Overview

Trident Seafoods is North America’s largest vertically integrated seafood company—partnering with fishermen, employees, and communities to responsibly harvest, process, and share wild Alaska seafood with the world. With deep roots in Alaska and operating across the globe, Trident is a privately held company headquartered in Seattle, committed to nourishing the world while upholding the highest standards for safety, sustainability, and excellence.

At Trident Seafoods, we work together for something bigger than ourselves. From nourishing the world with the best protein on earth to protecting our oceans, serving our fishermen, and supporting communities in Alaska and beyond, here, you’ll find a values-driven culture where your growth matters, your work has purpose and your contributions are recognized and appreciated—because at Trident, we believe meaningful work connects us all.

Responsibilities

Summary:The Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition & Workforce Strategy will lead the enterprise recruiting and staffing function across vessels, Alaska shoreplants, value-added plants, yards, and the Support Center. Establish a comprehensive, forward-looking talent acquisition strategy; lead and develop the recruiting leadership team; ensure end-to-end ownership of requisitions and hiring outcomes; and strengthen Trident’s employer brand, EVP, candidate experience, recruiting systems, analytics, and service delivery.

Essential Functions: (Responsibilities, Tasks, Supervisory Needs)

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

Set and execute an enterprise talent acquisition and workforce strategy aligned with business plans, production forecasts, seasonal labor needs, critical-role demand, and budget priorities across all Trident operating groups.
Lead, coach, and align recruiting and staffing leaders responsible for vessels, Alaska shoreplants, value-added plants, yards, and the Support Center.
Establish clear ownership, priorities, capacity, performance expectations, and accountability across the recruiting function.
Own recruiting delivery and requisition management across the full lifecycle, ensuring hiring outcomes are achieved through effective intake, workforce planning, sourcing, screening, selection, offer management, pre-employment processes, and escalation support.
Directly lead recruiting efforts for executive, confidential, critical, and hard-to-fill positions as needed.
Develop and execute sourcing and talent pipeline strategies for seasonal, high-volume, skilled-trade, maritime, professional, leadership, and hard-to-fill roles using schools, military, community, referral, digital, agency, and direct-sourcing channels.
Define and improve recruiting operating standards, service levels, governance, compliance controls, hiring-manager practices, and candidate experience to ensure a consistent, efficient, and compliant recruiting process across the enterprise.
Leverage Trident’s ATS (Applicant Tracking System) (i.e., iCIMS), labor market intelligence, workforce forecasts, and recruiting analytics to manage demand planning, team capacity, funnel health, time to fill, quality, cost, compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Manage recruiting vendors, agencies, technology, contracts, budgets, employer branding initiatives, and enterprise recruiting projects.
Serve as a strategic advisor to leadership on workforce risks, labor market trends, and talent acquisition strategy.

The essential functions listed above are not exhaustive. The organization may assign other duties as needed to meet business requirements.

Qualifications

Travel/On-Call Requirements

Approximately 20% travel, including travel within Alaska and Lower 48, processing facilities, yards, recruiting events, and other operating locations.
Additional availability may be required during peak recruiting and seasonal staffing periods.

Required Qualifications: (Education, Years of Experience, Certifications)

Minimum 8 years of progressive talent acquisition, recruiting, staffing, or workforce planning experience, including responsibility for full-cycle recruiting and multi-function or multi-location hiring. Experience with high-volume, seasonal, operational, manufacturing, maritime, skilled-trade, or geographically distributed workforces is strongly preferred.
Minimum 5 years of people leadership experience, including leading managers or senior recruiting professionals. Demonstrated experience setting strategy, allocating recruiting capacity, developing teams, influencing senior leaders, managing change, and delivering results through others.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent additional relevant experience. Human Resources, Business, Communications, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Operations, or a related field.
A degree is not required where an equivalent combination of experience and demonstrated capability provides the knowledge needed to perform the role.

Preferred Education & Experiences

Advanced degree or graduate-level coursework in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or related field.
SHRM-SCP, SPHR or equivalent professional certifications.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs)

Enterprise talent acquisition strategy
Workforce and seasonal hiring planning
Full-cycle recruiting and requisition governance
Sourcing and pipeline development
Employer brand and EVP activation
Candidate experience
Recruiting compliance, including EEO/OFCCP/ADA/Title VII
ATS and recruiting technology, preferably iCIMS
Recruiting analytics and dashboard interpretation
Vendor and budget management
Strong people leadership, coaching, stakeholder influence, business acumen, communication, judgment, prioritization, and change leadership
Ability to operate effectively across remote sites, production environments, vessels, and corporate functions.

Benefits

Trident Seafoods offers a comprehensive and quality benefits package. Full time employees may be eligible for discretionary/performance-based incentives, medical, dental and vision insurance plans, optional HRA/HSA, telemedicine, employee assistance and wellness programs, disability programs, basic life and AD&D, and a 401(k) plan with a company match, paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays each year, and paid parental leave. For full-time employees, the initial PTO benefit starts at 20 days per year, adjusted commensurate with relevant experience, front loaded on the first of the year, initially prorated quarterly based on hire date. Commuter programs are also available. More information can be found at https://www.tridentseafoods.com/benefits.
Work Environment:This is an on-site position based at the Trident Support Center office in Anchorage, with the option to work remotely on Fridays. In-office time takes place in a typical office environment: temperature controlled with adequate lighting and moderate noise. While remote, employees must provide appropriate home office space.
Work Authorizations:This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

Additional Information

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship, including F-1 STEM-OPT authorization.

Stay connected with Trident Seafoods online at www.tridentseafoods.comand follow us onFacebook,X,Instagram,Pinterest,YouTubeorLinkedInTrident Seafoods provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.Trident Seafoods and its subsidiaries have adopted a drug-free workplace policy. Working under the influence of Drugs or Alcohol is not permitted.Employment with Trident Seafoods is contingent upon the candidate maintaining valid immigration status and work authorization throughout employment, with or without immigration sponsorship by the company.

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