Position Summary:

The Senior Director, Executive Talent Acquisition shapes and aligns hiring priorities with business objectives, workforce plans, and market conditions. This role drives the full life-cycle recruitment process across functional areas, manages and develops a high-performing recruiting team, and partners with senior leaders and HR business partners to attract, assess, and acquire top talent. The Senior Director establishes enterprise recruiting standards, champions process innovation, and builds organizational capability through reusable tools, frameworks, and best practices that deliver consistent, scalable, and compliant hiring outcomes across all business units.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership & Planning

• Frames the enterprise talent acquisition strategy, roadmap, and operating model to align hiring priorities with workforce plans, business needs, and evolving market dynamics.
• Influences senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders on recruiting priorities, hiring decisions, and enterprise talent acquisition practices.
• Assists with workforce planning, retention program support, and succession-aligned talent pipeline development.
• Stays abreast of industry trends, best practices, legal developments, and technological advancements; functions as a subject matter expert on all business unit recruitment activities.

Recruiting Operations & Process Excellence

• Manages the full life-cycle recruiting process for select functional areas, including job specification development, candidate sourcing and assessment, interviewing, offer negotiation, and onboarding handoff.
• Designs and improves talent acquisition processes, tools, and decision frameworks to strengthen execution, transparency, and operational effectiveness.
• Establishes enterprise recruiting standards, governance mechanisms, and performance measures to support consistent adoption across business units.
• Researches and recommends innovative practices and assessment methods — including skills testing and other evaluation tools — to continuously improve hiring quality.
• Ensures all recruitment files and activities are completed in accordance with compliance standards, including OFCCP, AAP, EEO, and compensation guidelines.

Sourcing & Candidate Attraction

• Leads the development of innovative, multi-channel candidate sourcing strategies — including the creative use of digital platforms, networking, research, and talent databases — with a particular focus on hard-to-fill and executive-level positions.
• Establishes aggressive sourcing approaches to build diverse, high-quality candidate pipelines aligned with organizational equity and inclusion goals.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partners with HR business partners and department heads to identify staffing requirements and develop highly effective processes to attract best-fit talent.
• Collaborates closely with hiring managers, HR leadership, and external vendors and community partners to build strong internal and external relationships.
• Leads highly visible, multidisciplinary talent acquisition initiatives that improve hiring quality, candidate experience, and recruiting scalability across business units.

Analytics, Reporting & Capability Building

• Interprets labor market, workforce, and recruiting data to identify risks, inform priorities, and recommend enterprise-level actions.
• Defines, tracks, and analyzes talent acquisition metrics; develops practical reporting methods to monitor and continuously improve performance.
• Builds organizational capability by codifying leading practices into reusable tools, guidance, and frameworks that strengthen enterprise recruiting outcomes.
• Coaches and guides senior stakeholders on talent acquisition practices to drive sustained adoption and operational discipline.

Team Leadership

• Leads, develops, and manages a passionate recruiting team, fostering a high-performance culture focused on quality, speed, and candidate experience.
• Ensures the recruiting team follows standardized processes that contribute to a diverse pool of qualified candidates.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Experience & Educational Requirements:

• Required: Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, Organizational Development, Management, or a related field — or equivalent experience.
• Required: 10+ years of progressive experience in talent acquisition, recruiting strategy, workforce planning, or human resources, demonstrating increased scope and responsibility.
• Preferred: Master's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Psychology, Management, or a related field — or equivalent experience.
• Preferred: Certification in Human Resources, Talent Acquisition, or Project Management (e.g., SHRM-CP/SCP, PHR/SPHR, CIR, PMP).
• Experience utilizing a broad range of recruiting vehicles and sources, including digital platforms, diversity sourcing channels, and innovative candidate identification techniques.
• Proven leadership experience in a staffing or talent acquisition environment; a combination of agency and corporate recruiting experience preferred.
• Project management skills and experience with recruiting software systems required.
• Demonstrated history of successfully leading major talent acquisition initiatives and enterprise-level programs.
• Must be willing to travel up to 25% annually.

Minimum Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:

• Ability to shape and execute enterprise talent acquisition strategy in a complex, fast-paced environment
• Ability to manage a recruiting team through large-scale, multidisciplinary hiring initiatives
• Ability to manage full life-cycle recruitment processes end to end
• Strong consultative and advisory skills; ability to influence and partner with all levels of leadership
• Excellent negotiation skills for interactions with management, candidates, and vendors
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills; ability to translate workforce insights into actionable priorities
• Knowledge of HR compliance practices including OFCCP, AAP, EEO, and Compensation guidelines
• Strong conceptual thinking, strategic planning, and operational execution capabilities
• Excellent presentation, communication (oral and written), and interpersonal skills
• Ability to build strong, credible relationships across the organization and with external partners
• Strong organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail
• Ability to collaborate effectively across functions to implement HR staffing strategies and programs
• Excellent customer service orientation; ability to multi-task and adapt in a dynamic environment
• Ability to resolve associate issues effectively and efficiently

• 10+ years of experience in talent acquisition, recruiting strategy, workforce planning, human resources, or a related field required.

• Bachelor's degree in human resources, business administration, psychology, organizational development, management, or a related field, or a related field, or equivalent experience required.
• Master's degree in human resources, business administration, organizational psychology, management, or a related field, or equivalent experience preferred.
• Certification in human resources, talent acquisition, or project management preferred.

What Cencora offers

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members’ ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora

Equal Employment Opportunity

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

The company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email [email protected]. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned

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