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