Talent Strategy Lead

Job description

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Talent Strategy Lead based in United States.** The Talent Strategy Lead will shape innovative workforce and recruitment strategies with organization-wide impact. This role combines talent acquisition, workforce development, community engagement, and data-driven recruitment analytics. You will design and scale programs that strengthen talent pipelines across healthcare and other critical workforce areas. The position offers significant exposure to executive leaders, educational institutions, community organizations, hiring teams, and candidates. You will use recruitment data and market insights to improve hiring efficiency, candidate quality, sourcing effectiveness, and community outcomes. This is an opportunity to connect people with meaningful career pathways while helping build the workforce needed to support exceptional patient care. ### Accountabilities: - Design, develop, and deploy innovative recruitment and talent acquisition programs, taking ownership of their strategic direction and ensuring they are effective, scalable, and sustainable. - Apply deep HR and talent expertise to improve recruitment strategies, attraction initiatives, and hiring processes, identifying opportunities for optimization and leading the implementation of meaningful improvements. - Build and maintain strong relationships with local community organizations, high schools, colleges, academic institutions, and workforce development partners to create sustainable talent pipelines and expand access to healthcare careers. - Collaborate with executive leaders, search firms, Talent Acquisition teams, HR Business Partners, hiring managers, candidates, and external partners to deliver a high-quality, people-focused recruitment experience. - Develop and strengthen talent attraction, workforce development, social media, and employer branding initiatives that support critical hiring needs and enhance the organization's ability to reach diverse talent. - Support strategic workforce programs, special HR projects, and initiatives designed to develop emerging talent and strengthen long-term workforce capabilities. - Establish and maintain recruitment analytics frameworks, dashboards, and program metrics that translate quantitative and qualitative data into actionable recommendations for leadership. - Monitor key recruitment KPIs, including Time-to-Fill, Cost-per-Hire, Quality of Hire, and Offer Acceptance Rates, providing regular reporting and insights to guide talent strategy. - Audit recruitment funnels to identify candidate drop-off points, process inefficiencies, and opportunities to improve conversion throughout the hiring lifecycle. - Evaluate the effectiveness and return on investment of sourcing channels, including professional networks, niche job boards, and external agencies, to optimize recruitment resources and budgets. ### Requirements - Bachelor's degree in a relevant work-related discipline or field from an accredited college or university is required, with an equivalent combination of education and experience considered. - At least 12 years of progressively responsible and directly related professional experience, with substantial expertise across HR activities and a strong background in recruitment or talent program development. - Demonstrated experience designing, developing, launching, and successfully managing talent acquisition or recruitment programs from concept through implementation and ongoing optimization. - Strong knowledge of workforce development, talent attraction, recruitment strategy, stakeholder engagement, and program management, ideally within a complex healthcare or similarly large organizational environment. - Proven analytical capabilities, including the ability to interpret recruitment data, establish meaningful performance metrics, identify trends, and turn complex information into actionable talent strategies. - Strong project management and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to coordinate multiple initiatives and build trusted relationships across executive, operational, academic, and community environments. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, combined with strong collaboration, relationship-building, strategic thinking, and execution capabilities. - A partnership-oriented mindset and genuine interest in expanding workforce access, developing sustainable talent pipelines, and creating meaningful career pathways for emerging and underrepresented talent. ### Benefits - Base pay generally starting between $76.97 and $102.01 per hour, with the final compensation determined based on factors such as experience, education, specialty, training, and internal equity. - Fully remote work within the United States, with travel expected for career fairs, industry events, community engagement, academic partnerships, and other strategic workforce activities. - Opportunity to influence organization-wide talent strategy and workforce development initiatives with a direct connection to critical healthcare workforce needs. - Exposure to executive leaders, educational institutions, community organizations, professional associations, and cross-functional HR and talent teams. - Opportunity to work on innovative recruitment, workforce development, employer branding, and analytics programs that strengthen long-term talent pipelines. - A mission-driven environment focused on improving lives through exceptional patient care, research, education, and workforce development. - An inclusive workplace committed to equal opportunity, collaboration, diversity, and creating meaningful opportunities for people from a broad range of backgrounds.