Manager | Talent Acquisition

POLYWOOD®; Syracuse (IN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

POLYWOOD® is seeking a Talent Acquisition Manager to lead a team focused on high-volume Operations hiring and professional recruiting. You will align workloads, coach recruiters, and own salary searches from intake through offer, ensuring a strong candidate experience.

You will drive internal talent development via Built From Within pathways, partner with leaders to prepare associates for hard-to-fill roles, and stay close to the work while improving processes across locations.

Qualifications

• Experienced recruiter and people leader who coaches a team.
• Skilled at translating broad goals into daily priorities.
• Strong in data, systems, and candidate experience improvements.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily work for high-volume Operations hiring and professional recruiting.
• Coach recruiters and coordinators to grow in confidence and capability.
• Manage salary searches from intake through accepted offer.
• Improve candidate communications and the new-hire experience.
• Develop Built From Within Associate pathways and internal talent.

Skills

People leadership

Executive coaching

High-volume hiring

Talent acquisition strategy

Job description

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Help us build a Talent Acquisition team that people trust.

At POLYWOOD®, Talent Acquisition supports a business that hires at scale, moves quickly, and cares deeply about the people who choose to join us. We are ready for a manager who can bring strong day-to-day leadership to the team while continuing to recruit and stay close to the work.

Reporting to the Director of Talent, this manager will provide thoughtful oversight for a strong team. You will understand each person's strengths, align work and development opportunities, remove obstacles, and help the team contribute at an even higher level. You will also recruit an assigned portfolio of salary positions, because we believe strong recruiting leaders should keep their skills sharp and understand the work firsthand.

Another important part of this role is improving the candidate and new-hire experience, beginning with Operations. You will use data, feedback, and direct observation to find where communication, participation, or handoffs break down and help the team build better practices.

You will also build POLYWOOD® Built From Within | Associate Pathways. Working with department leaders, you will create hands-on training and cross-training opportunities that help employees develop toward skilled, hard-to-fill roles. Participants who earn the opportunity can move into an Associate position. Those who do not will still return to their teams with useful skills and a better understanding of the business. The program may later expand to include internships and other early-career pathways.

------------------------------------------

The Work You Will Lead

You will provide the coordination that helps Talent Acquisition stay focused, responsive, and connected. That includes clear priorities, thoughtful use of team capacity, consistent communication, useful coaching, and attention to feedback from employees, candidates, new hires, and leaders. You will protect what already works well while helping the team make targeted improvements where they will add value.

------------------------------------------

Where You Will Make an Impact

• Leading the team's daily work across high-volume Operations hiring and professional recruiting
• Understanding each team member's strengths and aligning work so their talents are used more fully
• Coaching recruiters and coordinators so they continue growing in confidence, judgment, and capability
• Managing salary searches assigned by the Director from intake through accepted offer
• Improving candidate communication and the new-hire experience from application through day one
• Creating Built From Within Associate tracks that develop internal talent for skilled, hard-to-fill positions
• Partnering with departments to define training, milestones, feedback, and readiness for Associate opportunities
• Partnering with Operations and Human Resources leaders to plan ahead and solve hiring problems early
• Protecting process integrity through accurate applicant records, appropriate review, rehire checks, and clear documentation
• Using employee, candidate, new-hire, and leader feedback, supported by relevant data, to improve experiences and programs
• Making focused improvements that build on the team's strong foundation without creating unnecessary systems or work

------------------------------------------

What You Bring

You are an experienced recruiter and people leader who enjoys both coaching a team and filling roles. You know how to translate a broad goal into clear daily priorities, recognize what capable people do best, and create opportunities for them to contribute and grow. You follow through, communicate directly, and bring sound judgment to changing needs.

You have supported high-volume or operational hiring and personally recruited professional positions. You are comfortable with recruiting systems and data, but you do not lose sight of the person behind each application. You can build structure without slowing the team down, and you are willing to step into the work when the business needs you.

------------------------------------------

About Us

At POLYWOOD®, we design and build outdoor furniture that brings people together and stands the test of time. We do this using sustainable materials, including our genuine POLYWOOD® lumber made from recycled plastics. The strength of our products starts with the strength of our people.

Talent Acquisition builds the teams that make, move, and support our products. This role will strengthen how we attract talent, support hiring leaders, prepare new employees, and deliver a consistent experience across our locations.

------------------------------------------

What Makes This Role Special

• You will have a clear mandate to lead. You can make decisions, provide clarity, and help a strong team stay focused as business needs change.
• You can build and recruit. Your leadership scope will grow while you continue to own meaningful searches.
• You will improve with purpose. Employee, candidate, new-hire, and leader feedback will help you identify where focused changes can add real value.
• You will build internal opportunity. Built From Within will create practical pathways for employees to learn new skills and prepare for roles that are difficult to fill externally.
• Your work will create capacity for broader workforce strategy, employer brand, executive partnership, and long-range Talent priorities.

------------------------------------------

If you are ready to lead a talented team, stay close to recruiting, and build practices that make hiring better every week, we would like to hear from you.

------------------------------------------

POLYWOOD is an equal opportunity employer. POLYWOOD evaluates qualified applicants without regard to characteristics protected by federal, state, or local laws.