ADUSA Distribution is the distribution company of Ahold Delhaize USA providing distribution services to one of the largest grocery retail supply chains in the nation. ADUSA Distribution fosters a culture that inspires and empowers our associates to always deliver exceptional service and value. Our team is supporting the supply chain network evolution to an integrated self-distribution model of the future serving leading omnichannel grocery brands Food Lion Giant Food The GIANT Company Hannaford and Stop & Shop. To learn more about our company and the other supply chain companies of Ahold Delhaize USA visit .
The Manager Talent Acquisition provides strategic leadership and operational oversight for all talent acquisition activities across ADUSA Distribution. This role is responsible for designing and executing a comprehensive recruitment strategy that ensures the organization attracts selects and hires high-performing diverse talent to support distribution center operations supply chain functions and corporate teams.
This role operates with broad discretion in establishing recruitment priorities workforce planning strategies sourcing channels and process standards. The role builds and leads a high-performing recruiting team drives recruitment marketing and employment brand initiatives manages vendor partnerships and ensures cost-effective data-driven hiring practices. The Manager II partners closely with business leadership and HR Business Partners to anticipate workforce needs and deliver best-in-class candidate and hiring manager experiences.
Primary Duties
Talent Acquisition Strategy & Workforce Planning
- Develops and implements a comprehensive talent acquisition strategy aligned to business growth operational demands and workforce planning requirements.
- Establishes proactive sourcing and pipeline strategies to ensure a continuous supply of qualified and diverse candidates across multiple geographies and functions.
- Partners with senior operations and functional leaders to forecast staffing needs and develop recruiting plans that address market conditions and business cycles.
- Conducts environmental scans and monitors industry and labor market trends to anticipate talent gaps and reduce time-to-fill.
- Aligns recruiting strategies with organizational culture core values and diversity equity and inclusion objectives.
Recruitment Operations & Process Excellence
- Oversees full lifecycle recruitment processes including requisition intake sourcing screening interviewing selection offer negotiation and onboarding partnership.
- Establishes and implements best practices standardized processes and service level expectations across the recruiting function.
- Ensures consistent high-quality candidate and hiring manager experiences.
- Drives continuous improvement initiatives to enhance speed quality and cost efficiency of hiring processes.
- Ensures compliance with employment laws internal policies and regulatory requirements.
Team Leadership & Capability Development
- Leads develops and coaches a team of recruiters and talent acquisition professionals.
- Assigns requisitions and projects monitors workload balance and ensures performance standards are met.
- Provides mentoring training and guidance to recruiters and hiring managers on effective interviewing selection techniques and market insights.
- Establishes performance metrics and accountability standards for the recruiting team.
- Builds a culture of urgency service excellence collaboration and results orientation.
Sourcing Recruitment Marketing & Employment Brand
- Develops and executes recruitment marketing strategies that strengthen the organizations employer value proposition (EVP).
- Designs and manages recruiting events hiring campaigns and community outreach initiatives.
- Leverages traditional and nontraditional sourcing channels including digital platforms professional networks industry partnerships and community organizations.
- Utilizes social media job boards and sourcing tools to identify and attract high-quality talent.
- Ensures consistent brand messaging across all candidate touchpoints.
Stakeholder Partnership & Consulting
- Builds strong consultative relationships with leaders across distribution centers and corporate functions.
- Advises hiring managers on labor market trends talent availability compensation considerations and selection strategies.
- Collaborates with HR Business Partners to align talent acquisition strategies with broader talent management and workforce planning initiatives.
- Engages leadership in succession planning and strategic hiring decisions for critical roles.
Senior & Critical Role Recruitment
- Leads or directly recruits for senior-level executive or hard-to-fill roles as required.
- Develops targeted search strategies for specialized or high-impact positions.
- Manages offer negotiation and candidate closing strategies to secure top talent.
Data Analytics & Reporting
- Analyzes recruiting onboarding and workforce data to identify trends risks and opportunities for improvement.
- Develops and monitors key performance indicators such as time-to-fill quality-of-hire cost-per-hire and candidate pipeline metrics.
- Provides regular reporting and insights to senior leadership to inform workforce decisions and strategic planning.
- Leverages data to drive process enhancements and resource optimization.
Vendor & Budget Management
- Develops and manages the Talent Acquisition budget ensuring appropriate allocation of resources and cost optimization.
- Builds and manages relationships with third-party vendors including staffing agencies recruitment marketing partners and background screening providers.
- Negotiates contracts and monitors vendor performance to ensure quality and return on investment.
Governance & Compliance
- Ensures recruiting practices comply with applicable federal state and local employment regulations.
- Maintains documentation standards and audit readiness.
- Establishes policies and procedures that support fair equitable and legally compliant hiring practices.
Qualifications
Education:
- Bachelors degree in Human Resources Business or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Masters degree (MBA MSHR) preferred
Experience:
- 8-12 years of progressive experience in Talent Acquisition including experience in senior-level recruiting roles.
- 24 years of leadership experience managing recruiters or talent acquisition teams preferred.
- Experience supporting distribution warehousing supply chain or corporate environments preferred.
- Demonstrated experience aligning talent acquisition strategy with organizational goals and culture.
Preferred Experience:
- Experience in supply chain manufacturing or other large operationally complex environments.
We are an organization that values diversity and encourages all qualified individuals to apply without regard to sex race color ancestry national origin citizenship status religion age marital status (including civil unions) military service veteran status pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions) genetic information sexual orientation gender identity legally recognized disability domestic violence victim status or any other characteristic protected by law.
Our organization is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities including you have a disability and require assistance in the application process please email
Required Experience:
Senior Manager
ADUSA Distribution is the distribution company of Ahold Delhaize USA providing distribution services to one of the largest grocery retail supply chains in the nation. ADUSA Distribution fosters a culture that inspires and empowers our associates to always deliver exceptional service and value. Our t...
