Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition

Walmart•Mississauga, ON

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition leads a team of Talent Acquisition Partners accountable for innovative external talent sourcing, assessment, and advising to secure the talent required for business operations and strategic objectives. Develops sustainable talent pipelines, enhances candidate experience, manages costs, and delivers high-quality external talent. This position may perform executive-level sourcing and research through full lifecycle research and sourcing strategies. This position ensures exceptional delivery to candidates, hiring leaders, and executive search leads. It partners with Executive Recruiters on projects and searches, developing sourcing strategies, crafting target lists of companies and prospects, contacting high-potential prospects, conducting candidate interviews, maintaining progress reports, and capturing market data to inform the passive talent market’s story. The role maps target organizations and builds organizational charts based on research and discussions. It cultivates relationships with high-potential talent and prospects for immediate and longer-term opportunities, with a key focus on diverse talent. Additionally, it develops robust communities of talent and candidate pipelines across diverse functional areas, networking within the industry to identify the right talent and companies for current and future needs. The Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition may also recommend and drive process improvements impacting candidate identification and engagement, gathering data about competition and market conditions or trends that may impact talent acquisition. The position is responsible for the recruitment of external top talent, ensuring rigorous assessment of role capabilities and cultural fit. It develops, enables, coaches, and advises hiring managers to influence quality hiring decisions while reducing turnover and building future bench strength. By anticipating future talent needs, proactively mapping, networking, assessing, and building pipelines, the role ensures the optimization of talent processes. It also leads a high-performing team by hiring potential talent, analyzing skill gaps, addressing performance needs, and identifying developmental opportunities. The role drives strong results and metrics, balancing qualitative and quantitative outcomes.

Requirements

10+ years of progressive Talent Acquisition or HR experience, including 5+ years in a TA leadership role.
Direct Health-sector recruitment experience, with strong knowledge of regulated roles, licensing, credentialing, and compliance requirements is an asset.
Proven experience leading enterprise or Shared Services hiring portfolios, supporting corporate, professional, and specialized roles at scale.
Demonstrated ability to act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, influencing talent strategy and hiring decisions in complex, matrixed environments.
Strong people leader with experience building, coaching, and leading hybrid TA teams.
Strategic and data-driven, with a track record of delivering improvements in quality of hire, time-to-fill, and pipeline health.
Comfortable operating in centralized and hybrid TA models and leveraging modern TA technology and automation.
Excellent executive presence, sound judgment, and ability to manage high-impact, sensitive talent decisions.
Proven experience leading transformational change within Talent Acquisition, driving adoption of new processes, tools, and assessment-led hiring practices across large functions.
Age - 16 or older

Nice To Haves

Direct Health-sector recruitment experience, with strong knowledge of regulated roles, licensing, credentialing, and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

Leads a team of Talent Acquisition Partners accountable for innovative external talent sourcing, assessment, and advising.
Develops sustainable talent pipelines, enhances candidate experience, manages costs, and delivers high-quality external talent.
Performs executive-level sourcing and research through full lifecycle research and sourcing strategies.
Ensures exceptional delivery to candidates, hiring leaders, and executive search leads.
Partners with Executive Recruiters on projects and searches, developing sourcing strategies, crafting target lists of companies and prospects, contacting high-potential prospects, conducting candidate interviews, maintaining progress reports, and capturing market data.
Maps target organizations and builds organizational charts based on research and discussions.
Cultivates relationships with high-potential talent and prospects for immediate and longer-term opportunities, with a key focus on diverse talent.
Develops robust communities of talent and candidate pipelines across diverse functional areas, networking within the industry.
Recommends and drives process improvements impacting candidate identification and engagement.
Gathers data about competition and market conditions or trends that may impact talent acquisition.
Recruits external top talent, ensuring rigorous assessment of role capabilities and cultural fit.
Develops, enables, coaches, and advises hiring managers to influence quality hiring decisions while reducing turnover and building future bench strength.
Anticipates future talent needs, proactively mapping, networking, assessing, and building pipelines to ensure the optimization of talent processes.
Leads a high-performing team by hiring potential talent, analyzing skill gaps, addressing performance needs, and identifying developmental opportunities.
Drives strong results and metrics, balancing qualitative and quantitative outcomes.