About Us

The Role

Purpose and position in organisation

Sourcers play a key role in our clients’ success by partnering with Hiring Managers and Recruiters and developing effective, consultative, professional relationships with them.

Through asking the right questions to ensure a detailed understanding of the client and each role, and by leveraging data, historic hiring trends and market analysis, Sourcers develop bespoke sourcing strategies and then use a range of tools and techniques to find the best talent in the market. Sourcers are brand ambassadors for our clients, bringing each opportunity to life with candidates in a compelling and authentic way to ensure they are qualified, interested and engaged before being presented to the Hiring Manager.

A Principal Sourcing Specialist is a true subject matter expert in recruitment and sourcing and will confidently partner with senior stakeholders to understand even the most complex hiring needs, developing sourcing strategies which focus on finding and engaging passive talent across specialist disciplines.

You can expect to work with client stakeholders e.g., Hiring Managers, Recruiters (AMS or Client) and Candidates.

Reports to Sourcing Team Leader

People Manager - No but will mentor colleagues

Career level: Principal – 3

Performance Outcomes/Accountabilities

It’s not just about what you do it’s also about how you do it.

In the Sourcing Centre of Excellence, we are committed to setting you up for success by giving you clear goals together with the training, development and support that is needed to achieve them.

Typical performance measures include:

• Offers accepted by candidates each month
• Candidate conversion rates (for example ratio of candidates provided to a Hiring Manager to those offered interview)
• Data completion and accuracy
• 100% compliance with all mandatory AMS and Client required training.

Key Responsibilities

Act as a Trusted Adviser

• Work with Recruiters to develop partnerships and working relationships that deliver a great candidate and hiring manager experience. You will lead on recruiting discussions and ensure you’re viewed as a thought leader who can expertly develop sourcing strategies that deliver great talent.
• Partner with experts in sourcing and talent intelligence to develop effective sourcing strategies and ensure that you’re using talent intelligence to influence your client stakeholders and hiring outcomes. Proactively ensure you’re bringing insight and intelligence to recruiting discussions at the beginning of the process.

• Show tact and confidence in talking to client stakeholders. Ensure you’re leveraging your knowledge and wider AMS network to propose solutions that deliver the right results for your clients and AMS e.g., proposing alternative ways to find niche skills in a competitive market.
• Be accountable for the delivery of high quality, engaged candidate shortlists to your Hiring Managers with accurate and complete information to help them make informed hiring decisions. As a Trusted Advisor, make clear recommendations on your shortlisted candidates and speculatively introduce candidates of interest to your key stakeholders.
• Work with Recruiters and Hiring Managers to understand and share candidate feedback, challenges, and successes, advocating potential solutions and making recommendations to inform and adapt the recruitment strategy e.g., hiring in alternative locations, exploring different talent pools or updating job descriptions.
• Support, coach, and mentor junior colleagues, acting as lead in problem solving discussions.

Attract, source & engage

Key Accountabilities

Skills & Experience

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