Talent Acquisition Manager

Shepherd Center • Atlanta, GA

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About The Position

The Director of Talent Acquisition serves as a strategic and operational leader responsible for driving the full lifecycle recruitment function while directly contributing to critical role fulfillment. This player-coach role balances hands-on recruiting execution with leadership of a high-performing team, ensuring the organization attracts, engages, and hires top-tier talent in a highly competitive healthcare market. The role also optimizes and scales talent acquisition processes, leverages Workday as a strategic HRIS, and implements innovative sourcing and engagement strategies while acting as a consultative advisor to leaders. Shepherd Center is known for its highly desirable, people-first culture, where employees are deeply connected to the mission and to one another. The Talent Acquisition function plays a critical role as culture-keepers, ensuring every hire not only meets capability needs but also strengthens and preserves the organization’s values, engagement, and workplace experience. The ideal candidate brings a strong track record of setting and delivering on ambitious goals, with the ability to modernize, optimize, and scale the talent acquisition function. This leader thrives in a highly relationship-driven environment, navigating change with influence, credibility, and care. Equally important, they embody Shepherd Center’s values of heart, humor, and hard work, bringing authenticity, resilience, and a people-first mindset to how they lead, partner, and achieve results.

Requirements

• Proven success in a player-coach recruiting role
• Strong negotiation skills and experience with total rewards
• Experience leading high-performing teams
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 6+ years in full lifecycle recruiting or talent acquisition leadership

Nice To Haves

• Experience in clinical or healthcare recruitment environments strongly preferred
• Experience optimizing or transforming talent acquisition functions
• Demonstrated strengths in leveraging ATS and recruitment technologies (e.g., Workday) to drive scalable, data-informed talent acquisition strategies preferred

Responsibilities

• Serve as a player-coach carrying a requisition load for critical roles
• Lead and execute a modern, scalable talent acquisition strategy with a positive mindset and results orientation
• Partner with leaders on workforce planning and talent pipelines
• Drive diversified sourcing streams and leverage data to determine most impactful opportunities in talent acquisition processes and practices.
• Drive consultative recruiting practices and hiring excellence
• Lead, coach, and develop recruiting team members
• Personally manage complex recruiting searches end-to-end
• Lead offer development and negotiation aligned with total rewards
• Optimize recruiting processes using Workday and data insights
• Implement innovative sourcing strategies and work in collaboration with our marketing team to strengthen employer branding

Benefits

• career growth
• strong relationships with co-workers
• strong support from leadership
• fun activities

What This Job Offers

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