POSITION SUMMARY:

The Recruiting Partner serves as the strategic hiring partner for the Main Office and leadership hiring across Les Schwab. This role leads full-cycle recruitment for professional, technical, and leadership positions while partnering with business leaders to develop hiring strategies, provide labor market insights, support workforce planning, and improve hiring quality. The position plays a key role in strengthening leadership pipelines, reducing reliance on external agencies, and elevating Talent Acquisition as a strategic business partner. 

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES/FUNCTIONS

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions/primary responsibilities.

50% - Lead the full-cycle recruitment process for the Main office and leadership positions, including intake meetings, sourcing strategy, candidate assessment, offer development, offer presentation and negotiation, and delivering an exceptional candidate experience. Partner closely with Compensation and hiring leaders to ensure offers align with market conditions, internal equity, and company compensation philosophy. 

20% - Serve as a strategic talent advisor by providing labor market intelligence, compensation insights, workforce planning support, organizational design input, and hiring recommendations that improve hiring quality and business outcomes. 

15% - Develop proactive sourcing strategies for difficult-to-fill and leadership positions through talent mapping, networking, referrals, passive candidate engagement, and market research to reduce reliance on external recruiting agencies.  

10% - Coach hiring leaders on interviewing, candidate assessment, selection practices, employment branding, and market conditions to improve hiring capability and decision-making across the organization. 

5% - Analyze recruiting metrics, identify trends, recommend process improvements, support recruiting technology initiatives (including Paradox), and participate in strategic Talent Acquisition projects.  

Educational/Experience Requirements: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent skills and experience. 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience supporting professional, corporate, technical, and leadership positions. Experience partnering directly with senior leaders and hiring managers on workforce planning and hiring strategy.Executive search or agency recruiting experience preferred.

Required Technical Skills/Knowledge: Strong knowledge of Applicant Tracking Systems (Workday preferred).  Experience sourcing passive candidates using LinkedIn Recruiter and other sourcing platforms.  Strong understanding of recruiting analytics and labor market trends. Proficiency with Google Workspace or Microsoft Office applications. Experience utilizing recruiting technology and automation tools.

General Knowledge and Abilities:  Strong business acumen and consultative partnership skills. Ability to influence leaders at all organizational levels. Excellent communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills. Strong sourcing and talent assessment capabilities. Ability to analyze market trends and apply data to hiring decisions. Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple complex searches simultaneously. Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships and influence without direct authority.

Continuous improvement mindset with a passion for creating exceptional candidate and hiring manager experiences. Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise sound judgment.

Physical Requirements: Primarily desk position; regularly required to sit, occasionally required to stand and walk. Requires frequent and repetitive use of hands and fingers to operate computer, mouse, keyboard, and office related equipment and the ability to reach with hands and arms. The position requires lifting no more than 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close visual acuity and the ability to adjust focus. Requires the ability to communicate verbally and exchange information over the phone and in person.

Work Environment: Fast paced office environment, telephone and long periods of computer use.