Talent Acquisition Lead Oak Brook, IL

Position Overview

Greater Purpose and Core Values: Athletico's Greater Purpose is to empower people, inspire hope and transform lives. We accomplish this by providing exceptional, progressive, and cost-effective fitness, performance and rehabilitative services through personalized care that emphasizes education and prevention of future injury. This is accomplished through building on our Core Values of one team, understanding our business, recognition, people-focused, accountability, continuous innovation and trust and integrity, which are the foundation for our unique culture.

Position Summary:

The Talent Acquisition Lead is responsible for supporting the Talent Acquisition Manager in driving recruiting execution, operational excellence, and program delivery across the Talent Acquisition function. The Lead provides day-to-day support through ownership of key programs, reporting, and coordination efforts while serving as a resource and escalation point for recruiters and sourcing teams.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Partner closely with the Manager to ensure consistent execution of recruiting strategies, strong operational performance, and alignment across the team.
• Oversee key Talent Acquisition programs, including Internal and external travel program, Sourcer coordination and alignment, Workforce Planning data collection, and Prioritization strategy and social marketing.
• Support the Manager in driving team performance and execution of hiring goals.
• Serve as a resource for recruiters, providing guidance on process, tools, and workflows.
• Reinforce performance expectations and support consistency across the team.
• Assist in onboarding, training, and development of recruiters as needed.
• Own and support day-to-day recruiting operations and workflows.
• Ensure consistency and discipline in execution across the team.
• Identify process gaps and recommend operational improvements.
• Manage and maintain team reporting, dashboards, and performance data.
• Provide regular insights into pipeline health, hiring progress, and team productivity.
• Partner with Manager to identify trends and areas for improvement.
• Ensure programs are executed effectively and aligned with hiring priorities.
• Identify opportunities to improve program efficiency and outcomes.
• Own and manage the Talent Acquisition strategic calendar, including events, hiring cycles, and key initiatives.
• Coordinate timelines, deliverables, and priorities across the team.
• Ensure alignment between recruiters, leads, and leadership.
• Plan and coordinate All TA meetings, including agenda development, content organization, and logistics.
• Partner with the Manager to ensure clear and consistent communication with the team.
• Support alignment and information flow across the function.
• Partner with internal stakeholders including HR, Marketing, and Operations to support program execution.
• Ensure alignment between recruiting activities and business priorities.

Qualifications:

• Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Human Resources or related experience required.

• Work Experience:

• 3 years of recruitment and direct sourcing or equivalent experience within the Healthcare industry required / Physical Therapy preferred

• 1 year of HR experience within a healthcare organization highly desired

• 1 year of experience with LinkedIn Recruiter preferred

• Knowledge and Technical Skills:

• Strong knowledge in all full lifecycle recruiting components

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

• In-depth knowledge of job market, current trends and sourcing strategies

• Knowledgeable of the principles, practices and procedures related to recruiting and onboarding

Language Skills:

• Ability to read, write and speak English proficiently

Physical Demands:

• Ability to fulfill office activities including but not limited to remain stationary for extended periods of time (i.e., while working at a desk), stoop/kneel/crouch, travel around the office, communicate with others (verbal and written), and use fine motor skills including fine hand manipulation and keyboarding.
• Ability to see at close range, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

• Consistent with a standard office environment, noise level is low with little to no extraordinary environmental factors.

Athletico provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Minimum Salary/Wage

USD $82,000.00/Yr.

Maximum Salary/Wage

USD $101,000.00/Yr.