Lego
Talent Acquisition Manager - Manufacturing
🇺🇸 Hybrid - Richmond, VA
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $112K - $168K
💻 Human Resources
🗓️ September 23rd, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
The LEGO Group is hiring a Talent Acquisition Manager - Manufacturing to lead recruitment efforts for their Richmond Manufacturing location. The role involves strategic workforce planning, managing recruitment operations, coordinating onboarding, and partnering with business leaders to align hiring priorities and improve recruitment processes for hourly production roles.
Highlights
- Forecast and model hourly hiring demand and manage recruiter workloads.
- Oversee daily recruitment operations and ensure adherence to service level agreements.
- Manage full recruitment lifecycle including talent attraction, screening, and interviewing for hourly production roles.
- Partner with salaried recruitment managers on employer branding and talent pipelining.
- Coordinate onboarding and temporary worker conversion processes.
- Act as liaison between business leaders, HR, and recruitment teams to align hiring priorities.
- Develop and implement standardized recruitment processes and leverage technology to enhance efficiency.
- Provide coaching and support to recruitment team members and lead capacity planning.
- Preferred qualifications include experience in manufacturing or high-volume recruitment and a bachelor’s degree in HR, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field.
- Salary range is $111,887 to $167,831, with comprehensive benefits and bonus opportunities.
Talent Acquisition Manager - Manufacturing Full Description
Talent Acquisition Manager - Manufacturing
- Location
- Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
- Job ID
- 0000028131
- Category
- Human Resources
Job Description
Join us as we are seeking a Talent Acquisition Manager in our new Richmond Manufacturing location to lead our team to success! In this position, you will organize talent akin to LEGO bricks, guaranteeing the formation of a resilient and diverse team ready to tackle any challenge. This will foster a vibrant and collaborative work environment where everyone can thrive!
Please note: The internal title will be Talent Acquisition Manager, and the internal level will be Individual Contributor.
There is no relocation budget for this position
Core Responsibilities
Strategic Workforce & Capacity Planning
- Forecast and model hourly hiring demand based on business growth, seasonal trends, and attrition.
- Translate demand forecasts into recruiter workload plans, ensuring balanced distribution across the team.
- Monitor progress against hiring targets and adjust allocation in real-time.
Recruitment Operations & Delivery
- Oversee day-to-day workflow management for hourly recruiting teams.
- Implement and lead scheduling, requisition prioritization, and Service Level Agreement adherence.
- Track time-to-fill, funnel metrics, and recruiter productivity to identify areas of improvement.
- Partner with Salaried recruitment manager on employer branding activities such as talent pipelining to ensure adequate candidate pipelines for critical roles.
- Oversee and coordinate onboarding for hourly employees.
- Co-own the temporary hiring process, facilitating the conversion of temporary workers to full-time employees based on performance and business needs.
- Own full end to end recruitment lifecycle for hourly production roles (talent attraction, recruiting, screening, and interviewing candidates) in a fast-paced & complex environment.
Stakeholder Management
- Act as the liaison between business leaders, HR, and recruitment to align hiring priorities.
- Provide regular reporting and insights on hiring progress, recruiter capacity, and risks to delivery.
- Manage escalation of high-priority requisitions and ensure timely resolution.
Process Improvement & Innovation
- Develop and improve standardized processes, tools, and playbooks for high-volume hourly hiring.
- Leverage technology and automation to reduce manual workload and improve recruiter efficiency.
- Champion best practices in candidate experience and recruiter engagement.
Team Enablement
- Provide coaching, guidance, and workload prioritization support to recruiters.
- Lead capacity planning meetings and maintain visibility of resource allocation.
- Support recruiter onboarding, training, and continuous development on tools and process.
Do your part in our team succeeding
The Talent Acquisition Manager reports to the Head of People Partnering and is accountable for maintaining effective workforce planning, employer branding, recruitment operations, onboarding, and candidate flow for extensive hourly recruitment needs. This role will serve as the central point of coordination for demand forecasting, recruiter workload management, and process efficiency across the hourly talent acquisition team. The lead will partner with Operations Leadership, Planning and People Partners to balance hiring demand with recruiting capacity, ensuring timely fulfillment of staffing needs to support business continuity and growth. In this role you will also carry hands-on recruiting responsibilities.
Do you have what it takes?
- Experience leading recruiter workflow management or capacity planning processes.
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities in fast-paced, high-growth environments.
- Preferred experience in manufacturing recruitment and/or high-volume recruitment strategy & support.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Business Administration, Finance or related field preferred
Hybrid working model
Our workplace enables our LEGO® colleagues to be and do their best at work. Introducing a flexible way of working is a great example of how we live up to our ambition. These 3 days in the office hybrid model will exemplify our People Promise by embracing the different life situations of our colleagues.
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Compensation
The salary for this position has a range of $111,887.00 - $167,831.00 based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints. The LEGO Group carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. The comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalisation of the employment offer.
The salary for this position has a range of $111,887.00 - $167,831.00 based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints. The LEGO Group carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. The comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalisation of the employment offer.
Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
What’s in it for you?
Here are some of what to expect:
Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
Wellbeing – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based
Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme
Your workplace – When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.
We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.
The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.
The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.
We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”
The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.
The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.
Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.
We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.
Online Application Accessibility Statement; which is intended for people with disabilities - LEGO systems endeavors to make www.LEGO.com/jobs accessible to any and all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our web site or need assistance completing the application process, please contact the HR Service Desk at 1.860-763-7777, option #3. Please note, these communication channels should be used for those having difficulty accessing our on-line channels, not to inquire about job opportunities.
Just imagine building your dream career.
Then make it real.
Join the LEGO® team today.
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