Principal Recruiter Job ID 272818 Posted 24-Apr-2026 Service line GWS Segment Role type Full-time Areas of Interest People/Human Resources Location(s) Atlanta - Georgia - United States of America, Austin - Texas - United States of America, Charleston - South Carolina - United States of America, Charlotte - North Carolina - United States of America, Columbia - South Carolina - United States of America, Dallas - Texas - United States of America, Detroit - Michigan - United States of America, Layton - Utah - United States of America, North Salt Lake - Utah - United States of America, Raleigh - North Carolina - United States of America, Richardson - Texas - United States of America, Salt Lake City - Utah - United States of America, Syracuse - Utah - United States of America
The Principal Recruiter is a strategic recruiting leader responsible for owning hiring outcomes across a designated business unit. This role operates as a direct partner to Regional Directors and Sr HRBPs, driving workforce strategy and delivering an executive search level of service for critical talent needs.
This position reports directly to the Director of Recruiting and serves as a key conduit between recruiting and business leadership.
Key Responsibilities
- Each Principal Recruiter will be aligned to a business unit
- Act as the primary recruiting partner to Regional Directors and Sr HRBPs
- Own business unit hiring strategy, workforce planning alignment, and execution
- Provide market insights, hiring trends, and strategic recommendations to leadership
- Lead staffing reporting in weekly and monthly business reviews
Executive Search and Advisory
- Operate with an executive search mindset for leadership and critical roles, prioritizing quality over volume
- Build and present curated candidate slates with structured assessments and clear hiring recommendations
- Partner with Regional Directors and Sr HRBPs to define success profiles and calibrate hiring decisions
- Provide consultative guidance on talent availability, compensation positioning, and competitive landscape
- Elevate candidate presentation standards by delivering insight driven profiles rather than resume forwarding
Technical Acumen and Capability Building
- Develop deep understanding of business unit operations, including building infrastructure, equipment types, and maintenance workflows
- Build working knowledge of systems such as robotics, conveyor systems, controls, and automation equipment relevant to each business unit
- Translate technical and operational concepts into clear recruiting strategies and candidate profiles
- Act as a subject matter expert for assigned business unit, elevating the team’s understanding of roles, environments, and skill requirements
- Design and deliver training sessions, enablement materials, and ongoing coaching to upskill recruiters on technical knowledge and role requirements
- Lead regular presentations to recruiting teams and business stakeholders on market insights, technical trends, and hiring strategy
Recruiting & Data Reporting
- Manage a reduced requisition load focused on high priority, complex, and high throughput sites
- Support critical, hard to fill, and leadership level roles
- Drive consistency and quality across hiring processes, including interview and selection standards
- Own business unit reporting including staffing levels, pipeline health, time to fill, and offer conversion
- Translate data into actionable insights to drive performance and decision making
- Identify risks early and implement corrective actions
Operational Excellence & Team Development and Leadership
- Coach and mentor recruiters to improve stakeholder management, technical fluency, and recruiting effectiveness
- Raise the bar on candidate quality, process discipline, and overall team performance
- Partner with recruiting managers to drive accountability and continuous improvement
- Operational Excellence
- Standardize recruiting processes and ensure alignment with recruiting and business expectations
- Partner with internal teams including Candidate Care, People team, and Operations to remove bottlenecks
- Support hiring events, launches, and surge hiring needs as required
Basic Qualifications
- Minimum 7+ years of full cycle recruiting experience
- Experience supporting high volume and/or technical hiring environments
- Strong stakeholder management experience with senior business leaders
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience within executive search, agency recruiting or retained search environment with a focus on consultative hiring support
- Experience supporting engineering, maintenance, or automation related roles
- Strong ability to learn and translate technical concepts into hiring strategies
- Experience building training materials or enabling teams
- Strong analytical skills with experience with recruiting dashboards and data tools
- Experience mentoring or leading recruiters
Travel Requirement
- This role requires minimum 25% travel to support business unit alignment, site engagement, hiring events, and stakeholder partnership
Success Profile
- Proven ability to elevate team capability and drive measurable improvements
- Strategic thinker with strong business and operational acumen
- Ability to quickly build credibility in technical environments
- High ownership and accountability for results
- Strong communication skills with the ability to present to senior stakeholders
Equal Employment Opportunity: CBRE has a long-standing commitment to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, veteran status, political belief, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
Candidate Accommodations: CBRE values the differences of all current and prospective employees and recognizes how every employee contributes to our company’s success. CBRE provides reasonable accommodations in job application procedures for individuals with disabilities. If you require assistance due to a disability in the application or recruitment process, please submit a request via email at recruitingaccommodations@cbre.com or via telephone at +1 866 225 3099 (U.S.) and +1 866 388 4346 (Canada). CBRE GWS CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) works with clients to make real estate a meaningful contributor to organizational productivity and performance. Our account management model is at the heart of our client-centric approach to delivering integrated real estate solutions. Each client is entrusted with a dedicated leader and is supported by regional and global resources, leveraging the industry's most robust platform. CBRE GWS delivers consistent, measurably superior outcomes for our clients at every stage of the lifecycle, and across industries and geographies.
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