ADUSA Distribution is the distribution company of Ahold Delhaize USA providing distribution services to one of the largest grocery retail supply chains in the nation. ADUSA Distribution fosters a culture that inspires and empowers our associates to always deliver exceptional service and value. Our team is supporting the supply chain network evolution to an integrated self-distribution model of the future serving leading omnichannel grocery brands Food Lion Giant Food The GIANT Company Hannaford and Stop & Shop. To learn more about our company and the other supply chain companies of Ahold Delhaize USA visit .
The Manager Talent Acquisition provides strategic leadership and operational oversight for all talent acquisition activities across ADUSA Distribution. This role is responsible for designing and executing a comprehensive recruitment strategy that ensures the organization attracts selects and hires high-performing diverse talent to support distribution center operations supply chain functions and corporate teams.
This role operates with broad discretion in establishing recruitment priorities workforce planning strategies sourcing channels and process standards. The role builds and leads a high-performing recruiting team drives recruitment marketing and employment brand initiatives manages vendor partnerships and ensures cost-effective data-driven hiring practices. The Manager II partners closely with business leadership and HR Business Partners to anticipate workforce needs and deliver best-in-class candidate and hiring manager experiences.
Primary Duties
Talent Acquisition Strategy & Workforce Planning
- Develops and implements a comprehensive talent acquisition strategy aligned to business growth operational demands and workforce planning requirements.
- Establishes proactive sourcing and pipeline strategies to ensure a continuous supply of qualified and diverse candidates across multiple geographies and functions.
- Partners with senior operations and functional leaders to forecast staffing needs and develop recruiting plans that address market conditions and business cycles.
- Conducts environmental scans and monitors industry and labor market trends to anticipate talent gaps and reduce time-to-fill.
- Aligns recruiting strategies with organizational culture core values and diversity equity and inclusion objectives.
Recruitment Operations & Process Excellence
- Oversees full lifecycle recruitment processes including requisition intake sourcing screening interviewing selection offer negotiation and onboarding partnership.
- Establishes and implements best practices standardized processes and service level expectations across the recruiting function.
- Ensures consistent high-quality candidate and hiring manager experiences.
- Drives continuous improvement initiatives to enhance speed quality and cost efficiency of hiring processes.
- Ensures compliance with employment laws internal policies and regulatory requirements.
Team Leadership & Capability Development
- Leads develops and coaches a team of recruiters and talent acquisition professionals.
- Assigns requisitions and projects monitors workload balance and ensures performance standards are met.
- Provides mentoring training and guidance to recruiters and hiring managers on effective interviewing selection techniques and market insights.
- Establishes performance metrics and accountability standards for the recruiting team.
- Builds a culture of urgency service excellence collaboration and results orientation.
Sourcing Recruitment Marketing & Employment Brand
- Develops and executes recruitment marketing strategies that strengthen the organizations employer value proposition (EVP).
- Designs and manages recruiting events hiring campaigns and community outreach initiatives.
- Leverages traditional and nontraditional sourcing channels including digital platforms professional networks industry partnerships and community organizations.
- Utilizes social media job boards and sourcing tools to identify and attract high-quality talent.
- Ensures consistent brand messaging across all candidate touchpoints.
Stakeholder Partnership & Consulting
- Builds strong consultative relationships with leaders across distribution centers and corporate functions.
- Advises hiring managers on labor market trends talent availability compensation considerations and selection strategies.
- Collaborates with HR Business Partners to align talent acquisition strategies with broader talent management and workforce planning initiatives.
- Engages leadership in succession planning and strategic hiring decisions for critical roles.
Senior & Critical Role Recruitment
- Leads or directly recruits for senior-level executive or hard-to-fill roles as required.
- Develops targeted search strategies for specialized or high-impact positions.
- Manages offer negotiation and candidate closing strategies to secure top talent.
Data Analytics & Reporting
- Analyzes recruiting onboarding and workforce data to identify trends risks and opportunities for improvement.
- Develops and monitors key performance indicators such as time-to-fill quality-of-hire cost-per-hire and candidate pipeline metrics.
- Provides regular reporting and insights to senior leadership to inform workforce decisions and strategic planning.
- Leverages data to drive process enhancements and resource optimization.
Vendor & Budget Management
- Develops and manages the Talent Acquisition budget ensuring appropriate allocation of resources and cost optimization.
- Builds and manages relationships with third-party vendors including staffing agencies recruitment marketing partners and background screening providers.
- Negotiates contracts and monitors vendor performance to ensure quality and return on investment.
Governance & Compliance
- Ensures recruiting practices comply with applicable federal state and local employment regulations.
- Maintains documentation standards and audit readiness.
- Establishes policies and procedures that support fair equitable and legally compliant hiring practices.
Qualifications
Education:
- Bachelors degree in Human Resources Business or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Masters degree (MBA MSHR) preferred
Experience:
- 8-12 years of progressive experience in Talent Acquisition including experience in senior-level recruiting roles.
- 24 years of leadership experience managing recruiters or talent acquisition teams preferred.
- Experience supporting distribution warehousing supply chain or corporate environments preferred.
- Demonstrated experience aligning talent acquisition strategy with organizational goals and culture.
Preferred Experience:
- Experience in supply chain manufacturing or other large operationally complex environments.
We are an organization that values diversity and encourages all qualified individuals to apply without regard to sex race color ancestry national origin citizenship status religion age marital status (including civil unions) military service veteran status pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions) genetic information sexual orientation gender identity legally recognized disability domestic violence victim status or any other characteristic protected by law.
Our organization is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities including you have a disability and require assistance in the application process please email
Required Experience:
Senior Manager
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