Recruiting Manager

Darling Ingredients Inc.; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Darling Ingredients Inc. is seeking a Recruiting Manager to lead the talent acquisition team and guide the full recruiting lifecycle across entry to leadership roles. You will drive advanced sourcing, workforce planning, and candidate experience while partnering with senior leadership to attract top talent.

You will mentor regional recruiters, build diverse pipelines, and optimize ATS and recruiting tech. This role requires strategic thinking, strong analytics, and leadership across multiple

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, business administration, or a related field.
• 8+ years full-cycle recruiting, with 2–3 years in direct management or leadership.
• Experience supporting multi-site operations and high-volume hiring.
• Strong experience with ATS, recruitment analytics, and modern sourcing tools.
• Knowledge of sourcing strategies, workforce planning, and AAP/EEO compliance.
• Ability to travel up to 35%.

Responsibilities

• Lead regional recruiters, senior recruiters, coordinators, and hiring managers on recruitment processes, assessment, and selection practices.
• Partner with senior leadership to understand objectives, workforce planning needs, and hiring forecasts.
• Develop succession-focused talent pipelines and robust talent pools using advanced sourcing strategies.
• Oversee recruitment for leadership, hard-to-fill, confidential roles and ensure hiring goals are met.
• Drive process improvement with recruiting standards, best practices, and SLAs.
• Develop dashboards and present TA metrics to executives on a recurring basis.
• Serve as SME for ATS optimization and recruitment tech; evaluate new sourcing tools.
• Lead initiatives to strengthen diversity recruiting outcomes and DEI objectives.
• Collaborate with Marketing and HR to enhance employer branding and recruitment campaigns; participate in career fairs.
• Ensure compliance with all employment laws and internal policies.
• Coordinate onboarding with HR and location managers.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Leadership

Full-cycle recruiting

ATS

Recruitment analytics

Workforce planning

High-volume hiring

Diversity & inclusion

Stakeholder management

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HR or related field

Job description

Job Description

The Recruiting Manager is responsible for leading the talent acquisition team and managing the full recruiting lifecycle across a diverse set of roles, from entry-level to leadership and business-critical positions. This role drives advanced sourcing strategies, talent pipeline development, and workforce planning initiatives across multiple regions. The Recruiting Manager partners closely with senior leadership to attract, hire, and retain high-quality talent while mentoring the recruiting team and continuously improving recruiting effectiveness, candidate experience, and operational efficiency.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

• Provide guidance, mentorship, and functional leadership for regional recruiters, senior recruiters, coordinators, and hiring managers regarding recruitment processes, candidate assessment, and selection practices.
• Partner with senior leadership to understand business objectives, workforce planning needs, and hiring forecasts. Serve as a trusted advisor, providing market intelligence and compensation insights.
• Develop succession-focused talent pipelines for key operational and management positions. Build and leverage robust talent pools (active and passive) using advanced sourcing strategies, including market mapping, networking, and referrals.
• Manage and oversee recruitment efforts for leadership, hard-to-fill, confidential, and business-critical positions, utilizing targeted search methodologies and competitive intelligence. Ensure the team meets expected hiring goals.
• Drive process improvement by establishing recruiting performance standards, best practices, and service-level expectations to improve team effectiveness and hiring outcomes.
• Develop recruiting dashboards and present talent acquisition metrics (time-to-fill, quality of hire, pipeline health), trends, and hiring forecasts to executive leadership on a recurring basis.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for ATS optimization, recruitment marketing technology, and talent acquisition process enhancements. Evaluate and implement new sourcing technologies and automation solutions.
• Lead initiatives designed to strengthen diversity recruiting outcomes and support organizational diversity, equity, and inclusion objectives.
• Collaborate with Marketing and HR leadership to enhance employer branding strategies, recruitment marketing campaigns, and candidate attraction efforts. Participate in career fairs and industry networking events.
• Ensure strict compliance with all federal, state, and local employment laws, AAP/EEO guidelines, and internal policies.
• Partner with HR and location managers to ensure a smooth onboarding and integration process for new hires.
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field required.
• Minimum 8+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, with at least 2-3 years in a direct management or leadership role overseeing a talent acquisition team.
• Experience supporting multi-site operations and high-volume hiring environments.
• Strong experience with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), recruitment analytics, and modern sourcing tools.
• Solid knowledge of sourcing strategies, workforce planning, and AAP/EEO compliance.
• Ability to travel up to 35%.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional certification such as SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, SPHR, AIRS, or Talent Acquisition specialty certifications preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and build partnerships at all organizational levels, particularly with senior leadership.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret recruiting metrics and trends to drive hiring decisions.
• Highly organized with exceptional time management, prioritization, and delegation skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; Bilingual is a definite plus.
• Proven ability to handle confidential information with discretion.
• Experience leading recruiting projects, process improvement initiatives, or enterprise-wide talent acquisition programs.

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

• Primarily office-based with occasional travel to offsite locations.
• Prolonged sitting, walking and regular use of computers and office equipment.
• Occasional lifting up to 10lbs.

About Us

We’re one of the world’s leading practitioners of circularity, transforming materials from the animal agriculture and food industries into valuable ingredients. Ingredients that nourish people, feed animals and crops, and fuel the world with renewable energy.

About The Team

Darling Ingredients is an equal opportunity employer and gives consideration to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military service, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state and local law. Know Your Rights: If you would like more information, please click on the link and paste into your browser: https://www.eeoc.gov/poster of this job.