Talent Acquisition Manager

KFC; Knoxville (TN); Remote; USD 77,000 - 122,000; Full time

Job summary

KFC is seeking a Talent Acquisition Manager in Knoxville, TN, with 6+ years of TA leadership, ready to relocate or work remotely. You will mentor teams, manage stakeholders, and benchmark compensation to drive measurable improvements month over month.

You'll own high-leverage talent initiatives, align planning across departments, and optimize margins by reallocating resources to the channels that work best. This role combines hands-on leadership with strategic influence.

Qualifications

• Strong rapport-building skills and a genuinely positive presence.
• Strong multitasking ability without sacrificing quality.
• Hands-on mentoring experience, sharpened by stakeholder management projects.
• About 6+ years in a Talent Acquisition Manager role.
• Willingness to relocate to Knoxville or work remotely.
• Diversity and Inclusion expertise in fast-paced settings.
• Mentoring experience and compensation benchmarking skills.

Responsibilities

• Translate board mandates into actionable work for the team to start Monday.
• Prioritize Knoxville accounts for premium service with justification.
• Coordinate annual planning and cross-team resource allocation.
• Develop an 8-quarter strategic plan that withstands reality checks.
• Present renewal terms to internship clients to balance both sides.
• Investigate margin shortfalls and propose concrete fixes.
• Advocate design-led options when teams favor safe choices.
• Reallocate spend to the most effective business channels.

Skills

Relationship building

Multitasking

Mentoring

Stakeholder management

6+ years TA experience

Relocation flexibility

Diversity & Inclusion

Compensation benchmarking

Job description

Join KFC as a Talent Acquisition Manager and own the unglamorous, high-leverage work of making operations measurably better every month. This Talent Acquisition Manager role hands manager talent $77,000 - $122,000, an internship arrangement in TN, and the latitude to call the shots.

Key Responsibilities

• Turn a hardworking board mandate into work the business team can start Monday
• Decide which Knoxville accounts get the white-glove treatment and why
• Coordinate annual planning and resource allocation across teams
• Build the 8-quarter view that survives contact with reality
• Walk an internship client through renewal terms that keep both sides whole
• Chase down why margin slipped and come back with a fix, not a theory
• Argue the design-led option even when the room already loves the safe one
• Reallocate spend toward whatever business channel is actually working

What You'll Bring

• Strong rapport-building skills and a genuinely positive presence
• Strong multitasking ability without sacrificing quality
• Hands-on familiarity with Mentoring, sharpened by Stakeholder Management side projects
• Roughly 6+ years operating in a similar Talent Acquisition Manager position
• Willingness to relocate to Knoxville, TN, or to make remote work
• Demonstrated Diversity and Inclusion expertise in a fast-moving business environment
• Enough Mentoring to be dangerous, enough Compensation Benchmarking to be trusted

Run from a single floor in Knoxville, TN, KFC is a thoughtfully-bold reminder that business breakthroughs still start small. A manager engineer and a director debate Learning and Development ideas on equal footing in our Knoxville standups.

The headline reads $77,000 - $122,000; the fine print is all upside, mentorship, benefits, and freedom to grow your Learning and Development.

Just re-listed with today's date, the business role is fully active.