Talent Strategy and Acquisition Manager
About The Position
The Talent Strategy & Acquisition Manager is responsible for designing and executing an integrated, enterprise-wide talent strategy with a strong emphasis on leading and scaling Talent Acquisition. This role ensures the organization attracts, hires, and retains high-performing talent aligned to long-term business objectives and growth plans. This leader owns the Talent Acquisition function end-to-end while also driving workforce planning, organizational effectiveness, and capability building. In addition, the role plays a critical role in compensation structure and planning, ensuring job architecture, market competitiveness, and incentive programs support effective talent attraction, retention, and workforce planning strategies. The position partners closely with executive leaders, Finance, and HR to align talent, compensation, and organizational design decisions—particularly for critical, high-growth, and executive roles.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field.
- 8+ years of progressive HR experience with significant responsibility in Talent Acquisition leadership, talent strategy, workforce planning, or organizational development.
- Proven success leading Talent Acquisition functions, including executive-level recruiting.
- Strong analytical skills with demonstrated ability to use data to drive insights and influence decisions.
- Demonstrated experience facilitating strategic discussions with leaders.
- Demonstrated change management expertise supporting strategic programs and transformation initiatives.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and managing complex projects.
- Experience with HRIS, ATS GreenHouse Prefered, and talent analytics tools.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in a high-growth and/or CPG environment (preferred).
- Experience with compensation structure and planning, including job architecture, market pricing, salary benchmarking, and incentive design (preferred).
- Demonstrated ability to partner closely with Finance and HR leaders to align compensation programs with talent strategy, workforce planning, and organizational effectiveness (preferred).
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute a multi-year enterprise talent strategy aligned with business priorities and growth objectives.
- Lead ongoing workforce planning efforts, including identifying capability gaps, critical roles, and future workforce needs.
- Create and maintain workforce analytics dashboards; translate data into insights that inform strategic decisions.
- Partner with Finance to integrate talent and headcount planning into annual operating plans and budget cycles.
- Lead and own the Talent Acquisition function, ensuring recruiting strategies are tightly aligned with business and talent strategy.
- Design and execute proactive recruiting strategies to attract high-quality candidates across all levels, with a strong focus on critical, high-impact, and high-growth roles.
- Lead executive-level recruiting, including role scoping, search strategy, candidate assessment, selection, and offer alignment.
- Partner closely with hiring leaders to forecast hiring needs, prioritize roles, and build sustainable talent pipelines.
- Strengthen employer branding and candidate experience to support competitive hiring outcomes.
- Establish, track, and analyze recruiting metrics (e.g., quality of hire, time to fill, pipeline health) to drive continuous improvement.
- Manage recruiting vendors, search firms, tools, and technologies to optimize efficiency, scalability, and quality of hiring experience.
- Partner with HR and Finance to support compensation structure and planning, including job architecture, market pricing, and benchmarking.
- Ensure compensation programs and incentive structures are aligned with talent strategy, workforce planning, and organizational design.
- Provide input into compensation decisions for critical and executive roles to support attraction, retention, and internal equity.
- Assess organizational structures, roles, and processes to ensure alignment with strategic priorities.
- Partner with leaders to design org structures, clarify roles, and support organizational growth and evolution.
- Lead change management efforts tied to growth, transformation, and talent-related initiatives.
- Serve as a strategic advisor to leaders and HR partners on talent trends, organizational health, and workforce risk.
- Facilitate leader-level discussions on workforce planning, org design, recruiting strategy, and talent risks.
- Present insights, recommendations, and progress updates to leadership.
- Collaborate with internal and external partners to advance talent strategy and acquisition initiatives.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
