Senior Manager - Sourcing Strategy & Growth

AMS; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

AMS is seeking a Sourcing Subject Matter Expert to drive growth within their Sourcing Centre of Excellence. You will leverage your knowledge in talent acquisition to develop solutions and engage clients, ensuring exceptional candidate experiences and strategic business development. Join a dynamic team where innovation and diversity thrive.

Benefits

Full training and support

Flexible working

Competitive reward and benefits package

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of Talent Acquisition and sourcing tools.
• Proven track record delivering Sourcing solutions across multiple regions.
• Skilled in engaging stakeholders and influencing in complex environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead new business pursuits as Sourcing SME.
• Develop sourcing strategies for new clients.
• Manage stakeholder relationships during implementation.

Skills

Sourcing Expertise

Stakeholder Engagement

Business Development Focus

Innovation and Improvement

Presentation Skills

Job description

About Us

Career Level: 5

Location: UK Remote (Ocassional UK travel when required)

Working Hours/Shifts: 37.5 hours/week

Employment Type: Permanent

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.

https://www.weareams.com/

The Role

Our Sourcing team are experts in finding and engaging that talent. Our purpose is simple, to understand our clients' needs and use this understanding, combined knowledge, and expertise to find and engage the best talent in the market. We value candidate experience and ensure we're supporting people in taking the next step in their career with an employer brand they can trust.

As a recognised subject matter expert in all aspects of sourcing, you will be at the forefront of driving growth and innovation within our Sourcing Centre of Excellence (COE). Your role will involve shaping, delivering, and evolving our sourcing value proposition with a focus on business development and creating articulation of market-leading client solutions. Through strategic input and collaboration, you will enable the business to win new logos and expand client relationships.

Key Accountabilities

What you'll be doing:

• Own and lead new pursuits as Sourcing SME
• Attend new business meetings and pitches where appropriate, with responsibility to lead pitches for new business wins. Ensure pitch meets with client requirements and strategy
• Work with the Sourcing Strategy CoE and Sourcing Operations teams to develop sourcing strategy for all new clients. Partner with Performance Management and Client Services to ensure commercial outputs are delivered
• Work with solution design to ensure that the modelling for headcount is correct and aligned with location strategy
• Ensure Sourcing Operations have the right tools in place and dependencies on roles to deliver against modelled productivity
• Work with new bids team on creating a catalogue of responses relevant for each location and business type (e.g. Pharma etc)
• Own and cascade growth communications across team, ensuring cascade of functional objectives, goals, strategic and commercial updates to wider team
• Hold quarterly sessions with Sourcing Operations to bring to life relevant thought leadership, insight, and intel garnered from new pursuits and industries to help upskill team on best practice in this space
• Manage senior stakeholder relationships during implementation in fast-moving, complex, and challenging client environments, enhancing AMS' reputation within the business

Skills & Experience

You'll need to demonstrate:

Must haves

• Sourcing Expertise: Extensive knowledge of Talent Acquisition, RPO, and sourcing tools and technologies
• Proven track record of delivering TA or Sourcing solutions across multiple geographies or regions
• Growth and Business Development Focus: Proven experience in supporting RFPs, pitches, and sales processes, with a track record of winning new business or expanding existing client relationships
• Innovation and Improvement: A continuous improvement mindset, with a demonstrated ability to identify opportunities, develop new solutions, and enhance service delivery
• Stakeholder Engagement: Skilled at building trusted advisor relationships and influencing diverse stakeholders in complex, matrixed environments
• Excellent presentation skills with the ability to design content in PowerPoint and Excel

Nice to haves

• Strategic thinking, intellectual curiosity, and a passion for service excellence
• Experience delivering results across multiple geographies or regions
• Expertise in Healthcare & Life Sciences, Engineering, Financial Services industry verticals

Other

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 [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.