Senior Talent Acquisition Partner
Sonepar USA, Inc.
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Sonepar USA, Inc. is seeking a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner to lead comprehensive recruiting across corporate functions from Plano, TX. You will partner with HR and business leaders, design focused sourcing strategies, and build robust pipelines for ongoing talent needs.
The role emphasizes market intelligence, competency-based interviewing, and delivering high-quality candidate experiences while navigating a decentralized, multi-state environment.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of corporate recruiting, professional search or comparable talent acquisition experience.
- Demonstrated success recruiting professional and leadership-level talent.
- Strong experience identifying and engaging passive candidates rather than relying primarily on applicants.
- Proven ability to manage multiple professional or exempt searches simultaneously.
- Experience partnering directly with hiring managers, HR Business Partners and business leaders.
- Strong intake, candidate assessment, interviewing and search-calibration skills.
- Demonstrated ability to research new functions, industries and talent markets and translate that information into effective sourcing strategies.
- Experience using ATS platforms, LinkedIn Recruiter and contemporary sourcing technologies.
- Working knowledge of full lifecycle recruiting practices, employment law fundamentals and EEO principles.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the confidence to advise and influence stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Lead full lifecycle recruiting across assigned professional and leadership searches, from launch and sourcing strategy through candidate acceptance and handoff.
- Partner directly with hiring managers, HR Business Partners and business leaders to understand business needs, define success profiles and establish focused recruiting strategies.
- Spend significant time proactively identifying and engaging passive talent through LinkedIn Recruiter, direct sourcing, talent mapping, referrals, networking, competitive research and other sourcing channels.
- Build an understanding of the functions and businesses you support so you can effectively represent Sonepar and the opportunity to prospective candidates.
- Conduct thoughtful candidate assessments and competency-based interviews that go beyond the resume.
- Present focused, high-quality candidate slates and provide hiring leaders with clear insights to support selection decisions.
- Bring market intelligence to the conversation, including talent availability, competitive hiring activity, compensation considerations, geography and potential search challenges.
- Build and maintain proactive pipelines for recurring, specialized and future talent needs.
- Manage multiple unique searches across different functions, levels and geographic markets.
- Deliver a high-quality candidate experience through consistent communication, transparency and follow-through.
- Use recruiting technology, data and AI-enabled tools thoughtfully to strengthen sourcing, research, market intelligence and recruiting effectiveness.
- Contribute ideas and best practices that continue to strengthen talent acquisition across Sonepar USA.
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Job description
Sonepar Management Group (SMG) supports our Sonepar brands (i.e. operating companies) in the US through a shared services model. These services include, but are not limited to: human resources, finance, digital enterprise, supply chain, vendor relations, marketing, legal, and communications. The SMG teams enable our brands to do business in their local regions while taking advantage of the scale and collective resources of a global enterprise. SMG fosters an inclusive and supportive culture. We offer leadership and development programs to help you reach your career goals. Our associates share in our collective achievements, and we firmly believe that Sonepar is “Powered by Difference.” By driving technology and innovation, enabling paths to success, and caring about our people and their families, we have built a workplace where you can build a fulfilling career.
Great recruiting is about more than filling an open position. It is about understanding the business, knowing where to find exceptional talent, and creating partnerships that help leaders build stronger teams.
- Lead full lifecycle recruiting across assigned professional and leadership searches, from launch and sourcing strategy through candidate acceptance and handoff.
- Partner directly with hiring managers, HR Business Partners and business leaders to understand business needs, define success profiles and establish focused recruiting strategies.
- Spend significant time proactively identifying and engaging passive talent through LinkedIn Recruiter, direct sourcing, talent mapping, referrals, networking, competitive research and other sourcing channels.
- Build an understanding of the functions and businesses you support so you can effectively represent Sonepar and the opportunity to prospective candidates.
- Conduct thoughtful candidate assessments and competency-based interviews that go beyond the resume.
- Present focused, high-quality candidate slates and provide hiring leaders with clear insights to support selection decisions.
- Bring market intelligence to the conversation, including talent availability, competitive hiring activity, compensation considerations, geography and potential search challenges.
- Build and maintain proactive pipelines for recurring, specialized and future talent needs.
- Manage multiple unique searches across different functions, levels and geographic markets.
- Deliver a high-quality candidate experience through consistent communication, transparency and follow-through.
