Senior Strategic Sourcer

ABM Industries; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

ABM Industries is seeking a Senior Strategic Sourcer, Skilled Trades in a hybrid role across multiple California markets. You will lead advanced sourcing for manufacturing, electrical power services, critical facilities, and data centers, focusing on high-priority and hard-to-fill roles.

The role requires extensive experience in passive candidate outreach, talent mapping, and market insights, partnering with recruiters and stakeholders to deliver qualified candidates and pipelines.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in sourcing or recruiting
• Advanced experience sourcing passive talent for hard-to-fill roles
• Strong experience with LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, Boolean search, resume databases, CRM tools, ATS
• Ability to assess candidate qualifications, experience, and compensation expectations
• Excellent communication, research, and stakeholder partnership skills
• Ability to manage multiple searches with urgency, quality, and accuracy
• Experience supporting technical, skilled trades or specialized hiring
• Ability to lead projects or sourcing initiatives with limited guidance

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute advanced sourcing strategies for high-priority roles
• Identify, engage, and qualify passive candidates through multiple channels
• Build and maintain targeted talent pipelines for current and future needs
• Partner with recruiters to understand role requirements and market challenges
• Conduct market research on target companies and talent availability
• Create outreach messaging to improve engagement and response rates
• Provide recruiters with qualified candidate leads and market insights
• Track sourcing activity and pipeline progress
• Support diversity sourcing through market mapping and inclusive outreach
• Mentor junior Sourcers and share best practices
• Suggest process improvements to improve productivity and quality
• Contribute to sourcing reporting and leadership updates

Skills

8+ years experience

Sourcing strategy

Passive candidate outreach

Stakeholder partnership

Market research

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

LinkedIn Recruiter

Indeed

Boolean search

Resume databases

CRM tools

Applicant tracking systems

Sourcing platforms

Job description

ABM is hiring a Senior Strategic Sourcer, Skilled Trades to support high-priority and difficult-to-fill hiring skilled trades needs within Manufacturing, Electrical Power Services, Critical Facilities, and Data Centers through advanced sourcing strategy, proactive talent identification, passive candidate outreach, and pipeline development. This role serves as a sourcing subject matter expert and partners closely with recruiters and hiring teams to deliver qualified candidates, talent maps, and market insight for critical roles.

This is a Hybrid Role (in-office Mon-Thu) located at one of the following ABM offices:

• 600 Harrison, San Francisco, CA 94107
• 1150 South Olive Street, Los Angeles, CA 90015
• 7420 South Kyrene Road, Tempe, AZ 85283

Pay

Pay: $90,000-$115,000

The pay listed is the salary range for this position. Any specific offer will vary based on the successful applicant's education, experience, skills, abilities, geographic location, and alignment with market data.

You may be eligible to participate in a Company incentive or bonus program.

Benefit Information

Benefit Information: ABM offers a comprehensive benefits package. For information about ABM's benefits, visit ABM 2026 Employee Benefits | Staff & Management

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute advanced sourcing strategies for specialized, high-priority, and difficult-to-fill roles.
• Identify, engage, and qualify passive candidates through multiple sourcing channels.
• Build and maintain targeted talent pipelines and talent communities for current and future hiring needs.
• Partner with recruiters to understand role requirements, candidate profiles, market challenges, and hiring priorities.
• Conduct market research to identify target companies, talent availability, competitor hiring activity, and geographic considerations.
• Create targeted outreach messaging to improve passive candidate engagement and response rates.
• Partner with Talent Intelligence Analyst and Recruitment Marketing Specialist to provide recruiters with qualified candidate leads, talent market insights, and recommended sourcing approaches.
• Track sourcing activity, candidate conversion, response rates, and pipeline progress.
• Support diversity sourcing efforts through intentional market mapping and inclusive outreach strategies.
• Mentor the Portfolio Sourcers by sharing tools, techniques, search strings, outreach strategies, and best practices.
• Recommend process improvements to strengthen sourcing productivity and candidate quality.
• Serve as a resource for complex searches and specialized sourcing challenges.
• Contribute to sourcing reporting and leadership updates as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience
• Advanced experience sourcing passive talent for hard-to-fill or specialized roles.
• Strong command of LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, Boolean search, resume databases, CRM tools, applicant tracking systems, and sourcing platforms.
• Ability to conduct initial candidate qualifications and assess skills, experience, interest, availability, and compensation expectations.
• Strong communication, research, relationship-building, and stakeholder partnership skills.
• Ability to manage multiple searches with urgency, quality, and accuracy.
• Experience supporting technical, skilled trades or specialized hiring.
• Ability to lead functional projects or sourcing initiatives with limited guidance.