Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition

Valmont Industries; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401k with company match

Paid time off

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Job summary

Valmont Industries in Omaha, Nebraska seeks a Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition to lead strategy and delivery for U.S. businesses, shaping recruiting practices and deploying AI-driven tools to improve sourcing and candidate experience.

You will partner with executives, HR, and regional leaders to drive inclusive, high-performing teams, oversee manufacturing and operations hiring, and ensure compliant, efficient processes across markets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in human resources, business, organizational leadership or a related field, or equivalent 10+ years of relevant experience.
• 10+ years of progressive talent acquisition experience, including leadership of recruiters supporting a complex, multi-site organization.
• Demonstrated experience recruiting professional and technical talent and leading recruiting delivery for manufacturing, operations or other frontline workforces.
• Experience managing leaders or leading through a layered team structure, with a record of building capability and improving team performance.
• Successful experience leading senior-leader or executive-level searches and advising senior executives throughout the process.
• Strong knowledge of contemporary sourcing, assessment, selection, offer and recruiting operations practices, supported by sound understanding of U.S. employment requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to use recruiting data and labor-market intelligence to influence priorities, resource decisions and stakeholder expectations.
• Ability to travel as needed to support business locations, leadership meetings and critical hiring initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Translate business strategy, growth plans, workforce forecasts and capability needs into an integrated talent acquisition strategy for U.S. professional, technical, manufacturing and operations talent.
• Lead the adoption of AI, automation, and emerging recruiting technologies to improve sourcing, screening, scheduling, and candidate experience.
• Develop and advance common talent acquisition practices, tools, measures, and capabilities across Valmont, partnering with regional HR to share best practices and promote appropriate consistency.
• Build a high-performing, inclusive team culture grounded in accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement and strong business partnership.
• Partner with executives, functional leaders, plant and operations leaders, HR Business Partners, and regional HR teams to clarify demand and develop market-informed sourcing strategies.
• Ensure disciplined intake, sourcing, assessment, selection, offer and onboarding handoffs while maintaining an efficient, equitable experience for candidates and hiring teams.
• Lead external recruitment marketing and talent search partners, ensuring quality, value, confidentiality and consistent employer brand representation.
• Establish and monitor measures such as hiring plan attainment, time to fill, pipeline health, offer acceptance, and recruiter capacity.

Education

Bachelor's degree in human resources, business, organizational leadership or a related field, or equivalent 10+ years of relevant experience

Job description

15000 Valmont Plaza Omaha Nebraska 68154

Why Valmont

We’re Here to Move the World Forward. Valmont impacts millions of people around the world every day, yet they might not realize the many ways. Our technology is helping feed the growing population, supplying the world with more reliable energy and access to renewables, enhancing connectivity in remote and urban locations to create a sustainable future and so much more. Simply put, Valmont is advancing agricultural productivity and reimagining vital infrastructure to make life better. Join a Fortune 1000 company that respects hard work, honors diversity and invests in our employees as we focus on creating the world of tomorrow, today. We are the modern workforce. Are you ready to move the world forward?

A Brief Summary of This Position

The Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition leads talent acquisition strategy and delivery for assigned U.S. businesses and employee populations while helping shape Valmont’s broader talent acquisition practices. As a leader within the Talent and Capability Center of Expertise, this role develops and advances common recruiting practices, tools, measures, and capabilities that can be leveraged across the organization. The Senior Manager partners with business, HR, and regional leaders to share best practices, strengthen recruiting effectiveness, and support appropriate consistency while recognizing local markets and business requirements. The role also supports select senior leadership, executive, and international searches in partnership with the Vice President, Talent and Capability.