- Use recruiting technology, data and AI-enabled tools thoughtfully to strengthen sourcing, research, market intelligence and recruiting effectiveness.
- Contribute ideas and best practices that continue to strengthen talent acquisition across Sonepar USA.
At Sonepar, you'll be expected to operate as a talent advisor, not an order taker.
- Work directly with business and HR leaders on important talent needs.
- Recruit across multiple corporate disciplines rather than spending your day filling the same position repeatedly.
- Take on challenging searches where research, sourcing and relationship-building matter.
- Develop expertise in the businesses and talent markets you support.
- Build talent pipelines before every need becomes an open requisition.
- Bring market data and candidate insights back to leaders and help influence recruiting strategy.
- Work within Sonepar's decentralized business environment while building relationships across the organization.
What We're Looking For:
- 5+ years of corporate recruiting, professional search or comparable talent acquisition experience.
- Demonstrated success recruiting professional and leadership-level talent.
- Strong experience identifying and engaging passive candidates rather than relying primarily on applicants.
- Proven ability to manage multiple professional or exempt searches simultaneously.
- Experience partnering directly with hiring managers, HR Business Partners and business leaders.
- Strong intake, candidate assessment, interviewing and search-calibration skills.
- Demonstrated ability to research new functions, industries and talent markets and translate that information into effective sourcing strategies.
- Experience using ATS platforms, LinkedIn Recruiter and contemporary sourcing technologies.
- Working knowledge of full lifecycle recruiting practices, employment law fundamentals and EEO principles.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the confidence to advise and influence stakeholders.
- Recruiting within distribution, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, industrial, construction or B2B environments.
- Recruiting across supply chain, strategic/B2B sales, finance, accounting, legal, EH&S, HR, operations or other corporate functions.
- Experience recruiting difficult-to-find professional and leadership talent.
- Strong talent-mapping, competitor-research and market-intelligence capabilities.
- Experience supporting decentralized, multi-state or multi-location organizations.
- Experience using ATS, CRM, sourcing and AI-enabled recruiting platforms to improve search effectiveness.
- A track record of building relationships with passive candidates and maintaining pipelines for future opportunities.
- Get energized by finding the person who isn't already in the applicant pool.
- Approach a new search by asking, What does success really look like, and where does this talent exist?
- Enjoy learning unfamiliar businesses and becoming knowledgeable enough to credibly recruit for them.
- Can respectfully challenge a hiring manager when market realities don't match the initial candidate profile.
- Prefer a portfolio of complex, varied searches over repetitive high-volume recruiting.
- Believe candidate experience and hiring-manager partnership are equally important.
- Take ownership of your searches and don't wait for the business to tell you what to do next.
This is an opportunity to join a Talent Acquisition organization where recruiters are expected to understand the business, build strong relationships and bring real talent-market expertise to hiring decisions.
You’ll have the opportunity to support Sonepar Management Group, collaborate with leaders and HR partners across the organization, and recruit talent that contributes directly to Sonepar USA's business priorities.
Most importantly, you'll have room to recruit like a true talent partner: research the market, build relationships, find exceptional people and help leaders make great hiring decisions.
We offer great family-friendly benefits to full-time associates:
- Healthcare plans
- Dental & vision
- Paid time off
- Paid parental leave
- 401(k) retirement savings with company match
- Professional and personal development programs
- Opportunity to become a shareholder
- Employer-paid short- and long-term disability
- Employer-paid life insurance for spouse and dependents
- Robust wellness program
- Gym reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
We’re proud to be a military-friendly company, and our many employee resource groups (ERGs) help you make connections and feel supported.
Get to know us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Youtube and learn how we’re “Powering Progress for Future Generations.”
Learn more about us and our Sonepar family of brands: https://www.soneparusa.com/us-en/about-us
Sonepar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, marital status, family responsibilities, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, order of protection status, protected veteran or military status, or an unfavorable discharge from military service, or any other categories protected by federal, state or local law.
Sonepar and our family of brands are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. In keeping with our commitment, we will take the steps to assure that people with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. Accordingly, if a reasonable accommodation is required to fully participate in the job application or interview process, to perform the essential functions of the position, and/or to receive all other benefits and privileges of employment, please call 843-745-2420 or email recruiting@sonepar-us.com.
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