Senior Executive Recruiter

Under the general direction of the Senior Director, Global Executive Talent Acquisition, the Senior Executive Recruiter leads global fullcycle recruitment for VPlevel and above roles across the enterprise. This role identifies, attracts, and engages top executive talent in alignment with succession planning, market insights, and forecasted business needs. The Senior Executive Recruiter develops and executes strategic recruitment plans that drive highquality outcomes, support diversity objectives, and strengthen leadership talent pipelines.

In addition to search execution, this role provides strategic support to the Executive Talent Acquisition (ETA) team by serving as a sourcing partner on higherlevel searches, producing candidate and hiring manager materials, and generating market intelligence to enable informed hiring decisions.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Establishes innovative, multichannel sourcing strategies for hardtofill and confidential executive roles.
• Executes fullcycle recruiting for Global VP searches, partnering closely with HR Business Partners, senior leaders, and hiring managers.
• Builds and maintains strong internal relationships and external networks, including vendors and community partners.
• Supports higherlevel executive searches (SVP+) by developing sourcing strategies, talent maps, pipeline intelligence, and market research.
• Creates candidate briefs, hiring manager materials, and structured panel interview guides to ensure a consistent, highquality executive hiring experience.
• Produces market and profile overview decks summarizing competitive talent insights, organizational structures, and candidate archetypes for hiring leader alignment.
• Oversees Internal ETA requisitions and manages the intake workflow, serving as the gatekeeper for new executive requisition requests to ensure clarity, prioritization, and alignment to organizational needs.
• Tracks and analyzes talent acquisition metrics and creates practical reporting methods to monitor performance and influence continuous improvement.
• Stays current on executive recruiting trends, best practices, assessment tools, legal considerations, and emerging technologies, serving as a subject matter expert across the organization.
• Recommends enhancements to processes, tools, and talent assessment methodologies to improve effectiveness and decision quality.
• Works horizontally across the ETA function to provide support

Experience and Educational Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required; minimum of six (6+) years of progressive executive recruiting experience.
• Experience leveraging diverse sourcing vehicles, digital tools, and innovative techniques to identify and engage executive talent.
• Combination of agency and corporate recruiting experience preferred; strong project management capability and proficiency in recruiting systems required.
• Proven success leading largescale projects or new initiatives in a matrixed environment, including managing thirdparty search firm partnerships.

Minimum Skills, Knowledge, and Ability Requirements

• Demonstrated experience to managing executivelevel (VP+) fulllifecycle recruitment is required
• Broad knowledge of business and industry trends, executive talent markets, and candidate insights.
• Ability to establish credibility and build strong relationships with senior leaders.
• Strong consultative skills, solutions mindset, and ownership of results.
• Effective collaborator able to influence across functions and implement recruiting strategies and processes.
• Highly adaptable, resilient, and comfortable operating in ambiguity and fastchanging environments.
• Strong conceptual thinking, analytical capabilities, and planning skills.
• Excellent presentation, communication, and storytelling skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Applications including Powerpoint

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members' ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit https://www.virtualfairhub.com/cencora

*This Salary Range reflects a National Average for this job. The actual range may vary based on your locale. Ranges in Colorado/California/Washington/New York/Hawaii/Vermont/Minnesota/Massachusetts/Illinois State-specific locations may be up to 10% lower than the minimum salary range, and 12% higher than the maximum salary range.

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

The company's continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email hrsc@cencora.com. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned

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