Senior Corporate Executive Recruiter, North America

Senior Corporate Executive Recruiter role supporting ERM’s North America Talent Acquisition team, reporting to the North America Regional Sr. Manager, Talent Acquisition.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end recruitment for Partner and senior-level roles across North America.
• Partner with senior business leaders to understand growth plans, capability gaps, succession needs, and future talent requirements.
• Design targeted executive search and sourcing strategies for specialist and difficult-to-find talent.
• Perform talent mapping and market intelligence to identify competitor talent, emerging capabilities, market trends, and potential talent pools.
• Build and maintain proactive pipelines of senior external talent for current and future Partner hiring needs.
• Engage passive senior candidates and develop long-term relationships with prospective ERM Partners.
• Use direct sourcing channels including LinkedIn Recruiter, professional networks, industry communities, referrals, and ERM career channels.
• Use AI-enabled recruiting tools and AI agents to support sourcing, research, talent mapping, pipeline development, reporting, and recruiter productivity while maintaining appropriate human oversight.
• Deliver an excellent candidate and hiring leader experience throughout the recruitment lifecycle.
• Act as a trusted talent adviser by providing insight on talent availability, market conditions, search strategy, candidate pipelines, and potential hiring risks.
• Maintain rigor and consistency in executive selection and assessment; support hiring leaders with effective interviewing and candidate evaluation.
• Partner with external executive search firms when specialist market coverage or additional capability is needed.
• Track and communicate recruitment activity, talent pipelines, time to hire, source effectiveness, and other relevant recruitment measures.
• Maintain accurate candidate and recruitment information within Workday Recruiting to support reporting, governance, compliance, and audit requirements.
• Ensure recruitment activities comply with ERM policies and applicable employment legislation.
• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition colleagues across regions to share market intelligence, candidates, sourcing approaches, and best practices.
• Represent ERM as a brand ambassador in internal and external talent engagements.

Requirements

• Typically 4–5+ years of relevant recruitment experience, including recruiting senior, executive, or Partner-level talent.
• Proven success recruiting specialist, niche, or difficult-to-find talent, ideally within professional services, environmental consulting, engineering, energy, mining, sustainability, or related technical sectors.
• Strong executive sourcing skills: market mapping, talent identification, pipeline development, research, and direct candidate engagement.
• Experience managing recruitment processes from talent identification through assessment, selection, offer, and onboarding handoff.
• Strong business acumen to connect business growth priorities to practical talent and sourcing strategies.
• Credibility and confidence engaging senior business leaders and experienced executive candidates.
• Relationship-building and stakeholder management skills to operate as a trusted talent adviser.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience using recruitment technology and applicant tracking systems; Workday Recruiting familiarity preferred.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled recruiting tools, generative AI, and AI agents, with interest in responsible application for research, sourcing, talent intelligence, reporting, and recruiting workflows.
• Understanding of the importance of human oversight, confidentiality, data privacy, and responsible AI use in recruitment.
• Detail-oriented approach using recruitment data and market intelligence to inform decision-making.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across geographies within a global Talent Acquisition organization.
• Proactive, curious, and commercially minded approach, able to challenge traditional sourcing methods and identify new ways to find talent.

Technologies

• LinkedIn Recruiter
• Workday Recruiting
• AI-enabled recruiting tools
• AI agents
• Generative AI

What Success Looks Like

• Building sustainable pipelines of Partner and executive-level talent ahead of hiring demand.
• Improving access to scarce, specialist, and strategically important talent.
• Increasing direct sourcing effectiveness and reducing unnecessary reliance on external executive search firms.
• Bringing meaningful talent and market intelligence into hiring and workforce decisions.
• Using AI and AI agents responsibly to improve recruiter productivity, research, sourcing, and talent insights while keeping people at the center of hiring decisions.
• Delivering consistent, high-quality experience for candidates and business stakeholders.
• Maintaining strong recruitment governance, data quality, and process discipline.
• Contributing to greater consistency and collaboration in Partner recruitment across ERM globally.

Additional Information

• Submit your resume and brief cover letter.
• ERM does not accept recruiting agency resumes.
• Equal Employment Opportunity employer; no discrimination based on legally protected characteristics.
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