Manager, Talent Acquisition

Environmental Resources Management (ERM); Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Environmental Resources Management (ERM) is seeking a Lead Recruitment professional to drive full-cycle recruitment for consultants and corporate professionals across the Gulf/Atlantic Central region from Houston. You will supervise a team of recruiters, mentor them, and partner with senior leaders to align hiring with business priorities.

You will champion AI-enabled recruiting tools, develop sourcing strategies, and provide executive-level dashboards and insights to guide workforce planning

Qualifications

• 7+ years of proven full-cycle corporate recruiting experience, with a focus on high-volume and niche roles.
• Demonstrated experience leading and mentoring recruiters, inspiring high performance and fostering professional growth.
• Expertise in sourcing strategies, including advanced internet research, social media, AI-powered recruiting tools, and professional networking.
• Experience leveraging generative AI and productivity tools to enhance recruiting, sourcing, research, reporting, and operational efficiency.
• Strong ability to extract, analyze, interpret, and act on data to support hiring decisions and talent acquisition strategies.
• Experience developing reports, dashboards, presentations, and executive summaries that communicate recruiting performance, market intelligence, and strategic recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Drive full lifecycle recruitment for consultants and corporate professionals across the Gulf/Atlantic Central region.
• Supervise and mentor a team of recruiters, providing coaching and development opportunities.
• Serve as trusted advisor to senior leadership, aligning recruitment strategies with organizational goals.
• Meet regularly with stakeholders to provide recruitment metrics, talent market insights, and hiring recommendations.
• Foster a positive team environment and lead team meetings and one-on-ones.
• Champion AI-enabled recruiting tools to improve productivity, engagement, and sourcing efficiency.
• Develop and implement innovative sourcing strategies to build talent pipelines.
• Partner with hiring managers to understand role requirements and optimize candidate selection.
• Create executive-ready dashboards and reports translating hiring data into insights.

Skills

Team leadership

Full-cycle recruiting

AI-powered sourcing

Data analytics

Stakeholder management

Workday ATS

Relationship building

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR/Business/Psychology

Tools

Workday

LinkedIn Recruiter

AI tools (Copilot/ChatGPT)

Job description

Lead Recruitment Efforts

• Drive full lifecycle recruitment for consultants and corporate professionals across the Gulf/Atlantic Central region, ensuring we attract and hire exceptional talent.
• Supervise and mentor a team of recruiters, providing coaching, guidance, and development opportunities to enhance their performance.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, aligning recruitment strategies with organizational goals and priorities.
• Meet regularly with stakeholders to provide recruitment metrics, talent market insights, and hiring recommendations while prioritizing critical roles and ensuring alignment on business needs.
• Foster a positive team environment, establish backup plans for recruiter absences, and lead team catch-up meetings and one-on-ones with direct reports.
• Assess and balance recruiter workloads, collaborating with other TA Managers and the North America TA Director to drive a culture of workshare.
• Champion the adoption of AI-enabled recruiting tools and best practices to improve team productivity, candidate engagement, reporting, and sourcing effectiveness.

Sourcing Leadership

• Develop and implement innovative sourcing strategies to build strong talent pipelines for current and future hiring needs.
• Partner with hiring managers and senior leaders to deeply understand role requirements and ensure optimal candidate selection.
• Proactively target and engage both passive and active candidates in key markets, using creative methods and AI-powered sourcing tools to identify the best talent.
• Leverage market intelligence, talent insights, and data analytics to anticipate hiring needs and inform workforce planning discussions.

Operational Excellence

• Manage relationships with internal and external sourcing partners to support high-volume and niche recruitment projects.
• Leverage applicant tracking systems (Workday), AI-enabled technologies, and other recruiting tools to ensure accurate reporting, compliance, and process efficiency.
• Maintain rigor in selection and assessment practices, optimizing all tools (PI Survey, Interview Feedback Forms) and training hiring managers as needed.
• Develop and utilize effective prompts and AI workflows to generate recruiting content, candidate outreach, talent insights, reports, presentations, and hiring recommendations.
• Create and deliver executive-ready dashboards, reports, and recruitment summaries that translate hiring data into actionable business insights.
• Analyze hiring trends, pipeline health, recruiter productivity, talent market conditions, and workforce planning data to support strategic decision-making.

