Senior Manager, Sourcing Strategy

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The Role

We are looking for a Senior Manager supporting Talent Sourcing for one of our hospitality clients.

This is a hybrid opportunity that will require the individual to work in the AMS Monterrey office 1-2 days a week.

The Senior Sourcing Leader is the key owner for the sourcing strategy, insights, attraction, and delivery to our client. Relationship management between the sourcing function and other client services and recruiting teams is critical. You will be a key owner of all quality benchmarks and performance thresholds and will ensure that KPI’s are met, client delivery, and satisfaction targets are achieved.

As a Senior Manager in Talent Sourcing, you will be accountable for all aspects of your team's hiring, performance, and development in role and will work with your direct and indirect reports to ensure that they effectively execute the agreed internal or external sourcing and engagement strategy while also identifying areas for innovation and continuous improvement. You will be operationally responsible for setting and measuring team KPI’s and performance for your client portfolio and will also demonstrate the ability to credibly offer sourcing solutions that are appropriate for your client’s business. As such, you will be expected to hold and maintain a sound level of specialist and technical expertise in relation to sourcing strategies, recruitment models, best practice recruitment, and sourcing tools and technology.

Key Accountabilities

• Design overarching Sourcing strategy for clients within your portfolio
• Act as a trusted advisor/SME to clients and client services on the external candidate market, trends across industries, and the talent supply chain in relation to their business objectives
• Understand business demand and outlook and manage resources and team structure accordingly
• Accountable for ensuring your leaders maintain agreed service levels with the Client Services teams and ensure sourcing delivery supports the achievement of SLA’s and KPI’s at account level
• Provide leadership support alongside Sourcing Managers to partner with senior client stakeholders to define resourcing strategies and plans that meet medium to long term business objectives and enable AMS to input into the strategy as appropriate
• Manage senior stakeholders in a fast-moving, complex, and often demanding landscape, enhancing AMS’ reputation as a Trusted Advisor in the recruiting process
• Keep abreast of market intelligence and industry trends and use this insight to develop resourcing plans
• Custodian of the client’s Employee Value Proposition ensuring the entire team can convey the proposition in a compelling way enhancing the clients brand presence in the market
• Develop a robust and effective sourcing and talent community strategy to meet client needs and drive continuous improvement in these areas based on your knowledge of sourcing best practices, tools, technologies, and methodologies to support key areas such as candidate engagement. Work with Sourcing Attraction Specialists as appropriate to refine channel activation strategy and matrix to optimize applicant funnel
• Work with your leaders to ensure that tools and channel strategy supports achievement of key metrics such as source mix, time to short list, etc.
• Understand AMS people are a key market differentiator and genuinely committed to the development of direct reports and the team in accordance with the Global Sourcing Strategy. Invest in building team capability through regular development and career planning. Lead virtual teams, unifying direct and indirect reports behind shared priorities of productivity, account profitability, and stakeholder satisfaction. Work with the senior manager to define the type and level of resources required to effectively achieve delivery and profitability targets

Skills & Experience

• 8+ years of experience of people management and development within sourcing with demonstrable ability to manage, coach and develop direct reports
• Experience working for an RPO is a must have
• Experience of developing and delivering sourcing strategies and processes to improve outcomes (e.g. decreased time to hire, increased quality of hire, source mix, etc.)
• Ability to speak to clients on all aspects of Sourcing, Insights, and Attraction
• Experience of presenting to and solving issues for clients (e.g. HR Leaders, Heads of Business, VPs, etc.) and gaining their agreement to a course of action. Demonstrable ability to build a position as a trusted advisor
• Deep knowledge of key performance levers and metrics that help drive sourcing outcomes and results in accordance with key client SLA’s
• Ability to liaise with and influence all levels of management to agree on a change of direction or new process
• Ability to use data to tell a story
• Track record of managing complex, high-profile recruitment projects and multiple campaigns
• Subject matter expertise in local recruitment practices including sourcing strategies, recruitment models, best practice recruitment. Able to use market intelligence and analyze market trends to provide insights to clients e.g. new technology, sourcing metrics, legislative changes
• Experience managing a budget
• Experience leading virtual/remote teams – proven ability to enable collaboration, engagement, and operational excellence among dispersed teams
• Agile in response to change or uncertainty - able to cope with and lead a small team and client through significant change

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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
• 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 or make a member of our Talent Acquisition team aware at any time.

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