Job Summary
The Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist leads full-cycle recruiting across East West + Vexos' multi-site manufacturing network, delivering professional, technical, and operations talent that supports growth, operational performance, and on-time customer delivery. This role brings structure to how we hire, building consistent processes, clear workflows, and reliable metrics, and partners with hiring managers and site leaders who do not report to it to drive timely decisions and accountability. The ideal candidate is highly organized, self-driven, and an exceptional communicator who can influence without authority, bring order to ambiguity, and represent East West's culture with credibility to candidates and leaders alike.
Responsibilities
- Own full-cycle recruitment for professional, technical, and operations roles across multiple sites and regions, from intake through offer acceptance and handoff to onboarding.
- Lead structured intake meetings with hiring managers to define role requirements, success profiles, interview plans, timelines, and decision makers.
- Create and maintain structure in the hiring process, including standardized workflows, interview guides, scorecards, offer approvals, and service-level expectations for recruiters and hiring managers.
- Influence without authority: set clear expectations with hiring managers and senior leaders, drive timely feedback and decisions, and challenge requirements with market data when needed.
- Develop targeted sourcing strategies using job boards, LinkedIn, referrals, schools, workforce partners, and direct outreach to build diverse, high-quality pipelines for critical and hard-to-fill roles.
- Screen and assess candidates for skills, experience, and alignment with company values, and present concise candidate summaries and hiring recommendations.
- Manage the recruiting budget by planning and tracking spend on job boards, agencies, and events, and report variances and cost-per-hire to HR leadership.
- Manage a high-volume requisition load with discipline, prioritizing business impact and keeping stakeholders informed of status, risks, and next steps.
- Deliver an exceptional candidate experience through clear, timely, and professional communication at every stage.
- Partner with HR and Compensation to build competitive, compliant offers and close candidates effectively.
- Maintain accurate ATS data and track key metrics such as time-to-fill, source effectiveness, offer acceptance, quality of hire, and early-tenure retention; provide regular reporting and insights to HR leadership.
- Strengthen the employer brand with HR and Marketing through career events, social media, and school and community partnerships, and manage agency and vendor relationships.
- Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and company policy, and continuously improve recruiting processes, tools, and hiring manager training.
Knowledge, Abilities & Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources Business, or related field, or equivalent experience, with 5+ years of full-cycle corporate recruiting or talent acquisition experience, ideally in a manufacturing, multi-site, or high-growth environment.
- Proven track record managing a diverse requisition load across professional, technical, and operations roles while meeting time-to-fill and quality targets.
- Highly organized and process-oriented, with demonstrated ability to create structure where none exists by building workflows, templates, trackers, and standards that others adopt.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present clearly to senior leaders, give candid feedback, and build rapport with candidates at all levels.
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority, holding hiring managers and stakeholders accountable to timelines and process with tact and confidence.
- Self-driven, with a strong sense of urgency and ownership; follows through without reminders and manages competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Proficiency with Applicant Tracking Systems, HRIS platforms, LinkedIn Recruiter, and Microsoft Excel, and comfort using data to guide decisions and report results.
- Preferred: PHR, SHRM-CP, or a recruiting certification; bilingual English/Spanish is a plus.
- Strong competencies including organization, communication, influence, relationship building, judgment, accountability, discretion, customer focus, and continuous improvement.
We are an equal-opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
