Senior Recruiter
Five· Professional Training & Coaching· Oct 1, 2026 · 26d ago
Bentonville, AR, Arkansas
In office
Full-time
Senior
$100K–$134K est.
2+ years exp
Job description
**SKILLBRIDGE/UNPAID INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY**
The Senior Recruiter is a strategic recruiting professional who advises hiring managers on talent market dynamics, builds role-level hiring strategies, and leverages data to influence decision-making. This role proactively identifies risks, designs targeted sourcing strategies, and drives improvements in hiring quality and efficiency. Manages hiring strategies across multiple roles or a specialized skill domain with impact extending to team-level and business-unit outcomes.
Essential Functions
An individual must be able to successfully perform the essential functions of this position with or without a reasonable accommodation.
Key Responsibilities
Business Partnership & Influence: Advises hiring managers on talent availability, compensation band competitiveness, and time-to-fill trade-offs using market data and pipeline analytics. Influences interview design and candidate calibration standards by translating market context and hiring performance data into practical recommendations. Proactively identifies risks to hiring timelines or quality and proposes mitigation strategies before problems escalate. Synthesizes recruiting analytics from ATS dashboards and market intelligence tools into concise, executive-ready updates for stakeholder conversations. Leverages reporting tools to influence role prioritization and sequencing decisions when capacity or market conditions create trade-offs.
Hiring Strategy & Workforce Planning: Builds role-level hiring strategies that align sourcing investment, interview design, and timeline targets to business milestone commitments and roadmap urgency. Sequences sourcing and assessment activity based on skill criticality, candidate supply availability, and stakeholder interview bandwidth. Uses historical pipeline data to forecast hiring velocity, identify likely bottlenecks, and set realistic expectations with business partners. Applies labor market data platforms to validate talent availability assumptions and challenge unrealistic hiring timelines with evidence. Proactively adjusts hiring strategy when market dynamics, business priorities, or pipeline performance require a change in approach.
Sourcing Strategy & Market Intelligence: Designs targeted sourcing strategies for niche or critical skill sets that standard sourcing channels consistently underserve. Leverages market mapping, competitor talent flow analysis, and compensation benchmarking to identify and engage high-quality passive candidates. Coaches stakeholders on realistic candidate profiles, trade-offs between experience and potential, and the supply constraints that affect hiring timelines for specialized roles. Uses talent intelligence platforms to map competitor organizations, build target company lists, and generate talent pool insights. Builds segmented candidate pipelines using CRM automation workflows to maintain engagement across longer hiring cycles.
Skills-Based Interviewing & Evaluation: Partners with hiring leaders to refine competency models, define behavioral indicators, and design structured interview frameworks that improve evaluation consistency and predictive validity. Identifies and surfaces potential bias risks in existing interview and calibration processes and recommends practical design improvements. Facilitates calibration discussions by presenting candidate comparisons grounded in structured rubric data and performance predictors rather than subjective impressions. Analyzes candidate drop-off data by funnel stage to identify evaluation steps where assessment rigor or candidate experience is creating unnecessary attrition. Tracks interviewer feedback quality and coaches panel members to improve specificity and behavioral evidence in their assessments.
Candidate Experience & Engagement: Designs engagement strategies for high-priority or competitively recruited talent that go beyond standard process touchpoints to create a differentiated candidate experience. Partners with hiring managers to develop tailored closing narratives that connect Walmart’s opportunity, culture, and growth potential to each candidate’s specific motivations. Monitors candidate NPS, feedback signals, or experience indicators to identify breakdowns in process consistency or communication quality. Uses CRM tools to design and execute personalized engagement sequences that maintain candidate interest across extended hiring timelines. Analyzes candidate drop-off data by stage to identify where experience failures are driving qualified candidates out of the funnel.
Offer Negotiation & Closing: Negotiates competitive offer packages using market data, internal equity analysis, and a clear understanding of each candidate’s financial and career priorities. Anticipates counteroffer risk and develops proactive mitigation plans, including pre-close conversations that surface competing considerations before the formal offer stage. Balances total rewards levers — base, bonus, equity, relocation, sign-on — to construct competitive offers within band and budget constraints. Analyzes offer acceptance trends across roles and hiring manager cohorts using reporting dashboards to identify patterns that inform future negotiation strategy. Uses pipeline data to anticipate counteroffer risk patterns by role type, level, or candidate profile and adjusts closing strategy accordingly.
Operational Excellence, Technology & Metrics: Uses recruiting funnel data to identify process bottlenecks — in sourcing, screening, assessment, or offer stages — and recommends targeted workflow improvements with measurable impact. Improves reporting clarity by building custom dashboards that surface the metrics most relevant to stakeholder decision-making within assigned business units. Partners with recruiting operations and technology teams on tool adoption, workflow configuration, and process enhancements that improve team efficiency. Identifies automation opportunities within ATS and CRM workflows that reduce manual effort without sacrificing candidate experience quality. Continuously evaluates process performance and proposes improvements aligned to team-level quality and efficiency goals.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Key Skills
The following key skills are required to perform one or more essential functions of this position.
Talent Acquisition, Data-Driven Decision Making, Stakeholder Communications, Market Intelligence, Talent Strategy
Leadership Expectations
An individual must be proficient in each of the competencies listed below to successfully perform the responsibilities of this position.
Respect the Individual: Demonstrates and encourages respect for others; drives a positive associate and customer/member experience for all; embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences; supports workplaces where associates feel seen and connected through a culture of belonging, so all associates thrive and perform; contributes to an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work.
Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Option 1: Bachelor’s degree in business, human resources, or related field and 2 year’s experience in human resources, talent acquisition, or related area.
Option 2: 4 years’ experience in human resources, talent acquisition or related area.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Respect the Individual: Demonstrates engagement and commitment to the team, developing others through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; and recognizes others’ contributions and accomplishments.
Respect the Individual: Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively to achieve objectives; communicates with impact and listens attentively to a range of audiences; and demonstrates energy and positivity for own work.
Act with Integrity: Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance; models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture; supports Walmart’s goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, and the world around us.
Act with Integrity: Follows the law, our code of conduct and company policies, and encourages others to do the same; supports an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns; reinforces our culture of non-retaliation; listens to concerns raised by associates and takes action; acts with accountability for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values.
Act with Integrity: Is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.
Serve our Customers and Members: Delivers results while putting the customer/member first and applying an omni-merchant mindset and acts with an Every Day Low-Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers/members.
Serve our Customers and Members: Adopts a broad perspective that considers data, analytics, customer/member insights, and different parts of the business when making plans.
Strive for Excellence: Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions; supports innovation and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.
Strive for Excellence: Implements and supports continuous improvements and willingly embraces new digital tools and ways of working.
Benefits
• 10% OFF Discount Card
• 100% Tuition and Books Paid
• Walmart Academy for Career Progression
• Financial Perks- Enjoy 401(k) matching and stock purchase plans
• PTO- Take a break as needed for vacation, sick leave, holidays, parental leave, and more
• Comprehensive Health Benefits- Medical, dental, vision, and wellness programs for you and your family
• Wellbeing Programs- Access mental health resources and assistance programs for life’s challenges
• Career Growth Opportunities- Training, leadership programs, and clear paths to advance.
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