Sourcing Specialist
The Sourcing Specialist owns the front end of the hiring pipeline, moving quickly to identify, engage, and deliver strong candidates for open roles. The Sourcing Specialist coordinates with the Staffing Specialists and TA Managers to actively source candidates for openings using a variety of resources, including but not limited to job boards, resume databases, news outlets, social media websites, colleges/universities, and community organizations. This role takes a highly analytical, data-driven approach to managing our sourcing partners, aggressively tracking performance metrics and holding partners accountable for results. The Sourcing Specialist will work closely with representatives from our recruitment marketing agency to monitor ad placement and performance between campaigns, identify underperforming channels, and drive improvements.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Source prospective candidates using Applicant Tracking System, job boards, and community-based organizations
- Builds applicant sources by researching and contacting community services, colleges, employment agencies, recruiters, media, and internet sites; providing organization information, opportunities, and benefits; making presentations; maintaining rapport
- Attracts applicants by placing job advertisements; contacting recruiters, using newsgroups and job sites
- Proactively build talent pipelines for high-volume and hard-to-fill roles before openings occur
- Reviews resumes for appropriate skill sets to qualify candidates
- Evaluates candidates against job requirements, engages candidate in the opportunity, and presents qualified candidates to the Staffing Specialist or TA Manager
- Aggressively track, analyze, and report on sourcing partner performance metrics, including applicant volume, applicant quality, cost per applicant, cost per hire, conversion rates, and time to fill
- Hold sourcing partners and our recruitment marketing agency accountable to performance expectations; proactively escalate underperformance and push for corrective action
- Analyze campaign and channel data to identify trends, gaps, and areas of opportunity, and recommend reallocating spend toward the highest-performing sources
- Continuously identify, test, and evaluate new sourcing channels and strategies, bringing recommendations to TA leadership
- Understand and demonstrate safe work practices at all times to ensure a safe work environment
- Comply with all company policies and procedures
- Complete special projects and other duties as assigned by your supervisor
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Strong analytical skills with a data-driven mindset and the ability to turn metrics into actionable recommendations
- Assertive and results-focused, comfortable challenging vendors and partners when performance falls short
- Effective communication skills both written and verbal
- Able to work both independently and as part of a team
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to prioritize effectively
- Great interpersonal skills
- Excellent problem-solving abilities
- Able to independently research new and trending practices in the industry
- Able to work to agreed deadlines and targets
- Attention to detail and accuracy in work
- Service-oriented with a history of building excellent customer and candidate relationships
Experience and Credentials
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
- Previous experience using ATS systems or other recruitment software
- Experience tracking and analyzing recruitment metrics or vendor/partner performance
- Proficient with the use of Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook
- Good knowledge of HR procedures and best practices
- Bilingual English/Spanish preferred
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
- Previous experience using applicant tracking systems or other recruitment software
- Experience tracking and analyzing recruitment metrics or vendor/partner performance
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook
- Good knowledge of HR procedures and best practices
- Bilingual English/Spanish
Jacent Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Jacent and has not been reviewed or approved by Jacent.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with company match is available to eligible full‑time employees. This indicates tangible retirement support within the standard package for those roles.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — An Employee Assistance Program is offered, and some roles include mileage, travel‑time, and cell‑phone reimbursement alongside paid training. These provisions provide practical, day‑to‑day support.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Full‑time postings describe paid time off, holidays, and personal days as part of the package. These time‑off elements reflect a conventional baseline for eligible positions.
Jacent Insights
What We Do
We Make Retail Easier. Jacent creates and procures shopper-inspired products, delivers legendary merchandising service and drives stellar results for our customers. Product Development & Procurement: We create, source and distribute more than 3,500 impulse products directly to 14,000 retail stores as well as sell via wholesale and online channels across the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Vertically Integrated Solution: We handle it all from product development to in-store management. We solve problems. Armed with customer-specific strategic merchandising plans, our merchandising team places the products in store and then manages the re-ordering and re-stocking to drive your sales. Legendary Merchandising Service: In addition to our vertically integrated impulse business, our merchandising team also offers retail insights and services, such as merchandising of clients’ products, audits and more to help stores run at peak efficiency.
Why Work With Us
At Jacent, our people are what makes us special and makes us the #1 impulse merchandising company in North America. We are looking for individuals that align with our culture pillars of We Always Play Offense, We Are Solutions Oriented, We Deliver Legendary Service, We Act With Integrity And Courage, and We Are Stronger Together.
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