Recruiting Manager Jobs in Chicago, IL
Recruiting Manager jobs in Chicago are concentrated in the Loop, River North, and the Fulton Market district, with strong demand across professional services, healthcare, and technology. Employers actively hiring include Elite Dental Partners, CIBC, and Zekelman Industries. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Huron is redefining what a global consulting organization can be. Advancing new ideas every day to build even stronger clients, individuals and communities. We’re helping our clients find new ways to drive growth, enhance business performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. And, we’re developing strategies and implementing solutions that enable the transformative change they need to own their future.
As a member of the Huron corporate team, you’ll help to evolve our business model to stay ahead of market forces, industry trends and client needs. Our accounting, finance, human resources, IT, legal, marketing and facilities management professionals work collaboratively to support Huron’s collective strategies and enable real transformation to produce sustainable business results.
Join our team and create your future.
This is an opportunity for a recruiting leader who wants to make an impact beyond filling roles. The ideal candidate is someone who builds trust quickly, brings insight and structure to complex hiring needs, and is motivated by helping others grow. This role is well suited for someone with people management experience, as well as a high-performing Talent Acquisition professional who has demonstrated leadership through coaching, mentoring, project leadership, or day-to-day team guidance and is ready to continue developing into a people manager role.
- Act as a trusted talent advisor by translating business priorities, workforce needs, and market insights into thoughtful, practical recruiting strategies.
- Build strong partnerships with business leaders, hiring managers, and Talent Acquisition leadership through proactive communication, sound judgment, and data-informed recommendations.
- Lead recruiting delivery across assigned business areas, ensuring hiring strategies are aligned to business needs, candidate expectations, and Huron’s commitment to excellence.
- Coach, guide, and develop recruiters, sourcing recruiters, coordinators, or project resources by creating clarity, providing feedback, and helping team members grow their advisory and execution skills.
- Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing team environment where individuals feel supported, accountable, and empowered to do their best work.
- Use recruiting data, market intelligence, capacity insights, and stakeholder feedback to identify trends, anticipate risks, and recommend solutions that improve hiring outcomes.
- Support workload planning, prioritization, escalation management, process consistency, and operating rhythms that enable the team to deliver with focus and quality.
- Champion a candidate experience that reflects Huron’s values, professionalism, and commitment to respect, transparency, and inclusion.
- Contribute to Talent Acquisition initiatives that strengthen talent advisory capability, recruiting operations, employment brand, reporting discipline, and hiring manager enablement.
- Current U.S. work authorization.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Eight to ten years of full cycle recruiting experience in a corporate environment, professional services organization, consulting environment, or executive search firm required.
- Experience leading, mentoring, coaching, or directly managing recruiters, sourcing recruiters, coordinators, or project resources.
- A consultative talent advisory mindset, with the ability to understand business needs, interpret recruiting data, communicate market insights, and recommend solutions that support business priorities.
- Demonstrated ability to build credibility with stakeholders, influence through insight, manage competing priorities, and communicate with clarity and professionalism.
- Strong organizational, communication, presentation, project management, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting experienced-level, leadership, professional services, consulting, or specialized recruiting needs.
- Experience using applicant tracking systems, customer relationship management platforms, LinkedIn, Boolean search, and other sourcing tools and techniques.
- Demonstrated success developing others, creating clarity across competing priorities, and elevating the effectiveness of a recruiting team.
- Interest in contributing to broader Talent Acquisition priorities, including process improvement, reporting, employment branding, hiring manager enablement, and recruiter capability building.
Why Join Huron’s Talent Acquisition Team
At Huron, you will be part of a team that values collaboration, integrity, curiosity, and meaningful impact. This role offers the opportunity to influence how talent solutions are designed and delivered, partner with leaders on important business priorities, and help recruiters grow into stronger advisors. If you are motivated by building trusted relationships, solving complex hiring challenges, and developing people, this role offers a strong platform to grow your leadership impact within a purpose-driven professional services environment.
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The estimated base salary range for this job is $110,000-$150,000. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $132,000-$180,000. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.
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United States of AmericaHuron is redefining what a global consulting organization can be. Advancing new ideas every day to build even stronger clients, individuals and communities. We’re helping our clients find new ways to drive growth, enhance business performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. And, we’re developing strategies and implementing solutions that enable the transformative change they need to own their future.
As a member of the Huron corporate team, you’ll help to evolve our business model to stay ahead of market forces, industry trends and client needs. Our accounting, finance, human resources, IT, legal, marketing and facilities management professionals work collaboratively to support Huron’s collective strategies and enable real transformation to produce sustainable business results.
Join our team and create your future.
This is an opportunity for a recruiting leader who wants to make an impact beyond filling roles. The ideal candidate is someone who builds trust quickly, brings insight and structure to complex hiring needs, and is motivated by helping others grow. This role is well suited for someone with people management experience, as well as a high-performing Talent Acquisition professional who has demonstrated leadership through coaching, mentoring, project leadership, or day-to-day team guidance and is ready to continue developing into a people manager role.
