Senior Corporate Recruiter

Clarios•Milwaukee, WI

10d

About The Position

The Senior Corporate Recruiter manages full life cycle recruiting for salaried professional, technical, and leadership roles across Clarios’ USCAN corporate functions and manufacturing plants. The role partners with hiring managers and HR Business Partners to develop hiring strategies for critical and hard-to-fill positions, including roles in Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, and Finance. The recruiter advises leaders on talent availability, compensation trends, and the competitive landscape, and proactively builds talent pipelines ahead of demand. The position also mentors less experienced recruiters, supports talent acquisition process improvement, and helps deliver a positive candidate experience. It contributes to regional hiring goals, reducing time-to-fill for key roles, and strengthening long-term talent pipelines across corporate and plant environments. The role requires deep full-cycle recruiting expertise, business acumen, and the ability to influence leaders at all levels.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business, or a related discipline.
Five or more years of full life-cycle corporate recruiting experience.
Proven success recruiting technical, professional, and leadership roles, including passive candidate sourcing.
Ability to manage a high volume of concurrent requisitions, often with urgency and tight timelines.
Hands-on experience with an applicant tracking system; Workday Recruiting is preferred.
Experience using LinkedIn Recruiter.
Technological skills to adapt to new systems and AI-enabled recruiting workflows.
Ability to travel up to 10% to plant locations.
Professional confidence communicating with candidates, HR colleagues, hiring managers at all organizational levels, and vendors.
Ability to work independently and manage a high-volume, fast-paced workload with changing priorities.
Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
Strong negotiation, influencing, and relationship-building skills.
Demonstrated attention to detail, organization, and follow-up skills.
Analytical mindset and ability to interpret recruiting data and market information.
Team player with a positive outlook who takes initiative and solves problems.

Nice To Haves

Recruiting experience in a manufacturing, automotive, or industrial environment.
Spanish proficiency.

Responsibilities

Partner with hiring managers and HR Business Partners to define role requirements, sourcing strategies, and hiring timelines through a structured launch call.
Manage salaried requisitions from intake through offer acceptance and onboarding handoff, using Workday as the system of record.
Proactively source passive talent through LinkedIn Recruiter, employee referrals, professional networks, and targeted outreach.
Screen and assess candidates against role requirements and present qualified candidate slates with data-backed recommendations.
Coach hiring managers on structured interviewing, fair evaluation, and inclusive hiring practices.
Coordinate interview logistics for headquarters and plant locations.
Provide market intelligence on talent supply, compensation, and competitor activity to inform hiring decisions and workforce planning.
Maintain accurate requisition and candidate data, and track and report KPIs such as time-to-fill, pipeline health, source effectiveness, and offer acceptance.
Manage agency partners when engaged.
Mentor junior recruiters and interns.
Contribute to talent acquisition projects and continuous improvement.
Learn the business, functions, and plant operations to recruit credibly and advise on talent needs.
Build trusted relationships with hiring managers and HR, constructively challenge requirements, and guide decisions with data.
Use advanced sourcing techniques and market research to engage passive and hard-to-find talent.