Trinity Hunt Partners - Senior Recruiter, Portfolio Resource Group

Based in Dallas, Trinity Hunt Partners (THP) is a middle-market private equity firm with approximately $1.7 billion in assets under management, focused on building founder and family-owned businesses into market leaders. The firm is focused on partnering with business, healthcare, and consumer services companies to accelerate their growth and build them into industry leaders. The firm employs a proactive, research-driven investment process to identify leading businesses in attractive services sectors. Trinity Hunt Partners has earned a reputation for working effectively with entrepreneurs to provide strategic, operational, and financial expertise to help elevate their companies to the next level of success.

THP’s Portfolio Resource Group (PRG) consists of professionals with a diverse array of expertise across different functional areas, including strategy, finance and accounting, M&A and corporate development, capital markets, and talent management. The PRG is dedicated to managing Trinity Hunt’s value creation efforts to drive business performance and growth in partnership with portfolio company management teams.

Meet the team: https://www.trinityhunt.com/team

In support of our next phase of growth, Trinity Hunt is building out a Talent function to establish best-in-class executive recruiting capabilities in the THP platform companies as well as for internal positions within the Portfolio Resource Group (PRG) at THP.  The Senior Recruiter will report directly to the Senior Vice President of Talent Acquisition, PRG and will play a key role in supporting the creation of this function from the ground up.

The Senior Recruiter will be responsible for developing a sourcing pipeline and managing the end-to-end search processes for assigned mid- to senior-level positions within our platform companies and/or internal THP roles.  This individual will manage internal stakeholders at THP, liaise with platform company leadership, and work with search partners on some searches, while conducting others on their own. A successful team member will proactively look to continuously improve the recruiting function, maintaining a critical eye with day-to-day operations. 

This position will be a valuable member of our team in a highly visible role within the organization. We are seeking someone for this role who shares our entrepreneurial spirit and values building relationships with trust, transparency, and respect.

• Lead recruiting efforts on assigned mid- to senior-level platform company and internal searches and be a trusted partner of the Senior VP of Talent Acquisition.
• Collaborate with THP investment team and PRG team members to ensure alignment around the position descriptions and the profiles of ideal candidates and design position descriptions and scorecards for efficient and process-driven outcomes.
• Define the search strategy, , identify target companies, and pitch opportunities in the marketplace to target candidates.
• Utilize the appropriate trackers to show current status of all candidates in the pipeline.
• Lead candidate interviews and gather deep knowledge about candidates’ experience, prior performance, key accomplishments, leadership style and cultural fit; and conduct reference calls when appropriate.
• Ensure all candidates and internal team members receive professional, efficient, A+ customer service throughout the search process.
• Support standing up talent acquisition technology and own the tracking and reporting on KPI’s once in place.
• Act as an ambassador of the organization and an extension of our best-in-class talent acquisition team in all communications with candidates, internal team members, and external service providers.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders working across the PRG and THP’s platforms and portfolio companies.

• 5-7 years of experience in end-to-end search execution, including 3+ years conducting senior-level searches at a search firm or in a professional environment that provides exposure to a wide breadth of positions and industries
• Demonstrated track record of successful end-to-end search execution and the ability to develop a broad network of trusted relationships
• Experience working within private equity or a sponsor-backed company is a plus
• Experience recruiting CFO or other senior financial positions is a plus
• Experience with talent development initiatives is a plus
• Experience with sourcing and mapping candidate universe and building a proactive pipeline of candidates
• Experience with best-in-class competency-based interviewing and reference techniques
• Strong Excel skills with demonstrated tech-enablement comfort (ie, comfortable adapting to and familiarity with multiple talent-driven software applications)
• Bachelor’s degree required

• Possess “Hunter-gatherer” search professional mentality
• Detail-driven with ability to navigate a systems and process-driven model on a day-to-day basis
• Proven stakeholder management experience; able to flex to accommodate stylistic differences
• High level of professionalism, accountability and ownership; takes the utmost pride in their work
• Proactive problem solver with exceptional communication skills and attention to detail
• Highly organized, resourceful, and responsive; thrive on being the “right hand” to a colleague and working in team-based setting
• Strong sense of urgency, adaptability, flexibility, and resourcefulness
• Ability to perform with excellence under pressure, while managing multiple concurrent projects and deadlines
• Perform duties with the highest level of confidentiality, work ethics, and integrity
• Ability to quickly build relationships and establish credibility with key internal and external stakeholders
• Possess positive, “can do” attitude
• Consummate learner; thrive on continually bettering oneself
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to pivot to distinguish between urgent and important needs
• Power-user of LinkedIn Recruiter and ATS systems
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, and Excel; PowerPoint a plus

Since the success of this role is largely dependent upon strong and efficient communication skills, we highly value your responses to the questions below as part of our interview process.  You may keep your responses brief.  We look forward to getting to know you!

We value diversity and commit to making hiring decisions based upon the character traits and capabilities that correlate to being successful in this job.  We are an equal opportunity employer and we welcome your application. 

All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States.