Sr. Global Talent Sourcing & Research Specialist

Global Talent Sourcing & Intelligence | Product Services

Role Purpose

The Global Talent Sourcer delivers proactive sourcing, talent intelligence and pipeline solutions across the Global Talent Sourcing & Intelligence Product Services portfolio.

The role moves beyond requisition-based sourcing to build talent supply ahead of demand, generate actionable market insights, create reusable talent pools, and support priority talent needs across the six Product Service towers.

Key Responsibilities

• Talent Intelligence & Research: Conduct talent mapping, competitor research, market analysis and talent availability studies to support informed hiring and workforce decisions.
• Proactive Talent Solutions: Build and maintain Always-On pipelines and talent pools for priority skills, markets and talent segments before requisitions open.
• Leadership & Executive Solutions: Support confidential leadership searches through executive research, market mapping, talent identification and longlist development.
• Strategic Volume Hiring: Develop market insights, target-company strategies and proactive pipelines for large-scale or project-based hiring.
• Niche & Reactive Talent Solutions: Deliver targeted sourcing for critical, scarce-skill and hard-to-fill requirements using appropriate sourcing channels and search strategies.
• Internal Talent Marketplace: Support internal talent identification and visibility for approved mobility, succession and hiring opportunities.

Core Accountabilities

• Identify, engage and nurture passive talent using Workday, LinkedIn Recruiter and approved sourcing technologies.
• Build and maintain accurate, engaged and reusable talent pools.
• Leverage existing talent pools, research and market maps before starting new searches.
• Translate hiring requirements into effective sourcing and talent-mapping strategies.
• Partner with Recruiters, Product/Tower Leads and TA stakeholders to deliver qualified talent and market insights.
• Ensure high-quality candidate handoffs and accurate sourcing data.
• Use talent and market data to continuously improve sourcing outcomes.
• Capture insights and pipelines as reusable assets for future demand.
• Adopt AI, automation and sourcing technologies to improve quality, speed and productivity.

Success Measures

Success will be measured through a combination of:

• Quality and conversion of sourced talent
• Time to first qualified profile
• Pipeline readiness and freshness
• Talent-pool activation and conversion
• Reuse of existing talent pools and market intelligence
• Delivery against agreed project/service timelines
• Data quality and Workday discipline
• Stakeholder satisfaction and business impact

Experience & Capabilities

• Experience in Talent Sourcing, Talent Acquisition, Talent Intelligence, Research or Executive Search.
• Strong passive talent identification and engagement capability.
• Strong Boolean search, talent mapping and competitor research skills.
• Experience with LinkedIn Recruiter, Workday or similar sourcing/CRM platforms.
• Ability to interpret talent-market information and translate it into practical sourcing strategies.
• Strong candidate communication and relationship-building skills.
• Comfortable working across multiple projects, talent segments and geographies.
• Proficiency with data, digital sourcing tools, automation and emerging AI capabilities.
• Strong collaboration, customer focus and attention to data quality.

Core Capabilities

Talent Discovery | Talent Intelligence | Candidate Engagement | Pipeline Management | Market Research | Digital & AI Fluency | Data-Driven Sourcing | Stakeholder Partnership