Principal Sourcing Specialist

About Us

Talent is our World.

At AMS, we believe in nurturing talent and fostering a culture where passion for success thrives. As part of our commitment to your growth and development, we encourage you to explore opportunities available within our organisation. Your talent is our greatest asset, and we're dedicated to providing avenues for you to reach its fullest potential. We do so by providing the environment, resources, networks, and career experiences essential for your progress.

Take the next step in your career journey and discover our exciting opportunities.

The Role

Our role is your chance to make a real difference in other people’s lives. Ready to take on this responsibility? ? Let’s talk!

As a Principal Sourcing Specialist you'll be at the forefront of Talent Acquisition, responsible for identifying and engaging top - tier candidates to meet our organisation's hiring needs. Using your expertise in sourcing strategies and candidate outreach techniques, you'll search various channels, including job boards, social media platforms, and professional networks, to identify potential candidates who align with our company's values and requirements.

Key Accountabilities

What you’ll be doing:

Act as a Trusted Adviser

• Build strong partnerships with recruiters and hiring managers to deliver a seamless recruitment experience.
• Lead strategic hiring discussions and develop sourcing strategies that align with business needs.
• Collaborate with sourcing and talent intelligence experts to influence hiring outcomes using market insights.
• Provide consultative guidance to stakeholders, offering creative solutions for challenging hiring scenarios.
• Deliver high-quality, well-informed candidate shortlists and make clear recommendations to hiring managers.
• Share feedback and insights to continuously refine recruitment strategies and improve outcomes.
• Mentor and support junior colleagues, contributing to team development and problem-solving.

Attract, Source & Engage High-Calibre Talent

• Apply innovative thinking and market intelligence to attract both active and passive candidates.
• Craft compelling job advertisements that reflect the client’s brand and attract the right talent.
• Develop and execute targeted sourcing strategies using platforms like LinkedIn and other social tools.
• Use data to measure and refine sourcing effectiveness, sharing insights with stakeholders.
• Engage candidates professionally across multiple channels and conduct high-quality qualification conversations.
• Build long-term relationships with candidates, enabling future engagement and talent pooling.
• Present candidates accurately and advocate for inclusive, unbiased selection processes.

Champion Candidate Experience

• Conduct meaningful career conversations that align candidate aspirations with client opportunities.
• Ensure candidates feel valued and informed throughout the recruitment journey.
• Build lasting relationships that turn candidates into brand advocates, regardless of hiring outcomes.

Enable Success in Others

• Serve as a subject matter expert and point of contact for recruitment best practices.
• Mentor team members and contribute to broader team strategy and goals.

Skills & Experience

You’ll need to demonstrate:

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build great relationships and partner independently with clients and candidates. Clear, engaging and professional in written communications with the ability to digest, retain and utilise information to influence others.
• Demonstrable mastery in recruiting and/or sourcing techniques with the ability to use data and in-depth market knowledge to inform sourcing strategies and create and adapt detailed sourcing plans to fill specialist and niche hiring needs.
• Mastery of a broad range of passive sourcing techniques and technologies including Boolean and LinkedIn Recruiter, SeekOut and in house ATS or CRM technologies.
• An understanding of how market shifts and changes in candidate behaviours impact the ability to source and hire great talent. The ability to use this understanding to adapt sourcing strategies and articulate key messages and be viewed as an expert thought leader.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage conflicting priorities in a demanding environment.
• Experience of using a range of tools and systems including in house Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems. Competent and confident in using MS Office, Windows and/or other similar products and confident using the internet to research and find information to design more impactful sourcing strategies.
• Experience working to Key Performance Indicators and Service Level Agreements.

Other

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 Talent@weareams.com or make a member of our Talent Acquisition team aware at any time.

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