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Team Summary:
The U.S. Retail Talent Acquisition team partners with store and business leaders to build strong teams that serve customers and support growth. In this collaborative, fast-moving environment, your recruiting expertise, market insight, and ideas will help strengthen talent pipelines and deliver a positive, consistent hiring experience.
Role Summary:
As a Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition, you will lead full-cycle recruiting for U.S. Retail roles and serve as a trusted advisor to hiring managers and business leaders. You will use sourcing expertise, labor market intelligence, recruiting technology, and data to attract talent, guide hiring decisions, improve candidate experiences, and support workforce priorities.
What you’ll be doing:
- Manage full-cycle recruiting for exempt and non-exempt U.S. Retail roles, from intake and sourcing through assessment, hiring recommendations, and offer acceptance.
- Partner with hiring managers and business leaders to understand workforce needs, define role requirements, anticipate talent gaps, and develop effective recruiting strategies.
- Build diverse pipelines for critical and hard-to-fill roles by engaging active and passive candidates through targeted sourcing, employer branding, career events, and talent programs.
- Advise leaders using labor market trends, talent availability, recruiting metrics, and candidate insights to improve hiring decisions, time-to-fill, and the candidate experience.
- Collaborate with Human Resources and Compensation on offer development and negotiations while maintaining accurate applicant tracking, compliance, and recruiting records.
- Serve as a recruiting subject matter expert by coaching partners, leading projects, and driving practical process and technology improvements.
What you bring to the table:
- Strategic thinking and business acumen, with the ability to connect recruiting priorities to workforce and business needs.
- Strong consultation, relationship-building, and influencing skills with hiring managers and senior leaders.
- Clear, confident communication and the ability to lead intake meetings, candidate calibrations, hiring discussions, and offer conversations.
- A data-driven, practical approach to problem-solving, paired with sound judgment and strong attention to detail.
- Adaptability, resilience, professional integrity, and a collaborative, customer-focused commitment to service and candidate experience.
What’s needed- Basic Qualifications:
- Associate degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Psychology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 6+ years of progressively responsible talent acquisition, recruiting, sourcing, workforce planning, or related Human Resources experience.
- Experience managing full-cycle recruiting and partnering directly with hiring managers and business leaders.
- Demonstrated success developing pipelines and filling difficult-to-source positions.
- Experience using applicant tracking systems, LinkedIn Recruiter or similar sourcing platforms, and Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Knowledge of employment law, recruiting compliance, and hiring best practices, with experience maintaining accurate recruiting data.
- Experience using recruiting metrics to improve outcomes and negotiating employment offers to influence successful hires.
What’s needed- Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience supporting high-volume and exempt hiring across corporate, technology, supply chain, sales, finance, or specialized professional roles.
- Experience with talent market analytics, workforce planning, candidate relationship management platforms, process improvement, project leadership, or recruiter mentoring.
- Experience applying AI-powered recruiting tools, including Microsoft Copilot, to identify talent, streamline workflows, generate market insights, and improve the overall recruiting experience.
Get great perks.
- Bonus plan and generous amount of paid time off, including one Floating Holiday each year.
- Flexible work arrangements, including flexible work hours.
- 401(k) plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance with many more optional benefits.
- Associate store discount and more perks, including discounts on mobile plans, movie tickets, etc.
The salary range represents the expected compensation for this role at the time of posting. The specific base pay may be influenced by a variety of factors to include the candidate's experience, skill set, education, geography, business considerations, and internal equity. In addition to base pay, this role may be eligible for bonuses, or other forms of variable compensation.
Staples is an Equal Opportunity Employer who values the diversity of our people, products, and services. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
About Us
The world of working and learning has changed. This is your opportunity to be a part of a brand transformation and growth strategy within the retail industry. Staples is helping our customers and community discover innovative products, services, and inspiration that unlock what’s possible, while empowering you to unlock your potential. Our people are the heart of our success and there has never been a better time to join us as we lead the way in a new era of working and learning.
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Staples is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.
Staples is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please call 1-888-490-4747 for more information.
Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act; as well as with any other state and local Fair Chance Ordinance/Act regulations.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
