The Talent Acquisition Business Partner will lead end-to-end recruiting across professional, corporate, and commercial roles at Beech-Nut Nutrition Company. This hybrid position combines full-cycle talent acquisition with workforce planning partnership, recruiting analytics, and employer brand initiatives to improve hiring outcomes and candidate experience.
Role Scope
This role supports organizational growth by aligning recruitment activity to business priorities and talent needs. It includes talent market intelligence, employer branding efforts, and continuous improvement of recruiting processes, while partnering closely with leaders on workforce planning and talent strategy.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with hiring managers and business leaders to understand organizational priorities, workforce needs, and talent requirements across commercial, corporate, and professional functions.
- Advise leaders on talent acquisition strategies, labor market conditions, compensation expectations, organizational design considerations, and competitive hiring practices.
- Collaborate with HR and business leadership on workforce planning, succession discussions, capability building, and strategic hiring initiatives.
- Influence hiring decisions using market intelligence, talent insights, and data-driven recommendations.
- Identify critical talent needs and develop proactive hiring strategies aligned to business objectives.
- Lead the performance management cycle to support the organization.
- Own the full recruitment lifecycle for commercial, corporate, and professional positions from intake through onboarding.
- Develop and execute customized recruitment strategies for roles across Sales, Marketing, Category Management, Finance, Human Resources, Supply Chain, Procurement, Technical Services, Operations, and other business functions.
- Facilitate strategic intake sessions to define business outcomes, required capabilities, leadership competencies, and long-term growth potential.
- Source, screen, assess, interview, and recommend qualified candidates while ensuring alignment with role requirements and organizational culture.
- Drive alignment across interview teams while maintaining timely, objective, and high-quality hiring decisions with candidate experience prioritized.
- Manage candidate activities and documentation in the Applicant Tracking System, ensuring compliance, accuracy, and process integrity.
- Partner with onboarding stakeholders to support a smooth transition and positive new hire experience.
- Manage multiple searches at once while balancing speed, quality, and candidate experience.
- Use market intelligence and recruiting analytics to guide hiring decisions and talent strategies tied to business priorities.
- Provide insights on talent availability, compensation trends, competitor hiring activity, and emerging workforce trends.
- Build long-term pipelines for critical advantage roles, capabilities, and future leadership needs.
- Track, analyze, and report recruiting metrics including time-to-fill, source effectiveness, pipeline health, candidate conversion rates, and quality of hire.
- Identify recruiting challenges through data and insights, then recommend process improvements.
- Deliver a best-in-class candidate experience through timely communication, transparency, and professional engagement that reflects Beech-Nut and Hero Group values.
- Develop proactive sourcing strategies using LinkedIn Recruiter, professional networking, employee referrals, industry associations, talent communities, and innovative channels.
- Strengthen Beech-Nut employer branding within the Hero Group through social media engagement, professional organizations, university partnerships, industry events, and networking.
- Establish and maintain partnerships with colleges, universities, community organizations, employment agencies, and workforce development programs.
- Represent Beech-Nut at career fairs, networking events, industry conferences, and recruiting initiatives to promote career opportunities and culture.
- Gather candidate feedback and identify opportunities to continuously improve the hiring experience.
- Evaluate and enhance recruitment processes, tools, and strategies to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and hiring manager experiences.
- Partner with the Group HR Talent Acquisition Team on enterprise recruiting initiatives, employer branding efforts, and strategic workforce planning projects.
- Identify opportunities to strengthen diversity of talent pipelines and broaden sourcing approaches.
- Champion best practices in talent acquisition, candidate assessment, interviewing, and selection methodologies.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of recruiting programs, policies, and processes supporting organizational growth and talent objectives.
- Stay current on recruitment technologies, talent acquisition trends, and evolving labor market dynamics to drive innovation and continuous improvement.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or a related field.
- 6+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience.
- 3+ years recruiting commercial, corporate, professional, or leadership roles within the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), food & beverage, consumer health, retail, or related industries.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to connect hiring decisions to organizational priorities.
- Excellent consultation, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
- Expertise in competency-based interviewing and structured selection methodologies.
- Proven sourcing expertise, including experience engaging and converting passive talent.
- Demonstrated success sourcing and hiring passive talent through LinkedIn Recruiter and other direct sourcing methodologies.
- Experience recruiting across Sales, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, Human Resources, Operations, R&D, or related business functions.
- Experience working with Applicant Tracking Systems and recruitment analytics.
- Experience supporting multi-state recruiting efforts.
- PHR, SHRM-CP, SPHR, or SHRM-SCP certification.
- Experience within a manufacturing and/or food & beverage organization.
Tools and Technologies
- LinkedIn Recruiter
- Applicant Tracking System
Work Location and Schedule
Location: Amsterdam, NY (hybrid). This role could also be based out of the Woodcliff Lake, NJ Commercial Office or the BN headquarters in Amsterdam, NY. The ideal candidate would be based within the Tri-state area (NJ, NY, CT) but may reside anywhere in the Northeast.
This is a hybrid role with work performed both in office and remotely. When in office, job functions are performed in a well-lit, environmentally controlled office environment.
Compensation
- Annual base salary range: $100,000 - $120,000 (salaried, exempt position).
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefit package including medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage for you and your dependents.
- Life and long-term disability.
- Flexible spending and health savings account.
- Paid vacation and holidays.
- New York State paid sick time.
- 401(k) retirement benefits with 4% company match.
- Tuition assistance program.
- Access to online learning system (LMS).
- Opportunities to volunteer and support the local community.
- Generous maternity/paternity benefits including take your child’s 1st birthday off.
- Take your birthday off each year.
- Baby food coupon program until your child’s 2nd birthday.
- Summer Fridays for eligible positions (Memorial Day – Labor Day).
- Service awards.
- On-site fitness center.
- On-site cafe.
How You Will Work
- Deciding and initiating action: make timely decisions while weighing risks, take responsibility for projects, people, and mistakes.
- Analyzing: analyze information from multiple sources, draw well-reasoned conclusions, identify key information from large data sets.
- Learning and researching: rapidly learn new tasks, ask key questions, use relevant information to make decisions, and support learning from one another.
- Planning and organizing: set clearly defined objectives, establish priorities, plan activities, manage time effectively, and monitor progress against deadlines and milestones.
