Sr. Early Careers Recruiter - Hybrid

Cigna

• $99K — $165K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of recruiting or related Talent Acquisition experience in early careers and university recruiting.
  • Proven ability to lead complex recruiting projects and influence multiple stakeholders.
  • Familiarity with applicant tracking systems and candidate management platforms (e.g., Workday, Phenom).
  • Insight into undergraduate recruiting cycles and modern candidate expectations.
  • Expertise in using advanced recruiting tools and maintaining candidate confidentiality.
  • Strong interpersonal and project management skills to handle multiple priorities.
  • Willingness to travel up to 20% during peak recruiting periods.

Responsibilities

  • Lead comprehensive recruitment for early career programs across the enterprise.
  • Translate workforce needs into strategic hiring methods in collaboration with stakeholders.
  • Establish and maintain strong relationships with universities and student organizations.
  • Leverage market insights to refine and adapt recruitment strategies.
  • Guide teams to utilize structured selection practices for informed hiring decisions.
  • Enhance candidate experiences through effective communication and follow-up.
  • Organize and manage recruiting events and multiple projects with various deadlines.
  • Promote a consistent employer brand while streamlining recruitment processes.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health-related benefits including medical, vision, and dental care.
  • Access to well-being and behavioral health programs from day one.
  • 401(k) with company contributions to help plan for retirement.
  • Company-paid life insurance for employee protection.
  • Tuition reimbursement to support continuous education and development.
  • Minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year to encourage work-life balance.
  • Paid holidays and various leave of absence options to support personal needs.
Full Job Description
Help shape the next generation of talent. In this senior recruiting role, you will turn enterprise workforce needs into practical early careers strategies, build strong undergraduate talent pipelines, and create an engaging, consistent experience for candidates and hiring teams. You will support undergraduate leadership development programs, internships, and other early career hiring needs across the enterprise.

Responsibilities
• Lead end-to-end recruiting for undergraduate leadership development programs, internships, and other early career hiring needs, delivering strong talent outcomes across the enterprise.
• Translate workforce priorities into sourcing, attraction, assessment, selection, and offer strategies in partnership with business leaders, program managers, HR partners, and Talent Acquisition colleagues.
• Build sustainable talent pipelines through campus relationships, student organizations, professional associations, virtual channels, digital outreach, and other targeted partnerships.
• Use labor market, campus, competitor, candidate, and funnel insights to advise stakeholders, identify risks, and adjust recruiting strategies.
• Guide hiring teams in skills-based, structured, and consistent selection practices that support thoughtful assessments and informed hiring decisions.
• Strengthen the candidate and hiring manager experience through clear communication, timely follow-through, and effective offer closing.
• Plan and deliver campus and virtual recruiting events while managing multiple projects, requisitions, stakeholders, and deadlines.
• Champion a consistent employer brand and improve recruiting processes, tools, technology, and ways of working.

Required Qualifications
• At least 5 years of recruiting or related Talent Acquisition experience, including early careers, university recruiting, internships, leadership development programs, high-volume recruiting, or comparable talent programs.
• Demonstrated success leading complex recruiting work, influencing stakeholders, and managing competing priorities with close attention to detail.
• Working knowledge of applicant tracking systems and candidate relationship management platforms (Workday and Phenom), sourcing tools, interview and assessment practices, and recruiting analytics.
• Understanding of undergraduate recruiting cycles, candidate expectations, skills-based hiring, talent market trends, and emerging risks such as high application volume and candidate authenticity.
• Ability to use modern recruiting technology and emerging digital and AI capabilities responsibly, protect candidate information, and apply sound professional judgment.
• Strong consultation, relationship-building, written communication, interviewing, negotiation, organization, and project management skills.
• Ability to travel up to 20% annually, with the highest travel during peak recruiting seasons.

Preferred Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• NACE membership and active involvement in the organization is highly preferred.
• Experience recruiting for leadership development programs or enterprise internship portfolios across multiple functions or business areas.
• Experience designing campus strategies, using funnel data to improve outcomes, or introducing recruiting technology and process improvements.

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 99,500 - 165,900 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.

This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan.

At The Cigna Group, you'll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you'll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k), company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year, paid holidays, and leaves of absence. For more details on our employee benefits programs, click here.

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