Talent Acquisition & Recruiting Specialist
Northbrook, IL - USA
Job Summary
If youre looking for a special place to build or grow your career youve found it. Whether youre an experienced professional a recent college graduate or somewhere in between IDEX is a place where you can apply your existing skills and learn new ones in an environment where you can make an impact.
With interesting opportunities in engineering marketing sales supply chain operations HR finance and more across more than 40 diverse businesses around the globe chances are we have something special for you.
Health And Science technologies
Health and Science Technologies (HST) is a core business segment within IDEX serving data center & power generation semiconductor pharma and life sciences industrial and space & defense markets driving strong customer retention and attractive margins. We enable mission-critical applications in workflows across Our capabilities combine deep expertise in flow optics and materials science to precisely control liquids gases and light. With advanced materials and application know-how we enable high performance precision solutions that scale with quality from early prototypes to full production. The segment generates approximately $1.49B in revenue with a global footprint across 10 countries 40 sites 4000 employees and a strong runway for sustainable profitable growth.
Summary Role Overview
The Talent Acquisition & Recruiting Specialist is a highly visible individual contributor responsible for sourcing assessing and hiring qualified salaried individual contributors and select supervisor and manager roles within assigned scope across multiple business units. This role manages the full recruitment lifecyclefrom intake through offer and onboarding handoffwhile ensuring a positive consistent experience for both candidates and hiring managers.
The Talent Acquisition & Recruiting Specialist works closely with the broader Talent Acquisition team HR partners and hiring managers following established processes and tools and demonstrating the companys core values of Trust Teams and Excellence in daily work.
Operating within IDEXs enterprise talent acquisition strategy standards and centralized operating model the Talent Acquisition & Recruiting Specialist applies established tools processes and governance to deliver consistent highquality hiring outcomes and to support the success of the broader Talent Acquisition transformation. The role also contributes accurate data and actionable insights to talent acquisition metrics dashboards tools and continuous improvement initiatives.
This role is designed for a developing recruiting professional who is building depth in full-cycle recruiting stakeholder partnership and proactive sourcing within an enterprise Talent Acquisition model.
Responsibilities
- Manage full-cycle recruiting for approximately 1825 requisitions at a time leading the process from strategic intake through offer and onboarding handoff in alignment with enterprise TA processes and service level agreements
- Partner with HR partners and hiring managers to understand workforce needs clarify role requirements and success profiles establish selection criteria and build structured interview plans
- Source and engage both active and passive talent through multiple channelsincluding job boards LinkedIn referrals events internal databases and direct outreachwhile aligning with enterprise talent attraction and sourcing strategies
- Develop and maintain strong talent pipelines for critical niche and hardtofill roles that support current and future business priorities
- Actively support internal mobility by identifying and engaging internal candidates partnering with HR and hiring leaders on internal movement opportunities and ensuring fair consistent assessment of internal and external talent.
- Screen and interview candidates to evaluate work history skills experience and alignment with company values and culture
- Coordinate interviews and debriefs ensuring hiring teams are prepared aligned on evaluation criteria and consistently follow fair compliant selection processes that reflect enterprise TA policies and workflows
- Advise hiring managers on candidate assessments selection decisions and offer strategies to support highquality hiring outcomes
- Provide clear timely and professional communication to candidates and hiring managers throughout the recruitment lifecycle reinforcing the employer brand and delivering an excellent candidate experience
- Share information with candidates about company strategy culture operations work environment benefits and career opportunities to support informed decisionmaking
- Maintain accurate uptodate candidate and requisition data in the applicant tracking system (e.g. Workday SmartRecruiters) to support reporting compliance and enterprise talent acquisition dashboards
- Ensure compliance with all applicable laws regulations and company policies including documentation standards and data privacy requirements
- Collaborate with the broader talent acquisition and HR teams on sourcing strategies employer branding initiatives and recruiting projects contributing insights and feedback to enhance processes tools and the centralized TA model.
Qualifications
- Typically 35 years of full lifecycle recruiting or related HR experience demonstrating progressive growth in sourcing candidate assessment and partnership with hiring managers ideally in fast-paced competitive markets.
- Demonstrated success recruiting mid to seniorlevel talent across technical and nontechnical functions; experience in manufacturing industrials dynamic technology business or complex B2B environments strongly preferred.
- Proven proactive sourcing capability including direct outreach to passive candidates and building targeted talent pipelines.
- Experience solving complex recruiting challenges and delivering measurable results as an individual contributor.
- Proficiency with applicant tracking systems preferably Workday and/or SmartRecruiters including requisition and pipeline management.
- Comfort with basic reporting and data analysis using Excel or similar tools.
- Familiarity with structured interviewing and competencybased assessment methods.
Attributes & Skills
- Strong business presence able to build credibility and trust with plant leaders functional managers and HR partners
- Exceptional written and verbal communication emphasizing clarity transparency and a highquality candidate experience
- Skilled at managing multiple requisitions and stakeholders in a fastpaced environment while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail
- Effective stakeholder management and influencing skills using data and market insights to guide expectations and decisionmaking
- High integrity sound judgment and strong ownership mindset consistently following through on commitments and driving outcomes
- Organized and detailoriented with disciplined documentation habits and adherence to established processes
- Collaborative and teamoriented comfortable working across functions locations and a matrixed organizational structure
- Customerfocused and consultative building longterm trustbased relationships with candidates and hiring managers
- Aligned with company values of Trust Teams and Excellence and committed to safety quality and continuous improvement
Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people our culture and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world
Total Rewards
The compensation range for this position is $78200.00 - $117200.00 depending on experience. This position may be eligible for performance based bonus plan.Benefits Package
Our comprehensive U.S. benefit offerings include: Health benefits 401(k) retirement savings program with company match PTO and more. More information on our benefits and rewards can be found on our career page: is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IDEX gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race color religion creed genetic information sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression marital status age national origin disability protected veteran status or any other consideration or protected category made unlawful by federal state or local laws.
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About Company
IDEX (NYSE: IEX) is a company that has undoubtedly touched your life in some way with products that are mission-critical components in everyday activities.