Talent Solutions Senior Specialist at Tyson Foods, Inc. in Springdale, Arkansas

Talent Solutions Senior Specialist

The Talent Solutions Senior Specialist serves as a strategic talent advisor responsible for sourcing, identifying, engaging, assessing, and securing Director through Managing Director level talent and other business-critical talent for Tyson Foods, with the flexibility to support higher-level or executive roles as business needs require. In addition to full lifecycle recruitment for Director through Managing Director level roles, acts as a trusted consultant to business leaders while proactively building external talent pipelines aligned to current and future business needs.

Additionally, the Senior Specialist develops market intelligence, talent mapping strategies, and succession-oriented pipelines that strengthen the leadership bench within the functions and business units they support by leveraging strong business acumen, consultative influence and ability to build trusted relationships with both senior business leaders and key external talent pipelines.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Develops comprehensive talent market scans and go-to-market hiring strategies for Director through Managing Director level and business-critical roles
• Conducts industry, competitor and talent market research to identify emerging talent trends, availability and talent movement
• Owns the full lifecycle recruitment process for Director through Managing Director level roles from strategy through offer acceptance and onboarding.
• Leads position intakes and consultation sessions with business stakeholders to define success profiles and talent requirements; facilitates post-interview calibrations when applicable
• Builds talent maps and external succession pipelines for critical leadership positions aligned to function and business-unit succession and growth strategies, including key organizational partnerships
• Serves as a consultant with leaders on talent trade-offs, organizational capability gaps, succession planning considerations, and development opportunities
• Utilizes AI tools while managing human-in-the-loop discretion through the end-to-end recruiting process
• Provides recommendations on market competitiveness, talent availability and strategic hiring approaches that are role-specific
• Manages an external talent repository organized by capability, leadership level, function, and future readiness

Requirements:

• Education:
  
  Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Experience:
  
  5+ years of Director level and above recruiting experience
• Computer skills:
  Strong computer skills, applicant tracking system experience, strong sourcing capabilities
• Communication skills:
  Excellent written and verbal communication skills; strong executive presence
• Travel:
  Minimal