Senior Executive Recruiter

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

Position Purpose:

The Senior Executive Recruiter supports executive talent acquisition initiatives, ensuring The Home Depot is positioned for continued growth and innovation by recruiting top leaders across strategic business areas. In this role, you will own and manage the full lifecycle for Senior Director and Officer ( VP+) level searches. You will work on some of our most complex and critical leadership talent initiatives, providing key insights and strategies to enhance The Home Depot's ability to hire the most diverse and dynamic leaders in the industry.

Key Responsibilities:

• 40% Cross Functional Engagement - Research, identify, engage, assess and cultivate relationships with external leadership talent of strategic interest to The Home Depot; Identify emerging and diverse talent pools, develop strong leadership talent networks and leverage world-class talent pipelines for conversion to executive level hires
• 10% Efficiency and Compliance - Ensure consistency, efficiency and compliance with federal, state and local laws, and company policies. Ensure all talent acquisition activities are compliant with the established sourcing, recruiting, and selection procedures including maintaining appropriate data integrity
• 20% Research and Analysis - Conduct ongoing market and competitive research and analysis to remain keenly aware of trends in the global business climate, economy and workplace, while understanding their impact on leadership hiring; Use this knowledge to create and execute innovative, functionally aligned executive recruitment strategies in support of The Home Depot's executive talent initiatives
• 30% Strategic Partnership - Provide strategic, consultative partnership to the executive leadership team and human resources as the enterprise expert on executive search processes while owning the overall executive (Officer) and Director candidate experience; Participate in client (Hiring Manager) meetings on active search engagements, conduct executive talent assessments, candidate

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• This position typically reports to Manager, Executive Recruiting
• This position has 0 Direct Reports

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience within a retained search firm or in-house executive recruiting team
• Ability to recruit at the most senior levels of today's largest public and private businesses
• Strong executive presence, commercial mindset, and business acumen with the ability to interpret enterprise business strategies
• Exceptional critical thinking capabilities and a strategic mindset to translate trends and analysis into actionable executive talent recommendations
• Broad cross-functional knowledge across the enterprise
• Strong presentation and project management experience
• Tech-savvy and AI-forward approach, with strong experience utilizing multiple sourcing tools, AI methods, and CRM platforms to identify, engage, and cultivate relationships with executive talent

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 5

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Decision Quality
• Persuades
• Tech Savvy
• Communicates Effectively
• Strategic Mindset
• Ability to gain consensus, develop and deliver against strategic priorities and timelines
• Exceptional verbal written and communication skills and ability to operate at all levels of the organization including frequent interaction with Senior Leadership
• Technically savvy with a thorough understanding of research and sourcing tools functionality and capabilities
• Ability to use data to drive key and impactful decision-making and quality