Manager, Talent Acquisition

ERM is seeking a Talent Acquisition Manager who thrives in a fast-paced environment, is passionate about finding the perfect talent match, and excels at building relationships with senior leaders, colleagues, and candidates alike. The ideal candidate combines strong recruiting leadership with the ability to leverage AI-powered tools, analytics, and market intelligence to drive data-informed hiring decisions and operational excellence.

This position is for a remote/hybrid role.

As a Talent Acquisition Manager, you will

Lead Recruitment Efforts

• Drive full lifecycle recruitment for consultants and corporate professionals across the Gulf/Atlantic Central region, ensuring we attract and hire exceptional talent.
• Supervise and mentor a team of recruiters, providing coaching, guidance, and development opportunities to enhance their performance.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, aligning recruitment strategies with organizational goals and priorities.
• Meet regularly with stakeholders to provide recruitment metrics, talent market insights, and hiring recommendations while prioritizing critical roles and ensuring alignment on business needs.
• Foster a positive team environment, establish backup plans for recruiter absences, and lead team catch-up meetings and one-on-ones with direct reports.
• Assess and balance recruiter workloads, collaborating with other TA Managers and the North America TA Director to drive a culture of workshare.
• Champion the adoption of AI-enabled recruiting tools and best practices to improve team productivity, candidate engagement, reporting, and sourcing effectiveness.

Sourcing Leadership

• Develop and implement innovative sourcing strategies to build strong talent pipelines for current and future hiring needs.
• Partner with hiring managers and senior leaders to deeply understand role requirements and ensure optimal candidate selection.
• Proactively target and engage both passive and active candidates in key markets, using creative methods and AI-powered sourcing tools to identify the best talent.
• Leverage market intelligence, talent insights, and data analytics to anticipate hiring needs and inform workforce planning discussions.

Operational Excellence

• Manage relationships with internal and external sourcing partners to support high-volume and niche recruitment projects.
• Leverage applicant tracking systems (Workday), AI-enabled technologies, and other recruiting tools to ensure accurate reporting, compliance, and process efficiency.
• Maintain rigor in selection and assessment practices, optimizing all tools (PI Survey, Interview Feedback Forms) and training hiring managers as needed.
• Develop and utilize effective prompts and AI workflows to generate recruiting content, candidate outreach, talent insights, reports, presentations, and hiring recommendations.
• Create and deliver executive-ready dashboards, reports, and recruitment summaries that translate hiring data into actionable business insights.
• Analyze hiring trends, pipeline health, recruiter productivity, talent market conditions, and workforce planning data to support strategic decision-making.

Relationship Building and Collaboration

• Foster trusted partnerships with senior leaders, hiring managers, and candidates, ensuring a seamless and positive recruitment experience.
• Share actionable market intelligence, talent insights, and talent pools with team members to support collaboration and shared success.
• Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion in all recruiting practices, serving as a thought leader and advocate for positive change.
• Partner closely with HR, Talent Management, Compensation, and business leaders to provide data-driven hiring strategies and workforce recommendations.

Requirements

• 7+ years of proven full-cycle corporate recruiting experience, with a focus on high-volume and niche roles.
• Demonstrated experience leading and mentoring recruiters, inspiring high performance and fostering professional growth.
• Expertise in sourcing strategies, including advanced internet research, social media, AI-powered recruiting tools, and professional networking.
• Experience leveraging generative AI and productivity tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, LinkedIn AI tools, or similar platforms) to enhance recruiting, sourcing, research, reporting, and operational efficiency.
• Strong ability to extract, analyze, interpret, and act on data to support hiring decisions and talent acquisition strategies.
• Experience developing reports, dashboards, presentations, and executive summaries that communicate recruiting performance, market intelligence, and strategic recommendations.
• Proven ability to utilize prompt development and AI-assisted workflows to improve productivity, generate insights, and support decision-making.
• Exceptional relationship-building skills, serving as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, HR, and other stakeholders.
• Proficiency with ATS platforms (Workday preferred) and experience tracking, analyzing, and reporting KPIs and recruitment metrics.
• Bachelor's degree in HR, Business, Communications, Psychology, or a related field.

Who We Are

As the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy, we partner with the world’s leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainability challenges and unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.

At ERM we know that creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment is an essential part of making our company a great place to build a career. We also see our diversity as a strength that helps us create better solutions for our clients. Our diverse team of world-class experts supports clients across the breadth of their organizations to operationalize sustainability, underpinned by our deep technical expertise in addressing their environmental, health, safety, risk and social issues. We call this capability our “boots to boardroom” approach for its comprehensive service model that allows ERM to develop strategic and technical solutions that advance objectives on the ground or at the executive level.

ERM does not accept recruiting agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, ERM employees or any other company location.

ERM is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

ERM is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Thank you for your interest in ERM!