Regional Recruiter-East Coast (NJ and MA)
The Role: Ascend Wellness Holdings (AWH) is seeking a driven and adaptable Regional Recruiter to support high-volume hiring across our East Coast operations, with a primary focus on New Jersey and Massachusetts. This role is critical to ensure our operations teams are staffed with top talent in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment. The Regional Recruiter will be based onsite at our New Jersey operations center traveling to MA as needed and will partner closely with site leaders, and human resources teams to deliver seamless, compliant, and timely hiring outcomes. This position is ideal for a recruiter who thrives amid changing priorities, can manage multiple requisitions simultaneously, and brings a hands-on, solutions-oriented approach to talent acquisition. Key Responsibilities: Own full-cycle, high-volume recruiting for operations roles across New Jersey and Massachusetts, from intake through offer acceptance. Partner closely with site leadership and regional stakeholders to understand workforce needs, anticipate hiring demand, and adjust priorities as business needs evolve. Manage and prioritize a large and dynamic requisition load in an environment of frequent change, ensuring speed, quality, and compliance. Conduct proactive sourcing using a variety of channels, including ATS, job boards, referrals, local outreach, and community partnerships. Serve as a key onsite recruiting presence, supporting hiring events, interviews, and real-time staffing needs. Collaborate with Retail and People Operations teams on the retail onboarding process, with specific ownership and coordination of the employee badging process. Ensure all hiring and onboarding activities adhere to state-specific cannabis regulations and internal compliance requirements. Deliver a positive, professional candidate experience while representing Ascend's values and employer brand. Track recruiting metrics, provide regular updates to stakeholders, and identify opportunities to improve hiring efficiency and processes. Qualifications: 3+ years of recruiting experience, with demonstrated success in high-volume or hourly workforce environments. Experience recruiting for multi-site or multi-state operations strongly preferred. Comfort working in a fast-paced, operational setting with shifting priorities and tight timelines. Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage competing demands effectively. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; able to influence and partner at all levels of the organization. Experience supporting onboarding processes; familiarity with compliance-heavy or regulated industries is a plus. Willingness and ability to work onsite at a cultivation facility and partner with retail teams as needed to support onboarding and badging processes. Company Overview: Ascend Wellness Holdings ("AWH") is a vertically integrated cannabis cultivator, processor and provisioning center operator with assets in Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio and Pennsylvania. We seek to foster a robust and inclusive cannabis industry through a premium, unmatched customer-focused retail experience. We are looking to build a world-class team that will help carry out our mission of helping to shape the future of cannabis as a leading healthcare solution. We are committed to improving the quality of our patient's lives by offering unrivaled quality, consistency and meticulously curated products that satisfy our customers' unique, individual needs. When it comes to customer service experience, our dispensaries will set a new standard of excellence, emphasizing health and wellness by a highly knowledgeable team. A team that is committed to our values, our people, and our communities; we are looking for people who are inspired by our vision and stay dedicated to our mission as we continuously expand. Physical Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, this position is regularly required to sit and regularly use hand(s) to handle, grasp, feel, and or touch. This position is occasionally required to stand, walk and reach with hands and arms. This position requires to speak and listen regularly. EEO STATEMENT: Ascend Wellness Holdings, Inc., ("AWH") and its subsidiaries is an equal opportunity employer and celebrate the population of differences and does not discriminate in its hiring / hiring practices, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Nothing in this job specification restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. Critical features of this job are described under various headings above. They may be subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons. The above statements are strictly intended to describe the general nature and level of the work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as a complete list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of employees in this position. This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. 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