Recruitment Manager - North America

About the role

Excelitas Technologies, a global technology company focused on photonic solutions for illumination, optics, detection and imaging, is seeking a Recruitment Manager for North America. The role leads talent acquisition strategy and execution across the United States and Canada, supports broader global talent initiatives, builds scalable recruiting programs, leads workforce planning, strengthens employer brand and partners with business leaders to attract, engage and retain top talent. It covers full-cycle recruiting across multiple functions and geographies.

Key responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end recruitment across North America, from workforce planning and requisition strategy through offer negotiation and onboarding, and partner with business leaders and HR teams on hiring plans.
• Serve as a Talent Advisor to executives, HR partners and hiring managers on talent market trends, organizational design, succession planning and workforce strategy, and advise on candidate assessment and compensation positioning.
• Lead, coach and develop recruiters, coordinators and sourcing resources, set performance metrics and hiring standards, and foster a collaborative, candidate-centric recruiting culture.
• Develop North American employer branding strategies, partner with Marketing, Communications and HR on campaigns, social media, employee advocacy and community engagement, and represent the company at industry events and career fairs.
• Build and maintain active and passive candidate pipelines, create talent communities and succession-oriented recruiting strategies, and run sourcing and recruitment marketing initiatives.
• Improve recruiting processes, systems, analytics and candidate experience, optimise ATS, CRM and sourcing tools, and monitor time-to-fill, quality-of-hire, pipeline health, diversity metrics and candidate satisfaction.
• Ensure compliance with employment laws and regulations across North America and maintain compliant recruitment policies and hiring practices.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development or a related field.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in talent acquisition, including 3+ years as a people leader in HR, talent acquisition or a related discipline.
• Experience managing full-cycle recruiting for professional, technical, operations and leadership positions, and executing talent acquisition strategies in a multi-site or multi-region organisation.
• Experience using recruitment analytics and workforce data to drive business decisions.
• Preferred: HR certification (PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP or equivalent).
• Preferred: exposure to global recruiting strategies, knowledge of employer branding, recruitment marketing and talent intelligence platforms.

Note: the position requires access to information subject to ITAR, no relocation is offered, and the company does not offer sponsorship.