Talent Acquisition Partner, Senior

The Senior Talent Acquisition Partner serves as a strategic talent advisor to organizational leaders, partnering with hiring managers to develop workforce strategies that attract, engage, and retain top talent. This role provides expert consultation on recruiting strategy, labor market trends, talent availability, compensation considerations, and hiring best practices to support informed hiring decisions.

The Senior Talent Acquisition Partner leads complex and difficult-to-fill searches through innovative sourcing strategies, proactive talent pipeline development, and the application of labor market intelligence to meet current and future workforce needs. The role also serves as a mentor and coach to Talent Acquisition team members, promoting best practices, strengthening recruiting capabilities, and driving continuous improvement across the function.

As a trusted business partner, the Senior Talent Acquisition Partner influences hiring strategies through strategic consultation and workforce expertise, supports executive leaders in achieving organizational talent objectives, champions an exceptional candidate experience, and leads recruitment-related initiatives that advance Cottage Health's strategic goals.

This is not an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements. Employees will be required to perform any job, with related instruction given by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodation.

• Serves as a strategic talent advisor to assigned business leaders by providing consultative guidance on workforce planning, talent market intelligence, competitive hiring trends, compensation insights, candidate availability, and recruiting analytics to inform hiring strategies and workforce decisions. Builds trusted relationships with leaders to influence hiring decisions and achieve organizational talent objectives.
• Leads complex and high-impact recruitment efforts from workforce planning through offer acceptance. Develops customized recruiting strategies based on labor market conditions, business priorities, and position complexity. Anticipates recruiting challenges and proactively adjusts strategies to ensure successful outcomes. Partners with onboarding team to ensure all pre-employment processes are completed prior to new hire orientation.
• Develops and maintains proactive talent pipelines for critical and hard-to-fill positions through strategic sourcing, networking, market mapping, industry engagement, and relationship building. Creates long term sourcing strategies that reduce time-to-fill and strengthen candidate quality. Additionally, may manage the internal recruiting process for employees as they transfer between departments as needed.
• Be a Brand Ambassador and have the ability to sell the Organization's Value Proposition to passive and active candidates. Utilizes advanced sourcing methodologies to identify passive talent through professional networking, social media platforms, industry associations, referrals, competitive market
  research, and innovative sourcing techniques. Develops creative recruitment campaigns for difficult-to-fill and highly specialized positions.
• Facilitates job offers, which includes partnering with Compensation on salary negotiations and recruitment bonus programs (sign-on, relocation, and rental). May attend job fairs and other career hiring opportunities. Oversees the requisition process/updates/clearances.
• Serves as a mentor and subject matter expert for Talent Acquisition Partners by coaching recruiters on sourcing strategies, stakeholder management, recruitment best practices, difficult searches, and candidate engagement techniques. Shares market knowledge and promotes continuous development across the Talent Acquisition team.
• Leads or participates in strategic Talent Acquisition initiatives, process improvement efforts, technology implementations, workforce planning projects, and recruitment branding activities. Acts as a change champion to support adoption of new tools, processes, and best practices.
• Serves as the Talent Acquisition subject matter expert on employment regulations, recruitment compliance, inclusive hiring practices, organizational hiring policies, EEOC, and other legal and regulatory guidelines as related to hiring and employment. Reviews and signs legal paperwork for Visa's
  (TN, F1, H1b) and Permanent Residency.

All job qualifications listed indicate the minimum level necessary to perform this job proficiently.

LEVEL OF EDUCATION

Minimum: Associates Degree or combination of education and experience, using the standard of two years of experience equals one year of college.

Preferred: Bachelor's Degree

CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

Preferred: Certified Health Care Recruiter (CHCR), Recruiter Academy Certification through RogueHire, LinkedIn Certified Professional Recruiter, Certified Professional in Human Resources (PHR) or Certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR)

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

Minimum: Working knowledge of current recruitment and hiring laws. Basic skills in MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and knowledge and experience working with applicant tracking software. Experience in working within an Applicant Tracking System to develop talent pools, manage candidates and run reports. Experience with proactively sourcing and cold calling candidates to build a strong pipeline of candidates. Strong reporting and data analytical skills.

Preferred: Knowledge of Oracle Recruiting Cloud Platform. Experience with sourcing tools and methodology.

YEARS OF RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE

Minimum: Five (5) years of progressively responsible full-cycle recruitment experience, including experience recruiting for difficult-to-fill, highly specialized, or leadership positions.

Preferred: Seven (7) or more years of strategic talent acquisition experience in healthcare or other complex organizations.