HR Talent Partner

Talent Partner

MSQC is a retailer founded in 2008 and the world's largest provider of pre-cut quilting fabric. We're part of a craft-first enterprise that also includes LoveCraftsa global online marketplace for makersand WEBS, a premier U.S. yarn retailer serving knitters, crocheters, weavers, and spinners. Together, we support a worldwide community of makers with quality supplies, inspiration, and joyful service, strengthened by our deep expertise in bringing high-quality fabrics to market.

Guided by progressive and pragmatic people practices, we are continuing to evolve our HR function, building on strong existing capability while increasing our focus on proactive business partnership. This includes working closely with operations to navigate the realities of our retail environment and develop practical, long-term solutions that support our teams on the ground.

The Opportunity

Our Talent Partner is responsible for delivering end-to-end recruitment and workforce planning support primarily across retail and warehouse functions. This role ensures MSQC attracts, hires, and retains the right people by managing full-cycle recruitment, maintaining strong talent pipelines, and partnering closely with managers to meet current and future staffing needs.

Working as a key partner to operations and HR, the Talent Partner balances workforce planning with hands-on recruitment delivery in a scarcity-driven talent market. This includes forecasting hiring demand, managing targeted recruitment across a small number of concurrent, often hard-to-fill roles, and ensuring a high-quality candidate and hiring manager experience. The role operates in a continuous sourcing environment requiring sustained pipeline development rather than reactive recruitment.

The role also leads on employer branding initiatives and talent attraction efforts, using market insights, creative sourcing strategies, data, and modern selection methods to continuously improve sourcing effectiveness, hiring quality, and the overall candidate experience.

What You'll Do

• Lead recruitment forecasting, planning, and execution across hourly roles and select corporate roles.
• Optimize the workforceshifts, staffing models, and productivitybased on data and trends.
• Build pipelines and retention strategies; nurture internal mobility, leverage referrals, and cultivate future candidate pools focusing on creative sourcing strategies and innovative approaches to candidates attraction.
• Partner with Managers to deliver the Talent strategy and deliver a standout candidate experience.
• Partner with Managers to identify skills gaps, conduct Training Needs Analysis, and work closely with the broader HR team to develop solutions.
• Drive employer branding and talent marketing (local partnerships, social recruiting).
• Use HRIS/ATS data to track funnel health and improve quality of hire.

What You'll Bring

• Proven, end-to-end recruiting experience in operations/frontline environments.
• Demonstrated experience successfully recruiting in rural communities by building strong local relationships, utilizing community resources, and employing innovative, non-traditional recruiting strategies to attract talent
• Ability to source, assess, and hire across multiple job families with an innovative and forward-thinking mindset
• Creative, strategic talent sourcing, workforce planning and strength in analytics.
• Stakeholder savvy; you build trusted relationships internally and in the community.
• Experience with employer brand, candidate communications, and process design.
• Organized project manager; pragmatic, people-first, and tenacious.
• Creative, future-proofed attitude towards building talent pools
• Excellent knowledge of Google-suite, remote collaboration tools (Slack, Zoom etc.), HRIS, ATS applications, Benefits portals applications, and a quick learner with new systems.

Why Join Us?

• Join an evolving, impact-driven HR team passionate about shaping a positive workplace and making a difference every day.
• Deliver meaningful process improvements and create positive experiences for both candidates and employees.
• Help shape the talent engine of a successful, growing enterprisemodernize processes and solve legacy challenges.
• See the direct impact of your work on customer experience, operational throughput, and company growth.
• You'll have the support of experienced global HR leadership to collaborate with.
• Flexibility! This role has ability to work from home two days a week.

Perks & Benefits : Medical, dental, and vision coverage | PTO | 401(k) with company match | employee discounts | and more!

Equal Opportunity We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and provide reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process and employment. MSQC is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other protected status. We provide reasonable accommodations in our hiring process and on the job.

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