Talent Acquisition Partner

Smiths Group; Morton Grove (IL); On-site; USD 83,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Smiths Group, via John Crane, seeks a strategic Recruitment Leader in Morton Grove, IL to oversee end-to-end talent acquisition across locations. You will drive hiring strategies, manage a recruiting team or solo processes, and ensure a superb candidate experience while aligning with business objectives.

The role requires multinational exposure, strong stakeholder influence, and a track record of delivering high-quality hires on time and within budget.

Qualifications

• Experience recruiting in a complex corporate environment, ideally multinational.
• Ability to influence at all levels, up to senior management.
• Excellent communication skills across diverse stakeholders.
• Proven ability to plan and manage recruitment projects end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the recruitment process from posting to onboarding across locations.
• Collaborate with Hiring Managers to align staffing needs and decisions.
• Ensure compliance with employment laws, regulations, and governance.
• Monitor recruitment metrics and data quality in the ATS.
• Build external relationships with agencies, schools, and universities to expand pipelines.
• Support hiring events and candidate engagement activities.

Skills

Recruiting experience

Candidate sourcing

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Project planning

Compliance awareness

ATS experience

Tools

ATS system

Job description

• Compensation: USD 83000 - USD 95000 - yearly

Company Description

John Crane, a business of Smiths Group, is a global leader in mission-critical flow control solutions for energy and process industries that enable efficient and sustainable operations. Our products include mechanical seals and systems, couplings, bearings, filtration systems, and predictive digital monitoring technologies.

We have a global network of more than 200 sites in over 50 countries and employ more than 6,000 people worldwide. We partner with our customers to help them keep their operations safe, reduce downtime, improve efficiency, and meet the latest environmental standards.

John Crane is part of Smiths Group. For over 170 years, Smiths has been pioneering progress by engineering for a better future. We serve millions of people every year, helping to create a safer, more efficient, productive, and better-connected world across four global markets: energy, security & defence, space & aerospace, and general industrial. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs approximately 16,000 colleagues in over 50 countries.

Job Description

As a strategic business partner, you will oversee the entire recruitment process and lead a team of recruiters or carry out the entire recruitment process and work to attract and hire top talent. You will help develop and implement effective recruitment strategies to ensure the organization has the right people, in the right roles, at the right time to execute its business objectives.

In this role, you will be accountable for delivering high-quality talent within agreed timelines and budget, managing all stages of the hiring process from candidate attraction to onboarding. Ensuring an exceptional candidate experience throughout every step is a key priority.

You will collaborate closely with business leaders to understand their workforce needs and act as a trusted advisor in building a strong, capable, and agile workforce that drives organizational success.

• Overseeing the Recruitment Process: This encompasses all stages, from job posting and sourcing to screening, interviewing, and offer negotiation, ensuring a positive candidate experience throughout. Proactively drive and manage all recruitment activity within perimeters.
• Collaborating with Hiring Managers: Working closely with hiring managers and stakeholders alike to understand their staffing needs and ensure alignment on candidate selection.
• Ensuring Compliance: Ensuring all recruitment activities adhere to relevant employment laws, regulations and system governance
• Managing Recruitment Metrics: Ensure quality of recruiting data is maintained to the highest possible standard with our Applicant tracking system and track and analyse recruitment data to identify areas for improvement and measure the effectiveness of recruitment efforts.
• Building Relationships: Fostering external relationships with recruitment agencies, schools, colleges, universities and other talent sources to expand the candidate pipeline
• Hiring Manager Support: Coach, challenge and advise Hiring Managers and leaders using recruitment and market data to inform and influence local and key hiring decisions
• Talent Pooling: Accountable for proactively building talent pools and pipeline for future recruitment needs identifying new channels and bringing innovative ideas
• Project and Event support: Support hiring events and candidate engagement activities.in terms of planning and coordination
• Onboarding Coordination: Ensure effective onboarding of candidates across locations per regional laws and guidelines.
• Employer Branding: Plan, organize, and execute Employer Branding activities.
• University Partnership: Initiate & maintain university partnerships across locations to attract talent and internships.
• Early Career: Manage recruitment and development of early-career initiatives.

Qualifications

• Proven recruiting experience within a complex corporate environment matrix ideally multinational
• Experience of identifying both passive and active candidates across a variety of attraction channels
• Able to positively influence at all levels of an organization up to senior levels, and to develop valued relationships with managers and candidates alike
• Exceptional communication skills
• Able to plan own work within agreed deadlines.
• Able to follow and/ or create a project plan.
• Required to comply with all applicable practices and documentation.
• Work will be reviewed to ensure required results.

Additional Information

With colleagues stretching across the globe, we are proud of our diversity. To foster inclusivity, we run employee resource groups (ERGs) to provide a safe space for employees to connect and support each other. Our cross-business ERGs include Veterans, Pride Network, Black Employee Network, Women@Work Network, and Neurodiversity.

Across our company, we recognize excellence, culminating in the Smiths Excellence Awards, our annual celebration of the most extraordinary activities, people, and projects that best showcase our strengths and help drive our business forward. We announce these on our annual Smiths Day, a global celebration of Smiths around our network.

Join us for a great career with competitive compensation and benefits, while helping engineer a better future.

We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.