Senior Director, Talent Acquisition- Executive Recruiting
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Senior Director, Talent Acquisition- Executive Recruiting
Location: Bentonville, Arkansas
About the Team
Our Global Talent Acquisition organization is transforming to meet the needs of the future of retail, ensuring that Walmart is that place in which people can grow their careers, and our organization ensures the best experience for the talent we manage and optimal service to the business. Leaders and individual contributors alike look to our Global Talent Acquisition teams to influence talent strategy, optimize the recruiting process, and enable the business to make the best hiring decisions. This is that place where your passions meet purpose. Join our family and build a career youre proud of!
About the Role
As the Senior Director, Talent Acquisition- Executive Recruiting you will have the unique opportunity to influence the future leadership landscape of Walmart. You will report directly to the Global Head of Executive Recruiting. Your key responsibilities will include understanding the needs of the business and leading your team to deliver a world class executive hiring process. This includes leveraging your deep market expertise, knowledge of the executive talent landscape, and deep experience attracting and hiring executive level talent. Furthermore, you will manage strategic partnerships with executive recruiting firms as needed, ensuring we have relationships with the best to secure exceptional leaders.
What you'll do
- Build a leading executive recruiting internal capability focusing on quality, insight, delivery, speed, belonging, and advisory capabilities and reducing the dependency on external consulting partners
- Interface with Senior Leadership and Executives across Walmart, Inc. to execute searches while maintaining high levels of confidentiality and understanding sensitivity of searches in a highly complex and sometimes ambiguous environment
- Work with People Partners to drive effective executive hiring, inclusive of internal talent mapping opportunities
- Provide expert advice and direction to senior leaders on how to attract market-leading talent
- Live Walmart Values and serve as a brand ambassador when engaging with candidates
- Support Walmarts commitment to Belonging and building a place for everyone by ensuring we source from broad talent pools and ensure fair, consistent hiring practices.
- Stay updated with market trends, compensation benchmarks, and talent movements within the industry ; conduct regular market analysis to identify potential candidates. Leverage data and insights to influence successful searches.
- Manage and evolve the processes for executive recruiting to ensure a world-class experience that delights the business and candidates.
- Partner with succession planning team to support internal and external pipelining and advance our ability to prepare for and fill vacancies with exceptional talent
- Network extensively (personally and in leading the team) in the market to represent the brand and know the top talent track market relevant talent movement
- Lead the team hiring and developing top notch, sought after executive recruiters who are deeply knowledgeable about our business, our processes and the future of retail
What you'll bring
- Extensive experience in Executive Recruitment, preferably a mix of in-house Corporate (Retail industry not required, but a plus) ; exter
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