Ardent Health Services (AHS) is a national health care services company headquartered in Nashville, TN. Through its subsidiaries, Ardent owns and operates nearly 200 sites of care. Our subsidiaries own and operate hospitals and multispecialty physician practices in six states. Ardent includes 30 hospitals, 4,423 patient beds, 23,000 employees, and 1,700 employed physicians. Within the industry, we are noted for recognizing that every hospital is as unique as the community it serves. This in-depth understanding of how health care works at the local level is one of our great strengths.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Provider Recruitment team as a Director of Provider Recruitment.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Director of Provider Recruitment plays a key role in supporting company growth by leading the talent acquisition of physicians and advanced practice practitioners throughout the country. The successful candidate will thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment creating and implementing successful talent acquisition strategies rooted in inclusion and diversity in collaboration with business leaders. The director will be a strategic thought partner who leads a team and plays a role as an individual contributor in recruitment.

Management:

• Coordinates to deliver exceptional results through a collaborative leadership style that inspires and motivates.
• Manages, mentors, collaborates, trains, and supports recruiters to ensure a high-performing recruitment team.
• Effectively covers open requisitions by following existing processes and rigor to manage teams and searches with little or no need for third party support.
• Works with recruiters to develop recruitment strategy, set priorities, and define quarterly and annual recruitment goals.

Relationships:

• Acts as business partner to hiring managers and responsible for annual recruitment goals.
• Develops and maintains relationships with executives and other stakeholders to collaborate on recruitment needs.
• Manages requisition requests. Collaborates with hiring managers on understanding the requests for adding and backfilling positions as well as job description creation.

Recruitment:

• Interviews candidates over the telephone, virtually, and/or in person.
• Sources and recruits for designated positions based on team bandwidth, level of position, and executive impact.
• Manages requisition load and handles full cycle recruitment responsibilities.

Partnerships:

• Collaborates with compensation on candidate package requests.
• Communicates with stakeholders regarding onboarding new hires, terminations, internal transfers, etc.
• Works with leadership on maintenance and enhancements of ATS.
• Communicates with the budget team to ensure budget alignment with recruiting initiatives.

Strategy:

• Builds a high-performing recruitment team to include forming a vision and strategy, setting department objectives in alignment with the needs of the business, engaging members of the team, managing performance, and developing team members.
• Develops and implements strategic initiatives for recruiting diverse talent in a multi-site organization.
• Works to continually improve the candidate and hiring manager experience.
• Drives activities that enhance proactive sourcing efforts, and increase the number of quality recruits through networking, competitive sourcing, etc., inclusive of developing relationships with Ardent-based and/or local medical schools and graduate medical education training programs.
• Leverages recruiting analytics to assess and improve the current strategy to ensure a world-class practice; take a data-driven approach to decision-making that will support a culture of continuous improvement in processes and efficiencies

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree is required
• 10 years of recruitment experience
• 5 years of managing recruitment for a company with over 1,000 employees
• Healthcare experience preferred
• Experience recruiting physician and advanced practice practitioner positions required

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities:

• Knowledge of compliance with recruiting standards and practices for team members including but not limited to immigration status, EEO, OFCCP, job postings, etc.
• Willingness to own decisions, operate with discipline and rigor with a competitive drive to be the best.
• Ability to operate as a subject matter expert on recruiting with a consultative style.
• Ability to execute plans - both strategy and project related.
• Ability to track, prioritize, and drive multiple-concurrent projects.