Director Leadership Acquisition
Position Highlights
The Director of Leadership Acquisition serves as the enterprise leader responsible for attracting, assessing, and securing exceptional leadership talent across Texas Health Resources. This role provides strategic oversight of leadership recruitment activities spanning director, senior leader, and executive-level positions throughout the organization. The Director partners closely with executives, Strategic Human Resources, Talent Acquisition teams, Compensation, and THRU leaders to ensure Texas Health consistently identifies and hires leaders who embody organizational values, demonstrate exceptional leadership capability, and possess the ability to advance organizational performance in an increasingly complex healthcare environment.
The Director serves as the architect of the Texas Health Leadership Recruitment Experience, establishing enterprise standards, governance, assessment methodologies, stakeholder expectations, and service commitments that create consistent, high-quality leadership hiring outcomes across the organization.
Director of Leadership Recruitment plays a critical role in shaping the future leadership of Texas Health Resources. Success in this role will be measured not simply by positions filled, but by the quality, effectiveness, retention, and long-term success of leaders hired into the organization.
- Work location: Work location: Hybrid remote and onsite-THR headquarters-Arlington, TX
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Work hours: Full Time, Monday – Friday, 08:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Key Responsibilities
Develop, execute, and continuously improve enterprise leadership recruitment strategies for director, senior leader, and executive-level roles.
Establish recruitment standards, governance, assessment methods, service expectations, and consistent selection practices.
Lead or oversee complex, confidential, and mission-critical leadership searches from intake through onboarding.
Advise hiring leaders and Strategic HR partners on search strategy, success profiles, candidate requirements, interview expectations, and hiring decisions.
Support fair, evidence-based selection through structured interviews, candidate evaluation tools, calibration, and objective decision support.
Strengthen the leadership recruitment experience through timely communication, clear stakeholder expectations, and professional candidate engagement.
Build leadership talent pipelines, external candidate networks, and succession-related search support using workforce analytics and market intelligence.
Manage internal recruitment resources, external search partnerships, performance metrics, dashboards, and service-level commitments
Lead and develop leadership recruitment team members while fostering accountability, collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
Education
Bachelor's Degree Human Resources, Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Organizational Development, or related field required
Master's Degree Human Resources, Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Healthcare Management, Organizational Development, or related field preferred
Experience
8 years progressive experience in talent acquisition, executive search, leadership recruitment, human resources, or related disciplines required
5 years experience leading leadership-level recruitment initiatives and partnering directly with senior executives, key stakeholders required
Experience with a large, complex healthcare delivery system or similarly matrixed talent strategies preferred
Experience leading executive search, leadership assessment, or enterprise talent strategies preferred
Experience partnering directly with senior executives, physician leadership, and operational leadership teams required
Experience managing enterprise-wide recruitment programs, projects, or teams required
Licenses and Certifications
Professional Human Resources Certification (PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP) or related certification required
Skills
Demonstrated expertise in leadership recruitment, executive search methodologies, and talent assessment practices.
Strong understanding of healthcare leadership structures and talent markets.
Exceptional stakeholder management, consultation, facilitation, and influencing skills.
Demonstrated executive presence with the ability to build consensus among varied stakeholder groups.
Strong analytical, organizational, project management, and data-driven decision-making capabilities.
Ability to manage multiple complex leadership searches simultaneously while maintaining exceptional service standards.
Ability to navigate confidential and sensitive leadership matters with professionalism and discretion.
Strong communication, presentation, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
Demonstrated commitment to candidate experience, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
Ability to model and reinforce Texas Health Resources leadership behaviors, values-based leadership, accountability, collaboration, innovation, sound decision-making, managerial courage, and action orientation.
Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making capabilities.
Demonstrated ability to lead teams, improve processes, and drive enterprise consistency.
Why Texas Health?
At Texas Health Resources, our mission is “to improve the health of the people in the communities we serve”.
As part of the Texas Health family and its 28,000+ employees, we’re one of the largest employers in the Dallas Fort Worth area. Our career growth and professional development opportunities are top-notch and our benefits are equally outstanding. Come be a part of our exceptional team as we improve the health of the people in our communities every day. You belong here.
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