Principal Sourcing Specialist - PwC

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Job Title:

Principal Sourcing Specialist - PwC

Location:

Belfast or Birmingham - onsite x3 days a week/ x2 days WFH

Employment Type:

Permanent

Working hours/ Shifts:

Full Time - 37.5 hours per week

Start Date

September 2025

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

The role supports the process of hiring high quality candidates by designing attraction strategies to generate direct applications and screening in an 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 requisitions, pro-actively searching / headhunting and tracking the performance of those roles, directly with client stakeholders as required.

Key Accountabilities

• Pro-active sourcing and head hunting (e.g. cold calling, and flexibility where required to accommodate screening/ sourcing).
• Planning activity to ensure that start dates 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
• 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

Skills & Experience

Must haves

• Specialist niche hiring experience
• Extensive experience in pro-active head-hunting / sourcing
• Experience in identifying and introducing process innovations
• Strong attention to detail
• Making timely decisions regarding process and communicating effectively to ensure relevant internal parties receive support/updates
• Strong recruitment/ sourcing experience within a busy and challenging environment
• Capable of providing constructive feedback
• Ability to be adaptable and flexible
• Financial Services or Professional Services Industry experience

Nice to haves

• Hiring of financial roles such as audit, tax etc

Other

Why AMS?

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

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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.