Executive Recruiter

Overview

Kirby Bates Associates’ consultants are specialists focused exclusively on the healthcare executive recruitment market. With hundreds of years of combined experience and extensive professional networks, KBA provides a personalized, professional and confidential service designed to ensure that candidates are matched with the best possible opportunities.

Our inclusive search methodology is designed to create a level playing field and keep implicit bias in check so that the most qualified candidates advance.

Kirby Bates Associates is seeking an experienced Executive Recruiter to join our executive search team and help connect exceptional healthcare leaders with organizations where they can make a meaningful impact.

This is an opportunity for an accomplished recruiter who enjoys the detective work of finding outstanding talent, the relationship-building required to engage senior-level candidates, and the satisfaction of helping healthcare organizations identify their next generation of leaders.

As an Executive Recruiter at Kirby Bates Associates, you’ll be an integral member of each search team—partnering closely with our Vice Presidents and Associate Vice Presidents to develop sourcing strategies, identify and engage highly qualified candidates, assess talent, and create an exceptional candidate experience from initial outreach through placement.

If you are curious, resourceful, highly organized, and passionate about healthcare and people, we’d like to meet you.
What You’ll Do
Find Exceptional Healthcare Leaders

You’ll develop and execute thoughtful research and sourcing strategies for executive searches, using LinkedIn, professional networks, databases, associations, Boolean search techniques, and other resources to uncover outstanding candidates—including talented leaders who may not be actively looking for their next opportunity.

You’ll work closely with each search team to:

- Develop targeted search and research strategies.

- Identify and build pipelines of qualified executive candidates.

- Use LinkedIn, ZoomInfo, professional associations, databases, directories, and other resources creatively and effectively.

- Identify gaps in a sourcing strategy and recommend new approaches.

- Maintain accurate, current candidate information in our applicant tracking system.

- Keep the search team informed of progress, market feedback, and emerging challenges.

Turn Prospects Into Engaged Candidates

Finding great people is only the beginning. You’ll build relationships with prospective candidates, introduce them to compelling opportunities, and help determine whether there is a strong fit between the leader and our client organization.
You’ll:

- Conduct thoughtful outreach to prospective candidates and convert qualified prospects into active candidates.

- Screen candidates against established criteria and develop a clear understanding of their experience, accomplishments, credentials, and career goals.

- Identify potential concerns or gaps and communicate them effectively to the search team.

- Prepare candidates for interviews with Kirby Bates search leaders.

- Maintain regular communication so candidates remain informed and engaged throughout the search process.

- Ensure resumes and candidate materials meet Kirby Bates standards for accuracy, content, and presentation.

- Help coordinate client interviews and candidate logistics.

- Support ongoing follow-up with successfully placed executives during their first year.

Be a Trusted Search Partner

You’ll work collaboratively with multiple members of the Kirby Bates team and contribute insight, judgment, and information throughout the search process.

That means communicating proactively, meeting commitments, maintaining exceptional attention to detail, and ensuring that both candidates and colleagues have the information they need when they need it.

Although this is a remote position, participation in occasional in-person client meetings, internal mee