Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition

Ergon Inc. seeks a full-time Senior Manager Talent Acquisition to join our Human Resources team in Flowood MS. The Senior Manager Talent Acquisition leads the execution and continuous improvement of Ergons enterprise recruiting strategy with a strong emphasis on building a Center of Excellence (COE) model for salaried hiring. This role ensures consistent high-quality hiring outcomes through a disciplined scalable and data-driven approach while strengthening proactive talent pipelines across experienced and early career talent.

By establishing standardized recruiting practices and elevating hiring manager capability this role enables the organization to move from reactive hiring to a strategic pipeline-driven close partnership with HR Business Partners Talent Management and business leaders the Senior Manager ensures recruiting efforts align with business priorities and future capability needs while delivering an exceptional candidate experience grounded in Respectful Relationships and Empowered Service.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree required
• 8 years of progressive experience in Talent Acquisition
• Experience leading recruiting teams in a multi-function or multi-business environment
• Demonstrated success building scalable recruiting processes and operating models
• Experience partnering with and influencing business leaders on hiring decisions
• Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building or operating within a recruiting Center of Excellence (COE) particularly for salaried hiring
• Strong expertise in structured interviewing and selection methodologies
• Experience developing proactive talent pipelines including early career programs
• Proven ability to improve hiring manager capability and accountability
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Experience reducing reliance on external search firms through internal capability building

Duties and Key Responsibilities:

• Define and execute enterprise recruiting strategy aligned to workforce plans and business priorities
• Build and lead a Center of Excellence (COE) for salaried recruiting establishing standardized processes tools and service delivery models
• Establish and enforce recruiting standards service levels (SLAs) and consistent practices across all business units
• Build and maintain proactive talent pipelines for critical and salaried roles reducing reliance on reactive recruiting
• Lead university relations and early talent programs (internships co-ops and conversion pipelines) to support long-term workforce needs
• Improve quality of hire through structured selection assessment and interview practices
• Drive consistency and rigor in candidate evaluation and hiring decisions across the enterprise
• Partner with HR Business Partners and business leaders to prioritize hiring needs and ensure alignment
• Build hiring manager capability in interviewing candidate evaluation and decision-making reinforcing accountability for outcomes
• Monitor and improve key metrics including time-to-fill offer acceptance rates and first-year retention
• Drive operational excellence through standardization process improvement and effective use of recruiting systems and tools
• Optimize recruiting team capacity workload balancing and delivery model to support COE effectiveness
• Leverage data and analytics to identify risks improve performance and inform recruiting strategy
• Lead and develop the Talent Acquisition team fostering a high-performing accountable and service-oriented culture aligned to Selfless Leadership

Why Ergon Inc.

At Ergon we are a relationship-driven family-owned company that values the growth and contributions of each employee. Headquarters in Flowood Mississippi we take pride in maintaining a close-knit small-company atmosphere while offering exceptional career opportunities. With approximately 4500 employees we operate in multiple sectors including pavement & pavement preservation specialty refining logistics construction and specialty chemicals. Our people are the foundation of our success and we are committed to fostering a workplace where talent is recognized rewarded and empowered. Our comprehensive benefits package includes:

• Competitive pay
• 401(k) matching & profit sharing
• Health Dental Vision and Life Insurance
• Short- and Long-Term Disability Plans
• Additional voluntary benefits
• Paid holidays vacation and sick leave
• Tuition assistance
• Opportunity to shape enterprise-wide compensation strategy
• Collaborative inclusive and performance-driven culture
• Career growth in a dynamic diversified organization

At Ergon Inc. we live by our core values:

• Empowered Service: Together were committed to delivering unparalleled service. We do whats right provide solutions and foster stronger relationships with our teams and customers. Employee safety is our top priority and the first consideration in all aspects of our service. Thats empowered service.
• Selfless Leadership: We lead with compassion and put those around us before ourselves. We dont say were experts; we demonstrate it through technical expertise category innovation and care for what we do. We call this selfless leadership.
• Purposeful Growth: We believe employee and company growth go hand in hand. We build our legacy together to ensure future success through purposeful growth. The company has continually reinvested tremendously back into the business not just growing for the sake of growing but growing carefully and strategically.
• Respectful Relationships: Together we foster a culture of respect acceptance and diversity of ideas and people. Our differences make us stronger. Were united by our shared values constantly forging respectful relationships.

Come and join the Ergon team!

We are an EEO/AAP employer.

Job Role: Senior Manager Talent Acquisition

Location: Flowood MS

Required Experience:

Senior Manager