Recruitment Lead

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Team Lead to build and lead a high-performing recruitment team focused on hiring Interpreters, Translators, and Linguistic Professionals globally. This role will drive recruitment strategy, stakeholder engagement, workforce planning, and operational excellence while ensuring hiring targets are achieved across multiple languages and regions.

Key Responsibilities:

Team Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Recruiters supporting global language hiring.
• Establish recruitment goals, performance metrics, and accountability standards.
• Drive sourcing innovation and best practices across the recruitment team.

Recruitment Strategy

• Develop global talent acquisition strategies for Interpreter and Translator hiring.
• Build scalable sourcing channels across North America, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC.
• Create language-specific hiring plans and workforce forecasts.
• Identify alternative sourcing methods beyond traditional recruitment channels.

Stakeholder Management

• Serve as the primary recruitment partner for Operations, Vendor Management, and Business Leaders.
• Conduct regular workforce planning and hiring review meetings.
• Provide hire forecasts, market intelligence, and recruitment performance updates.

Operational Excellence

• Monitor and improve recruitment funnel conversion rates.
• Manage recruiter workloads, priorities, and resource allocation.
• Ensure adherence to recruitment SLAs and compliance requirements.
• Drive process improvements, automation opportunities, and reporting efficiencies.

Talent Pipeline Development

• Create strategic talent communities and referral programs.
• Build partnerships with language associations, universities, interpreter networks, and localization communities.
• Maintain a long-term pipeline of critical language talent.

Required Qualifications

• At least 1 year of team leadership experience.
• Ready to support team in different time zones.
• Strong experience in high-volume hiring, staffing, vendor management, BPO, healthcare recruiting, or language services hiring.
• Proven track record of meeting aggressive hiring targets.
• Advanced sourcing expertise, including LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, talent mapping, and market intelligence.
• Strong analytical and reporting capabilities.

Preferred:

• Experience recruiting global interpreters, translators, healthcare personnel, or freelance talent.
• Exposure to multilingual recruitment environments.
• Experience supporting international hiring programs.