Senior Corporate Executive Recruiter, North America

Environmental Resources Management, Inc.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

ERM is seeking an experienced Senior Talent Acquisition Leader to drive end-to-end recruitment for Partner and senior-level roles across North America, aligned with growth plans and capability gaps. You will craft targeted executive searches, conduct talent mapping, and build proactive pipelines for current and future needs.

You will engage senior leaders and passive candidates, leverage direct sourcing channels, and responsibly apply AI tools to improve sourcing, while ensuring human oversight

Qualifications

• 4–5+ years of recruitment experience at senior, executive, or Partner level.
• Experience recruiting specialist, niche, or hard-to-find talent in professional services or related sectors.
• Strong executive sourcing capabilities including market mapping, pipeline development and direct engagement.
• End-to-end recruitment lifecycle management from talent identification to onboarding handoff.
• Business acumen to translate growth priorities into talent strategies.
• Confidently engaging with senior leaders and experienced candidates.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end recruitment for Partner and senior-level roles across North America.
• Partner with senior leaders to understand growth plans and talent needs.
• Develop targeted executive search and sourcing strategies for hard-to-find talent.
• Conduct talent mapping and market intelligence on competitors and trends.
• Build proactive pipelines of senior external talent for current/future needs.
• Engage passive senior-level candidates and maintain long-term relationships.
• Use direct sourcing channels including LinkedIn Recruiter and industry networks.
• Apply AI-enabled tools to improve sourcing, research and productivity with human oversight.
• Deliver excellent candidate and hiring leader experience through the recruitment lifecycle.
• Advise senior leaders on talent availability, market conditions, and hiring risks.
• Maintain rigor in executive selection and assessment, supporting interviewing and evaluation.
• Partner with external executive search firms when needed.
• Track recruitment activity and pipeline metrics within Workday Recruiting.
• Ensure compliance with ERM policies and employment law.
• Collaborate with regional TA teams to share market intelligence and best practices.
• Represent ERM as a brand ambassador in talent engagements.

Skills

Executive search

Market mapping

Sourcing strategies

Stakeholder management

Candidate engagement

Talent advisory

Relationship building

AI in recruiting

Tools

Workday Recruiting

LinkedIn Recruiter

AI recruiting tools

Job description

Key Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end recruitment for Partner and senior‑level positions across North America.

Partner with senior business leaders to understand growth plans, capability gaps, succession needs, and future talent requirements.

Develop targeted executive search and sourcing strategies for specialist and difficult‑to‑find talent.

Conduct talent mapping and market intelligence to identify competitor talent, emerging capabilities, market trends, and potential talent pools.

Build and maintain proactive pipelines of senior external talent for current and future Partner hiring needs.

Engage passive senior‑level candidates and develop long‑term relationships with prospective ERM Partners.

Use direct sourcing channels including LinkedIn Recruiter, professional networks, industry communities, referrals, and ERM's career channels.

Apply AI‑enabled recruiting tools and AI agents appropriately to improve sourcing, research, talent mapping, pipeline development, reporting, and recruiter productivity while maintaining appropriate human oversight.

Deliver excellent experience for candidates and hiring leaders throughout the recruitment lifecycle.

Act as a trusted talent adviser to senior leaders, providing insight on talent availability, market conditions, search strategy, candidate pipelines, and potential hiring risks.

Maintain rigor and consistency in executive selection and assessment and support hiring leaders with effective interviewing and candidate evaluation.

Partner with external executive search firms when specialist market coverage or additional capability is required.

Track and communication recruitment activity, talent pipelines, time to hire, source effectiveness, and other relevant recruitment measures.

Maintain accurate candidate and recruitment information within Workday Recruiting to support reporting, governance, compliance, and audit requirements.

Ensure recruitment activities comply with ERM policies and applicable employment legislation.

Collaborate with Talent Acquisition colleagues across regions to share market intelligence, candidates, sourcing approaches, and best practices.

Represent ERM as a brand ambassador in all internal and external talent engagements.

What You'll Bring

Typically, 4–5+ years of relevant recruitment experience, with experience recruiting senior, executive, or Partner-level talent.

Demonstrated success recruiting specialist, niche, or difficult‑to‑find talent, ideally within professional services, environmental consulting, engineering, energy, mining, sustainability, or related technical sectors.

Strong executive sourcing capabilities, including market mapping, talent identification, pipeline development, research, and direct candidate engagement.

Experience managing recruitment processes from talent identification through assessment, selection, offer, and onboarding handoff.

Strong business acumen with the ability to understand business growth priorities and translate them into practical talent and sourcing strategies.

Confidence and credibility engaging with senior business leaders and experienced executive candidates.

Strong relationship‑building and stakeholder‑management skills with the ability to operate as a trusted talent adviser.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Experience using recruitment technology and applicant tracking systems.

Familiarity with Workday Recruiting is preferred.

Familiarity with AI‑enabled recruiting tools, generative AI, and AI agents, with an interest in applying these technologies responsibly to research, sourcing, talent intelligence, reporting, and recruitment workflows.

An understanding of the importance of human oversight, confidentiality, data privacy, and responsible AI use when applying AI within recruitment.

Strong attention to detail and experience using recruitment data and market intelligence to inform decision-making.

Ability to collaborate effectively across geographies and within a global Talent Acquisition organization.

A proactive, curious, and commercially minded approach, with the ability to challenge traditional sourcing methods and identify new approaches to finding talent.

Academic requirements will depend on the area of specialization. Relevant professional experience and demonstrated capability will also be considered.

What Success Looks Like

Building sustainable pipelines of Partner and executive‑level talent ahead of hiring demand.

Expanding ERM’s access to scarce, specialist, and strategically important talent.

Increasing the effectiveness of direct sourcing and reducing unnecessary reliance on external executive search firms.

Bringing meaningful talent and market intelligence into hiring and workforce decisions.

Using AI and AI agents responsibly to improve recruiter productivity, research, sourcing, and talent insights while keeping people at the center of hiring decisions.

Delivering consistent, high-quality experience for candidates and business stakeholders.

Maintaining strong recruitment governance, data quality, and process discipline.

Contributing to greater consistency and collaboration in Partner recruitment across ERM globally.

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.

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.

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.