Director, Talent Acquistion

The Talent Acquisition Director at Wedgewood Pharmacy is a newly created role, reporting to the Chief People Officer. This role owns end-to-end recruiting strategy and execution across all salaried and hourly roles at Wedgewood, a multi-site, high-volume compounded animal health pharmaceutical company with nine U.S. locations.

This is a build-and-run role: the Director will lead a team of four Talent Acquisition Partners to operate as full-lifecycle recruiting partners to the business, while designing the strategic operations, sourcing strategy, systems, and candidate experience that let the function scale to meet the needs of a growing business. This role carries significant visibility, engaging regularly with senior leaders across the business.

The Basics

Location: Remote, with preference near a Wedgewood site
Job Type: Regular Full-Time
Compensation: $150,000 - $180,000 and bonus eligible
Benefits: Health Insurance, PTO, Retirement, etc.

Key Responsibilities

Full-Lifecycle Recruiting Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of four Talent Acquisition Partners, building their capability to own full-lifecycle recruiting including intake through offer and a smooth handoff to onboarding.
• Set clear goals, workload distribution, and development plans for each TA Partner, with a consistent metrics cadence (time-to-fill, source of hire, offer-accept rate) reviewed in regular 1:1s and team meetings.
• Build a coaching culture grounded in trust, teamwork, and shared standards of excellence.

Strategic Operations & Operational Excellence

• Own the enterprise recruiting strategy across all Wedgewood sites, translating workforce planning, budgeted headcount, and growth goals into clear hiring plans.
• Build a hiring governance model including prioritization, capacity planning, and escalation paths that keeps the team focused and able to scale as demand grows.
• Using data in every conversation with dashboards and scorecards that give leadership a clear, current view of pipeline health and hiring progress.

Sourcing Strategy Development & Execution

• Design and lead a sourcing strategy that keeps a healthy, quality-rich talent pipeline.
• Build strong sourcing channels including direct outreach, referrals, employer branding, schools, associations, and community partnerships to keep the funnel full of qualified candidates.
• Position Wedgewood as an employer of choice, partnering with Internal Communications on messaging that resonates in each labor market.

ATS, Systems & Automation

• Own and continuously improve Wedgewood's ATS (Greenhouse), including configuration, workflows, and reporting.
• Automate scheduling, communications, and reporting so TA Partners can focus their time on sourcing, relationship-building, and closing great candidates.
• Maintain dashboards that give leadership self-service visibility into pipeline health and hiring metrics.

Candidate Experience Design

• Design the end-to-end candidate and applicant journey so every person who applies to Wedgewood has a positive, respectful, and memorable experience.
• Build feedback loops including candidate surveys and hiring-manager input to continuously refine that experience.
• Set the standard for communication, timeliness, and care at every touchpoint, and coach the team and hiring managers to the same bar.

Business & Executive Partnership

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the CPO and senior leaders across the business on talent strategy, market conditions, and hiring decisions.
• Partner closely with Site GMs, functional leaders, and hiring managers to calibrate role requirements and build strong, collaborative hiring processes.
• Maintain a current understanding of labor market conditions and share market insight that helps the business plan ahead.

Qualifications & Skills

Required

• 10+ years of talent acquisition experience, including 5+ years leading a recruiting team.
• Demonstrated success leading a team through full-lifecycle recruiting, from intake through offer and onboarding handoff.
• Experience building sourcing strategies that sustain a healthy, quality pipeline across multiple sites and role types.
• Hands-on ATS experience, with Greenhouse preferred, and experience automating recruiting workflows to increase team capacity for high-value work.
• Experience designing or elevating end-to-end candidate experience.
• Experience partnering with senior business leaders outside of HR, with the presence and credibility to influence at the executive level.
• Strong fluency with recruiting metrics and data, with the ability to build dashboards that inform decisions.
• Comprehensive understanding of federal and state employment law.

Preferred

• Experience recruiting in pharmacy, healthcare, manufacturing or a related regulated environment.
• Experience building a hiring governance framework.
• Experience recruiting in competitive or undersupplied labor markets.

Key Milestones of Success

30 Days: Learn & Connect

• Builds strong relationships with the Talent Acquisition Partners and key stakeholders across the business.
• Gains a clear picture of current hiring pipelines, ATS capability, and candidate experience across all sites.

60 Days: Build the Plan

• Delivers a hiring governance model and site-specific hiring plan aligned to business goals.
• Launches the team's ongoing metrics cadence and development plans.
• Identifies early wins in sourcing, automation, and candidate experience.

90 Days: Early Impact

• Hiring governance model is fully in motion across all sites.
• Visible progress on time-to-fill and pipeline health in priority areas.
• First automation and candidate experience improvements are live.

One Year: Sustained Success

• The team operates as trusted, full-lifecycle talent acquisition partners to the business.
• Healthy, quality pipelines are sustained across every site and role family.
• The ATS is fully optimized and automated, with dashboards guiding leadership decisions.
• Candidates consistently report a positive experience with Wedgewood.
• Senior leaders across the business rely on the Director as a trusted partner on hiring and workforce strategy.

What You’ll Love About Wedgewood

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Opportunities for growth and career development
• A supportive, team-first culture where your work matters
• The ability to make a real impact on animal health every day
• [Company-specific benefits as needed]