Essential Functions

Translate business strategy, growth plans, workforce forecasts and capability needs into an integrated talent acquisition strategy for U.S. professional, technical, manufacturing and operations talent, while also recruiting for select critical roles. Lead the adoption of AI, automation, and emerging recruiting technologies to improve sourcing, screening, scheduling, and candidate experience. Develop and advance common talent acquisition practices, tools, measures, and capabilities across Valmont, partnering with regional HR to share best practices and promote appropriate consistency. Build a high-performing, inclusive team culture grounded in accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement and strong business partnership, balancing recruiting resources across businesses, functions, sites and talent segments as demand changes. Partner with executives, functional leaders, plant and operations leaders, HR Business Partners, and regional HR teams to clarify demand, define success profiles and develop market-informed sourcing and selection strategies for U.S. and international markets. Ensure disciplined intake, sourcing, assessment, selection, offer and onboarding handoffs while maintaining an efficient, equitable and engaging experience for candidates and hiring teams. Manage external recruitment marketing and talent search partners when appropriate, ensuring quality, value, confidentiality and a consistent representation of Valmont’s employer brand. Establish and monitor meaningful measures such as hiring plan attainment, time to fill, pipeline health, quality indicators, offer acceptance, hiring-manager satisfaction, candidate experience, source effectiveness and recruiter capacity. Ensure recruiting activities comply with applicable employment laws, recordkeeping requirements, company policies and internal controls, and support fair and consistent selection practices. Lead, coach and develop a multi-layered recruiting organization, including direct leadership of professional and technical Talent Acquisition Advisors and leadership of a Talent Acquisition Manager accountable for manufacturing and operations recruiting. This position reports into the VP of Talent & Capability and has 4 direct reports and 4 indirect reports. This role requires up to 20% travel, primarily domestic, including overnight stays.

Required Qualifications of Every Candidate (Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities)

• Bachelor's degree in human resources, business, organizational leadership or a related field, or equivalent 10+ years of relevant experience.
• 10+ years of progressive talent acquisition experience, including leadership of recruiters supporting a complex, multi-site organization.
• Demonstrated experience recruiting professional and technical talent and leading recruiting delivery for manufacturing, operations or other frontline workforces.
• Experience managing leaders or leading through a layered team structure, with a record of building capability and improving team performance.
• Successful experience leading senior-leader or executive-level searches and advising senior executives throughout the process.
• Strong knowledge of contemporary sourcing, assessment, selection, offer and recruiting operations practices, supported by sound understanding of U.S. employment requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to use recruiting data and labor-market intelligence to influence priorities, resource decisions and stakeholder expectations.
• Ability to travel as needed to support business locations, leadership meetings and critical hiring initiatives.

Highly Qualified Candidates Will Also Possess These Qualifications

• Talent acquisition leadership experience in a large, global engineering, industrial or manufacturing organization and influencing global talent acquisition practices across regions and locally managed recruiting teams.
• Experience leading recruiting delivery for both steady-state professional and technical hiring and variable-volume or high-volume manufacturing recruitment across multiple U.S. markets.
• Experience with a modern applicant tracking system and talent technology ecosystem, including strategies to leverage AI in recruitment practices; Workday Recruiting experience is advantageous.
• Experience advancing workforce planning, employer branding, talent communities, recruiting process transformation or recruiting analytics.

Benefits

Valmont offers employees and their families a comprehensive Total Wellbeing benefit package to ensure their individual and family’s overall wellness needs are met. Some offerings are dependent upon the role, work schedule, or location and can include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, prescription drugs, dental and vision)
• 401k retirement plan with company match
• Paid time off
• Employer paid life insurance
• Employer paid short-term and long-term disability including maternity leave
• Work Life Support
• Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250 per year
• Voluntary programs like tobacco cessation, Type 2 diabetes reversal, one-on-one health coaching, mortgage services and more

Valmont does not discriminate against any employee or applicant in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Company Mission

Valmont is here to modernize vital infrastructure and increase agricultural productivity, sustainably and reliably. We galvanize steel to last a century with minimal environmental impact. We modernize irrigation to feed a growing population by utilizing the latest technology. We harden the electrical grid to enable the delivery of reliable power to millions of homes around the world. And we help make communities everywhere safer, cleaner and more connected through our smart infrastructure technology. Valmont serves two primary markets — agriculture and infrastructure — and seven diverse product lines: Utility, Lighting and Transportation, Telecom, Solar, Coatings, Irrigation and Ag Tech. We manufacture products in 85 facilities spread across six continents, and we do business in 100 different countries. That’s what Valmont does. We conserve resources and improve life, finding ways to make innovation and technology beneficial in the real world. + That’s the value we add.