The Principal Recruiter is a senior individual contributor responsible for owning hiring outcomes and talent strategy across a designated business unit. This role partners directly with Regional Directors and Sr HRBPs, providing consultative guidance on workforce planning, hiring strategy, and talent market dynamics.
Operating with an executive search mindset, the Principal Recruiter delivers high quality, curated candidate slates and influences hiring decisions through data driven insights and structured assessments. The role requires strong technical and operational understanding of the business, enabling effective talent evaluation and ongoing upskilling of the recruiting team.
This role offers a high degree of autonomy and ownership, with accountability for business unit hiring outcomes, pipeline health, and overall recruiting performance. The Principal Recruiter is empowered to shape strategy, influence senior stakeholders, and drive meaningful improvements in how hiring is executed across the business.
This is a high impact role for a recruiter who wants to operate as a true business partner and drive outcomes at scale.
Key Responsibilities
Each Principal Recruiter will be aligned to abusiness unit
Act as the primary recruiting partner toRegional Directors and Sr HRBPs
Own business unit hiring strategy, workforceplanning alignment, and execution
Provide market insights, hiring trends, andstrategic recommendations to leadership
Lead staffing reporting in weekly and monthlybusiness reviews
Executive Search and Advisory
Operate with an executive search mindset forleadership and critical roles, prioritizing quality over volume
Build and present curated candidate slateswith structured assessments and clear hiring recommendations
Partner with Regional Directors and Sr HRBPsto define success profiles and calibrate hiring decisions
Provide consultative guidance on talentavailability, compensation positioning, and competitive landscape
Elevate candidate presentation standards bydelivering insight driven profiles rather than resume forwarding
Technical Acumen and Capability Building
Develop deep understanding of business unitoperations, including building infrastructure, equipment types, and maintenanceworkflows
Build working knowledge of systems such asrobotics, conveyor systems, controls, and automation equipment relevant to eachbusiness unit
Translate technical and operational conceptsinto clear recruiting strategies and candidate profiles
Act as a subject matter expert for assignedbusiness unit, elevating the team's understanding of roles, environments, andskill requirements
Design and deliver training sessions,enablement materials, and ongoing coaching to upskill recruiters on technicalknowledge and role requirements
Lead regular presentations to recruitingteams and business stakeholders on market insights, technical trends, andhiring strategy
Recruiting & Data Reporting
Manage a reduced requisition load focused onhigh priority, complex, and high throughput sites
Support critical, hard to fill, andleadership level roles
Drive consistency and quality across hiringprocesses, including interview and selection standards
Own business unit reporting includingstaffing levels, pipeline health, time to fill, and offer conversion
Translate data into actionable insights todrive performance and decision making
Identify risks early and implement correctiveactions
Operational Excellence & Team Development and Leadership
Coach and mentor recruiters to improvestakeholder management, technical fluency, and recruiting effectiveness
Raise the bar on candidate quality, processdiscipline, and overall team performance
Partner with recruiting managers to driveaccountability and continuous improvement
Operational Excellence
Standardize recruiting processes and ensurealignment with recruiting and business expectations
Partner with internal teams includingCandidate Care, People team, and Operations to remove bottlenecks
Support hiring events, launches, and surgehiring needs as required
Basic Qualifications
Minimum 7+ years of full cycle recruitingexperience
Experience supporting high volume and/ortechnical hiring environments
Strong stakeholder management experience withsenior business leaders
Preferred Qualifications
Experience within executive search, agencyrecruiting or retained search environment with a focus on consultative hiringsupport
Experience supporting engineering,maintenance, or automation related roles
Strong ability to learn and translatetechnical concepts into hiring strategies
Experience building training materials orenabling teams
Strong analytical skills with experience withrecruiting dashboards and data tools
Experience mentoring or leading recruiters
Travel Requirement
- This role requires minimum 25% travel tosupport business unit alignment, site engagement, hiring events, andstakeholder partnership
Success Profile
Proven ability to elevate team capability anddrive measurable improvements
Strategic thinker with strong business andoperational acumen
Ability to quickly build credibility intechnical environments
High ownership and accountability for results
Strong communication skills with the abilityto present to senior stakeholders
Equal Employment Opportunity: CBRE is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity. We have a long-standing commitment to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, veteran status, political belief, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
Candidate Accommodations: CBRE values the differences of all current and prospective employees and recognizes how every employee contributes to our company's success. CBRE provides reasonable accommodations in job application procedures for individuals with disabilities. If you require assistance due to a disability in the application or recruitment process, please submit a request via email at [email protected] or via telephone at +1 866 225 3099 (U.S.) and +1 866 388 4346 (Canada).
CBRE, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer (Women/Minorities/Persons with Disabilities/US Veterans)
