Principle Sourcing Specialist

AMS; Belfast; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment company is seeking a Principal Sourcing Specialist in Belfast to enhance their talent acquisition for senior tech roles. The role involves proactive sourcing and collaboration with hiring managers to design effective attraction strategies. Ideal candidates will have significant niche hiring experience and a strong background in technology recruitment. This position offers flexibility and a competitive benefits package.

Benefits

Full training and support

Flexible working

Competitive rewards and benefits package

Vibrant, diverse, and collaborative culture

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in specialist niche hiring.
• Experience in java personnel preferred.
• Extensive background in tech engineering recruitment.

Responsibilities

• Pro-active sourcing for senior tech positions.
• Collaborate to implement effective candidate attraction strategies.
• Market mapping to build a strong candidate pipeline.

Skills

Specialist niche hiring experience

Experience with java personnel

Extensive experience in pro-active head-hunting

Extensive experience in tech engineering

Strong attention to detail

Strong recruitment experience

Job description

About Us

Job Title: Principal Sourcing Specialist - Investment Banking

Location: Belfast, Birmingham 3 days in office

Employment Type: Permanent

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

What you'll be doing

• Pro‑active sourcing and head hunting for senior positions for Tech Engineering
• Work with colleagues to design and implement effective candidate attraction strategies to drive direct applications to meet overall demand
• Market mapping to ensure a healthy pipeline of candidate
• 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

You'll need to demonstrate

Must haves

• Specialist niche hiring experience
• Experience with java personnel
• Extensive experience in pro‑active head‑hunting / sourcing
• Extensive experience in tech engineering
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong recruitment/ sourcing experience within a busy and challenging environment

Nice to haves

• Financial or Professional Services experience will be favourable

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 [e-mail] 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.