- Act as a trusted talent advisor by translating business priorities, workforce needs, and market insights into thoughtful, practical recruiting strategies.
- Build strong partnerships with business leaders, hiring managers, and Talent Acquisition leadership through proactive communication, sound judgment, and data-informed recommendations.
- Lead recruiting delivery across assigned business areas, ensuring hiring strategies are aligned to business needs, candidate expectations, and Huron’s commitment to excellence.
- Coach, guide, and develop recruiters, sourcing recruiters, coordinators, or project resources by creating clarity, providing feedback, and helping team members grow their advisory and execution skills.
- Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing team environment where individuals feel supported, accountable, and empowered to do their best work.
- Use recruiting data, market intelligence, capacity insights, and stakeholder feedback to identify trends, anticipate risks, and recommend solutions that improve hiring outcomes.
- Support workload planning, prioritization, escalation management, process consistency, and operating rhythms that enable the team to deliver with focus and quality.
- Champion a candidate experience that reflects Huron’s values, professionalism, and commitment to respect, transparency, and inclusion.
- Contribute to Talent Acquisition initiatives that strengthen talent advisory capability, recruiting operations, employment brand, reporting discipline, and hiring manager enablement.
- Current U.S. work authorization.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Eight to ten years of full cycle recruiting experience in a corporate environment, professional services organization, consulting environment, or executive search firm required.
- Experience leading, mentoring, coaching, or directly managing recruiters, sourcing recruiters, coordinators, or project resources.
- A consultative talent advisory mindset, with the ability to understand business needs, interpret recruiting data, communicate market insights, and recommend solutions that support business priorities.
- Demonstrated ability to build credibility with stakeholders, influence through insight, manage competing priorities, and communicate with clarity and professionalism.
- Strong organizational, communication, presentation, project management, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting experienced-level, leadership, professional services, consulting, or specialized recruiting needs.
- Experience using applicant tracking systems, customer relationship management platforms, LinkedIn, Boolean search, and other sourcing tools and techniques.
- Demonstrated success developing others, creating clarity across competing priorities, and elevating the effectiveness of a recruiting team.
- Interest in contributing to broader Talent Acquisition priorities, including process improvement, reporting, employment branding, hiring manager enablement, and recruiter capability building.
Why Join Huron’s Talent Acquisition Team
At Huron, you will be part of a team that values collaboration, integrity, curiosity, and meaningful impact. This role offers the opportunity to influence how talent solutions are designed and delivered, partner with leaders on important business priorities, and help recruiters grow into stronger advisors. If you are motivated by building trusted relationships, solving complex hiring challenges, and developing people, this role offers a strong platform to grow your leadership impact within a purpose-driven professional services environment.
#LI-EA1
#LI-Remote
The estimated base salary range for this job is $110,000-$150,000. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $132,000-$180,000. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.
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Recruiting Manager Jobs in Chicago: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a recruiting manager job in Chicago?
Focus your search on Chicago's densest hiring pockets: the Loop's financial and legal sector firms, Fulton Market's tech companies, and the major health systems anchored in Streeterville and the Medical District. Candidates with experience managing full-cycle corporate recruiting or building out talent acquisition functions stand out most. A network built through Chicago HR associations and local professional groups also gives you a concrete edge over out-of-market applicants.
Which companies hire recruiting managers in Chicago?
Companies currently hiring recruiting managers in Chicago include Elite Dental Partners, CIBC, and Zekelman Industries, per current listings on Migrate Mate as of October 2026. Chicago's mix of major corporations, regional staffing agencies, and fast-growing tech employers in Fulton Market means openings appear across a wide range of organization sizes and industries.
Are there remote recruiting manager jobs in Chicago?
Yes, though availability varies: strategic and corporate recruiting manager roles tend to be more remote-friendly than those requiring on-site candidate interviews or hands-on team management. About 88% of recruiting manager openings tied to Chicago are remote or hybrid as of October 2026, reflecting broader flexibility in professional services and technology firms. Roles focused on sourcing strategy and reporting are the most commonly offered as fully remote in the Chicago market.
How can I get a recruiting manager job in Chicago with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path in Chicago is moving up from a recruiter or talent acquisition specialist role at one of the city's staffing agencies or large corporate HR departments, where internal promotions to manager are common. Chicago's healthcare systems, financial institutions, and professional services firms frequently hire coordinators and junior recruiters with a clear path upward. Building familiarity with applicant tracking systems and demonstrating ownership of requisitions early will accelerate the move into management.
Which industries hire the most recruiting managers in Chicago?
Most recruiting manager openings in Chicago sit in Technology & Software, Consulting & Professional Services, and Construction & Real Estate, per current listings on Migrate Mate as of October 2026. Chicago's role as a hub for finance, healthcare, and professional services means those sectors continuously need recruiting leadership to manage high-volume hiring and specialized talent pipelines.
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