Contract Recruiter/Sourcer (6-month temporary assignment)

Contract Recruiter / Sourcer

Conair is seeking an experienced Contract Recruiter/Sourcer to join our Talent Acquisition team for a six-month assignment. This role is ideal for a high-energy, resourceful recruiting professional who thrives in a fast-paced, complex, and high-volume environment. You'll operate with the mindset of an in-house agency recruiter, balancing multiple requisitions at once while delivering exceptional candidate quality and speed. You will partner closely with hiring managers across the business to source, engage, and hire top talent for a wide range of roles. This is a hands-on, full-cycle recruiting and sourcing role that requires strong business acumen, creativity, and the ability to execute quickly.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a high-volume requisition load across multiple business units with speed, accuracy, and professionalism.
• Develop and execute advanced sourcing strategies to identify and engage passive talent across LinkedIn, job boards, social platforms, talent communities, and competitive markets.
• Conduct full-cycle recruiting including intake meetings, sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer support, and candidate experience management.
• Build strong partnerships with hiring managers, providing market insights, pipeline updates, and strategic recommendations.
• Maintain a high bar for candidate quality while meeting aggressive hiring timelines.
• Track and manage candidate activity in the ATS with precision and compliance.
• Represent Conair's brand with professionalism and consistency in all candidate interactions.
• Adapt quickly to shifting priorities and business needs in a dynamic, consumer-driven environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of recruiting experience, including strong sourcing capability for hard-to-fill roles.
• Proven success operating in a fast-paced, high-volume, and complex recruiting environment.
• Experience functioning like an in-house agency recruiter—managing multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, and tight deadlines.
• Exceptional sourcing skills, including Boolean search, passive outreach, talent mapping, and competitive intelligence.
• Strong communication, relationship-building, and influencing skills.
• Highly organized with the ability to juggle many requisitions simultaneously.
• Experience recruiting within consumer goods, manufacturing, or similar industries is a strong plus.
• Proficiency with ATS platforms, LinkedIn Recruiter, and sourcing tools.

What Success Looks Like

• You deliver high-quality candidates quickly and consistently.
• You operate with urgency, ownership, and a solution-oriented mindset.
• You build trust with hiring managers and become a go-to partner.
• You elevate the candidate experience while keeping pace with demand.
• You bring creativity and resilience to every search.

Environmental Factors:

• Working conditions are normal for an office environment.
• Must be able to sit for extended periods of time.
• Must be able to use a computer keyboard and view a monitor for extended periods of time.
• This role requires Stamford, CT office on-site presence Monday through Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere on Fridays.

About Conair: Conair is a leading international designer, manufacturer, and marketer of branded personal care and small kitchen appliances, cookware, hairbrushes & accessories, cosmetic bags, and travel accessories. Conair has always been driven by a passion for innovation; it's part of the Company's DNA. Trendsetting products have been invented by Conair since its inception in 1959, keeping the Company always a step ahead of the competition. The company's domestic and international divisions offer a diversified mix of consumer and professional products sold in over 120 countries. The Family of Conair brands includes CONAIR, Cuisinart, BabylissPRO, Scünci, TRAVELSMART by CONAIR, and Waring. Conair's passion for innovation gets stronger with each decade, as evidenced by the over 1,000 patents the Company has obtained worldwide. Today, Conair and its brands are names known throughout the world. Conair continues to introduce its brands to new and emerging markets, year after year. By the 1990s, most households in America owned at least one Conair product. Today many have more than one, and the Company's goal is to ensure that every household in the world eventually owns one of our products. At Conair, we inspire our customers with innovative high-quality products and iconic brands that enhance their lives. Are you passionate about this opportunity but worried that you don't have 100% of the experience we're looking for? We still want to hear from you! Apply online and let us know why you would make a great addition to Conair!