Talent Acquisition Advisor

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

📋 Description

• Serve as the chief recruiting advisor to hiring managers and business leaders across BSN SPORTS and Varsity Spirit, ensuring alignment of role requirements, success profiles, and hiring strategies with commercial objectives.

• Convert shifting business priorities—such as territory expansion, sales capacity, customer experience, brand growth, digital commerce, and seasonal demand—into effective hiring strategies.

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

• Oversee full-cycle recruiting for various positions, including field and inside sales, account management, sales leadership, business development, customer service, customer experience, as well as brand, digital, performance, product, communications, and e-commerce marketing roles.

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

• Deliver a world-class candidate experience tailored to commercial and customer-facing talent, ensuring a balance of speed, transparency, consistency, and rigor.

• Provide role-specific recruiting guidance and continuous calibration to Talent Specialists and Sourcers involved in each search, covering 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.

• Conduct market mapping focused on competitors, territories, customer service hubs, sales channels, marketing specialties, and talent availability.

• Utilize LinkedIn, professional associations, industry events, referral networks, community partnerships, and AI-driven sourcing tools to reach inclusive and diverse talent.

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

• Advocate for equitable evaluation methods that minimize bias and enhance predictive accuracy.

• Collaborate across departments to ensure consistent and transparent hiring processes throughout BSN SPORTS and Varsity Spirit.

• Employ Workday and other ATS/CRM tools to manage commercial pipelines, deliver analytics, and monitor KPI performance, including time-to-fill, pipeline quality, conversion rates, and hiring volume.

• Continuously enhance recruiting workflows for sales, customer service, and marketing positions to boost efficiency, throughput, and support for seasonal and high-volume hiring.

• Champion documentation quality, compliance, risk awareness, and repeatable recruiting practices across commercial hiring.

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

• Leverage AI-powered sourcing and talent intelligence tools to predict commercial hiring needs and develop proactive pipelines.

• Use automation and personalization to customize outreach for candidates in sales, customer service, and marketing.

• Apply market data and benchmarks to provide leaders with insights on compensation, talent availability, and competitive dynamics.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

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

• Experience in formulating long-term talent strategies that align with sales growth, customer experience, brand expansion, and evolving workforce requirements.

• Demonstrated ability to recruit for commercial, field and inside sales, customer service, customer 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 positions.

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

• Expertise in advising and influencing hiring managers, commercial executives, and people leaders through data, market intelligence, and consultative recommendations.

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

• Outstanding 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!