Strategic Recruiting Partner for Growth Outcomes

Big Lots, Inc.; Rancho Cucamonga (CA); On-site; USD 88,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness budget

Retirement matching

Career progression milestones

Job summary

Big Lots, Inc. is seeking a mid-level Recruiter in Rancho Cucamonga, CA who is measured by outcomes. With about 5+ years in a hands-on business role, you will drive strategic planning, quarterly goals, and cross-unit cadence to align hiring with business needs.

Expect a data-driven environment that rewards ownership and clear communication. The role emphasizes empathy, teaching others, and calm leadership under high-velocity conditions, with a path to expanded responsibilities and clear

Qualifications

• A growth mindset that treats feedback as fuel, not threat.
• Demonstrated ability to teach what you know to someone greener.
• Around 5+ years of hands-on experience in a business role.
• The kind of empathy that makes hard feedback land softly.
• Written communication clear enough to survive a forwarded email chain.
• Calm under the fiercely-supportive chaos a mid-level role tends to generate.
• Eagerness to take ownership and run with new responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Drive strategic planning and quarterly goal-setting across Big Lots business units.
• Stand up the operating cadence that keeps Rancho Cucamonga, CA teams rowing the same direction.
• Field the awkward question in the QBR and have the data ready.
• Lead pricing analysis and recommend adjustments that protect margins.
• Trace a complaint pattern back to the process that breeds it.
• Run the comparison that ends the build-versus-partner debate for good.
• Turn a mission-driven board mandate into work the business team can start Monday.
• Rebuild a target that the CA team stopped believing in.

Skills

Growth mindset

Mentorship

Empathy

Written communication

Calm under pressure

Ownership

Grit

Job description

Big Lots, Inc. is seeking a mid-level Recruiter in Rancho Cucamonga, CA who is measured by outcomes. With about 5+ years in a hands-on business role, you will drive strategic planning, quarterly goals, and cross-unit cadence to align hiring with business needs.

Expect a data-driven environment that rewards ownership and clear communication. The role emphasizes empathy, teaching others, and calm leadership under high-velocity conditions, with a path to expanded responsibilities and clear