Position Overview
Talent Acquisition Manager
Location: Rosemont, IL
Role Overview:
The Talent Acquisition Manager leads the full-cycle recruitment function, driving strategies to attract, engage, and hire top talent aligned with the organization’s growth objectives. This role partners closely with business leaders to understand workforce needs, build talent pipelines, and enhance the overall candidate experience while ensuring efficient, scalable hiring processes.
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead full-cycle recruiting efforts for higher-priority, business-critical, and hard-to-fill roles across field leadership, operations, corporate, and other key functions.
• Partner with senior leadership, hiring managers, and HR to understand workforce planning needs.
• Manage and develop a team of recruiters, including workload allocation, coaching, performance support, and day-to-day recruiting direction.
• Serve as the primary owner of recruiting execution across the business, ensuring hiring priorities are aligned with business needs and talent acquisition goals.
• Partner closely with hiring managers, HR, and leadership to develop recruiting strategies, calibrate candidate profiles, and drive timely hiring decisions.
• Personally manage and drive recruiting activity for high-impact or difficult-to-fill roles, including sourcing, screening, interview coordination, and offer support.
• Build, launch, and manage a structured internship program to support early-career talent development and long-term talent pipeline needs.
• Develop and maintain relationships with colleges, universities, trade schools, and other pipeline sources to support internship, campus, and entry-level recruiting efforts.
• Representation at career fairs, campus recruiting events, college presentations, and industry networking opportunities to strengthen employer brand and attract talent.
• Own weekly recruiting reporting for HR and leadership, including open requisitions, hiring progress, bottlenecks, source performance, and other key recruiting updates.
• Create, monitor, and report on key recruiting metrics, including time-to-fill, source of hire, funnel conversion, offer acceptance rate, and recruiter productivity.
• Evaluate sourcing channels, job board performance, and external recruiting partnerships to improve recruiting effectiveness and return on investment.
• Help standardize recruiting processes, interview practices, and candidate experience.
• Ensure compliance with all federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations
Key Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Communications, Marketing, or a related field required.
• 7–10 years of recruiting or talent acquisition experience, including experience supporting multiple business functions, locations, or business units in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.
• Prior experience managing, mentoring, or leading recruiters, with demonstrated ability to coach a recruiting team and drive recruiting performance.
• Strong experience in full-cycle recruiting across a mix of field, operations, corporate, and business-critical roles.
• Demonstrated ability to personally manage high-priority, high-impact, or difficult-to-fill roles while overseeing broader recruiting activity.
• Experience building, launching, or managing an internship program or other early-career talent initiatives.
• Experience with campus recruiting, including building relationships with colleges, universities, or trade schools and attending recruiting events.
• Strong experience with recruiting metrics, dashboards, and weekly reporting, including the ability to present hiring activity and talent acquisition performance to leadership.
• Experience using applicant tracking systems, LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, and other sourcing tools to support recruiting strategy and execution.
• Experience in landscaping, construction, field services, manufacturing, distribution, or other operationally driven environments is preferred.
• Ability and willingness to travel approximately 40% for campus recruiting, hiring events, and business support across Visterra’s footprint.
Benefits: A challenging and rewarding working environment where employees are encouraged to develop and grow as professionals. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on projects that will expand your experience and challenge your abilities in the global marketplace. The position also offers an excellent compensation package and a comprehensive suite of benefits.
• Paid time off
• Health and wellness coverage
• 401(k) savings plan
