Recruiting Business Partner

Job Title: Recruiter I / Recruiting Business Partner Job Description
This role serves as a Recruiting Business Partner responsible for full-cycle, high-volume recruiting in an innovative, fast-paced operations environment, with a focus on transportation and related functions. You will cultivate talent sourcing channels, build strong relationships with hiring managers and internal partners, and consistently close searches against tight deadlines while driving process improvements and maintaining high customer service standards. Working closely with sourcers, recruiting coordinators, and supervisors, you will contribute to a collaborative, service-oriented culture that delivers efficient, effective, and quality-driven hiring solutions.
Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end, full lifecycle recruiting processes, including intake with hiring managers, sourcing, screening, interviewing, offer management, and onboarding for assigned roles.
- Focus on high-volume recruiting in transportation and related operational departments, managing large requisition loads and annual hire volumes.
- Cultivate and maintain diverse talent sourcing channels to attract qualified candidates for operations, logistics, transportation, warehousing, and field-based roles.
- Develop and strengthen relationships with hiring managers, business leaders, HR business partners, and internal stakeholders to understand hiring needs and provide consultative recruiting support.
- Prioritize and close searches against tight timelines while balancing multiple requisitions and meeting agreed customer service level agreements (SLAs).
- Utilize benchmarks and metrics to track recruiting performance, including time-to-fill, offer acceptance rates, staffing percentages, and aging requisitions, and adjust strategies based on data.
- Act as a client lead for assigned business groups, providing regular updates, insights, and recommendations on candidate pipelines and hiring progress.
- Foster a collaborative team environment by engaging proactively with supervisors, peers, sourcers, and recruiting coordinators to ensure seamless execution of the recruiting process.
- Contribute to process improvement initiatives by helping to build or refine standard operating procedures, dashboards, and hiring events or blitzes to enhance efficiency and candidate experience.
- Perform exit interviews and process changes in employee status in accordance with established guidelines and procedures when required.
- Rely on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform job functions while exercising sound judgment and maintaining attention to detail.
- Demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills in candidate outreach, interview feedback, and stakeholder updates.
- Provide an exceptional candidate and internal customer experience by demonstrating urgency, appropriate pushback when needed, and a strong service-oriented mindset.
- Work under immediate supervision, reporting to a supervisor or manager, and consistently meet performance expectations and service level commitments.
Essential Skills
- 1+ years of progressive corporate or search firm recruiting or research experience, with direct ownership of requisitions.
- Proven experience in full lifecycle recruiting, not limited to sourcing or coordination, including managing the entire hiring process from requisition opening to offer acceptance.
- Demonstrated success in high-volume hiring, such as managing 100+ requisitions or 300+ hires annually.
- Experience recruiting for operations, logistics, transportation, warehousing, or field-based roles.
- Ability to manage, prioritize, and close multiple searches against tight timelines while meeting customer SLAs.
- Strong candidate generation skills and the ability to build and maintain robust talent pipelines.
- Solid client and account management capabilities, including partnering with business leaders and hiring managers.
- Metrics-driven approach to recruiting, with experience tracking and using data such as time-to-fill, offer acceptance rates, staffing percentages, and aging requisitions.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills for interacting with candidates and internal stakeholders.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail in handling high-volume requisitions and candidate activity.
- Ability to demonstrate appropriate pushback, maintain a sense of urgency, and deliver outstanding customer service.
- Knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures within recruiting and talent acquisition.
- Ability to thrive in an innovative, fast-paced environment, roll up your sleeves, work hard, and maintain a positive, results-oriented approach.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelors degree, or 2+ years of full-time experience in a large-scale operations environment.
- Experience working within large-scale operations or complex organizational structures.
- Background in building or improving recruiting processes, including standard operating procedures, dashboards, and hiring blitz events.
- Experience managing both high-volume and niche hiring requirements.
- Familiarity with service level agreements and customer-focused recruiting delivery.
- Comfort working under immediate supervision while following established guidelines and instructions.
Work Environment
The role operates in a fast-paced, high-volume recruiting environment that supports transportation and broader operations functions. You will work closely with supervisors, sourcers, recruiting coordinators, and peers in a collaborative, service-oriented team culture. The position is structured with clear instructions, pre-established guidelines, and defined performance metrics, and typically reports to a supervisor or manager. The environment emphasizes data-driven decision-making, continuous process improvement, and a balance of hard work and enjoyment while achieving ambitious hiring goals.
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract position based out of Seattle, WA.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $38.00 - $38.00/hr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job
classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be
subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits
available for this temporary role may include the following:

Medical, dental & vision
Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
Short and long-term disability
Health Spending Account (HSA)
Transportation benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract position based out of Seattle, WA.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Oct 20, 2026.
Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in Seattle,WA.

About Aston Carter

Aston Carter provides world-class corporate talent solutions to thousands of clients across the globe. Specialized in accounting, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, procurement, supply chain and select administrative professions, we extend the capabilities of industry-leading companies. We draw on our deep recruiting expertise and expansive network to meet the evolving needs of our clients and talent community with agility and excellence. With offices across the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe, Aston Carter serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® Platinum Award winner for both client and talent service.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email [email protected] for other accommodation options.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Massachusetts Lie Detector: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.