About Us:
We are AMS. AMS is a global total workforce solutions firm founded in 1996. We enable organisations to thrive in an age of constant change by building, reshaping, and optimising workforces. We do this through talent acquisition and contingent workforce management, internal mobility and skills development, and talent and technology advisory services. Our solutions are delivered by our 4500+ experts who live our passionate, bold, and authentic values. The ultimate aim is to help clients around the world, including 100+ blue-chip companies, create workforces that are fluid, resilient, diverse, and differentiated. We call this true workforce dexterity—and we’re here to help you achieve it. https://www.weareams.com/
The Role:
To support the process of hiring high volumes of quality candidates by designing attraction strategies to generate direct applications and screening direct applications in a highly efficient manner to provide long-lists of relevant and engaged candidates.
The Principal Sourcing Specialist will be seen as an expert in providing a white glove service to both stakeholders and candidates. You will take ownership of one or more significant hiring campaigns at any time, tracking the performance of those campaigns, co-ordinating the workload of colleagues as appropriate for the success of the campaign and dealing directly with client stakeholders as required.
Responsibilities:
- Ownership for one or more significant hiring campaigns at any time – planning activity to ensure that start dates or assessment centres are fulfilled and actively managing progress of the hiring campaign to ensure success
- Engaging directly with client stakeholders to review progress of campaigns, evaluate risks to success and propose remedial action as required
- Work with colleagues to design and implement effective candidate attraction strategies to drive direct applications to meet overall demand
- Co-ordinate and oversee the workload of colleagues in order to ensure the successful delivery of campaigns
- Provides coaching and mentoring to colleagues to develop their capabilities and share best practice
- Fully utilise relevant ATS (Applicant Tracking System) ensuring that activities are conducted within the ATS as appropriate, that data accuracy and quality is maintained through all processes and that it accurately reflects the status of all activity
- Engage with Recruiters and Hiring Managers (as directed) to take detailed briefs on role requirements, sharing expertise and best practice as appropriate
- Source (identify) active and passive candidates where required utilising different channels (e.g. professional social networks, client database, job board databases) and following Channel Activation Matrices or other directions as appropriate
- Further develops own network of sector-specific candidates and utilises networking skills to identify and engage with talented candidates (i.e. referrals from referrals, cold-calling, etc)
- Manage job board advertising or Client career-site postings, ensuring adverts are compelling and accurate and positioned for maximum effectiveness
- Upon application, screen candidate applications and CV’s for initial suitability
- Become involved in wider process improvement within the account outside of BAU activity.
- Working closely with Insights team to develop indepth Market Intelligence to support sourcing efforts where required.
Skills and Experience:
- Considered expert in candidate sourcing and selection within more than one industry sector and knowledge of multiple hiring profiles across multiple accounts/clients
- Experience co-ordinating the workload of colleagues and providing coaching or mentoring
- Experience of working with recruitment systems (i.e. ATS, CRM) and maintaining a high level of data integrity
- Experience using specialist techniques (i.e. Boolean searching) to source candidates through active and passive-candidate channels (i.e. job-board databases, professional social networks)
- Experience of utilising various candidate selection methodologies (i.e. behavioural interviews, competency-based interviews, psychometric testing, etc)
- Good written and spoken English language skills plus other languages as appropriate to the client-specific requirements
- Experience supporting IT/ Technical roles including; Web Development, Architective, Cyber Security & Quantitative skillsets.
What you'll get in return:
Here at AMS, you’ll get the opportunity to work on projects that integrate with our other practice areas to deliver remarkable results for our clients. You’ll be part of a team with global capabilities and setting a new direction for us in terms of how we creatively solve our clients’ most pressing talent-related challenges. You can innovate, disrupt and influence with organisations that want to transform their operations and win the war for talent.
What we offer:
- Stretching, challenging work
- A vibrant, diverse and collaborative culture
- Flexible working – home working available
- A competitive reward and benefits package including a profit-share plan.
We're a fast-growing, equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, colour, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.
AMS is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community
Please let us know if you need an adjustment or adaptation at any stage to support you during the recruitment journey.