Talent Acquisition Director

First Horizon Talent Acquisition Director

Role summary

• Lead an AIâenabled dataâdriven Talent Acquisition (TA) strategy that accelerates growth strengthens First Horizons culture and enhances our client and associate experience.
• Run scalable resilient recruiting operations today while modernizing the function for tomorrow.
• Partner with senior leaders across Commercial Retail Wealth Risk Technology Operations and Corporate to anticipate workforce needs.

What youll do

• Own the enterprise TA strategy aligned to growth plans; translate workforce plans into sourcing pipelining and hiring that balance quality speed cost and diversity.
• Lead and develop a distributed team of managers recruiters sourcers and coordinators; set goals and build successors.
• Modernize TA with ethical compliant AI and talent intelligence; build dashboards for timeâtoâaccept conversion qualityâofâhire diversity satisfaction costâperâhire and retention.
• Drive operational excellence: standardize processes/SLAs design capacity plans and optimize the tech stack (ATS/CRM scheduling assessments background screening Oracle); lead external partner strategy and contracts to ensure performance and cost control.
• Lead change management for tools and processes; drive stakeholder engagement communications and training; foster a learning culture and continuous improvement.
• Oversee executive and niche hiring with structured selection; expand earlyâcareer/campus/veteran/community pathways; partner with Total Rewards on competitive equitable offers.
• Partner with Communications/Marketing to strengthen the employer brand and ensure a frictionless candidate and hiring leader experience; manage onboarding handoffs for Day 1 readiness.
• Ensure risk compliance and ethics across TA (EEO/AA pay equity background checks adverse action data privacy).

Qualifications

• 1215 years in TA/HR with 67 years leading multiâsite or enterprise TA teams; success in complex regulated multiâstate environments (financial services preferred).
• Handsâon experience with AIâenabled recruiting talent intelligence and advanced TA analytics; expertise with enterprise ATS/CRM and Oracle.
• Proven process optimization and leadership of external recruiting partners with measurable performance and cost outcomes.
• Strong change leadership; deep knowledge of inclusive hiring structured selection assessments and competency frameworks.
• Dataâdriven influencer with exceptional stakeholder management executive presence and communication skills.
• Bachelors degree required advanced degree preferred. Preferred certifications: SHRMâSCP/SPHR; Lean Six Sigma/Agile (or equivalent). Comfortable working across time zones; travel as needed.

About Us
First Horizon Corporation is a leading regional financial services company dedicated to helping our clients communities and associates unlock their full potential with capital and counsel. Headquartered in Memphis TN the banking subsidiary First Horizon Bank operates in 12 states across the southern U.S. The Company and its subsidiaries offer commercial private banking consumer small business wealth and trust management retail brokerage capital markets fixed income and mortgage banking services. First Horizon has been recognized as one of the nations best employers by Fortune and Forbes magazines and a Top 10 Most Reputable U.S. Bank. More information is available at .

Benefit Highlights
Medical with wellness incentives dental and vision
HSA with company match
Maternity and parental leave
Tuition reimbursement
Mentor program
401(k) with 6% match
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