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Primary Purpose
The Manager, Talent Acquisition is a high performing, full-cycle recruiter supporting Tapestry’s North America Functional organizations, including but not limited to Human Resources, Legal, Supply Chain, IT & Digital, Strategy, Procurement, and Finance. Reporting to the Director, Talent Acquisition - Functional Groups, this individual partners closely with hiring managers and HR teams to understand talent needs, develop effective recruiting strategies, and deliver strong hiring outcomes.
The Manager owns searches from intake through offer acceptance, builds proactive talent pipelines, provides market insight, and creates an exceptional experience for candidates and stakeholders. While the role has no people leadership responsibility, it is expected to operate with independence, strong judgment, and a high level of accountability.
The Successful Individual Will Leverage Their Proficiency in Talent Acquisition To...
Full-Cycle Recruiting
- Manage full-cycle recruitment across assigned North America Functional Groups, from intake and sourcing through assessment, offer negotiation, and close.
- Partner with hiring managers and HR teams to clarify role requirements, define candidate profiles, and develop recruiting plans aligned with business needs.
- Lead searches across multiple functions and levels, including complex and hard-to-fill roles, while maintaining pace, quality, and attention to detail.
- Source and engage diverse, high-caliber talent through direct outreach, referrals, networking, internal mobility, and other relevant channels.
- Build and maintain proactive pipelines for recurring and anticipated talent needs.
- Deliver a consistent, inclusive, and high-touch candidate experience throughout the recruitment process.
Stakeholder Partnership & Talent Advising
- Serve as a trusted recruiting partner to hiring managers and HR stakeholders, providing timely guidance throughout the hiring process.
- Provide talent market insights and practical recommendations on sourcing, candidate availability, compensation, and hiring timelines.
- Maintain clear communication, set expectations, and drive timely decisions and follow-through across all searches.
- Represent Tapestry’s brands, culture, and employee value proposition credibly with candidates and external talent communities.
Recruiting Excellence, Data & Process Improvement
- Maintain accurate and timely recruiting activity, candidate information, and requisition status within recruiting systems.
- Use recruiting metrics and funnel data to manage searches, identify trends, and adjust strategies to improve outcomes.
- Identify and recommend practical improvements to recruiting processes, tools, and stakeholder or candidate experiences.
- Contribute to Talent Acquisition projects and share market knowledge, effective practices, and lessons learned with the broader team.
The Accomplished Individual Will Possess...
- 5+ years of full-cycle talent acquisition experience, with demonstrated success recruiting across corporate functions and multiple levels.
- Strong sourcing capability and experience engaging active and passive candidates in competitive talent markets.
- Proven ability to manage a varied requisition portfolio independently while delivering quality hires and a strong stakeholder experience.
- Strong partnership, communication, and influencing skills with hiring managers and HR stakeholders.
- Working knowledge of recruiting technologies, sourcing platforms, structured assessment practices, and recruiting metrics.
- Sound judgment, business acumen, and the ability to translate talent needs into practical recruiting actions.
An Outstanding Professional Will Have...
- A strong sense of ownership, urgency, and accountability for recruiting results.
- Exceptional relationship-building and candidate engagement skills.
- Resilience, adaptability, and comfort working in a fast-paced, changing environment.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to balance multiple searches, stakeholders, and competing priorities.
- A collaborative mindset and willingness to contribute beyond assigned requisitions when team or business needs require it.
Our Competencies for All Employees
Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
Our Competencies for All People Managers
Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.
Tapestry, Inc. is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant’s or employee’s qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Tapestry, Inc. will provide applicants and employees with reasonable accommodation for disabilities or religious beliefs. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact Tapestry People Services at 1-855-566-9264.
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Base Pay Range
$90,000.00-$110,000.00
Here are some of the benefits that we offer: Medical insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, 401 (K), Paid Paternity and Maternity leave, Commuter Benefits, Disability insurance and Tuition assistance. Please click here for a complete list of U.S Corporate Compensation & Benefits.