Recruiting Manager – Wealth & Asset Management

Northern Trust

. Lead recruiting delivery for Wealth & Asset Management hiring with a strong focus on quality, speed, and cost effectiveness, driving year‑over‑year improvement in time to hire, offer acceptance, and recruiter productivity.

Posted 4/28/2026full-timeChicago • California, Illinois, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $137,400 - $240,400 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead recruiting delivery for Wealth & Asset Management hiring with a strong focus on quality, speed, and cost effectiveness, driving year‑over‑year improvement in time to hire, offer acceptance, and recruiter productivity.
Monitor team performance, workload distribution, and recruiting metrics, addressing gaps early through clear expectations, coaching, and prioritization to ensure consistent results.
Ensure a high‑quality, consistent candidate experience across all roles by setting and reinforcing standards for communication, professionalism, and expectation setting throughout the hiring process.
Strengthen recruiter‑led sourcing outcomes by reinforcing market‑informed sourcing strategies, accurate source tracking, and effective use of sourcing analytics.
Embed social recruiting and employer brand advocacy as standard practice, including recruiter use of Amplify and LinkedIn, and enabling hiring‑manager participation at key moments in the hiring process.
Oversee targeted talent campaigns aligned to business priorities and market conditions, particularly for hard‑to‑fill and strategically important roles.
Continuously identify opportunities to improve recruiting workflows, encouraging responsible experimentation with AI‑enabled tools while ensuring consistency, compliance, and ethical use.
Build strong partnerships with hiring leaders and HR Business Partners by ensuring recruiters develop deep understanding of their supported businesses, talent markets, and competitive landscape.
Maintain disciplined, audit‑ready recruiting operations by ensuring compliance steps, documentation, approvals, and mandatory training are completed fully and on time.
Reinforce inclusive recruiting practices throughout the hiring process, including outreach and interview panels, while modeling professional respect and equitable leadership behaviors.

Requirements

What you’ll need

At least 10 years experience leading recruiting teams in wealth management and/or asset management
Strong people leadership capabilities, including performance management, coaching, and development
Demonstrated success recruiting executive level roles
Strong consulting and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders
Experience using recruiting data, metrics, and dashboards to drive performance improvement
Knowledge of recruiting compliance requirements and employment legislation
Experience driving recruiter‑led sourcing and social recruiting strategies
Exposure to AI‑enabled recruiting tools and workflow optimization
Experience partnering with global or regionally distributed Talent Acquisition teams

Benefits

Comp & perks

401k and pension
health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, spending accounts and disability)
paid time off
parental and caregiver leave
life & accident insurance
other voluntary and well-being benefits
discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component

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Hard Skills & Tools

recruiting metricssourcing analyticsrecruiting complianceemployment legislationAI-enabled recruiting toolsworkflow optimizationexecutive level recruitingperformance managementcoachingdevelopment

Soft Skills

people leadershipconsultingstakeholder managementinfluencecommunicationprofessional respectequitable leadershipprioritizationcoachingpartnership building