As our Lead Executive Recruiter, you will lead Guardian’s enterprise-wide executive recruiting practices.
You will be joining a dedicated and collaborative Talent Acquisition team, reporting into the Head of Talent Acquisition. You will play a meaningful role as a core member of the Talent Acquisition leadership team, collaborating, sharing insights and perspectives. You will develop key relationships with internal partners and stakeholders, as well as with Guardian’s senior leadership team and help to identify and attract top executive talent to the organization.
You Are:
- A self-starter who is motivated by collaboration, a problem solver who enjoys diving into data, loves to navigate a complicated search, is thorough and has strong interpersonal skills.
You Will:
- Develop an executive search strategy with a focus on applying best in class search and sourcing methods to deliver on business needs.
- Define target success metrics and objectives and audit data and insights to assess success and efficacy of sourcing strategies to improve team performance.
- Partner effectively with key internal partners, including business leaders, HR Business Partners, and Executive Compensation teams to ensure alignment on searches.
- Directly handle all executive searches and deliver market mapping and insights to hiring leaders.
- Support HRBP’s with administrative tasks when using retained executive search partners.
- Lead continuous improvement projects to further the executive recruiting function.
- Lead and develop an Executive Sourcer.
You Have:
- Extensive experience leading an executive search function, either in-house or at an executive search firm, coupled with broad HR knowledge and exposure to HR leadership.
- Expertise in accessing top executive talent, understanding market practices and ability to consistently and proactively identify and attract passive executive candidates by applying sophisticated recruiting and networking techniques.
- Experience as a respected leader who sets the standard, motivates, and empowers others and champions Guardian’s values and principles.
- Ability to establish rapport as a trusted and respected advisor at the executive level.
- Gravitas to influence, coach and lead conversations with leaders at all levels of the organization.
- Demonstrable experience navigating through complexity and an environment of conflicting priorities.
- Ability to build networks internally across a matrix organization.
- Expertise in compensation structures and the creation of complex offers.
Salary Range:
$129,500.00 - $212,750.00
The salary range reflected above is a good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location of the position. The salary for this position ultimately will be determined based on the education, experience, knowledge, and abilities of the successful candidate. In addition to salary, this role may also be eligible for annual, sales, or other incentive compensation.
Our Promise
At Guardian, you’ll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals. Through skill-building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards.
Inspire Well-Being
As part of Guardian’s Purpose – to inspire well-being – we are committed to offering contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources to our colleagues. Explore our company benefits at www.guardianlife.com/careers/corporate/benefits. Benefits apply to full-time eligible employees. Interns are not eligible for most Company benefits.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Guardian is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
Accommodations
Guardian is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Guardian also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants (and employees) to accommodate the individual's known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so would create an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact [email protected].
Current Guardian Colleagues: Please apply through the internal Jobs Hub in Workday.
What We Do
Who we are
Guardian makes a difference in the lives of people when they need us most. With over 160 years of stability and fiscal integrity, we are a trusted resource to generations of families and business owners, inspiring well-being and helping build financial confidence.
Today, we stand behind 29 million consumers, helping them prepare and plan for a bright future for themselves and their families. We help business owners care for their employees. And we help people recover and thrive in times of unexpected loss.
As a modern mutual insurance company, we believe in driving value beyond dividends. We invest in our colleagues and are building a progressive, innovative and inclusive culture. We uplift individuals and communities through thoughtful social and environmental programs.
What we stand for
In 1860, a community of immigrants joined together to insure and protect their businesses and families. They were guided by powerful ideals that we’ve continued to stand behind and evolved throughout the years: we do the right thing, we believe people count, we courageously shape the future together, and we go above and beyond for the people we serve.
Guardian employees embrace and live by these values every day. They remind us to put people at the heart of all we do so that we can help protect what matters most to you. Want to help bring these values to life? Join us for a rewarding career and the opportunity to shape the future.
Disclosures:
Financial information concerning Guardian as of December 31, 2022, on a statutory basis: Admitted assets = $76.0 billion; liabilities = $67.2 billion (including $55.0 billion of reserves); and surplus = $8.8 billion. Dividends are not guaranteed. They are declared annually by Guardian’s Board of Directors.
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