Beneva Group is a Boutique Executive Talent Solutions Firm specializing in high-impact Transformation Leadership Talent. We work exclusively on engaged searches, operate with a high standard of professionalism, and treat every candidate and client relationship as long-term. We're a small, efficient, effective and we're looking for someone who operates the same way.
The Role:
This role is built for an experienced recruiting professional who wants meaningful, high-level work on a schedule that fits your life. If you've spent years doing this at a high level and want to stay sharp, stay active, and work with clients who take the process seriously, this is the opportunity. Beneva Group works exclusively on engaged and retained searches at the executive and senior professional level. That means our consultants aren't grinding job boards they're running real searches, building real relationships, and delivering at a level that reflects the seniority of the work. You'll work directly with our Client Leadership on active searches, managing candidate outreach, sourcing, screening, and pipeline communication from identification through submittal and interviews. You know how to read a candidate quickly, communicate with confidence at every level of an organization from plant floor to C-suite and you already use AI tools as a natural part of your workflow.
What You'll Do:- Source, identify, and engage passive candidates for executive and senior-level searches across manufacturing, engineering, and operations functions
- Conduct initial candidate outreach and phone screens; assess fit against defined job criteria and submit recommendations with clear rationale
- Manage candidate pipelines in our ATS (Loxo), keeping stages, notes, and activity logs current and accurate
- Craft compelling outreach emails, LinkedIn messages, and follow-up sequences that reflect the Beneva Group voice and get responses
- Coordinate scheduling and communication between candidates and the hiring team
- Leverage AI tools to accelerate sourcing, research, and documentation we use them actively and expect you to as well
- Represent Beneva Group professionally at every touchpoint
- Market every day this is a non-negotiable expectation for everyone on our team. Business development is not a separate function; it's built into how we operate.
What We're Looking For:- 5+ years of experience in executive or professional-level recruiting, or a high-level sales and business development background we're open to strong performers who know how to build relationships, drive urgency, and close
- Demonstrated comfort working at all levels of an organization you can hold a credible conversation with a VP of Operations and a senior engineer in the same afternoon
- Active, experienced user of AI tools(ChatGPT, Claude, or similar) NOT a "I've tried it" user, but someone who builds AI into how they work
- Strong written communication skills; you write outreach that sounds like a person, not a template
- Experience recruiting within or adjacent to manufacturing, industrial, or engineering sectorsstrongly preferred
- Familiarity with applicant tracking systems(Loxo, Bullhorn, Greenhouse, or similar); Loxo experience is a plus
- Highly self-directed you manage your own time, hit your commitments, and don't need daily check-ins
- West Indianapolis area Preferredthis role is based on the west side of Indianapolis and proximity matters for occasional in-person collaboration
