Strategic Sourcer

UNKNOWN; Toronto; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Equinix is seeking a Strategic Sourcer to join the Integrated Talent Solutions team in Toronto. You will craft and execute candidate generation strategies, focusing on passive candidates while ensuring fast and quality hiring outcomes.

You’ll collaborate with recruiters and hiring managers, build pipelines, and provide market insights to improve diversity and efficiency. You will leverage a leading sourcing tech stack, act as a market expert, and maintain proactive engagement with top talent to

Qualifications

• Extensive Talent Acquisition Sourcing experience across several lines of business and geographies.
• Experience in technology or startup sector.
• Experience in a full-life cycle, research or pure sourcing role.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to use data to tell a story.
• Strong communication skills and relationship-building abilities.

Responsibilities

• Build and execute candidate generation strategies.
• Partner with Recruiters and hiring managers through the process.
• Deeply understand the business, roles and market to source passive candidates with pace and quality.
• Collaborate with ITS Team to attract top talents.
• Identify, engage, and qualify leading candidates across multiple business lines.
• Leverage top-tier sourcing tools to build talent pipelines and expedite hiring.
• Maintain timely reporting on talent landscaping and market insights.
• Create pre-qualified candidate pools aligned with workforce plans.

Skills

Talent acquisition sourcing

Tech/startup domain knowledge

Full lifecycle sourcing

Analytics / data storytelling

Communication skills

Relationship building

Job description

Who you are

• Extensive Talent Acquisition Sourcing experience across several lines of business and geographies
• Experience in technology or start up sector
• Experience in a full-life cycle, research or pure sourcing role
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to use data to tell a story
• Strong communication skills, excel et relationship building skills and working with urgency
• You will thrive in working with dynamic environment and should be comfortable taking insight to the stakeholders, and to challenge to status quo

What the job involves

• As part of the Integrated Talent Solutions (ITS) organization, a Strategic Sourcer builds and executes all candidate generation strategies and partners with Recruiters and hiring managers through the process
• The key focus for you as a Strategic Sourcer is to deeply understand the business, roles and market by executing sourcing strategies that focus on passive candidates, with an emphasis on pace and quality
• You will have the opportunity to partner with the onsite ITS Team to provide input and execute sourcing strategy to attract the best talents the industry has to offer
• You will need to identify, engage, and qualify some of the best minds out there
• Leverage a top tier tech Sourcing tech stack to identify and engage leads across multiple lines of business
• Build talent pipelines for key skill sets and capabilities to proactively provide talent to hiring teams to expedite the hiring process
• Act as key point of contact for interested leads and candidates and ensure a positive candidate experience
• Be the market expert within industry space and provide regular, relevant reporting on talent landscaping, competitor analysis and resourcing research
• Experiment with creative and innovative sourcing strategies to understand and engage the talent market
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement to outreach methods, challenge current methods of engaging with talent and set high expectations around diversity of candidate funnel and candidate slates
• Maintaining timely and accurate reporting and funnel metrics
• Work closely with internal partners including Talent Branding and TA Pathways team on campaigns and initiatives to increase diversity and brand awareness in the market
• Creation and execution of candidate outreach projects as assigned
• Proactively pipelining talent and creating pre-qualified candidate talent pools in line with Equinix workforce plan
• Drive conversion from passive to active by positive presenting Equinix in the market
• Outline Equinix market position, and build external candidates’ knowledge of opportunity fit, level, and compensation structure
• Be authentic with external talent and make exploring opportunities with Equinix both now and in the future