Job ID: 12282
Location: Houston, Texas
Category: HR
Employment Type: Contract
Date Added: 08/07/2026
Job Description
Location: Houston, Tx
Description:
The Advisor II, Strategic Advisor partners with business leaders, HR partners, and cross-functional stakeholders to develop recruiting strategies that align talent acquisition priorities with business objectives and workforce needs. This role attracts, assesses, and hires top talent for critical roles across the organization while serving as a trusted advisor on talent strategy, market insights, workforce planning, and recruiting process excellence.
What You'll Do:
- Lead full-cycle recruiting activities for high-impact, hard-to-fill, management, professional, executive, and senior-level positions.
- Partner with hiring managers and HR stakeholders to define role requirements, develop candidate profiles, and execute effective search strategies.
- Serve as a strategic talent advisor by providing labor market intelligence, workforce planning insights, and recommendations to improve hiring outcomes.
- Manage candidate sourcing, pipeline development, screening, interviewing, assessment, selection, and offer coordination activities.
- Drive a high-quality candidate and hiring team experience through proactive communication, strong process management, and timely follow-through.
- Draft, refine, and maintain job descriptions aligned with job architecture, organizational requirements, and recruiting standards.
- Support executive recruiting processes, including interview planning, stakeholder alignment, candidate assessments, and search documentation.
- Develop and maintain talent pipelines, recruiting campaigns, employer branding initiatives, career events, and candidate engagement strategies.
- Support onboarding activities and related recruiting administration while ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures.
- Partner with internal stakeholders and external providers on relocation, sponsorship, agency engagement, and other specialized hiring processes.
- Analyze recruiting and HR data, monitor hiring trends, create reports, and provide insights that support decision making and continuous improvement.
- Evaluate and leverage recruiting technologies, AI tools, and workforce systems to streamline workflows and improve recruiting effectiveness.
- Create recruiting resources, process documentation, and guidance materials to improve efficiency, consistency, and compliance.
- Identify process improvement opportunities and implement solutions that enhance recruiting operations and candidate experience.
- Legally authorized to work in the job posting country.
- High School Diploma or GED equivalent.
- 3 years of experience in recruiting, talent acquisition, or human resources.
- Advanced proficiency in ATS platforms, LinkedIn Recruiter, CRM tools, and Boolean search
- Intermediate proficiency with applicant tracking systems, HR systems, reporting tools, and recruiting technologies.
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience recruiting executive, senior leadership, or highly specialized talent.
- Experience supporting relocation, visa sponsorship, or global mobility processes.
- Knowledge of employer branding, recruitment marketing, and talent attraction campaigns.
- Experience building talent pipelines and workforce planning strategies.
- Experience designing or supporting candidate assessment frameworks and selection processes.
- Experience evaluating and implementing AI-enabled recruiting tools and automation solutions.
- Experience working independently and managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience partnering with business leaders and stakeholders to support hiring and workforce needs.
- Strong interviewing, candidate assessment, communication, and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to analyze recruiting data, identify trends, and apply insights to business decisions.
