Manager, U.S. Talent Acquisition

Location: St. Louis, MO (onsite)

Responsibilities

• Oversee overall performance, effectiveness, and ongoing improvements for the U.S. Talent Acquisition function.
• Design scalable recruiting processes, standards, and service levels to ensure consistency across the organization.
• Develop and implement a Talent Acquisition strategy aligned with business priorities and hiring needs.
• Steer the function toward becoming a best-in-class recruiting operation.
• Establish recruiting metrics, reporting, and accountability to measure performance and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Lead and develop a team of recruiters through coaching and mentorship.
• Set clear goals, priorities, and performance expectations for the recruiting team.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, responsiveness, and continuous improvement.
• Align recruiting resources to meet business needs and hiring demand.
• Provide guidance, support, and professional development opportunities to help recruiters maximize impact.
• Serve as the primary Talent Acquisition partner to HR leadership and business leaders.
• Forge cross-organizational partnerships and establish credibility as a trusted advisor.
• Advise leaders on workforce planning, talent market conditions, recruiting strategies, and hiring challenges.
• Collaborate with hiring managers to elevate the quality and effectiveness of hiring decisions.
• Personally lead searches and coordinate recruitment for key, complex, and leadership roles across the organization.
• Design targeted sourcing and recruiting plans to attract top-tier talent.
• Guide hiring teams through intake, candidate assessment, selection, and offer stages.
• Ensure a superior candidate experience and maintain recruiting excellence at every stage of the process.
• Oversee the use of Workday Recruiting and other recruiting tools to ensure efficient operations.
• Maintain data integrity, accurate reporting, and compliance with employment laws and company policies.
• Monitor workload, team performance, and hiring activity to ensure service levels are met.
• Identify opportunities to leverage technology, automation, and best practices to improve outcomes.
• Maintain a structured Talent Acquisition function with clear accountability and measurable results.
• Keep recruiters engaged, productive, and consistently delivering a high-quality candidate experience.
• Foster a perception among hiring managers that Talent Acquisition is a trusted business partner.
• Ensure critical and hard-to-fill positions are filled with top-tier talent.
• Continuously evolve recruiting processes to meet changing organizational needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 7+ years of progressive full-cycle recruiting experience.
• 3+ years of Talent Acquisition leadership experience with responsibility for team performance and recruiting outcomes.
• Proven success in building, improving, or scaling recruiting programs, processes, or functions.
• Strong ability to build partnerships and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Experience recruiting and managing efforts across professional, engineering, operations support, and corporate functions.
• Experience using data, metrics, and analytics to drive recruiting decisions and continuous improvement.
• Experience with Workday Recruiting or comparable ATS platforms.
• Solid knowledge of employment law and recruiting best practices.

Technologies

• Workday Recruiting

Equal Employment Opportunity

Nidec is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer that values diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, genetic information, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

No Soliciting

Nidec will not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third party recruiting agencies in response to Nidec job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers. Pre-approval from the Nidec Talent Acquisition team is required before any external candidate can be submitted, and such candidate must be submitted to the Nidec Talent Acquisition team.