Global Talent Acquisition Manager

Regal • Knoxville, TN

3d • Onsite

About The Position

Regal is one of the world's largest cinema operators with over 9,000 screens across 10 countries. The People and Culture team is in an active phase of transformation and this is a pivotal hire within that journey. You'll be joining at exactly the right moment, when the foundation is in place and the real building work begins. This is a rare opportunity to put your fingerprints on something that matters, with the full backing of senior leadership and the autonomy to do it right. This role involves building and maturing a Talent Acquisition (TA) function from a strong foundation, developing a focused team into consultative, metrics-driven TA professionals, owning a high-visibility ATS implementation, and refreshing an employer brand and candidate experience for a globally recognized company. The role requires direct partnership with senior business leaders across the US and UK with visibility to CPO level.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience building or significantly rebuilding a TA function.
• Comfortable creating process where little exists and sequencing work across multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Energized by ambiguity and ownership rather than needing defined structure to operate effectively.
• Track record of leaving teams and functions meaningfully better than you found them.
• Deep command of modern, efficient recruiting practice.
• Structured interviewing, competency-based assessment, and data-driven sourcing.
• A genuine point of view on what great talent acquisition looks like and the ability to teach it.
• Experience recruiting senior, technical, and specialist roles personally.
• Experience leading a recruiting team, not just coordinating one.
• Ability to develop junior talent, set clear expectations, and hold people accountable with care.
• Track record of building a culture of quality, discipline, and continuous improvement.
• Comfortable being the most experienced person in the room and modeling the standard you expect.
• End-to-end project delivery experience, ATS implementations, process builds, employer brand refreshes, hiring manager enablement programs.
• Ability to scope, plan, and execute without being pushed.
• Strong stakeholder management skills to drive alignment and adoption across regions.
• Builds reporting that tells a real story rather than just tracking activity.
• Uses data to influence hiring manager behavior and inform workforce planning.
• Comfortable establishing metrics frameworks where none currently exist.
• Experience implementing or significantly configuring a mature ATS is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to drive adoption and data integrity across a recruiting team.

Nice To Haves

• Oracle Recruiting Cloud experience a plus but not required.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a multi-regional team of TA partners across the US and UK.
• Set the standard for what great recruiting looks like and build the operating model around it.
• Develop your team's capability to deliver against that standard consistently.
• Personally own a select portfolio of senior, technical, and specialist requisitions that require direct involvement.
• Build the team's capacity over time, as Regal's hiring needs scale.
• Design and implement the TA operating model for US and UK corporate functions from the ground up.
• Build SOPs, quality gates, interview frameworks, and hiring manager toolkits.
• Define SLAs and accountability structures that create a repeatable and equitable hiring process.
• Introduce metrics and reporting that give leadership meaningful insight into pipeline health and hiring performance.
• Lead a meaningful refresh of Regal's employer value proposition and careers page.
• Rebuild field hiring support materials and hiring manager guides.
• Partner with marketing and communications to ensure Regal's story is told compellingly across all candidate-facing touchpoints.
• Establish Regal as a destination employer in the markets where we hire.
• Take ownership of Regal's Oracle ATS implementation through UAT, stakeholder training, and go-live.
• Ensure clean configuration, strong adoption, and data integrity across the team from day one.
• Build reporting frameworks within the system that support ongoing decision making.
• Serve as the primary TA advisor to US and UK corporate function leaders.
• Build trusted relationships with hiring managers and challenge hiring norms with data.
• Bring a consultative point of view to workforce planning conversations.
• Be a visible and present partner in the Knoxville office, requiring regular in-person engagement with stakeholders and the team.

Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus
• Free movie passes and discounted concessions at any Regal location
• Paid vacation time and sick leave to support a healthy work-life balance
• Eligibility to participate in our 401(k) retirement plan with company match after age 21 and one month of service
• Summer half-day Fridays during the summer season
• Medical and prescription coverage, with company contributions toward the cost
• Company-paid life insurance and disability insurance at no cost to employees
• Dental, vision, and supplemental life insurance options available for employees and their dependents
• Additional coverage options including accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed