Purpose and Position in Organisation
Talent 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, Talent Sourcers develop bespoke sourcing strategies and then use a range of tools and techniques to find the best talent in the market. Talent 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 Talent Sourcing Team Leader is a talent acquisition expert and trusted adviser and will partner with senior stakeholders to fully understand and influence their recruitment requirements and strategies. They drive team engagement, leading, coaching, developing, and inspiring their team to find and deliver high-calibre talent for our clients and an exceptional experience to our candidates.
Stakeholders
Talent 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, Talent Sourcers develop bespoke sourcing strategies and then use a range of tools and techniques to find the best talent in the market. Talent 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 Talent Sourcing Team Leader is a talent acquisition expert and trusted adviser and will partner with senior stakeholders to fully understand and influence their recruitment requirements and strategies. They drive team engagement, leading, coaching, developing, and inspiring their team to find and deliver highcalibre talent for our clients and an exceptional experience to our candidates.
- Managing a team of diverse individuals, setting them up for success and enabling them to grow their careers
- Strong stakeholder management experience; ability to manage multiple stakeholders across regions with frequent interactions
- Setting clear objectives and having regular quality conversations (weekly 121s) to discuss individual performance, development, and wellbeing
- Talent champion – training, coaching, and advising your team to build its technical and strategic capability. Ensuring development plans are in place for each member of the team and discussed regularly
- Recognising and rewarding growth, promoting talent, and addressing underperformance
- Leading and inspiring high performance, driving team performance to ensure successful delivery against key metrics through engagement and accountability
- Regular and informal touch points to discuss performance: resolving issues, sharing knowledge, and celebrating successes
- Supporting the team in ensuring understanding and application of effective recruitment techniques and the innovative use of available tools
- Positive role model, proactively leading the team to think strategically and adapt to changes and new initiatives, seeing challenges as an opportunity
- Subject matter expert, providing support to the team to develop bespoke, targeted sourcing plans and ensuring that they can bring insights-driven solutions to recruitment challenges. Helping them to challenge barriers to success
- Maintaining accuracy in reporting and tracking to drive accountability, manage capacity, and identify areas of improvement and strong performance. Recognising core trends that might drive change
Performance Outcomes / Accountabilities
- Feedback from key stakeholders
- Offers accepted by candidates each month
- Candidate conversion rates (e.g., ratio of candidates provided to a Hiring Manager to those offered an interview)
- Data completion and accuracy
- 100% compliance with all mandatory AMS and Client required training
- Team engagement scores
- Development plans in place for the team
- Key Responsibilities and Activities
- Managing a team of diverse individuals, setting them up for success and enabling them to grow their careers
- Setting clear objectives and having regular quality conversations (weekly 121s) to discuss individual performance, development, and wellbeing
- Talent champion – training, coaching, and advising your team to build its technical and strategic capability. Ensuring development plans are in place for each member of the team and discussed regularly
- Strong stakeholder management experience; ability to manage multiple stakeholders across regions with frequent interactions
- Recognising and rewarding growth, promoting talent, and addressing underperformance
- Leading and inspiring high performance, driving team performance to ensure successful delivery against key metrics through engagement and accountability
- Regular and informal touch points to discuss performance: resolving issues, sharing knowledge, and celebrating successes
- Supporting the team in ensuring understanding and application of effective recruitment techniques and the innovative use of available tools
- Positive role model, proactively leading the team to think strategically and adapt to changes and new initiatives, seeing challenges as an opportunity
- Subject matter expert, providing support to the team to develop bespoke, targeted sourcing plans and ensuring that they can bring insights-driven solutions to recruitment challenges. Helping them to challenge barriers to success
- Maintaining accuracy in reporting and tracking to drive accountability, manage capacity, and identify areas of improvement and strong performance. Recognising core trends that might drive change
- Talent reviews and succession plans
- Encouraging the team to think commercially and be aware of potential further client opportunities
- Partnering with senior stakeholders, building influential relationships
- Acting as a Trusted Advisor, using data and insights to drive confidence in recruitment strategies, set expectations, and challenge barriers to success in a constructive and solutions-focused way
- Business reviews to discuss performance against targets
- First point of call for escalations, supporting the team and partnering with Recruiters to ensure quick and robust resolution
- Partnering with CST team to deliver a seamless AMS experience to both Hiring Managers and candidates
Every one of us plays a pivotal role in our success, whether engaging directly with clients or shaping the value we add behind the scenes. Together, it means more insight and expertise for our clients and more exciting career paths and experiences for us.
Apart from our benefits package, you’ll also get to enjoy the flexibility, autonomy, and trust to work in a way that works best for you. We just focus on providing the means to meet, collaborate, and support each other however you choose.
We offer:
- Full training and support
- High value and challenging work
- A vibrant, diverse, and collaborative culture
- Flexible working
- A competitive reward and benefits package*
- The opportunity to embark on a recruitment career with one of the world’s leading recruitment companies
- Details may vary slightly depending on your location, local labour law, etc.
Our culture of inclusion and belonging.
We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, and all aspects of employment are based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon age, disability, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic.
If you require any accommodations or have any accessibility needs, please reach out via email [email protected] or make a member of our Talent Acquisition team aware at any time.
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