Recruiting Manager - Talent Strategy

The posting, as Meriton wrote it

Meriton is a national team of experts driving HVAC innovation through a network of high-performing companies. From strategy and support to systems and solutions, we work behind the scenes to strengthen operations and build value—for our partners and our people.

If you’re looking to make an impact, we’re glad you’re here. At Meriton, you’ll join a team that believes in big ideas, doing great work, and building careers that matter—every step of the way.

Job Title: Recruiting Manager - Talent Strategy

Location: (Hybrid - 3 Days In OFFICE

Reports to: Sr. Director, Talent Acquisition

The Opportunity

This position leads one of Meriton’s five recruiting PODs (National, West, Texas, Midwest, or Gulf Coast) and serves as the trusted talent advisor to an assigned group of Meriton operating companies (OPCOs). This role partners with OPCO Presidents and business leaders to anticipate workforce needs, develop practical hiring strategies, and deliver full cycle recruiting across sales, trades, operations, and other positions as regional needs require. Balancing hands-on recruiting with team leadership, the Talent Strategic Partner brings one consistent Meriton recruiting process, market insight, and a strong candidate and hiring manager experience to a growing business.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and support the POD’s recruiters, setting priorities, balancing requisition workloads, removing obstacles, and building recruiting capability across sales, trades, operations, and other assigned roles; request cross-POD recruiting help through the Sr. Director, Talent Acquisition when capacity is at risk.
• Serve as the primary TA advisor to the Presidents and leaders of assigned OPCOs; build relationships, understand business goals and local labor markets, and recommend hiring approaches aligned with operational needs.
• Partner with OPCO Presidents and leaders on workforce planning, including anticipated openings, growth plans, critical skill gaps, succession needs, and hiring capacity; translate those plans into a quarterly hiring plan, recruiting priorities, and talent pipelines.
• Establish an OPCO Charter with each assigned OPCO at kickoff and refresh it quarterly, covering hiring priorities, approved compensation ranges and offer approvers, interview panel and stage owners, sourcing rules, assessment standards, and escalation contacts.
• Own full cycle recruiting for assigned priority, complex, or high-impact requisitions, including Strategic-track leadership searches, from intake and sourcing through assessment, offer, and handoff to onboarding.
• Guide recruiters and hiring managers through intake meetings to lock the scorecard, role requirements and success profile, approved compensation range, interview panel, sourcing plan, timelines, and recruiting track, and to set shared expectations.
• Choose the recruiting track (Express, Standard, or Strategic) at intake based on the role profile, and build Role Playbooks with OPCOs for each r

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ion may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The work location is in a corporate setting where noise level is usually moderate and stress levels may be moderate to high on a regular basis. Although the position’s primary work location is the shared services office in Irving, Texas, the position follows an in-office hybrid schedule (once fully trained and performing all functions within scope of the role). Depending upon business needs, the hybrid schedule may fluctuate and/or change in coordination with the VP, Talent Acquisition or other sponsor, as appropriate. The position will require the ability to work a flexible schedule to attend recruiting events and visit OPCOs, as needed. Some travel required.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to operate computer keyboard and telephone, reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, and sit. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to twenty-five pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to fifty pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Meriton is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by an applicant’s or employee’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or any other legally protected status. Reasonable accommodations will be made for qualified individuals with disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.

Salary ranges listed are dependent upon a candidate’s qualifications, experience, internal equity, and the budgeted amount for the specific role and location.