Senior Corporate Executive Recruiter, North America

ERM•Houston, TX

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

ERM is seeking a Senior Corporate Executive Recruiter to join its North America Talent Acquisition team and support the organization’s continued growth. Reporting to the North America Regional Sr. Manager, Talent Acquisition, this senior individual contributor will lead the identification, engagement, and recruitment of senior and Partner-level talent across ERM’s businesses, sectors, and key client areas. The role combines executive search, strategic sourcing, talent intelligence, market mapping, and senior stakeholder partnership. The recruiter will build external talent pipelines for current hiring needs and future business growth, identifying candidates with the technical expertise, leadership capability, commercial mindset, and values to contribute to ERM’s success. ERM’s senior executives are Partners with a financial investment in the organization. ERM describes itself as the largest global pure-play sustainability consultancy. It partners with leading organizations to develop solutions to sustainability challenges and commercial opportunities. Its diverse team supports clients across environmental, health, safety, risk, and social issues through a comprehensive “boots to boardroom” service model. ERM states that diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to creating a strong workplace and better client solutions.

Requirements

Typically, 4–5+ years of relevant recruitment experience, including experience recruiting senior, executive, or Partner-level talent.
Demonstrated success recruiting specialist, niche, or difficult-to-find talent.
Strong executive sourcing capabilities, including market mapping, talent identification, pipeline development, research, and direct candidate engagement.
Experience managing recruitment processes from talent identification through assessment, selection, offer, and onboarding handoff.
Strong business acumen and ability to translate business growth priorities into practical talent and sourcing strategies.
Confidence and credibility engaging with senior business leaders and experienced executive candidates.
Strong relationship-building and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to operate as a trusted talent adviser.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Experience using recruitment technology and applicant tracking systems.
Familiarity with AI-enabled recruiting tools, generative AI, and AI agents, and interest in applying them responsibly to recruitment work.
Understanding of human oversight, confidentiality, data privacy, and responsible AI use in recruitment.
Strong attention to detail and experience using recruitment data and market intelligence to inform decisions.
Ability to collaborate effectively across geographies and within a global Talent Acquisition organization.
Proactive, curious, and commercially minded approach, including the ability to challenge traditional sourcing methods and identify new ways to find talent.
Academic requirements depend on the area of specialization; relevant professional experience and demonstrated capability will also be considered.

Nice To Haves

Experience recruiting in professional services, environmental consulting, engineering, energy, mining, sustainability, or related technical sectors.
Familiarity with Workday Recruiting.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end recruitment for Partner and senior-level positions across North America.
Partner with senior business leaders to understand growth plans, capability gaps, succession needs, and future talent requirements.
Develop targeted executive search and sourcing strategies for specialist and difficult-to-find talent.
Conduct talent mapping and market intelligence to identify competitor talent, emerging capabilities, market trends, and potential talent pools.
Build and maintain proactive pipelines of senior external talent for current and future Partner hiring needs.
Engage passive senior-level candidates and develop long-term relationships with prospective ERM Partners.
Use direct sourcing channels, including LinkedIn Recruiter, professional networks, industry communities, referrals, and ERM career channels.
Apply AI-enabled recruiting tools and AI agents appropriately to improve sourcing, research, talent mapping, pipeline development, reporting, and recruiter productivity while maintaining appropriate human oversight.
Deliver an excellent experience for candidates and hiring leaders throughout the recruitment lifecycle.
Advise senior leaders on talent availability, market conditions, search strategy, candidate pipelines, and potential hiring risks.
Maintain rigor and consistency in executive selection and assessment, and support hiring leaders with effective interviewing and candidate evaluation.
Partner with external executive search firms when specialist market coverage or additional capability is required.
Track and communicate recruitment activity, talent pipelines, time to hire, source effectiveness, and other relevant recruitment measures.
Maintain accurate candidate and recruitment information in Workday Recruiting to support reporting, governance, compliance, and audit requirements.
Ensure recruitment activities comply with ERM policies and applicable employment legislation.
Collaborate with Talent Acquisition colleagues across regions to share market intelligence, candidates, sourcing approaches, and best practices.
Represent ERM as a brand ambassador in internal and external talent engagements.