
Contract Talent Acquisition Partner
Chicago, IL · HybridContract / Full-time$50–60/hrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
Omnicom Public Relations is recruiting a contract Talent Acquisition Partner to hire talent across its PR agencies. The hands-on role owns a busy portfolio of positions and the recruitment process from sign-off to offer. The partner works with business stakeholders and leaders, sources passive candidates, and contributes to employer branding, candidate attraction, inclusion, and recruitment-efficiency projects.
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Hybrid
New York, New York, United States of America
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Full time
R18212
Agency:
Omnicom Public Relations
Job Function:
People and Culture
Job Subfunction:
Talent Acquisition
Job Description:
Omnicom Public Relations is Omnicom's reputation and influence authority, connecting clients to an ecosystem of expertise across public relations, public affairs and specialty communications. Our agencies include FleishmanHillard, Golin Ketchum, Porter Novelli and Weber Shandwick, alongside public affairs and specialty firms such as GMMB, FP1, maslansky + partners, Mercury, PLUS and Portland.
We are excited to be recruiting a contract Talent Acquisition Partner with a genuine passion for TA to join our team and help us hire top talent across our PR agencies. This is a hands-on role for someone who can hit the ground running, take ownership of a busy portfolio of roles and deliver quickly.
What will you be doing?
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Owning the end-to-end recruitment process for a range of positions, from sign-off to offer stage
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Growing and developing strong, meaningful relationships with stakeholders across the business
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Acting as a trusted subject matter expert for everything recruitment related, proactively sharing industry knowledge, market insight and talent intelligence
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Coaching, supporting and advising leaders across the business on best-practice recruitment
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Sourcing and engaging passive talent through your own network, direct outreach and market mapping
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Assisting with projects that support employer branding, external candidate attraction, inclusion, and platforms that increase efficiency, strengthen candidate experience and help us engage the best talent
Ideal experience
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Proven experience owning the end-to-end recruitment process
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An excellent network, ideally with experience recruiting in one or more of the following areas: public relations, healthcare, analytics, or creative
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Strong stakeholder and relationship management experience, with the ability to influence effectively
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Self-motivated, with the ability to use your own initiative; you thrive in a fast-paced environment and adapt quickly to new systems and processes
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Strong technical recruiting skills, including using AI tools safely and critically in a work setting
$50-60 per hour
To the extent permissible by local law, Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager.
Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.
Link to Recruitment Privacy Notice: https://www.omc.com/privacy-notice
For US Job Seekers:
It is the policy of Omnicom and any of its affiliates to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, ethnic origin, gender, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, disability, or any other basis prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law. EOE/AA/M/D/V/F.
At Omnicom Group, careers are designed for growth. We’ve purposefully crafted a transformative talent experience built with accountability in action — focused on community, impact, and opportunity.
How this job compares
Set against the 3,020 open Talent Acquisition jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 13, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$50–60/hr
- Illinois median$36/hr21 hourly ranges
- US median$31–39/hr363 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $55/hr, is 53% above the Illinois median midpoint ($36/hr) — in the top quarter of Talent Acquisition hourly ranges in Illinois.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 91 open Talent Acquisition jobs in Illinois and 3,020 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Illinois
- Aston Carter9 open
- BMO Financial Group3 open
- JPMorgan Chase3 open
- Experience
- Talent Acquisition postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (2,451 postings).
- Education
- 416 of the 3,020 open Talent Acquisition jobs (14%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 13, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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