TALENT ACQUISITION MGR

Phoenix Defense; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Phoenix Defense is seeking a Recruiting Manager in Orlando, FL to lead the recruiting team, oversee the full lifecycle of technical hiring, and build diverse candidate pipelines. You will partner with hiring managers to define skills and anticipate needs, while refining screening processes and driving successful offers.

The role emphasizes compliance with federal and DoD requirements, data privacy, and rigorous KPI tracking to optimize recruiting effectiveness and ensure timely hiring across the

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related technical and/or human resources field preferred.
• Seven years of recruiting experience required, with prior experience in technical roles.
• Experience in managing or leading teams is preferred.
• System Integrity: experience with ATS, data privacy controls, and recruiting compliance standards.
• Knowledge of federal, state, and local employment laws (EEOC, ADA, FCRA, ADEA, OFCCP).
• SPHR/PHR/SHRM-CP or equivalent preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage the recruiting team to include personnel, strategies, and objectives.
• Create and manage the full life cycle of the recruiting process from outreach to offer.
• Negotiate with staffing agencies and outreach organizations to diversify the pipeline.
• Work with hiring managers to define required skills and current/future positions.
• Oversee interview and feedback processes, elevating technical screening.
• Drive offers, letters, and closing candidates.
• Build diverse pipelines for various positions across the organization.
• Advance sourcing, screening, interviewing, and selecting processes.
• Develop relationships with candidates and hiring managers with timely communication.
• Conduct compensation benchmarking and market analysis to align pay ranges with standards.
• Create and execute multi-channel sourcing strategies using referrals, social media, etc.
• Define ongoing recruitment strategies and provide improvement feedback.
• Attend networking events, university career fairs, meetups, etc.
• Track metrics and report hiring progress to leadership.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Leadership

Analytical thinking

Communication

Confidentiality

Education

Bachelor's degree in related technical and/or human resources field

SPHR/PHR/SHRM-CP/SHRM-SCP or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

• Manage the recruiting team to include its personnel, strategies, and objectives to meet the demands of the business.
• Create and manage the full life cycle of the recruiting process from initial outreach to offer.
• Act at the point of contact and negotiate with staffing agencies, colleges, university, and other targeted outreach organizations to ensure a diverse pipeline of candidates.
• Work with hiring managers to define required skills and behaviors, current and future positions.
• Manage interview and feedback processes, driving tools that elevate technical screening processes.
• Drive offers include generating offer letters, extending offers, and closing candidates.
• Build strong, diverse pipelines of quality talent for various positions across the organization.
• Continuously and proactively advance processes for candidate sourcing, screening, interviewing, and selecting.
• Developing meaningful relationships with candidates and hiring managers, ensuring timely communication, feedback, and reporting/metrics.
• Conduct comprehensive compensation benchmarking and market analysis to evaluate salary, competitiveness, identify compensation trends, and recommend equitable pay ranges aligned with industry standards.
• Creating and executing multi-channel sourcing strategy to source candidates (active and passive) using a variety of recruiting tools, referrals, social media, etc.
• Help define on-going recruitment strategies across the company, as well as provide feedback and recommendations to improve day-to-day recruiting operations
• Attend networking events, university career fairs, meetups, etc.
• Track and analyze metrics and report on hiring progress to business leadership on a regular cadence.
• Determines optimum recruitment method to develop and maintain a highly qualified candidate pool.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree in related technical and/or human resources field is preferred.
• Minimum of seven (7) years of related recruiting experience required, with prior experience in recruiting for technical roles required.
• Experience in managing or leading teams is preferred.
• System Integrity: Experience managing audit trails, data privacy controls, and accuracy within Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and other recruiting compliance standards.
• Develop, monitor, and analyze key talent acquisition metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs), including recruitment effectiveness, cost-per-hire, time-to-fill, and data-informed hiring strategies.
• Proven experience with anti-discrimination, data privacy, background screening, and labor standards laws to ensure fair, lawful, and audit-ready hiring processes.
• Strong understanding of federal, state, and local employment laws (i.e., EEOC, ADA, FCRA, ADEA, and OFCCP guidelines).
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Possess strong administrative, planning and organizational skills
• Thorough understanding of technology, technical roles, and skills
• Thorough understanding of recruiting methods and best practices, as well as applicable policies and federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations
• Highly Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software.
• Experience working with a federal contractor or DoD is required.
• SPHR, PHR, SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP or equivalent preferred.

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS ABILITIES AND OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS:

• Ability to maintain a level of confidentiality.
• Must have high initiative, integrity, strong work ethic, good communication and critical thinking and analytical skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Well-developed emotional intelligence and negotiation skills.
• Knowledge of enterprise and HR software.
• Knowledge of technical backgrounds.

JOB CONTEXT / PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This position is operated in an office type environment. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include Close vision while performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands and fingers to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk.

Phoenix Defense LLC of Phoenix Logistics LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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