Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Location: UK Remote

Working Hours/Shifts: Full Time, 37.5 hours/week

Employment Type: 12-month Fixed Term Assignment

Join our World of Talent.

Global, culturally diverse, inclusive, and innovative - welcome to AMS, where talent is our world. Over the last two decades, AMS has redefined the landscape of talent outsourcing and consulting. From pioneering the concept of RPO to continually revolutionising how organisations approach talent acquisition, AMS stands as a world leader in the industry.

Committed, engaged, and inspired, we feel a real sense of belonging, and all have
one thing in common: a real passion for talent. Become part of this world and make a difference with us.

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The Role:

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, Sourcers develop bespoke sourcing strategies and then use a range of tools and techniques to find the best talent in the market.  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 Principal Sourcing Specialist is a true subject matter expert in recruitment and sourcing and will confidently partner with senior stakeholders to understand even the most complex hiring needs, developing sourcing strategies which focus on finding and engaging passive talent across specialist disciplines.

Key Accountabilities:

What you’ll be doing: (not limited to)

• Work with Recruiters to develop partnerships and working relationships that deliver a great candidate and hiring manager experience. You will lead on recruiting discussions and ensure you’re viewed as a thought leader who can expertly develop sourcing strategies that deliver great talent
• Develop effective sourcing strategies and ensure that you’re using talent intelligence to influence your client stakeholders and hiring outcomes. Proactively ensure you’re bringing insight and intelligence to recruiting discussions at the beginning of the process
• Be accountable for the delivery of high quality, engaged candidate shortlists to your Hiring Managers and make clear recommendations on your  shortlisted candidates
• Review and post compelling, accurate job adverts that amplify your client’s brand and attract candidates to review and apply. Demonstrate success in filling roles that may not have a high-volume applicant funnel
• Use your knowledge and develop a sourcing strategy that uses the right channels to attract, and engage with your target audience e.g., LinkedIn or other social media tools. Adopt a ‘search’ mentality that enables you to identify and engage talent for our most hard to fill specialist and niche roles
• Understand and utilise data to measure the success of your sourcing strategy, review, refine, innovate, and adapt your approach as required
• As a senior member of the team, act as a point of contact for SME advice and expertise
• Play an instrumental role in mentoring and guiding others and contribute to the broader strategy and objectives within your team

Skills & Experience:

You’ll need to demonstrate:

Must haves

• Extensive proven legal sourcing experience gained from the commercial legal sector (direct)
• 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 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

Nice to Haves:

• Experience working within a highly complex or matrixed organisation
• Knowledge of iCIMS or similar applicant tracking systems

Why AMS?

At AMS, we recognise the value of different perspectives and experiences in prompting innovation, sparking creativity, and solving problems.

We come from every walk of life, and our culture is open and inclusive. Our people enjoy flexibility, autonomy, and being trusted to work their way. We offer you career opportunities in every direction you want to explore. It’s our world but you can do it your way.

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 talentacquisition.generalenquiries@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.

Expiration Date: 31/10/2024