Recruiter Supervisor

Penn State University; State College (Centre County); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Penn State University Human Resources seeks a team-oriented Senior Recruiter Supervisor embedded with ARL. This role mentors recruiters, guides hiring managers, and manages full lifecycle recruitment to meet SLAs.

A strong sourcing focus and collaboration with TA leadership drive candidate pipelines and process excellence. The position emphasizes strategic and transactional recruitment principles, data-driven decisions, and an ability to navigate a high-volume environment across multiple

Qualifications

• Experienced talent acquisition professional with excellent time management skills.
• Ability to mentor direct reports across the full recruiting lifecycle.
• Understanding of strategic and transactional recruitment principles.

Responsibilities

• Supervise a team of Recruiters and Talent Acquisition Specialists.
• Manage requisition workload and staffing metrics.
• Advise hiring managers throughout the hiring process.
• Build talent pipelines using targeted sourcing strategies.
• Develop best practices and share process improvements.
• Lead stakeholder discussions to align recruitment with business needs.

Skills

Team leadership

Sourcing

Recruiting lifecycle

Stakeholder management

Data analytics

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

Job description

POSITION SPECIFICS

Penn State Human Resources is seeking a team-oriented self-starter to join the talent acquisition organization. The Recruiter- Senior Supervisor will report to the Manager Full-Time Talent Acquisition and will be embedded in The Applied Research Laboratory (ARL). This is a dual-role position responsible for supervising, mentoring, and guiding a team of Recruiters and Talent Acquisition Specialists throughout the full talent acquisition life cycle. The role will also manage a requisition workload and serve as a talent advisor to hiring managers, with a strong focus on sourcing candidates and building talent pipelines. This role is a member of the talent acquisition leadership team and is responsible for ensuring individual contributor SLAs are achieved as well as resolving escalated issues from team members.

ARL is an integral part of one of the leading research universities in the nation and serves as a University Center of Excellence in Defense science, systems, and technologies with a focus in naval missions and related areas. As UARC (University Affiliated Research Center), ARL maintains a long-term strategic relationship with the U.S. Navy and provides support to the Navy, the Intel Community (IC), and other federal government customers. ARL is comprised of over 1,700 employees located at multiple locations throughout the United States. You will lead a team that is responsible for the continuing evolution of ARL's talent acquisition program that is focused on providing expertise in the areas of active recruitment and sourcing, and act as an advisor to ARL managers throughout the hiring process.

You will:

• Ensure recruiters and specialists are managing job requisitions and staff searches to milestones and metrics.
• Mentor and guide team members to maximize individual and team performance.
• Facilitate team and individual meetings that focus on increasing the efficiency of processes and improving the effectiveness of strategic recruiting actions.
• Compile, analyze, and capture insights from recruiters, customers, and data to inform process and strategy improvements.
• Develop creative strategies for hard to fill positions.
• Collaborate with hiring managers to understand their recruitment needs; identify and develop key skill requirements for all recruitment efforts.
• Identify and source talent utilizing various sourcing channels, including but not limited to, LinkedIn, social media, professional networks, job boards, and referrals.
• Provide ongoing development of best practices by identifying trends and developments in the field of talent acquisition to support the future development of talent acquisition strategies.
• Expand branding of ARL while continuing to proactively fill talent pipelines using both traditional and social media platforms, referrals, candidate engagement, networking, conferences, etc.
• Negotiate between candidates, hiring managers, and ARL human resources to expedite the hire process by sharing feedback, including relocation and salary expectations.

Required:

• Experienced talent acquisition professional with excellent time management skills and the ability to deliver high-quality candidates.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and mentor direct reports throughout the full recruiting lifecycle, including identifying performance concerns and providing timely coaching and guidance.
• Understanding of strategic and transactional recruitment principles and be able to apply data to drive individual and team talent acquisition performance.
• Demonstrated knowledge of broad concepts, laws, regulations, policies and procedures related to human resources and talent acquisition processes.
• Ability to build and establish a positive team culture that increases performance, cohesion, and employee engagement.
• Ability to liaise with and influence unit leadership, unit HR, HR Tech, and TA Leadership to resolve second tier strategy, process or technology issues.
• Ability to identify and solution technology and business process challenges.
• Ability to adapt and change in a fast-paced environment.
• Comfortable in a high volume/high demand environment with difficult to fill positions.
• Possess effective oral and written communication skil