Relationship Building and Collaboration

• Foster trusted partnerships with senior leaders, hiring managers, and candidates, ensuring a seamless and positive recruitment experience.
• Share actionable market intelligence, talent insights, and talent pools with team members to support collaboration and shared success.
• Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion in all recruiting practices, serving as a thought leader and advocate for positive change.
• Partner closely with HR, Talent Management, Compensation, and business leaders to provide data-driven hiring strategies and workforce recommendations.

Requirements

• 7+ years of proven full-cycle corporate recruiting experience, with a focus on high-volume and niche roles.
• Demonstrated experience leading and mentoring recruiters, inspiring high performance and fostering professional growth.
• Expertise in sourcing strategies, including advanced internet research, social media, AI-powered recruiting tools, and professional networking.
• Experience leveraging generative AI and productivity tools (e.g., Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, LinkedIn AI tools, or similar platforms) to enhance recruiting, sourcing, research, reporting, and operational efficiency.
• Strong ability to extract, analyze, interpret, and act on data to support hiring decisions and talent acquisition strategies.
• Experience developing reports, dashboards, presentations, and executive summaries that communicate recruiting performance, market intelligence, and strategic recommendations.
• Proven ability to utilize prompt development and AI-assisted workflows to improve productivity, generate insights, and support decision-making.
• Exceptional relationship-building skills, serving as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, HR, and other stakeholders.
• Proficiency with ATS platforms (Workday preferred) and experience tracking, analyzing, and reporting KPIs and recruitment metrics.
• Bachelor's degree in HR, Business, Communications, Psychology, or a related field.

Who We Are

As the largest global pure play sustainability consultancy, we partner with the world’s leading organizations, creating innovative solutions to sustainability challenges and unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations.

At ERM we know that creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment is an essential part of making our company a great place to build a career. We also see our diversity as a strength that helps us create better solutions for our clients. Our diverse team of world-class experts supports clients across the breadth of their organizations to operationalize sustainability, underpinned by our deep technical expertise in addressing their environmental, health, safety, risk and social issues.

We call this capability our “boots to boardroom” approach for its comprehensive service model that allows ERM to develop strategic and technical solutions that advance objectives on the ground or at the executive level.

ERM is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Thank you for your interest in ERM! At ERM, sustainability is our business. We are the world’s largest advisory firm focused solely on sustainability, offering unparalleled expertise across business and finance. ERM partners with clients to operationalize sustainability at pace and scale, through our unique combination of strategic transformation and technical delivery capabilities. Our diverse global team of experts works with the world’s leading organizations to help them set clear sustainability targets, measure progress and operationalize strategy through deep implementation and business transformation.

With more than 50 years of experience, our ability to integrate sustainability solutions and our depth and breadth of technical knowledge are why organizations choose to partner with us as their trusted advisor. Every one of us firmly believes in the potential to create value for our clients through an integrated approach to sustainability (because we have personally seen it and professionally achieved it). Our team members are passionate about client service. We work closely with our clients to help them operationalize their sustainability goals and meet their environmental, health and safety objectives while advancing ERM’s purpose through delivering tangible progress in what the United Nations coined The Decade of Action.

Organizing our people across globally integrated communities of technical and strategic talent positions ERM to be a “boots to boardroom” leader in bringing that value creation to our clients, partners, and the world. We recruit exceptional professionals with a personal and professional passion for sustainability and nurture them to even greater success as specialists. We prepare our consultants to bring integrated, innovative and sustainable solutions to our clients and provide opportunities for ongoing development across a variety of subject areas related to technical, business, and personal growth. At ERM, effort pays off and becomes career defining work that leaves a positive imprint on our planet.