Sr Recruiting Partner
Job Description
Join a recruiting team that acts as a strategic business partner. As the Recruiting Partner for Les Schwab Tire Centers, you will support Main Office hiring and leadership recruiting by combining full-cycle execution with labor market and workforce planning insights. This role helps strengthen leadership pipelines, improve hiring quality, and reduce reliance on external recruiting agencies through proactive sourcing and data-driven recommendations.
What you’ll do
- Own the full-cycle recruitment process for the Main office and leadership roles, including intake meetings, sourcing strategy, candidate assessment, offer development, offer presentation and negotiation, and delivering an exceptional candidate experience.
- Collaborate with Compensation and hiring leaders to ensure offers align with market conditions, internal equity, and the company compensation philosophy.
- Act as a talent advisor by providing labor market intelligence, compensation insights, workforce planning support, organizational design input, and hiring recommendations that improve hiring quality and business outcomes.
- Build proactive sourcing plans for difficult-to-fill and leadership positions using talent mapping, networking, referrals, passive candidate engagement, and market research to reduce reliance on external recruiting agencies.
- Coach hiring leaders on interviewing, candidate assessment, selection practices, employment branding, and market conditions to improve organizational hiring capability and decision-making.
- Review and analyze recruiting performance, identify trends, and recommend process improvements. Support recruiting technology initiatives, including Paradox, and participate in strategic Talent Acquisition projects.
What you bring
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent skills and experience.
- 7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience supporting professional, corporate, technical, and leadership positions.
- Direct partnership experience with senior leaders and hiring managers on workforce planning and hiring strategy.
- Executive search or agency recruiting experience preferred.
- Strong knowledge of Applicant Tracking Systems, with Workday preferred.
- Experience sourcing passive candidates using LinkedIn Recruiter and other sourcing tools.
- Strong grasp of recruiting analytics and labor market trends, with ability to apply data to hiring decisions.
- Proficiency with Google Workspace or Microsoft Office applications.
- Experience using recruiting technology and automation tools.
- Strong consultative partnership skills, ability to influence leaders across organizational levels, and excellent communication and presentation abilities.
- Strong organizational skills to manage multiple complex searches, with a continuous improvement mindset focused on exceptional candidate and hiring manager experiences.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise sound judgment.
Work environment and physical requirements
This role is primarily a desk position in a fast-paced office environment with telephone use and long periods of computer work. You will regularly sit and occasionally stand and walk.
- Frequent and repetitive use of hands and fingers to operate computer, mouse, keyboard, and office-related equipment; ability to reach with hands and arms.
- Lifting requirement up to 20 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required, including close visual acuity and ability to adjust focus.
- Ability to communicate verbally and exchange information over the phone and in person.
Tools and technologies
- Workday (Applicant Tracking Systems)
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- Google Workspace and Microsoft Office
- Paradox
Location: Bend, OR (onsite)