Principal Sourcing Specialist - DWF - Permanent - Manchester/Belfast - Legal

About Us

Principal Sourcing Specialist - DWF

Location: Belfast or Manchester
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: 2 days per week onsite

Talent is our world.

At AMS, we believe in nurturing talent and fostering a culture where passion for success thrives. Your talent is our greatest asset, and we're committed to providing the environment, resources, networks, and career experiences you need to grow and succeed.

This is an opportunity to step into a highly specialist, high-impact sourcing role, working in close partnership with our client, DWF, and their senior stakeholders. In this position, you'll play a key role in shaping careers and influencing outcomes that genuinely matter. Ready to take on this responsibility? Let's talk.

The Role

As a Principal Sourcing Specialist, you'll take a leading role in driving proactive, direct sourcing for niche and senior-level legal positions within a professional services environment. You'll act as a strategic partner to the business, leveraging data, market intelligence, and deep talent insights to shape sourcing strategies, influence hiring decisions, and deliver exceptional outcomes.

Key Accountabilities

What you'll be doing

• Leading proactive, direct sourcing strategies for niche and high-touch legal roles
• Partnering closely with senior stakeholders to understand complex and evolving hiring needs
• Acting as a client-facing talent advisor within the DWF business, providing guidance and expertise
• Managing end-to-end searches that require resilience, persistence, and strong attention to detail
• Delivering market insights, sourcing solutions, and talent mapping to support informed decision-making
• Presenting data, progress updates, and recommendations clearly, confidently, and with commercial awareness
• Building and maintaining strong talent pipelines for hard-to-fill roles through targeted sourcing activity
• Representing AMS professionally as the embedded sourcing expert onsite

Skills & Experience

What you'll need to be successful

You'll need:

• Extensive legal sourcing experience, including securing talent across Commercial Insurance, Commercial (Construction, Real Estate, Finance) and Insurance Services (Cat Loss, MAJIC) within the UK&I. (must-have)
• Proven experience delivering proactive, direct sourcing for niche roles (must-have)
• Confidence working in a client-facing role with senior stakeholders (must-have)
• Strong ability to gather and present data, insights, and sourcing recommendations to senior audiences (must-have)
• Ability to utilise multiple sourcing tools and legal specific content inc. LinkedIn, Hintro, Piricle, Legal 500 etc. to Support candidate engagement (must-have)
• A highly detail-oriented approach with the resilience to stay focused on complex searches (must-have)

Nice to have:

• A strong interest in the legal sector and market trends

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.

Hit the Apply now button to get your journey started!

We take pride in being Disability Confident. This helps to ensure that you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long- term health conditions, or are neurodiverse. You will be shortlisted based on minimum criteria for the role and will be offered support and/or adjustments for the recruitment process if you wish.]