Job Summary

The Director, Talent Acquisition oversees our global recruitment team and develops long-term strategies. He/she acts as a subject matter expert to develop solutions to complex staffing and recruiting challenges for multiple areas of the company. He/she ensures that staffing requirements are met to identify, attract and onboard top talent to efficiently and effectively meet dynamic business need across multiple workforce segmentations. He/she supports the Talent Acquisition team in achieving recruiting goals, establishing and iterating on processes that create efficiencies and ensuring PJI continues to hire top talent. He/she is a trusted advisor and thought partner with senior leaders on talent acquisition initiatives across the organization. This role builds a thoughtful, data-driven, best-in-class recruiting organization that supports PJI business objectives.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for the leadership, design, development and execution of an effective recruiting strategy that enhances PJI’s business and diversity objectives across multiple workforce segmentations.

• Oversee the management of contractual relationships with placement agencies, contract recruiters (retained and contingent), job boards, job fairs and various internet job search websites for posting requisitions and surfacing candidates

• Assure the ATS/HRIS process is successfully supporting the recruiting process and providing data/metrics/analytics to help measure team performance. Lead associated technology implementations as needed.

• Establish recruiting metrics and analytics that provide insights, guide decision making and measure team productivity and program ROI; measure team performance against maintaining consistent standards for all applicants and ensuring compliance with all local rules and regulations related to hiring and recruiting

• Partner with leaders in HR, Diversity and Compensation to share market trend knowledge and develop cross-functional strategy to attract and retain talent through competitive compensation packages and offers

• Lead and develop a distributed recruiting team, building a culture of growth and development and driving team performance and engagement

• Assure the company image is positively promoted to candidates and external service providers and that PJI is represented in the most accurate and appropriate way to all candidates; assure the highest standards of ethical behavior for all involved in the recruiting process

• Act as a subject matter expert in talent trends, technologies, best practices and regional talent availability; research and keep up to date of current recruiting trends and recommend recruiting strategies and activities to attract top talent

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Education, Experience & Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field. Master’s degree preferred.

• 8 years experience as a Talent Acquisition manager, recruiter, Human Resources, Sales or related role

• 3 years in a people management role

• Deep understanding of the global talent acquisition solutions

• Experience with talent/employer branding, social media, sourcing, strategic partnerships

Functional Skills

• Analytical Skills: effectively uses data to generate insights for operations excellence 

• Planning & Prioritization: highest impact, highest value 

• Financial & Business Acumen 

• Communicates Effectively and Candidly 

• Problem Solving; ability to use rigorous logic to solve problems with innovative effective solutions 

• Process Improvement: Strive to continually improve 

• Ability to build and leverage talent 

• Ability to work in a challenging, fast-paced environment and to adapt to new situations as they arise 

• Ability to effectively communicate, inform, and influence senior leaders

• Ability to work cross-functionality on multiple initiatives with a successful record of advancing projects 

Our Values

• EVERYONE BELONGS – Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Teamwork

• DO THE RIGHT THING – Integrity, Character and Community

• PEOPLE FIRST – Customer and Team member Focus

• INNOVATE TO WIN – Think Differently and Lead Change

• HAVE FUN – It’s Pizza, It Has To Be Fun!

Our Core Competencies

• CUSTOMER FOCUSED - Put the customer’s needs first

• RESULTS DRIVEN – Commit to achieving objectives

• INNOVATIVE MINDSET – Open to new ideas and ways of doing business

• STRATEGIC THOUGHT LEADERSHIP – Engage in logical and systematic thinking

• COLLABORATION – Work together in the most effective way

Papa Johns is an equal opportunity employer.