work connects us all.

Summary:The Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition & Workforce Strategy will lead the enterprise recruiting and staffing function across vessels, Alaska shore plants, value-added plants, yards, and the Support Center. Establish a comprehensive, forward-looking talent acquisition strategy; lead and develop the recruiting leadership team; ensure end-to-end ownership of requisitions and hiring outcomes; and strengthen Trident’s employer brand, EVP, candidate experience, recruiting systems, analytics, and service delivery.

Essential Functions: (Responsibilities, Tasks, Supervisory Needs)

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Set and execute an enterprise talent acquisition and workforce strategy aligned with business plans, production forecasts, seasonal labor needs, critical-role demand, and budget priorities across all Trident operating groups.
• Lead, coach, and align recruiting and staffing leaders responsible for vessels, Alaska shore plants, value-added plants, yards, and the Support Center.
• Establish clear ownership, priorities, capacity, performance expectations, and accountability across the recruiting function.
• Own recruiting delivery and requisition management across the full lifecycle, ensuring hiring outcomes are achieved through effective intake, workforce planning, sourcing, screening, selection, offer management, pre-employment processes, and escalation support.
• Directly lead recruiting efforts for executive, confidential, critical, and hard-to-fill positions as needed.
• Develop and execute sourcing and talent pipeline strategies for seasonal, high-volume, skilled-trade, maritime, professional, leadership, and hard-to-fill roles using schools, military, community, referral, digital, agency, and direct-sourcing channels.
• Define and improve recruiting operating standards, service levels, governance, compliance controls, hiring-manager practices, and candidate experience to ensure a consistent, efficient, and compliant recruiting process across the enterprise.
• Leverage Trident’s ATS (Applicant Tracking System) (i.e., iCIMS), labor market intelligence, workforce forecasts, and recruiting analytics to manage demand planning, team capacity, funnel health, time to fill, quality, cost, compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Manage recruiting vendors, agencies, technology, contracts, budgets, employer branding initiatives, and enterprise recruiting projects.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to leadership on workforce risks, labor market trends, and talent acquisition strategy.

The essential functions listed above are not exhaustive. The organization may assign other duties as needed to meet business requirements.

Travel/On-Call Requirements:

• Approximately 20% travel, including travel within Alaska and Lower…