Senior Recruiter

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The Senior Recruiter aligned to strategic sourcing plays a critical role in supporting Humana’s talent acquisition strategy by identifying, attracting, and securing top talent to meet evolving business needs. This role offers the opportunity to contribute strategic sourcing.

As a strategic talent acquisition partner, the Senior Recruiter collaborates with business leaders, hiring managers, and recruiting teams to develop innovative recruiting solutions, build strong talent pipelines, and support specialized and high-volume hiring initiatives. In this strategic sourcing-focused role, specific responsibilities and areas of emphasis may vary based on business needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Talent Acquisition & Recruitment Strategy: Partner with business leaders and recruiting teams to develop sourcing strategies to execute hiring initiatives. Provide consultative guidance on talent availability, labor market trends, candidate engagement, and recruitment best practices. Support specialized, high-volume, and business-critical hiring initiatives.

• Strategic Sourcing & Talent Pipeline Development: Develop and execute proactive sourcing strategies to identify, attract, and engage qualified active and passive candidates. Build and maintain talent pipelines through direct outreach, professional networks, referrals, digital platforms, and targeted recruitment campaigns. Conduct initial candidate outreach and qualification discussions to assess interest, experience, and alignment with business requirements. Collaborate with recruiters and hiring leaders to provide market intelligence, sourcing insights, and qualified candidate pipelines.

• Technology & Process Optimization: Leverage recruiting technologies, including Workday, Phenom, HireVue, and other talent acquisition tools, to enhance recruitment effectiveness. Utilize recruitment data and performance metrics to identify opportunities for process improvements and greater hiring efficiency. Support continuous improvement initiatives that enhance the candidate and hiring manager experience.

• Collaboration & Candidate Experience: Deliver a positive, professional, and consistent candidate experience throughout assigned recruitment activities. Partner across Talent Acquisition and business teams to support hiring priorities and achieve staffing objectives. Demonstrate adaptability and flexibility as recruiting priorities, assignments, and business needs evolve.

Key attributes for success:

• Strong consulting, communication, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders.

• Self-motivated, results-oriented, and adaptable to changing business priorities.

• Demonstrated commitment to a collaborative workstyle as an individual contributor and team player

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Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in talent acquisition strategic sourcing

• Demonstrated success identifying, engaging, and recruiting talent for specialized positions or high-volume hiring initiatives

• Experience developing sourcing strategies, building candidate pipelines, and utilizing multiple recruitment channels.

• Proficiency with applicant tracking systems, candidate relationship management platforms, and recruiting technologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting healthcare, clinical, operational, or other specialized recruitment initiatives.

• Demonstrated experience in proactive sourcing, passive candidate engagement, and talent pipeline development.

• Working knowledge of Workday, Phenom, HireVue, and Datapeople.

• Experience supporting large-scale hiring initiatives or recruitment process improvement projects.

Additional information:

This role is part of the Variable Staffing Pool (VSP) and pays at an hourly rate.

Variable Staffing Pool Humana associates work part-time to full-time hours based on business need. VSP associates are not eligible for associate bonuses and receive limited benefits, which are effective upon hire. Work hours may vary based on business needs and assigned tasks.

Position Flexibility: Specific assignments will be determined based on organizational priorities, business needs, and the selected candidate’s experience and expertise.

Reporting structure:

In this role, you will report to a Talent Acquisition Manager or Associate Director.

Travel:

This role will not have any domestic or international travel.

Workstyle:

This role is fully remote within the US.

Work at Home Requirements: To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria: At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested. In certain roles, the minimum recommended internet speed required by Humana may not be sufficient for…