Experienced Hire Recruiting Manager - CDD & Value Creation

Grant Thornton is seeking an Experienced Hire Recruiting Manager (CDD & Value Creation) to join the team. Approved office locations can be found below. 

The Opportunity

Grant Thornton Stax is seeking a Manager, CDD & Value Creation Experienced Hire Recruiting to lead experienced-hire recruiting across our Commercial Due Diligence, Strategy and Value Creation businesses.

As a key member of the National Talent Acquisition Team, you will partner and build effective relationships at all levels to ensure an efficient and successful recruitment process.  This role is designed for a recruiter who has built strong sourcing, candidate-management and stakeholder-management capabilities and is ready to move from supporting individual searches to leading an experienced-hire recruiting effort for a strategically important part of the business.

Reporting to the Grant Thornton Talent Acquisition Leader, the Manager will work closely with Grant Thornton Stax business leadership, the Grant Thornton Stax Executive Leadership Team and consulting teams to establish hiring goals, translate those goals into recruiting plans, build proactive candidate pipelines and drive candidates from identification through successful hire. The Manager will also oversee external recruiting partners supporting these businesses and connect new hires with Grant Thornton Stax Talent Development for onboarding.

What You'll Do:Own Experienced-Hire Recruiting for CDD & Value Creation

• Lead experienced-hire recruiting across CDD, Strategy and Value Creation for professional consulting roles for experienced hire recruiting. 

• Partner with business leadership to establish annual and ongoing hiring goals by level, capability and priority area.

• Translate hiring goals into actionable recruiting plans, including target profiles, sourcing channels, pipeline requirements and search priorities.

• Maintain an always-on view of the talent market and build pipelines ahead of immediate hiring demand.

• Develop a deep understanding of the experience, capabilities and characteristics required to succeed at Stax.

Build and Manage the Talent Pipeline

• Proactively identify and engage talent from strategy consulting, commercial due diligence, transaction advisory, private-equity-focused consulting and other relevant talent pools.

• Build targeted talent maps around priority levels, capabilities and areas of expertise.

• Use direct sourcing, employee and leadership referrals, Stax alumni and boomerang relationships, professional networks and external recruiting partners to develop the pipeline.

• Cultivate high-potential candidates over time, including individuals who may not be ready to move immediately.

• Provide business leadership with market intelligence on talent availability, competitor activity and pipeline health.

Lead External Recruiting Partners

• Serve as the principal day-to-day partner for external recruiting and search firms supporting CDD and Value Creation experienced hiring.

• Translate Stax hiring priorities into clear mandates, target profiles and search strategies for external partners.

• Establish expectations for candidate quality, responsiveness, market coverage and pipeline development.

• Review search progress and candidate pipelines regularly, provide feedback and redirect efforts where necessary.

• Ensure external recruiters understand the Stax business, consulting model and differentiated talent profiles.

• Help determine when external search support is appropriate versus direct sourcing, referrals, alumni and other recruiting channels.

Partner With Stax Leadership and Consultants

• Build strong working relationships with the Stax ELT, Partners, Managing Directors and consulting leaders to anticipate experienced-hiring needs.

• Partner with business leadership on hiring goals, priorities, progress and trade-offs.

• Engage Stax consultants in candidate identification, referrals, assessment and cultivation.

• Establish clear candidate profiles and assessment criteria by level and help prepare interview teams.

• Drive a disciplined process from candidate identification through screening, interviews, decision, offer and hire.

• Provide leadership with clear visibility into pipeline strength, priority searches, conversion and emerging recruiting challenges.

Deliver a High-Touch Candidate Experience

• Serve as a primary contact for candidates throughout the recruiting process.

• Communicate the Grant Thornton Stax story and help candidates understand our CDD, Strategy and Value Creation businesses, culture and career opportunities.

• Maintain strong candidate engagement, communication and momentum throughout the process.

• Partner with business leaders to cultivate priority candidates and successfully close hires.

• Ensure a consistently strong candidate experience across direct sourcing, referrals and external recruiting channels.

Connect Recruiting Through Onboarding

• Partner closely with Stax Talent Development as candidates transition from accepted offer to Stax employee.

• Create a seamless handoff from recruiting into pre-boarding, onboarding and development.

• Share relevant information about incoming hires’ backgrounds and experience to support effective onboarding.

• Use feedback from onboarding and early employee experience to refine target profiles and recruiting approaches.

Qualifications:

• Approximately 5-8  years of recruiting or talent acquisition experience, ideally in management consulting, strategy consulting, professional services, executive search or another high-touch professional talent environment.

• Experience with experienced-hire / lateral recruiting, preferably involving consulting or similarly selective professional talent.

• Demonstrated ability to proactively identify and engage passive candidates rather than relying primarily on inbound applications.

• Experience managing candidates through the full recruiting lifecycle, from identification and outreach through assessment, offer and close.

• Experience working with external recruiting or search firms, including setting expectations and managing partner performance.

• Confidence partnering directly with senior business leaders on hiring goals, needs and priorities.

• Strong candidate judgment and the ability to learn what differentiates high-performing consulting talent.

• Strong relationship-building, communication and organizational skills.

• Ability to manage multiple searches, candidate pipelines, business stakeholders and external partners simultaneously.

• Comfort using recruiting metrics and pipeline data to inform priorities and improve results.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

• Management consulting recruiting experience is strongly valued but not required. We are especially interested in someone who wants to become deeply embedded in the business they recruit for and take ownership for building its experienced-talent pipeline.

 

The base salary range for this position is between $112,000 and $168,000. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton’s discretion, and it is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job -related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity. At Grant Thornton, compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.

 

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