Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

About Us

Location: Belfast – hybrid
Hours: Full time – 37.5 hours P/W, US shifts 3 days per week (1:30pm – 10pm)
Employment Type: Permanent
Start date: 15th September 2025

Talent is our World.

At AMS, we believe in nurturing talent and fostering a culture where passion for success thrives. As part of our commitment to your growth and development, we encourage you to explore opportunities available within our organisation. Your talent is our greatest asset, and we're dedicated to providing avenues for you to reach its fullest potential. We do so by providing the environment, resources, networks, and career experiences essential for your progress.

Take the next step in your career journey and discover our exciting opportunities.

Join our World of Talent.

Global, culturally diverse, inclusive, and innovative - welcome to AMS, where talent is our world. Over the last two decades, AMS has redefined the landscape of talent outsourcing and consulting. From pioneering the concept of RPO to continually revolutionising how organisations approach talent acquisition, AMS stands as a world leader in the industry.

Committed, engaged, and inspired, we feel a real sense of belonging, and all have one thing in common: a real passion for talent. Become part of this world and make a difference with us.

The Role

Are you an expert in finding the right talent? Let’s talk!

As a Principal Sourcing Specialist you'll be at the forefront of Talent Acquisition, responsible for identifying and engaging top - tier candidates to meet our organisation's hiring needs.

Using your expertise in sourcing strategies and candidate outreach techniques, you'll search various channels, including job boards, social media platforms, and professional networks, to identify potential candidates who align with our client’s company values and requirements.

Key Accountabilities

What you’ll be doing:

• Engaging with Recruiters and Hiring Managers (as directed) to take detailed briefs on role requirements, contributing knowledge and best practice to add value to discussions.
• Partner with recruiters to support sourcing efforts and ensure alignment with recruitment goals.
• Active Application Management: review, evaluate, and manage active applications for assigned roles.
• Proactively sourcing (identifying) candidates utilizing a broad range of channels and techniques (e.g. search engines, job board databases, social networking sites).
• Developing own network of sector-specific candidates and utilize networking skills to identify and engage with talented candidates (i.e. referrals from referrals, cold-calling, etc.)
• Engaging, screening and qualifying candidates to determine suitability and obtain required information (e.g. availability, permission to represent) in order to create long-lists.
• Ensuring regular communication with Client Services team to understand on-going. requirements and to share progress of activity.
• Maintaining agreed service levels and targets.
• Participating and contributing within team meetings.

Skills & Experience

You'll need to demonstrate:

Must haves

• Experience within the Banking or Financial services sector
• Extensive experience in proactive sourcing, headhunting, and candidate attraction Expertise in multiple candidate sourcing channels (e.g. web sourcing, networking, advertising, database searching)
• Market mapping experience
• Strong background in financial services sector
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to handle senior stakeholders and demanding needs
• Result-oriented approach to responsibilities
• Analytical skills, data driven and inquisitive mindset with the ability to think out of the box on non-linear searches
• Full professional proficiency in English both written and spoken
• Ability to drive innovation and keep up to date with market trends related to recruitment

Other

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
• Flexible working
• 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 [email protected] or make a member of our Talent Acquisition team aware at any time.

Hit the Apply now button to get your journey started!

We take pride in being Disability Confident. This helps to ensure that you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long- term health conditions, or are neurodiverse. You will be shortlisted based on minimum criteria for the role and will be offered support and/or adjustments for the recruitment process if you wish.