Director of Talent Acquisition

About Horizon Group Holding:

Horizon Services provides essential heating, air conditioning, plumbing, and electrical services to residential customers. Horizon has a significant footprint in the home services industry and is continuing to grow. Horizon supports strong local brands with high quality, centralized marketing, customer care, and procurement functions to deliver "best-in-class" service. Over the Company's 30+ year history, the Horizon team has successfully developed a strong brand and operations model to better serve customers. We are searching for a strategic benefits professional who can take our current program to the next level.

Position Summary

The Director of Talent Acquisition will be responsible for the full life-cycle of talent acquisition activities within Horizon Services and Affiliates. This individual will report to the Vice President of Talent Acquisition and partner closely with the Human Resources Team and the Executive and Senior Leadership Teams to ensure delivery against all talent acquisition activities for both open and emerging talent needs.

This position is responsible for executing all relevant aspects of Horizon's talent acquisition strategy including recruiting, candidate experience and building Horizon's employment brand and associated metrics. The Director will manage the volume associated with new and existing openings, and develop accompanying strategies for sourcing, acquiring and retaining top talent. The role is responsible for overseeing talent acquisition logistics including requisitions, calendar/scheduling of candidates to ensure proper and consistent candidate experiences. This position will also be responsible for building external talent pipeline and exploring any viable talent acquisition partnerships with various search/outplacement firms and/or any relevant industry or functional associations.

The Director of Talent Acquisition will be a member of the Human Resources function and responsible for aligning enterprise-wide goals/objectives within our portfolio, while continuously integrating strategic sourcing behaviors and capabilities with the Talent Acquisition team.

Essential Functions Statements(s)

The Talent Acquisition Director will be responsible for (not limited to):

• Partner with HR team on enhancing onboarding experience for new hires to drive organizational engagement.
• Working collaboratively with our Human Resource team and client groups, this individual will build recruiting channels to continuously pipeline reoccurring positions and management level talent.
• Develop and align with metrics and performance goals/objectives for best practices in recruiting.
• Champion consistency and standards in policy and practices (OFCCP, EEOC, etc), to ultimately ensure effectiveness of strategic and proactive programs around diversity and other talent acquisition programs.
• Enhance the effectiveness of search firm partnerships and outsourced service contracts for full time placement and temporary labor.
• Manage the creation of effective approaches and tactics to meet talent acquisition requirements. Develop recruiting strategies that are aligned with SDI business goals to attract and retain talent.
• Manage weekly recruiting report.
• Utilize Applicant Tracking System as well as enhance the system and the company experience with the software as the system continues to upgrade.
• Train new Hiring Managers on the system for requisition creation and applicant reviewing.
• Create a positive and professional candidate and new hire experience.
• Complete all pre-employment screening and reference checking on all applicants.
• Collaborate on special projects as shared by the Vice President of Talent Acquisition.
• Responsible for managing our external partnerships with the pre-employment screening process.

Skills & Abilities

• Possess a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
• Approximately 15+ years of talent acquisition experience with proven results in a full-life cycle recruiting environment.
• 5-7 years of direct people management experience.
• Proven success in hiring remotely for field-based and dispersed workforce roles.
• Experience with executive search and/or contingency-based recruiting firm industry highly desired.

• Proven leadership, management and interpersonal skills, with a track record in talent assessment, change management, and cultural transformation working with senior leadership at all levels.
• Demonstrated strong oral and written communication and presentation skills.

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to prioritize key initiatives to determine which competing projects will provide the greater benefit.
• High degree of adaptability with a high level of comfort in managing effectively in rapidly changing and evolving environments.

• Confident and assertive with 'C-level' executive presence, strong presentation and communication skills.

• A client-service consultative orientation, with attention to detail, follow-up and follow-through on commitments.
• Proficient computer skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet, LinkedIn recruiter, ADP Workforce Now, etc).