Associate Manager, Executive Talent Partner

scj; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

SC Johnson is seeking an Executive Talent Partner to lead Director and Senior Director searches across multiple businesses, functions, and geographies. The role focuses on executive search strategy, market intelligence, and senior stakeholder advisory to support leadership appointments in the US, Europe and LATAM.

You will work with seasoned partners and business leaders, developing expertise in two to three core areas such as Supply Chain, R&D, Technology, Commercial or Marketing, while

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 5+ years of recruitment experience combining sourcing, delivery and stakeholder management.
• Demonstrated experience recruiting at Director level in-house, in an executive search firm or consultancy.
• Strong end-to-end recruitment fundamentals including sourcing, candidate engagement, assessment, stakeholder management and offer delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end recruitment for Director and Senior Director appointments from briefing to onboarding.
• Build relationships with senior stakeholders to act as a trusted talent partner.
• Develop search strategies and candidate profiles across two to three core functional markets.
• Execute creative search strategies using direct sourcing, networking, referrals and external firms where appropriate.
• Create market maps and pipelines to identify senior talent for current and future needs.
• Deliver a best-in-class recruitment experience including process definition, interviews and onboarding support.
• Guide compensation and offer strategies in collaboration with Total Rewards.
• Develop executive assessment capabilities and provide high-quality candidate insights.
• Collaborate on succession planning and future leadership capability needs.

Skills

Executive recruitment

Stakeholder management

Sourcing

Interviewing

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Executive Search Firms

Job description

SC Johnson has been leading with purpose for 140 years, building high-quality products and iconic brands found in homes, schools and businesses in virtually every country worldwide - including OFF!®, Raid®, Glade®, Windex®, Scrubbing Bubbles®, Ziploc®, Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day®, method®, Autan®, Baygon®, Mr Muscle®, Duck®, Lysoform® and more.

The 13,000 people of our global, fifth-generation family company are committed to making the world a better place today and for future generations.

As a core member of the Global Executive Talent Acquisition (ExGTA) team, the Executive Talent Partner will lead Director and Senior Director searches across multiple businesses, functions and geographies.

This role is designed for an accomplished recruiter who already has experience recruiting at Director level and is ready to deepen their capability in executive recruitment. You will build on strong recruitment fundamentals while developing specialist expertise in executive search strategy, market mapping, talent intelligence, passive candidate engagement, executive assessment and senior stakeholder advisory.

Working closely with experienced Executive Talent Partners and senior business leaders, you will support some of SC Johnson's most important leadership appointments across the US, Europe and LATAM, while developing functional expertise across two to three core areas such as Supply Chain, R&D, Technology, Commercial or Marketing.

This is a high-touch, consultative recruitment role requiring strong judgement, curiosity, resilience, discretion and the ability to build credibility with senior stakeholders and candidates.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end recruitment for Director and Senior Director appointments, from initial briefing and search strategy through assessment, offer and onboarding.
• Develop, drive and manage strong relationships with senior business, functional and HR stakeholders, building the credibility to operate as a trusted talent partner.
• Build a deep understanding of the business challenge behind each appointment and translate it into an effective search strategy and candidate profile, while developing expertise within two to three core functional talent markets.
• Develop and execute creative search strategies, using direct sourcing, networking, referrals and external Executive Search Firms or specialist suppliers where appropriate.
• Build external market maps, competitor intelligence and talent pipelines to identify exceptional and often difficult-to-reach senior talent and support both current and future leadership needs.
• Deliver a best-in-class recruitment experience for candidates and hiring leaders, including clear process definition, structured progress updates, interview preparation, debriefing and onboarding support.
• Partner with Total Rewards to support competitive and appropriate executive compensation and offer strategies.
• Build capability in executive assessment, conducting structured and competency-based interviews and developing high-quality candidate insights throughout the selection process.
• Partner with Talent Management and HR colleagues on succession planning, external talent pipelining and future leadership capability needs.
• Articulate SC Johnson's global employer brand, culture, values and candidate proposition in a compelling way to senior-level talent.
• Coach and support hiring managers on effective interviewing and selection approaches, helping improve the quality of leadership hiring decisions.
• Maintain best-practice processes and knowledge management of market and talent intelligence, ensuring compliance with relevant data protection standards by country and region.
• Contribute to Global Talent Centre of Excellence initiatives, including Talent Acquisition enablement, employer brand, talent intelligence, AI-enabled recruiting and Talent Management.

Required Skills / Experience / Competencies:

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• 5+ years of recruitment experience combining sourcing, delivery and stakeholder management.
• Demonstrated experience recruiting at Director level, gained within an in-house Talent Acquisition function, Executive Search firm or recruitment consultancy.
• Strong end-to-end recruitment fundamentals, including sourcing, candidate engagement, assessment, stakeholder management and offer delivery.
• Strong stakeholder and candidate management capabilities, with experience recruiting complex, specialist or difficult-to-fill roles.
• Confidence engaging senior business leaders, with the communication skills, judgement and learning agility to build credibility and influence at executive level.

Preferred Skills / Experience / Competencies:

• Experience recruiting Director and Senior Director talent within consumer and/or functions such as Technology, R&D, Commercial, Marketing or Supply Chain.
• Some exposure to executive search or senior leadership recruitment; deep executive search experience is advantageous but not essential.
• Strong research and sourcing