Overview
Director of Recruiting Jobs in New Jersey, United States at Logixs Search
Title: Director of Recruiting
Company: Logixs Search
Location: New Jersey, United States
Position Title – Director of Recruiting
Reports To- Executive Leadership Team
Location- Greater Philadelphia / Southern New Jersey Region
(Hybrid flexibility possible)
Company Overview
Our client is a rapidly growing asset-based transportation and logistics provider with a national footprint across expedited, temperature-controlled, truckload, and specialized freight services throughout the continental United States.
The organization has established a strong reputation for operational reliability, customer responsiveness, and service consistency within highly time-sensitive and compliance-driven industries including pharmaceutical, medical, food, automotive, and specialty manufacturing sectors.
Following significant growth and continued national expansion, the company is seeking a high-impact Director of Recruiting to lead and modernize enterprise talent acquisition efforts across both field and corporate operations.
Position Summary
The Director of Recruiting will lead all enterprise recruiting and talent acquisition initiatives across the organization. This executive-level role is responsible for developing and executing a scalable recruiting strategy focused on attracting, hiring, and retaining high-performing CDL drivers, operations personnel, logistics professionals, and corporate talent nationwide.
The successful candidate will bring deep experience in transportation, logistics, trucking, supply chain, or high-volume operational recruiting environments. This leader must combine strategic vision with operational execution and possess strong expertise in driver recruiting, recruiting analytics, compliance, retention partnership, and recruiting technology optimization.
The Director of Recruiting will serve as a strategic advisor to executive leadership while building a best-in-class recruiting organization aligned with aggressive growth objectives.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
- Develop and execute a national recruiting strategy aligned with organizational growth goals.
- Build scalable recruiting processes for CDL drivers, operations, maintenance, dispatch, customer service, and corporate functions.
- Partner with executive leadership on workforce planning and hiring forecasts.
- Establish recruiting KPIs, dashboards, and performance metrics.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives across sourcing, onboarding, and candidate experience.
Driver Recruiting Leadership
- Design innovative CDL driver recruiting campaigns across multiple geographic markets.
- Build pipelines for solo, team, regional, and specialty freight drivers.
- Develop competitive market intelligence related to compensation, sign-on incentives, and retention trends.
- Improve speed-to-hire and recruiting conversion metrics.
- Create strategic partnerships with CDL schools, military transition programs, and driver referral networks.
Talent Acquisition Operations
- Oversee full-cycle recruiting operations and recruiting team performance.
- Optimize ATS, CRM, and recruiting workflow systems.
- Standardize recruiting processes, compliance documentation, and onboarding coordination.
- Ensure recruiting activities comply with DOT, FMCSA, EEOC, and employment regulations.
- Collaborate with HR and Operations on retention initiatives and workforce engagement.
Employer Brand & Talent Marketing
- Strengthen the company’s employer brand nationally.
- Partner with marketing to enhance digital recruiting campaigns, social media presence, and recruiting communications.
- Improve candidate engagement and recruiting conversion through modern talent marketing practices.
- Elevate the organization’s reputation as an employer of choice within transportation and logistics.
Leadership & Team Development
- Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing recruiting organization.
- Establish accountability, recruiting standards, and professional development initiatives.
- Foster a metrics-driven and service-oriented recruiting culture.
Candidate Profile
Required Experience
- 8+ years of progressive recruiting leadership experience.
- Significant experience within trucking, transportation, logistics, supply chain, or industrial staffing environments.
- Proven success recruiting CDL-A drivers at scale.
- Experience leading recruiting teams in fast-growth operational environments.
- Strong understanding of DOT/FMCSA hiring standards and compliance requirements.
- Demonstrated success implementing recruiting systems, metrics, and process improvements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience within asset-based transportation companies.
- Background supporting temperature-controlled or expedited freight operations.
- Multi-site or national recruiting leadership experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field preferred.
Leadership Competencies
The ideal candidate will demonstrate:
- Strategic thinking and operational discipline
- Strong executive presence and communication skills
- Data-driven decision making
- High urgency and execution capability
- Relationship-building across operations and leadership teams
- Change management expertise
- Strong recruiting marketing and sourcing creativity
- Ability to thrive in fast-paced, growth-oriented environments
Key Performance Indicators
Success in the role will be measured by:
- Driver hiring volume and quality
- Time-to-fill metrics
- Driver retention improvement
- Recruiting cost efficiency
- Reduction in vacancy rates
- Hiring manager satisfaction
- Recruiting funnel conversion performance
- Onboarding completion and compliance accuracy
Compensation
A competitive executive compensation package will be offered, including:
- Base salary
- Performance bonus opportunity
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Potential long-term incentive structure
Compensation will be commensurate with experience and market expertise.
Opportunity Highlights
This role presents an opportunity to:
- Build and modernize recruiting infrastructure for a nationally recognized transportation provider
- Influence executive-level workforce strategy
- Lead large-scale national driver recruiting initiatives
- Drive measurable organizational growth and operational impact
- Shape the future talent strategy of a rapidly expanding logistics organization
