Recruiting Manager - Talent Strategy

Build recruiting capability across a regional portfolio while partnering closely with business leaders. In this hybrid role with Meriton, you will lead a recruiting POD and act as a trusted talent advisor to assigned OPCOs, helping translate workforce needs into structured hiring plans and strong candidate experiences.

Location: Bellevue, WA (Hybrid, 3 days in office)

Salary: USD $125,000 - $145,000 per year (DOE)

Reports to: Sr. Director, Talent Acquisition

What you’ll do

• Lead, coach, and support the POD recruiters by setting priorities, balancing requisition workloads, removing obstacles, and strengthening recruiting capability across sales, trades, operations, and other assigned roles; request cross-POD support through the Sr. Director, Talent Acquisition when capacity is at risk.
• Serve as the primary talent acquisition advisor to Presidents and leaders of assigned OPCOs by building relationships, understanding business goals and local labor markets, and recommending hiring approaches aligned with operational needs.
• Partner with OPCO leaders on workforce planning, including anticipated openings, growth plans, critical skill gaps, succession needs, and hiring capacity; convert plans into a quarterly hiring plan, recruiting priorities, and talent pipelines.
• Establish an OPCO Charter at kickoff and refresh it quarterly, covering hiring priorities, approved compensation ranges and offer approvers, interview panel and stage owners, sourcing rules, assessment standards, and escalation contacts.
• Own full-cycle recruiting for assigned priority, complex, or high-impact requisitions, including Strategic-track leadership searches, from intake and sourcing through assessment, offer, and handoff to onboarding.
• Run intake meetings with hiring partners to align on scorecards, role requirements and success profile, approved compensation range, interview panel, sourcing plan, timelines, and recruiting track.
• Select the recruiting track (Express, Standard, or Strategic) at intake and help build Role Playbooks with OPCOs for each role family.
• Develop tailored sourcing strategies and build pipelines using referrals, direct outreach, industry networks, events, job boards, and other market-appropriate channels.
• Use recruiting data and candidate feedback to advise leaders on talent availability, market conditions, compensation competitiveness, and process adjustments.
• Ensure consistent, structured assessment and selection, including the 1 to 4 scorecard standard, six culture fit competencies (Plans and Aligns, Customer Focus, Collaborates, Ensures Accountability, Communicates Effectively, Drives Results), and scorecards submitted within 24 hours of each interview; coach hiring managers on timely feedback, effective interviews, and sound hiring decisions.
• Partner with People Strategy & Experience on compensation guidance, offer approval, and the handoff to onboarding.
• Monitor requisition progress and POD scorecard metrics (time to slate, time to fill, hiring manager response time, offer acceptance, pipeline coverage, quality of hire, and source effectiveness), identify bottlenecks, and take action to improve results.
• Resolve stalled requisitions through the agreed escalation path and hold the team to shared service levels for intake, candidate feedback, and offers.
• Provide regular updates to OPCO leaders and TA leadership, including monthly POD scorecard reviews with each OPCO.
• Collaborate across the TA team (Shared Service Recruiting, Early Career, and Trade & Apprentice Partnerships) to share recruiting resources, market knowledge, and best practices while adapting to OPCO needs.
• Maintain accurate, timely candidate and requisition records in Greenhouse and support compliant, consistent recruiting practices.
• Deliver a strong candidate and hiring manager experience through proactive communication, clear expectations, and timely follow-through.

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including proactive sourcing and partnership with hiring leaders.
• Experience leading, coaching, or providing day-to-day direction to recruiters (formal people management experience preferred).
• Demonstrated recruiting experience across two or more areas: sales, skilled trades, operations, or field leadership (experience supporting varied roles across multiple OPCOs preferred).
• Experience advising business leaders on recruiting strategy, workforce planning, labor market conditions, and hiring decisions.
• Experience coaching hiring managers on structured interviewing and scorecard-based hiring decisions.
• Ability to manage hands-on recruiting responsibilities while setting priorities and supporting a regional team.
• Strong communication, relationship-building, and influencing skills with the ability to work with OPCO leaders and stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience using an applicant tracking system and recruiting data to manage pipelines, report results, and improve processes.
• Strong organizational judgment, adaptability, and ability to manage changing priorities across multiple OPCOs and locations.
• Working knowledge of employment laws and regulations applicable to recruiting and selection.

Benefits

• Eligible for full benefits, including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, and retirement options

Work environment

• Corporate setting with moderate noise; stress levels may be moderate to high on a regular basis.
• Primary work location is the shared services office in Irving, Texas, with an in-office hybrid schedule (once fully trained and performing all functions within scope of the role).
• Hybrid schedule may fluctuate and/or change in coordination with the VP, Talent Acquisition or other sponsor, as appropriate.
• Flexible schedule required to attend recruiting events and visit OPCOs as needed; some travel required.

Physical demands

• Regularly required to use hands to operate a computer keyboard and telephone; reach with hands and arms.
• Frequently required to stand, walk, and sit.
• Occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Must regularly lift or move up to 25 pounds; frequently lift or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.