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The Manager, Talent Acquisition is responsible for designing, executing, and continuously evolving a comprehensive company-wide talent acquisition strategy, serving as a trusted partner to line of business leaders, ensuring that talent strategies are tightly aligned with the bank's strategic plans, culture, and long-term workforce needs. This leader will be responsible for building and leading a high-performing recruitment function that attracts, assesses, and hires top talent across all business lines. Ensuring the candidate experience is engaging and inclusive to meet the organization's current and future demands.

Essential Functions/Responsibilities

• In partnership with the Human Resources leadership team and key stakeholders, develops and executes a scalable, company-wide talent acquisition strategy aligned with the bank's business strategy, growth plans, and workforce requirements.
• Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing talent acquisition team, fostering accountability, continuous improvement, and a strong service mindset.
• Creates and fosters an inclusive work environment.
• Establish clear operating models, governance, and performance and recruitment metrics (time to fill, quality of hire, diversity outcomes, cost effectiveness, candidate experience) to ensure consistent, high-quality recruiting outcomes across the organization.
• Stay abreast of market and internal data to anticipate talent risks, inform workforce planning and assist in guiding decision-making.
• Act as a credible, influential ambassador of the bank's employer brand and culture while serving as primary talent acquisition partner for specific lines of business, functioning as a strong player/coach.
• Oversee end-to-end recruiting operations, including workforce planning, sourcing selection, offer management, and onboarding partnership continuously seeking improvement and simplification opportunities to enhance efficiency, quality of hire, ease of process for line of business partners, and candidate experience.
• Ensure recruiting practices are compliant with all applicable employment laws, banking regulations, and internal risk standards.
• Partner with Marketing and HR Communications to develop compelling messaging and outreach strategies, strengthening and differentiating First Financial's employer brand in a competitive market, and build strategic relationships with external partners, including executive search firms, universities, professional associations, and community organizations.

Minimum Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Needed to Perform Essential Functions of the Job

• 10+ years of general human resources experience, and at least five years of recruiting experience.
• Excellent relationship building, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Strong management/coaching and development skills.
• Strong experience leveraging applicant tracking systems and other recruiting technologies to achieve goals.
• Strong computer software skills to include MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Effective time management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.

Preferred Knowledge and Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources and/or a related field.
• Experience with Workday.

Level of Complexity and Scope

• Solves a broad range of moderately complex problems.

Degree of Independence and Decision-Making

• May need to collaborate with Human Resources leadership team and/or other senior management members to solve more complex problems.
• Regularly works with limited supervision while using subject-matter expertise to advise others and related policies.

Required Supervisory Responsibilities

• Managers the First Financial Bank recruitment team.

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to see, hear, walk, talk, sit, stand, and drive
• Operate a computer, telephone, and other office equipment as needed
• Must be able to travel to FFB locations as needed
• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer

Compliance Statement

The associate is responsible for meeting all compliance requirements imposed on First Financial Bank by State and Federal law and regulation, as well as all related First Financial Bank policies and procedures. This includes all Bank Secrecy Act, Anti-Money Laundering, OFAC and Suspicious Activity reporting requirements, as well as all other lending and deposit compliance requirements.

Development and Training

• Pay Range: $107,000/year - $142,760/year

Benefits

We have relevant, thoughtful benefits and programs that support every aspect of our associates' holistic wellbeing. Please review our Benefits Guide.

Incentive Eligibility

All roles are incentive eligible with the exception of Co-Op, Intern, or Student positions.

It is our policy to not discriminate against any individual in violation of federal, state, and local laws as it relates to age, race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, pregnancy, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, veteran/military service, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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