Talent Acquisition Advisor

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Kansas, +2 more states.

📋 Description

• Serve as the primary recruitment consultant to hiring managers and business leaders at BSN SPORTS and Varsity Spirit, ensuring alignment of role specifications, success profiles, and hiring strategies with business objectives.

• Convert changing business priorities—including territory expansion, sales capacity, customer experience, brand growth, digital commerce, and seasonal demand—into actionable recruitment strategies.

• Utilize talent market insights to shape workforce planning, role design, location strategy, and competitive decision-making.

• Oversee the complete recruitment cycle for field and inside sales, account management, sales leadership, business development, customer service and experience, as well as brand, digital, performance, product, communications, and e-commerce marketing positions.

• Develop scalable talent pipelines for high-volume, geographically dispersed, seasonal, specialized, and challenging-to-fill positions.

• Ensure a premier candidate experience tailored for commercial and customer-facing roles, balancing speed, transparency, consistency, and thoroughness.

• Offer role-specific recruitment guidance and ongoing calibration to Talent Specialists and Sourcers supporting each search, including target profiles, sourcing priorities, and screening criteria.

• Create innovative sourcing strategies to engage passive talent in sales, customer experience, and marketing across B2B, consumer, sports, apparel, retail, and service sectors.

• Execute market mapping surrounding competitors, territories, customer service hubs, sales channels, marketing specialties, and talent availability.

• Leverage LinkedIn, professional associations, industry events, referral networks, community partnerships, and AI-enhanced sourcing tools to connect with inclusive and diverse talent.

• Advise leaders on structured interviews, job-relevant assessments, scorecards, hiring calibration, and success profiles linked to commercial results.

• Foster equitable evaluation methodologies that minimize bias and enhance predictive accuracy.

• Collaborate across functions to maintain consistent and transparent hiring processes throughout BSN SPORTS and Varsity Spirit.

• Utilize Workday and other ATS/CRM tools to manage commercial pipelines, provide analytics, and monitor KPI performance, such as time-to-fill, pipeline quality, conversion rates, and hiring volume.

• Continuously enhance recruitment workflows for sales, customer service, and marketing roles to improve efficiency, throughput, and support for seasonal and high-volume hiring.

• Advocate for documentation quality, compliance, risk awareness, and reproducible recruitment practices in commercial hiring.

• Collaborate with HRBP to project staffing needs using attrition metrics, workforce planning strategies, and changing staffing priorities.

• Employ AI-powered sourcing and talent intelligence tools to anticipate commercial hiring needs and construct proactive pipelines.

• Implement automation and personalization in outreach efforts for sales, customer service, and marketing candidates.

⛳️ Requirements

• 6-8+ years of comprehensive recruiting experience with a strong emphasis on commercial, sales, customer service or experience, marketing, or related customer-facing roles.

• Background in supporting large-scale, multi-location organizations with field-based, high-volume, seasonal, or geographically diverse hiring needs.

• Bachelor's degree in HR, Business Administration, Marketing, or a related field—or equivalent relevant experience required.

• Experience in developing long-term talent strategies aligned with sales growth, customer experience, brand expansion, and changing workforce demands.

• Previous experience in sports, apparel, consumer products, retail, B2B sales, multi-brand organizations, or mission-driven companies is advantageous.

• Demonstrated ability to recruit for commercial, field and inside sales, customer service and experience, and marketing roles across various levels and locations.

• Strong skills in passive sourcing, Boolean search, talent mapping, competitive intelligence, and pipeline development for high-volume and specialized roles.

• Understanding of commercial success profiles, including quota attainment, territory development, customer retention, service quality, brand impact, and campaign performance.

• Proficient in advising and influencing hiring managers, commercial executives, and team leaders through data, market insights, and consultative recommendations.

• Skilled in using ATS/CRM platforms, recruiting analytics, and modern AI and talent intelligence tools, including Copilot and ChatGPT.

• Excellent relationship-building and communication abilities, adaptable to frontline, professional, and executive audiences.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive Health Care Benefits

• HSA Employer Contribution/ FSA Opportunities

• Wellbeing Program

• 401(k) plan with company matching

• Company paid Life, AD&D, and Short-Term Disability

• Generous My Time Off & Paid Holidays

• Varsity Brands Ownership Program

• Employee Resource Groups

• Access to Financial Coaching and member-owned Credit Union

• St. Jude Partnership & Volunteer Opportunities

• Employee Perks including discounts on personal apparel and equipment!