Director, Talent Acquisition

Job Overview

The Director of Talent Acquisition leads the enterprise Talent Acquisition Center of Excellence (CoE) for Hubbell. The team is responsible for all salaried recruiting across the United States, salaried and hourly recruiting in Mexico and select hourly recruiting needs in the U.S. while providing recruiting tools, process and external partnerships to support all global hiring. This role provides strategic leadership and operational excellence to ensure Hubbell attracts, engages and hires critical talent today and over the long term.

Reporting to the Vice President, Talent, Inclusion and Communications, this role leads the enterprise talent acquisition strategy, including multi-year talent attraction planning, recruiting governance, systems, tools, vendor partnerships, talent acquisition operations and recruiting marketing support for all global locations. The Director partners closely with the HR Business Partners (HRBP), Business leaders, and other key stakeholders to ensure consistent recruiting practices, tools and candidate experience across all hiring populations.

This position requires a strategic, forward-looking leader who can balance enterprise and local considerations. They should be a strong collaborator, who starts with understanding the business strategy, the needs of various stakeholders, provides subject matter expertise and leads with hands-on execution in a complex, geographically dispersed manufacturing organization while influencing change and adoption.

A Day In The Life

Every day at Hubbell is different and you’ll contribute in many ways. On any given day, you’ll make a difference by:

Leading the Talent Acquisition Center of Excellence

• Build and lead an accountable, high-performing Talent Acquisition Team
• Own direction of enterprise talent acquisition processes, systems, tools and governance
• Establish and maintain consistent recruiting standards, interview practices, selection methodologies and work with HR VPs to ensure compliance across all locations
• Serve as the escalation point for complex recruiting needs across the company
• Partner with key stakeholders on needs of new business acquisitions
• Drive a centralized recruiting marketing and job board strategy to attract talent at all levels, across all locations, aligning with Communications to ensure consistent employer branding while meeting local market needs.

Set Hubbell’s talent acquisition strategy

• Partner with the HRBPs and business teams to understand workforce plans
• Drive continuous Improvement, understand external labor markets, technology advances, etc. to envision “what’s next” for the talent acquisition organization from people, process and technology perspectives
• Develop and execute a multi-year talent attraction strategy and build sustainable pipelines aligned to Hubbell’s business objectives

Partner on workforce planning

• Lead the team in working closely with HRBPs to understand current and future talent needs
• Determine appropriate recruiting strategies and advanced capacity planning
• Provide labor market intelligence and trends to inform hiring decisions locally and across common functions

Deliver recruiting across defined scope

• Lead all salaried recruiting in the US and Mexico
• Lead all hourly recruiting in Mexico and specific locations within the U.S.

Business process owner for recruiting systems, analytics and operations

• Partner with HR Operations and analytics team to optimize the Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and recruiting technology ecosystem; provide appropriate direction on metrics that matter
• Monitor the health of the process SLAs and report key performance indicators including time-to-hire, time-to-fill candidate experience and source effectiveness
• Deliver clear, data-driven insights to HR and executive leadership
• Manage recruiting vendors, background screening and the Managed Service Provider
• Responsible for all recruiting vendor relationships including search firms, job boards and assessment firms in partnership with key stakeholders across Hubbell
• Lead the Managed Service Provider (MSP) for temporary labor, ensuring alignment with business needs and operational effectiveness

Partner with Campus Programs

• Ensure alignment and consistency between experienced and early career recruiting
• Collaborate on shared processes, systems, tools and standards to deliver a cohesive enterprise candidate experience

What will help you thrive in this role?

• Bachelor's Degree or minimum 15 years progressive experience and leadership in Human Resources or related field
• Experience leading a centralized staffing function for a large, geographically dispersed business
• Demonstrated ability to build strong partnerships at all levels of the organization and with external partners while working independently within a fast-paced, team-focused environment
• Proven ability to meet multiple deadlines, prioritize multiple demands, and identify/solve problems creatively
• Demonstrated success in managing full life cycle recruiting based on key performance indicators/metrics across a broad spectrum of disciplines, levels and industries