Talent Acquisition Partner - Restoration

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Full Lifecycle Recruitment: Oversee the entire recruiting process for professional and restoration roles, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, and offer negotiations.
• Collaborate with Executives and Senior Leaders: Partner with leadership to define role scope, build assessment plans, and align hiring with business objectives and anticipated storm and catastrophe activity.
• Strategic Sourcing and Talent Pipelines: Build and manage pipelines of restoration, construction, and emergency response talent using inclusive sourcing strategies that attract candidates from diverse backgrounds and communities.
• Market Mapping and Research: Research and benchmark leadership and specialized talent across the disaster recovery, restoration, and mitigation industries, including project managers, estimators, HSE professionals, and field supervisors.
• Adjust and Optimize Recruiting Strategies: Adapt strategies to shifting business needs, seasonal surges, and market trends, using data to improve hiring outcomes.

• Filling Critical Gaps: Serve as lead recruiter for professional roles across the enterprise and as backup for general labor roles, including rapid-response hiring during storm and catastrophe events.
• Proactive Talent Pools: Develop and maintain a pool of passive and rapid-deploy candidates, ready to engage when new projects and opportunities arise.

• Business Partnership: Work closely with hiring managers and operations leaders to understand staffing needs and write job descriptions for professional and general labor roles.
• Interview Process Guidance: Guide interview panels and hiring teams to ensure consistency, preparation, and alignment with company culture and role requirements.
• Training and Coaching: Coach hiring managers and junior recruiters on best practices for interviewing, sourcing, and candidate evaluation.

• Branding and Social Media Presence: Partner with marketing and HR to promote Cotton Holdings’ employer brand on LinkedIn, Glassdoor, and industry networks, with messaging that reflects our role in helping communities recover after disasters.
• Candidate Experience: Provide a smooth, inclusive, and transparent process, with regular communication and clear expectations from first contact through onboarding.

• Talent Acquisition Metrics: Track and report on time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, offer acceptance rates, and speed of deployment for field roles.
• Innovate and Improve Processes: Continuously improve talent acquisition practices to increase efficiency, scalability for surge hiring, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• 6+ years of talent acquisition experience, with a focus on leadership and general labor recruitment.
• Experience in disaster recovery, restoration, construction, or emergency response strongly preferred.
• Spanish fluency (spoken and written) highly desired.
• Demonstrated success partnering with executives and senior leaders to develop and execute recruiting strategies.
• Strong experience with diversity recruiting and inclusive sourcing methods.
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing business needs and thrive in a high-volume, fast-paced, deployment-driven environment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a passion for candidate experience.