Talent Acquisition Manager

UNKNOWN; Tempe (AZ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Metro One is seeking a Talent Acquisition Manager in Tempe, AZ to lead a team of Talent Specialists and drive strategic hiring initiatives. The role focuses on workforce planning, stakeholder engagement, and optimizing talent acquisition processes.

You will partner with senior leadership, manage site visits, and contribute to employer branding and partnerships to improve productivity and retention.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of recruiting experience, with 2+ years in leadership.
• Ability to analyze staffing needs and build high-performance hiring plans.
• Experience improving TA processes (ATS, recruiting metrics, onboarding, forecasting).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder relationship skills.
• Willingness to travel up to 40% regionally and nationally.
• Pre-employment screenings including drug screen and background check.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Talent Specialists to meet KPIs.
• Optimize workforce planning and hiring strategies through forecasting and market analysis.
• Allocate resources and ensure the team has the tools and support needed to succeed.
• Collaborate with senior leadership and external customers on hiring best practices and talent attraction.
• Coordinate site visits to understand needs and drive strategic initiatives for productivity and retention.
• Partner across Talent teams on employer branding initiatives and external partnerships.
• Document processes and policies to drive a culture of rigor.
• Develop and monitor metrics for internal placements, rotations, and data.

Skills

Recruiting

Team leadership

Communication

Forecasting

Tools

ATS

Job description

Talent Acquisition Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire a team of Talent Specialists through hiring, training, supporting, and developing them, while ensuring that they meet or exceed their KPIs.
• Optimize workforce planning and hiring strategies through proper forecasting and market analysis.
• Allocate resources effectively, ensuring the team has the necessary tools and support to succeed.
• Foster strong relationships with senior leadership, site leaders, and external customers, offering strategic insights into hiring best practices and talent attraction.
• Coordinate and attend regular site visits (within assigned region or markets) to ensure employee and client satisfaction, understand people-related needs, and create strategic initiatives to address concerns, increasing productivity, performance, and retention.
• Collaborate across Talent teams on employer branding initiatives and external partnerships.
• Build, refine, and document processes and policies to drive a culture of rigor.
• Conduct routine market analysis and disseminate new industry trends and emerging technologies, tools, and resources.
• Ensure recruiting processes comply with legal requirements and Metro One guidance.
• Develop and maintain metrics and tracking systems regarding successful internal placements, job rotations or other pertinent data.
• Provide coaching, feedback, and insights to site leadership regarding employee engagement and retention efforts, including survey trends, reassignments, and promotions.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience (dependent on level {associate, senior}) recruiting with at least 2+ years managing and leading teams.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze information and create staffing plans and hiring strategies to create and culture of high performance.
• Experience managing process improvements related to ATS, labor and employment relations, interviewing, onboarding, compensation and benefits, TA metrics, or forecasting.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build strong relationships between internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
• Must be able to successfully pass pre-employment screenings including a drug screen and background check.
• Ability to travel within regional markets up to 40% and national markets as needed.