Your Impact
The Senior Director, Executive Talent Acquisition is responsible for creating, building and leading Lowe's Executive Talent Acquisition team. This role will be responsible for hiring all executive talent, which includes all VP and above roles, select Senior Director positions, and other hard-to-hire business critical positions. This leader plays a key role in the recruitment of talent needed to meet business goals and growth targets. This individual will be a member of Lowe's senior Talent Acquisition leadership team and will have accountability for building and maintaining strong relationships with executives across the company. This role will create a blended executive recruiting and sourcing model leveraging internal sourcing capabilities as well as external search partners.

What you will do

Leads and delivers a seamless executive search process that effectively sources, attracts, assesses, selects, and on-boards talent for VP+ rolesDevelops talent intelligence and mapping to understand the competitive landscape and opportunities for recruitmentDirects all aspects of executive search strategies, including but not limited to business planning, forecasting, search execution, and business analyticsUnderstands Lowe’s officer-level competencies and success profiles, and develops search strategies to target high-level external candidatesBuilds direct sourcing capability internally which includes evaluating, recommending and implementing systems, processes, and people, with both a short and long-term talent viewHelps streamline decision-making around external and internal talent to create robust and diverse slates to ultimately identify “best-in-class” talent for roles across the enterprise. Collaborates to understand the existing leadership pipeline, talent gaps, and align strategies to address critical capabilities and develop integrated diversity and inclusion talent strategiesBuilds strong and trusted relationships with executives across Lowe’s businessPartners with, influences, and acts as an expert resource to advise HR Business Partners (HRBPs) and leaders to equip and enable them to execute sourcing strategies, plans, and practicesDevelops and holds team accountable for metrics to measure effectiveness of processes and candidate experience/outcome. Identify, capture and report on relevant recruitment performance metrics such as: candidate and hiring manager experience, conversion, market factors.Evaluates and advises on the impact of long-range planning and new programs/strategies and regulatory action as those items impact the talent acquisition functional strategies, capabilities, and programsPartners with and advises business leaders in assessing pipeline and projecting talent needs at all levelsDrives diversity and inclusion strategies and actions for executive recruiting and talent sourcing initiativesIdentifies, utilizes, and builds strong relationships with a select number of executive recruiting partners and sourcing providers. Ensures providers meet expectations and that the best recruiters in the space are being effectively used by Lowe’sDevelops, implements and oversees a high-touch, executive- referral programLeads continuous improvement efforts to ensure Lowe’s delivers best-in-class executive recruiting and sourcing processesManages an exceptional candidate experience before, during and after the Lowe’s interview process

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree Business or a similar discipline and 11-15 Years Broad experience in human resources and executive recruiting, preferably with combination of corporate and executive search agency experience. Track record of working at/with the highest companies for a multi-billion dollar, global, complex, and matrix environment.8-10 Years Experience maintaining strategic relationships with external search partners and related vendors, ensuring that there is an effective partnership resulting in the acquisition of exceptional executive talent. Experience negotiating all firms’ agreements and ensuring that there is an overall vendor strategy and positive ROI.5-7 Years Experience establishing comprehensive metrics to track executive recruiting effectiveness and overall talent acquisition strategy alignment to the business.3-5 Years Proven experience hiring, leading and motivating a diverse team of leaders who will translate strategy into action. Also, experience serving as a leader, mentor, and coach to the team.

About Lowe’s

Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2023 sales of more than $86 billion, Lowe’s operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts. For more information, visit Lowes.com.

Lowe’s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.