Head of Early Talent Acquisition – Wholesale Banking

Truist Financial Corporation; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k plan

Vacation days

Job summary

Truist Financial Corporation seeks a leader for Wholesale Early Career Recruitment, guiding a team of experienced professionals to deliver internship and full-time programs across Wholesale Banking. You will partner with senior leaders, HR partners, universities, and campus stakeholders to drive competitive, compliant hiring outcomes.

The role requires translating enterprise talent strategies into actionable plans, managing onboarding, and continuously improving recruitment workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
• Minimum of 7 or more years of experience in Human Resources or a related discipline.
• Proficient knowledge of talent acquisition, teammate relations, benefits, compensation, and training.
• Advanced leadership experience managing teams and recruitment operations.
• Ability to travel up to 30%, primarily during peak recruiting seasons.

Responsibilities

• Manages a talent acquisition team within Wholesale Banking Early Talent, leading a small to midsized team of experienced professionals to meet hiring needs.
• Leads the strategy and execution of Wholesale Early Career Recruitment, including internship and full-time recruiting plans, campus engagement, interview and selection processes, offer strategy, and hiring delivery across supported Wholesale programs.
• Builds trusted partnerships with Wholesale executives, program leaders, HR partners, and school stakeholders to align hiring demand, recruiting timelines, school strategy, candidate profiles, interviewer readiness, and decision-making accountability.
• Translates talent acquisition strategies defined by senior management and executives into clear team objectives, workflows, and priorities, and is accountable for timely execution of plans.
• Oversees day to day talent evaluation and selection activities, ensuring appropriate use of assessments, testing, ranking, and reference checking, and improving consistency and quality of hiring decisions.
• Coordinates onboarding and induction activities for new teammates within the job area, working with managers to deliver a smooth and effective new hire experience.
• Builds and maintains pipelines for key roles in the job area by managing relationships with selected third-party recruiting agencies and local external partners, and by adapting sourcing tactics within established guidelines.
• Provides hands on leadership, coaching, and performance feedback to recruitment managers and individual contributors, fostering accountability, collaboration, and skill development.
• Identifies and implements moderate to significant improvements to recruitment workflows, tools, and team practices to increase efficiency, quality, and candidate experience within the job area.
• Monitors recruitment metrics and operational reports for the team, using insights to adjust execution plans and provide meaningful input into job area and departmental planning.

Skills

Talent acquisition

Leadership

Recruiting operations

Campus engagement

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

7+ years HR experience

Tools

HR systems knowledge

Job description

Truist Financial Corporation seeks a leader for Wholesale Early Career Recruitment, guiding a team of experienced professionals to deliver internship and full-time programs across Wholesale Banking. You will partner with senior leaders, HR partners, universities, and campus stakeholders to drive competitive, compliant hiring outcomes.

The role requires translating enterprise talent strategies into actionable plans, managing onboarding, and continuously improving recruitment workflows.