Senior Recruiter

Senior Recruiter

The Senior Recruiter leads full-cycle recruitment for assigned business units, from sourcing and candidate assessment through offer and onboarding handoff. This role builds and maintains talent pipelines for hard-to-fill and high-volume positions, partners with hiring managers to define staffing needs, manages third-party recruiting vendors, and tracks recruiting metrics to continuously improve time-to-fill and quality of hire. The Senior Recruiter also coordinates key handoff activities with HR Operations to ensure a smooth transition from offer acceptance to a new hire's start date.

Essential Functions

• Manage full-cycle recruitment — sourcing, screening, interview coordination, selection, offer negotiation, and onboarding handoff — for assigned requisitions.

• Establish and implement recruiting strategies tailored to each business unit's hiring needs.

• Build and maintain active, qualified candidate pipelines for hard-to-fill and high-volume positions.

• Research, analyze, and present recruiting metrics (time-to-fill, source effectiveness, offer-acceptance rate, pipeline health). Prepare reports on activities, outcomes, and challenges; recommend adjustments to strategy based on results.

• Select, manage, and evaluate third-party staffing and recruiting vendors to ensure cost-effective, quality outcomes.

• Deliver periodic training and refreshers to hiring teams on recruiting best practices (effective use of job boards, generating leads and referrals, structured interviewing, etc.).

• Conduct candidate quality screening as needed to gauge sourcing-channel and recruiter effectiveness, and to improve hiring-manager satisfaction ratios.

• Partner with Operations and HR Plant Managers to coordinate onboarding activities from candidate acceptance through start date, ensuring a smooth handoff to the HR Operations team.

• Initiate and coordinate background checks and drug screens with outside vendors; monitor turnaround and resolve issues that could delay a start date.

• Ensure new hires are accurately entered into applicant tracking and HRIS systems, and support the accuracy of recruiting-related data (e.g., requisition status, candidate records).

• Support new hire orientation activities as needed.

• Contribute to HR and Talent Acquisition special projects (e.g., employer branding, process improvement, systems implementation).

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Self-starter with a strong sense of urgency in a high-volume, deadline-driven environment.

• Skilled in sourcing techniques across job boards, social platforms, employee referrals, and passive-candidate outreach.

• Strong negotiation skills, with the ability to manage competing candidate and hiring-manager expectations through offer close.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; effective, persuasive communicator with candidates and hiring managers alike.

• Data-driven problem solver, comfortable analyzing recruiting metrics to inform strategy.

• Highly organized, with strong follow-through across multiple concurrent requisitions.

• Professional and ethical behavior; sound judgment with confidential and sensitive information.

• Strong active-listening skills to accurately translate hiring-manager needs into a sourcing strategy.

• Effective team member who supports the success of the broader Talent Acquisition and HR function.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree required.

• 5+ years of experience in full-cycle recruiting or talent acquisition, preferably in a fast-paced, high-volume environment.

• Working knowledge of employment law and hiring compliance (EEO, background-check, and drug-screening regulations).

• Proven experience building and managing a candidate pipeline for hard-to-fill roles.

• Experience managing third-party staffing/recruiting vendor relationships.

• Strong interpersonal and client-service skills; comfortable acting as a trusted advisor to hiring managers.

• Strong computer skills (MS Office, applicant tracking systems, HRIS). Proficient with spreadsheets, databases, word processing, and email. Working knowledge of ADP and SuccessFactors preferred.

• Good verbal and written communication skills.

• Ability to handle confidential and sensitive information professionally.

• Ability to function effectively as a team member, supporting the efforts of others to succeed.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other status protected by applicable law.