Lead strategic recruiting and team performance for assigned openings at MaineHealth in Portland, ME.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a segment of the Talent Acquisition team while managing full-cycle recruitment for assigned requisitions
- Coach, guide, and provide performance management to Talent Acquisition Partners to achieve service level agreements, recruitment benchmarks, and hiring goals
- Partner with hiring leaders, HR colleagues, and talent attraction professionals to create and execute strategic recruitment plans
- Drive strategic workforce planning by partnering with organizational leaders to understand short- and long-term workforce needs
- Consult on hiring forecasts, succession planning, anticipated turnover, and workforce growth strategies
- Run recruitment intake sessions with hiring leaders to establish expectations, define position requirements, and align on hiring strategy
- Build targeted recruitment plans using market intelligence, sourcing strategies, compensation insights, and workforce trends
- Use recruitment analytics and labor market data to inform decisions and improve recruitment outcomes
- Ensure recruitment strategies support key industry benchmarks and organizational goals
- Manage recruitment excellence through screening, assessment, and recommendation of highly qualified candidates
- Apply structured interviewing and assessment techniques to evaluate talent
- Partner through candidate selection and offer stages, including offer negotiation with market considerations and internal equity
- Maintain a consistent focus on an exceptional candidate experience across the hiring journey
- Build and maintain talent pipelines to support future workforce needs
- Collaborate with Talent Attraction care team members to implement recruitment campaigns across the organization
- Identify opportunities to improve candidate attraction using digital marketing, job boards, social media, CRM, and targeted advertising
- Partner with HR partners and business leaders to address workforce challenges proactively
- Conduct regular hiring reviews and update meetings using recruitment metrics and analytics
- Serve as a trusted advisor to hiring managers on recruitment best practices and labor market conditions
- Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, and development for Talent Acquisition team members
- Set clear performance expectations and monitor progress against service level agreements
- Develop recruiter capabilities in sourcing, interviewing, assessment, and strategic consulting
- Foster accountability, continuous learning, and operational excellence; support development plans and performance evaluations
- Partner with Talent Acquisition leadership to implement departmental goals and strategic initiatives
- Analyze talent acquisition metrics, recommend process improvements, and support balanced scorecards and recruitment performance dashboards
- Identify performance gaps and implement solutions using Lean or other process improvement methodologies
- Evaluate emerging recruiting technologies, sourcing strategies, and best practices
- Participate in special projects and enterprise talent initiatives
- Maintain compliance with applicable federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations
Requirements
- Bachelor degree in Business, Human Resources, Sales/Marketing or related discipline is required
- Strongly prefer certification in Human Resources or Healthcare Recruitment
- Minimum 3 plus years of current human resources experience, including demonstrated solid experience in recruitment and other HR disciplines (including compensation, benefits, HRIS, employee/labor relations, training, and organization development)
- Strongly prefer healthcare industry experience
- Experience with full scope staffing, including sourcing efficiencies, candidate assessment techniques, and job offer negotiation
- Experience with applicant tracking systems and other electronic recruitment tools
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, establish service level agreements, and meet or exceed customer expectations
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills
- Intermediate to advanced computer skills including Microsoft Office Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including influencing, listening, fact finding, and problem solving
- Exemplary organizational skills, flexibility to adapt to changing priorities, and follow-through
- Ability to analyze qualitative and quantitative information to support decisions
- Ability to identify performance gaps and recommend process and other improvement interventions using Lean or other process improvement methodologies
- Ability to influence hiring management to move quickly through selection and offer stages to optimize the opportunity to hire top candidates
Technologies
- Microsoft Office Outlook
- Microsoft Office PowerPoint
- Microsoft Office Excel
- Microsoft Office Word
- CRM
- HRIS
- Applicant tracking systems
- Electronic recruitment tools
Benefits
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible work options
- Student loan assistance
- Professional development opportunities
- Well-being resources
- Comprehensive benefits
- Recognition programs
- Career growth opportunities
- Where applicable, shift differentials or other incentives
- Base range is an estimate and does not reflect the full value of the total compensation package
Compensation: $89,980 - $121,721 per year. Pay range listed as $89,980.80 to $121,721.60 per year.
Location/Work model: Portland, ME (onsite).
Hiring scam alert: MaineHealth will never request financial information during the interview or pre-hiring process. Legitimate communications come from an email address ending in @mainehealth.org. Report suspected fraud to mhcareers@mainehealth.org.
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Questions: michael.bolanz@mainehealth.org
