DirectorSenior Director Executive Talent Acquisition

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Your Impact
The Senior Director Executive Talent Acquisition is responsible for creating building and leading Lowes Executive Talent Acquisition. This role will be responsible for hiring all executive talent which includes all VP and above roles select Senior Director positions and other hard-to-hire business critical positions. This leader plays a key role in the recruitment of talent needed to meet business goals and growth targets. This individual will be a member of Lowes senior Talent Acquisition leadership team and will have accountability for building and maintaining strong relationships with executives across the company. This role will create a blended executive recruiting model leveraging internal and external search partners.

What You Will Do

• Leads and delivers a seamless executive search process that effectively sources attracts assesses selects and on-boards talent for VP roles
• Develops talent intelligence and mapping to understand the competitive landscape and opportunities for recruitment
• Directs all aspects of executive search strategies including but not limited to business planning forecasting search execution and business analytics
• Understands Lowes officer-level competencies and success profiles and develops search strategies to target high-level external candidates
• Builds direct sourcing capability internally which includes evaluating recommending and implementing systems processes and people with both a short and long-term talent view
• Helps streamline decision-making around external and internal talent to create robust and diverse slates to ultimately identify best-in-class talent for roles across the enterprise. Collaborates to understand the existing leadership pipeline talent gaps and align strategies to address critical capabilities and develop integrated diversity and inclusion talent strategies
• Builds strong and trusted relationships with executives across Lowes business
• Partners with influences and acts as an expert resource to advise HR Business Partners (HRBPs) and leaders to equip and enable them to execute strategies plans and practices
• Develops and holds team accountable for metrics to measure effectiveness of processes and candidate experience/outcome. Identify capture and report on relevant recruitment performance metrics such as: candidate and hiring manager experience conversion market factors.
• Evaluates and advises on the impact of long-range planning and new programs/strategies and regulatory action as those items impact the talent acquisition functional strategies capabilities and programs
• Partners with and advises business leaders in assessing pipeline and projecting talent needs at all levels
• Drives diversity and inclusion strategies and actions for executive recruiting initiatives
• Identifies utilizes and builds strong relationships with a select number of executive recruiting partners and sourcing providers. Ensures providers meet expectations and that the best recruiters in the space are being effectively used by Lowes
• Develops implements and oversees a high-touch executive- referral program
• Leads continuous improvement efforts to ensure Lowes delivers best-in-class executive recruiting processes
• Manages an exceptional candidate experience before during and after the Lowes interview process

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree Business or a similar discipline or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement if applicable
• 11 Years Broad experience in human resources and executive recruiting preferably with combination of corporate and executive search agency experience. Track record of working at/with the highest companies for a multi-billion dollar global complex and matrix environment.
• 8 Years Experience maintaining strategic relationships with external search partners and related vendors ensuring that there is an effective partnership resulting in the acquisition of exceptional executive talent. Experience negotiating all firms agreements and ensuring that there is an overall vendor strategy and positive ROI.
• 6 Years Experience establishing comprehensive metrics to track executive recruiting effectiveness and overall talent acquisition strategy alignment to the business.
• 5 Years Proven experience hiring leading and motivating a diverse team of leaders who will translate strategy into action. Also experience serving as a leader mentor and coach to the team.
  

About Lowes

Lowes Companies Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE100 home improvement company with total fiscal 2025 sales of more than $86 billion. Lowes employs approximately 300000 associates and operates over 1750 home improvement stores 540branches and 120distribution centers. Based in Mooresville N.C. Lowes supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe affordable housing improving community spaces helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information visit.

Lowes is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race color religious creed sex gender age ancestry national origin mental or physical disability or medical condition sexual orientation gender identity or expression marital status military or veteran status genetic information or any other category protected under federal state or local law.