Senior Talent Acquisition Strategist | Employee-Owned

UNKNOWN; Ankeny (IA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid holidays

Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)

Profit-sharing opportunities

Job summary

Kinzler Construction Services in Ankeny, IA, seeks a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner to act as a strategic recruiting advisor to leaders across the organization. This role develops and executes talent strategies for field, professional, technical, operational, sales, and leadership roles.

You will own full-cycle recruiting from sourcing through onboarding, directly sourcing professional and leadership talent, and leveraging LinkedIn Recruiter, market research, and internal networks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in HR, Business, Communications, Marketing, or related field.
• 7+ years of progressive talent acquisition or recruiting experience.
• Proven success recruiting across multiple job functions and levels.
• Experience sourcing and engaging passive candidates through proactive outreach strategies.
• Strong interviewing, candidate assessment, and relationship-building skills.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication abilities.

Responsibilities

• Partner with hiring managers and business leaders as a trusted recruiting advisor—helping define talent needs, recruiting strategy, candidate profiles, and market approach.
• Own full-cycle recruiting from sourcing and screening through interviewing, offer development, closing candidates, and onboarding handoff.
• Directly source professional, technical, management, and leadership talent, including passive candidates who may not be actively looking for a new opportunity.
• Use LinkedIn Recruiter, professional networking, referrals, industry groups, market research, talent mapping, and other sourcing tools to identify and engage hard-to-find candidates.
• Develop sourcing strategies for positions such as Project Managers, Sales Leaders, IT professionals, operational leadership, and other specialized roles.
• Build proactive pipelines for recurring and high-volume field and skilled-trade positions.
• Reduce dependence on external recruiting agencies by developing strong internal sourcing capabilities and long-term talent networks.
• Manage recruiting activity through UKG Ready, ensuring timely candidate movement, communication, and documentation, and hiring-manager visibility.
• Help optimize recruiting workflows, automation, reporting, and candidate experience within UKG Ready.
• Build relationships with trade schools, technical programs, colleges, workforce development organizations, professional associations, and industry networks.
• Support employer branding efforts, career fairs, recruiting campaigns, social sourcing, and community engagement.
• Use recruiting metrics such as time-to-fill, source effectiveness, cost-per-hire, agency spend, and offer acceptance to identify opportunities and improve results.
• Support recruiting and workforce integration during company acquisitions.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Candidate sourcing

Stakeholder management

Interviewing

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR, Business, or related

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

UKG Ready

Job description

Kinzler Construction Services in Ankeny, IA, seeks a Senior Talent Acquisition Partner to act as a strategic recruiting advisor to leaders across the organization. This role develops and executes talent strategies for field, professional, technical, operational, sales, and leadership roles.

You will own full-cycle recruiting from sourcing through onboarding, directly sourcing professional and leadership talent, and leveraging LinkedIn Recruiter, market research, and internal networks.