Senior Corporate Executive Recruiter, North America

ERM Group is hiring a Senior Corporate Executive Recruiter to join its North America Talent Acquisition team. Reporting to the North America Regional Sr. Manager, Talent Acquisition, this hybrid role in Houston, TX focuses on executive and Partner-level identification, engagement, and recruitment across North America.

The position leads executive search and strategic sourcing work, combining talent intelligence, market mapping, and direct candidate engagement with AI-enabled recruiting tools, while maintaining appropriate human oversight. Success is measured through pipeline strength, improved access to scarce specialist talent, and consistent governance and candidate experience throughout the recruitment lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end recruitment for Partner and senior-level positions across North America.
• Partner with senior business leaders to understand growth plans, capability gaps, succession needs, and future talent requirements.
• Design targeted executive search and sourcing strategies for specialist and difficult-to-find talent.
• Conduct talent mapping and market intelligence to identify competitor talent, emerging capabilities, market trends, and potential talent pools.
• Build and maintain proactive pipelines of senior external talent for current and future Partner hiring needs.
• Engage passive senior-level candidates and develop long-term relationships with prospective ERM Partners.
• Use direct sourcing channels such as LinkedIn Recruiter, professional networks, industry communities, referrals, and ERM career channels.
• Use AI-enabled recruiting tools and AI agents appropriately to improve sourcing, research, talent mapping, pipeline development, reporting, and recruiter productivity, with appropriate human oversight.
• Deliver an excellent candidate and hiring leader experience across the recruitment lifecycle.
• Act as a trusted talent adviser to senior leaders with insight on talent availability, market conditions, search strategy, candidate pipelines, and potential hiring risks.
• Maintain rigor and consistency in executive selection and assessment, supporting hiring leaders with effective interviewing and candidate evaluation.
• Partner with external executive search firms when specialist market coverage or additional capability is needed.
• Track and communicate recruitment activity, talent pipelines, time to hire, source effectiveness, and other relevant recruitment metrics.
• Maintain accurate candidate and recruitment information within Workday Recruiting to support reporting, governance, compliance, and audit requirements.
• Ensure recruitment activities comply with ERM policies and applicable employment legislation.
• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition colleagues across regions to share market intelligence, candidates, sourcing approaches, and best practices.
• Represent ERM as a brand ambassador in internal and external talent engagements.

Requirements

• Typically 4–5+ years of relevant recruitment experience, including recruiting senior, executive, or Partner-level talent.
• Proven success recruiting specialist, niche, or difficult-to-find talent, ideally within professional services, environmental consulting, engineering, energy, mining, sustainability, or related technical sectors.
• Strong executive sourcing capabilities, including market mapping, talent identification, pipeline development, research, and direct candidate engagement.
• Experience managing recruitment processes from talent identification through assessment, selection, offer, and onboarding handoff.
• Strong business acumen to translate business growth priorities into practical talent and sourcing strategies.
• Confidence and credibility engaging senior business leaders and experienced executive candidates.
• Strong relationship-building and stakeholder-management skills to operate as a trusted talent adviser.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Recruitment technology experience and applicant tracking systems; familiarity with Workday Recruiting preferred.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled recruiting tools, generative AI, and AI agents, with interest in applying these technologies responsibly to research, sourcing, talent intelligence, reporting, and recruitment workflows.
• Understanding of the importance of human oversight, confidentiality, data privacy, and responsible AI use when applying AI in recruitment.
• Detail orientation and experience using recruitment data and market intelligence to inform decision-making.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across geographies and within a global Talent Acquisition organization.
• Proactive, curious, commercially minded approach, including the ability to challenge traditional sourcing methods and identify new ways to find talent.

Technologies

• LinkedIn Recruiter
• Workday Recruiting
• AI-enabled recruiting tools
• AI agents
• Generative AI

What Success Looks Like

• Building sustainable pipelines of Partner and executive-level talent ahead of hiring demand.
• Expanding ERM’s access to scarce, specialist, and strategically important talent.
• Increasing the effectiveness of direct sourcing and reducing unnecessary reliance on external executive search firms.
• Bringing meaningful talent and market intelligence into hiring and workforce decisions.
• Using AI and AI agents responsibly to improve recruiter productivity, research, sourcing, and talent insights while keeping people at the center of hiring decisions.
• Delivering consistent, high-quality experience for candidates and business stakeholders.
• Maintaining strong recruitment governance, data quality, and process discipline.
• Contributing to greater consistency and collaboration in Partner recruitment across ERM globally.

Additional Information

• Please submit your resume and brief cover letter.
• ERM does not accept recruiting agency resumes.
• ERM is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on legally protected characteristics.
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