Executive Recruiter

When you're the best, we're the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.

In this role, you will lead full lifecycle executive recruitment for Associate Vice President and above. You will serve as a strategic partner to senior leaders, delivering high-quality executive searches while ensuring a disciplined, inclusive, and high-touch experience for candidates and stakeholders. This role combines strong search execution with executive-level partnership and market insight.

Executive Search Execution

• Lead full lifecycle executive searches from intake through offer acceptance.
• Conduct strategic intake meetings to define success profiles, leadership competencies, and selection criteria.
• Develop and execute proactive sourcing strategies, including direct outreach, industry mapping, networking, and engagement of retained search firms when appropriate.
• Screen and assess candidates for leadership capability, business acumen, and organizational alignment.
• Drive the candidate journey to ensure a professional, engaging, and seamless experience.
• Facilitate search update meetings and provide clear, data-driven progress reporting to stakeholders.

Stakeholder Partnership

• Build trusted relationships with executive leaders and HR partners.
• Provide market intelligence, talent landscape insights, and competitive positioning guidance.
• Advise leaders on candidate assessment, compensation positioning, and hiring strategy.

Diversity & Inclusive Hiring

• Develop and maintain diverse executive talent pipelines.
• Partner with Culture & Belonging team to embed equitable practices throughout the executive search process.
• Leverage external networks, professional organizations, and targeted sourcing strategies to broaden representation.

Vendor & Process Management

• Partner with the Director on selection and management of retained search firms.
• Ensure compliance with recruitment processes, documentation standards, and audit requirements.
• Coordinate offer development, negotiations, and pre-employment processes in collaboration with HR and Total Rewards.

Estimated Hiring Range:

This position is also incentive eligible.

Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here:

http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers

Equal Opportunity Employer: Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.