Senior Recruiting Specialist

Les Schwab Tire Centers • Bend, OR

10d

About The Position

The Senior Recruiting Specialist – Stores serves as the strategic hiring partner for an assigned group of stores, helping leaders hire the right talent at the right time. The role owns the full recruiting lifecycle and provides labor market expertise, sourcing strategies, hiring consultation, and workforce insights to improve hiring quality and reduce reliance on external recruiting resources. The position partners closely with Area Managers, Store Managers, Human Resources, and Training to support business growth, new store openings, and long-term workforce success.

This is primarily a desk position in a fast-paced office environment, involving telephone and extended computer use. The job description is not all-inclusive; additional duties, responsibilities, and tasks may be assigned as necessary. Employment is at will.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent skills and experience.
• Strong working knowledge of common office software such as Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides.
• Understanding of best hiring practices.
• Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with hiring managers and candidates.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• High attention to detail and ability to follow complex processes.
• Strong decision-making skills and judgment to resolve complicated issues.
• Ability to focus on key priorities and effectively manage multiple tasks.
• Ability to sit regularly and occasionally stand and walk.
• Frequent and repetitive use of hands and fingers to operate a computer, mouse, keyboard, and office-related equipment; ability to reach with hands and arms.
• Ability to lift no more than 20 pounds.
• Close visual acuity and ability to adjust focus.
• Ability to communicate verbally and exchange information over the phone and in person.

Responsibilities

• Lead full-cycle recruiting for assigned stores, including intake meetings, sourcing strategy, candidate screening, interview coordination, offer support, and hiring consultation.
• Partner with hiring leaders to develop effective hiring strategies that improve candidate quality and hiring outcomes.
• Serve as the market expert for assigned territories by understanding local labor markets, talent availability, compensation trends, competitor activity, and recruiting challenges.
• Use market intelligence to influence recruiting strategies, workforce planning, and hiring decisions.
• Build and maintain talent attraction strategies through proactive sourcing, community partnerships, hiring events, referral initiatives, recruitment marketing campaigns, and new store staffing plans.
• Strengthen local hiring success and reduce agency dependence.
• Coach and influence hiring leaders on interviewing, candidate selection, market conditions, employment branding, and hiring best practices.
• Provide data and recommendations to improve hiring consistency and manager capability.
• Analyze recruiting metrics, identify trends, recommend process improvements, support implementation of recruiting technology, and participate in special projects that improve the Talent Acquisition function.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior