Head of Executive Search

Our Opportunity:

Chewy is hiring a Head of Executive Search to lead Chewy’s executive hiring function and act as a key senior leader driving the growth of Chewy. This role will work closely with the CEO, CFO, CTO, and the full C-Suite executive team and be an integral talent partner with senior leadership. You will lead the establishment, management, and oversight of end-to-end executive hiring (from research and market mapping to attracting diverse talent to converting best-in-class executive hires.

This role will shape Chewy’s future and requires an action-oriented builder. To be successful in the role, you will need a proven track record of being a disruptor, innovator, and forward-looking business leader. You are also an inspiring people leader, a strong cross-functional collaborator, an outstanding communicator, and a nimble, strategic thinker. Finally, you demonstrate flexibility to dive deep and willingly roll up your sleeves to lead your team through ever-changing priorities and interesting business challenges.

What You'll Do:

• Partner with the C-suite senior leaders to drive Chewy’s long-term growth plan
• Apply your expertise in hiring executives (Director, Senior Director, Vice President, C-level) to enhance the executive recruiting function at Chewy
• Set vision, design strategy, and execute thought leadership to impact Chewy’s growth, at scale
• Lead, inspire, and develop a team of executive recruiting professionals focused on attracting world-class executive talent
• Apply industry best practices to bring innovation to operations, systems, and processes
• Implement mechanisms to track and improve candidate and hiring manager experience
• Implement repeatable operating processes that manage passive and active candidate pipelines
• Write monthly business reviews that provide senior leaders with market insights, hiring trends, risks, opportunities, and strategic paths forward.
• Build the hiring framework, selection and assessment process, and analytics to enhance our executive hiring process
• Apply data-driven decision making
• Create ad-hoc materials for C-suite consumption

What You'll Need:

• 10+ years of progressive Recruiting experience, with at least 5+ years recruiting executives
• 3+ years of experience leading recruiting teams
• Bachelor’s degree required, MBA a plus
• Proven track record of establishing, building, and maturing executive recruiting functions, selection systems, and tools
• Experience leading senior-level team members in a hyper growth organization
• E-commerce experience and company size of 10K+ FTE’s or more are both a strong plus
• Ability to think globally, strategically, and objectively
• Able to effectively translate data into actionable insights, strategies and hiring plans
• Apply analytical rigor to create, model, and analyze data which then shapes our strategic talent initiatives
• Experience in building effective diversity hiring strategies that enable and amplify our D&I efforts across Chewy
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly and effectively (verbally and in writing) to senior leadership audiences
• Success in creating an inclusive culture that builds trust between cross-functional teams
• Demonstration of maintaining high performance expectations and leading teams to achieve results in a fast-paced environment
• Advanced use of PowerPoint and Excel
• Experience in writing data-rich, strategic white papers a strong plus

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