Talent Strategy Recruiting Lead (Hybrid)

MERITON; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 113,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Paid time off

Retirement options

Job summary

Meriton, a national team of experts driving HVAC innovation, seeks a Recruiting Manager - Talent Strategy to lead one of its recruiting PODs. Based in Irving, TX, this hybrid role partners with OPCO leaders to forecast hiring needs and deliver end-to-end recruiting across multiple functions.

You will coach a regional TA team, develop hiring plans, and shape sourcing strategies while ensuring a consistent Meriton recruiting process and candidate experience.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of full cycle recruiting experience, including proactive sourcing and partnership with hiring leaders.
• Experience leading, coaching, or directing recruiters; formal people management preferred.
• Experience across two or more of: sales, skilled trades, operations, or field leadership; multi-OPCO support preferred.
• Experience advising business leaders on recruiting strategy, workforce planning, labor market conditions.
• Experience coaching hiring managers on structured interviewing and scorecard-based hiring decisions.
• Ability to manage hands-on recruiting responsibilities while supporting a regional team.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills with stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience using an ATS and recruiting data to manage pipelines and improve processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and support the POD’s recruiters, setting priorities, balancing requisition workloads, removing obstacles, and building recruiting capability across sales, trades, operations, and other assigned roles.
• Serve as the primary TA advisor to the Presidents and leaders of assigned OPCOs; build relationships, understand business goals and local labor markets, and recommend hiring approaches aligned with operational needs.
• Partner with OPCO Presidents and leaders on workforce planning, including anticipated openings, growth plans, critical skill gaps, succession needs, and hiring capacity; translate those plans into a quarterly hiring plan, recruiting priorities, and talent pipelines.
• Own full cycle recruiting for assigned priority, complex, or high‑impact requisitions, including Strategic‑track leadership searches, from intake and sourcing through assessment, offer, and handoff to onboarding.
• Guide recruiters and hiring managers through intake meetings to lock the scorecard, role requirements and success profile, approved compensation range, interview panel, sourcing plan, timelines, and recruiting track, and to set shared expectations.
• Choose the recruiting track (Express, Standard, or Strategic) at intake based on the role profile, and build Role Playbooks with OPCOs for each role family.
• Develop tailored sourcing strategies and build candidate pipelines using referrals, direct outreach, industry networks, events, job boards, and other channels appropriate to each market and role.
• Advise leaders on talent availability, market conditions, compensation competitiveness, and hiring process adjustments using recruiting data and candidate feedback.

Skills

Full cycle recruiting

People management

Structured interviewing

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Greenhouse

Job description

Meriton, a national team of experts driving HVAC innovation, seeks a Recruiting Manager - Talent Strategy to lead one of its recruiting PODs. Based in Irving, TX, this hybrid role partners with OPCO leaders to forecast hiring needs and deliver end-to-end recruiting across multiple functions.

You will coach a regional TA team, develop hiring plans, and shape sourcing strategies while ensuring a consistent Meriton recruiting process and candidate experience.