Talent Acquisition Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and support day-to-day recruiting activities across assigned South Gas Regions.
• Manage, coach, and develop members of the Talent Acquisition team.
• Conduct regular recruiting team meetings to review priorities, hiring activity, challenges, and performance.
• Partner closely with operational leaders and hiring managers to understand current and future workforce requirements.
• Support recruiting for skilled trades, field operations, and other business-critical positions .
• Ensure recruiters remain responsive to candidates, hiring managers, and changing operational priorities.
• Monitor recruiting pipelines and identify potential bottlenecks, aging requisitions, sourcing challenges, and hiring risks.
• Oversee the effective use and administration of Fountain and other recruiting technology.
• Manage and evaluate job boards, social media, sourcing tools, and job-search platforms.
• Develop and support sourcing strategies for difficult-to-fill and high-volume positions.
• Monitor recruiting activity and results through established KPIs, dashboards, and recruiting metrics .
• Analyze recruiting data to identify trends, performance gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
• Prepare recruiting reports and communicate hiring progress, challenges, and results to leadership.
• Support Talent Acquisition budgeting, expense management, and forecasting.
• Review and manage recruiting-related vendor invoices and expenditures .
• Manage relationships with external recruiting vendors and service providers as needed.
• Help ensure recruiting resources and advertising investments are used effectively.
• Promote consistent recruiting processes and practices across regions.
• Identify opportunities to improve recruiting workflows, candidate experience, hiring-manager responsiveness, and overall hiring efficiency.
• Support recruiting campaigns, hiring events, and other workforce initiatives as business needs require.
• Travel to operational locations, hiring events, meetings, and other business locations as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree is required with 5+ years' experience or 10 years, in lieu of a degree.
• Demonstrated experience in Talent Acquisition, recruiting, or staffing , including experience leading or supervising recruiters.
• Prior experience recruiting skilled trades and field-based professionals is required .
• Experience supporting high-volume and geographically dispersed hiring environments strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of sourcing, candidate pipeline development, interviewing, selection, and recruiting operations.
• Experience working directly with operational leaders and hiring managers.
• Experience with applicant tracking systems and recruiting technology; Fountain experience is highly desirable .
• Experience using job boards, social media, sourcing platforms, and other recruitment marketing channels.
• Strong analytical skills with experience monitoring and interpreting recruiting metrics and KPIs .
• Experience with recruiting budgets, vendor relationships, invoices, and/or recruitment advertising expenditures.
• Strong leadership, coaching, and team-development capabilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Highly responsive with a strong sense of urgency and follow-through.
• Ability to prioritize competing hiring needs in a fast-paced operational environment.
• Strong organizational, problem-solving, and relationship-management skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a hybrid/remote environment while maintaining strong engagement with recruiters and operational leaders.
• Ability and willingness to travel as business and hiring priorities require .

Preferred Experience

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