Recruiting Manager

When you join the Elwood family, you become part of team that fosters a culture of integrity, winning and achieving results, providing superior customer service, and helping others. We help people find jobs and help employers find the people they need to be successful. You can leave the office each day knowing that you made a difference in your community. Our success comes from the success of our associates and customers. Come experience the Elwood way and make a difference with us!

Elwood Staffing is also a performance and results-driven culture for the hard-working, passionate, and highly motivated. You can expect a career that provides a constant variety of challenges along with progressive training and professional development to meet those challenges. Come work for a growing company that serves more than 6,000 businesses and puts more than 28,000 people to work daily.

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General Purpose:

The Professional Recruiting Manager is responsible for leading, developing, and driving results through a team of recruiters focused on filling professional and white-collar positions. This position is accountable for recruiting performance, operational efficiency, client satisfaction, and achievement of key recruiting metrics.

The successful candidate is a results-oriented leader who balances strategic workforce planning with day-to-day recruiting execution. This role provides leadership, coaching, training, and performance management to recruiters while ensuring exceptional service delivery to clients and candidates. The Recruiting Manager partners closely with business leaders and customers to understand talent needs, resolve concerns, and continuously improve recruiting outcomes.

Essential Functions:

Team Leadership & Performance Management

• Lead, motivate, and manage a team of professional recruiters, both local and in other geographies.
• Establish clear performance expectations, goals, and accountability measures.
• Conduct regular coaching, mentoring, and development discussions to improve recruiter effectiveness and efficiency.
• Build and maintain a high-performance culture focused on results, continuous improvement, and customer service.
• Recruit, hire, onboard, and develop top-performing recruiters.
• Execute performance management processes, including corrective action and "top-grading" underperforming team members when necessary.
• Identify future leaders within the team and develop succession plans.

Recruiting Operations & Results

• Drive consistent achievement of recruiting goals related to job fills, placements, time-to-fill, quality of hire, and recruiter productivity.
• Monitor recruiting activity and performance metrics to ensure attainment of established KPIs.
• Analyze recruiting data and trends to identify performance gaps and implement corrective actions.
• Ensure recruiters effectively manage candidate pipelines and talent pools.
• Develop and implement best practices that improve recruiting efficiency, effectiveness, and overall service delivery.
• Maintain operational discipline and compliance with company policies, procedures, and standards.

Customer & Stakeholder Management

• Build strong relationships with clients, hiring managers, and Elwood business leaders.
• Serve as an escalation point for customer concerns, service issues, and recruiting challenges.
• Proactively identify and resolve barriers impacting recruiting success.
• Ensure high levels of client satisfaction through consistent communication and delivery of quality candidates.
• Partner with leadership to understand workforce planning needs and develop recruiting strategies aligned with business objectives.

Training & Development

• Design and deliver ongoing recruiter training programs.
• Coach recruiters in sourcing, candidate assessment, interviewing, negotiation, and closing techniques.
• Share recruiting market intelligence, industry trends, and competitive insights.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, accountability, and professional growth.

Strategic Leadership

• Contribute to the development and execution of professional recruiting strategies.
• Leverage workforce analytics and recruiting data to drive informed business decisions.
• Recommend process improvements and innovative recruiting solutions.
• Ensure alignment of team performance with organizational goals and strategic priorities.

Desired Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of recruiting/leadership experience, preferably within professional staffing, recruiting, or talent acquisition.
• Proven experience leading and developing recruiting teams.
• Demonstrated success managing performance through metrics and accountability.
• Strong customer-relationship and issue-resolution skills.
• Experience coaching recruiters to achieve and exceed performance goals.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.

Preferred:

• Experience leading high-volume professional recruiting teams.
• Staffing industry leadership experience.
• Knowledge of recruiting technologies, applicant tracking systems, CRM platforms, and recruiting analytics.
• Experience managing remote and/or geographically distributed teams.

What Elwood Staffing can offer you:

• Health, Dental and Vision plan
• Prescription drug plan
• Life and Supplemental Life Insurance
• Short and Long - Term Disability
• 401K Plan with company contribution
• Telemedicine - Teledoc
• Employee Assistance Program
• Access to Benefit Advocates
• Discount tickets, travel, and shopping-Working Advantage
• Dell computer discount
• Enterprise Rental Car discount
• Chairman's Club
• Anniversary awards program
• Tuition reimbursement
• Certified Staffing Professional training and certification
• $500 bonus paid for completion of approved Professional Certification
• $500 Recruitment Incentive for Internal Careers
• Bereavement Leave
• Paid Time Off & Paid Holidays
• Progressive training and development
• Opportunities for advancement throughout our company

Join our growing team today and discover why Elwood is one of the best to work for in the staffing industry!

Find out more about us at www.elwoodstaffing.com.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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