Senior Recruiter | Financial Services

About the role

The Talent Acquisition Specialist develops and executes sophisticated sourcing strategies to attract critical, hard-to-fill, and executive-level talent. This role focuses on building robust pipelines of passive candidates, conducting in-depth market and competitor research, and partnering closely with recruiters and hiring leaders to translate business needs into targeted sourcing plans. The specialist serves as a trusted advisor on talent availability and market trends, supports executive recruiting efforts, and helps shape employment brand and recruitment marketing initiatives to strengthen visibility within priority talent markets. This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Richardson, TX, fully onsite.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute proactive sourcing strategies to identify and attract critical, hard-to-fill, and executive-level talent.
• Build and maintain strong pipelines of passive candidates aligned to current and anticipated business needs.
• Conduct comprehensive talent mapping across relevant competitors, geographies, and talent markets to inform sourcing plans.
• Partner with recruiters and hiring leaders to translate business needs into targeted sourcing strategies and detailed candidate profiles.
• Identify and engage passive candidates through HireEZ, professional networks, referrals, industry organizations, and other sourcing channels.
• Serve as a trusted advisor on talent availability, competitive hiring activity, candidate motivations, and emerging market trends.
• Support executive recruiting through market research, candidate identification, pipeline development, and coordination of search activities.
• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition leadership on employment brand and recruitment marketing initiatives designed to strengthen visibility in priority talent markets.
• Develop targeted outreach strategies and messaging that effectively communicate the employee value proposition to prospective candidates.
• Leverage sourcing data and analytics to evaluate the effectiveness of sourcing efforts, identify opportunities, and continuously refine strategies.
• Partner with recruiters to determine which searches require dedicated sourcing support and design appropriate sourcing plans.
• Help establish sourcing standards, processes, tools, and best practices across the Talent Acquisition function.
• Provide guidance and coaching to recruiters and junior sourcing resources on sourcing techniques, market mapping, and passive candidate engagement.
• Identify opportunities to execute searches internally that might otherwise require external search partners.
• Maintain accurate candidate and sourcing activity records within applicable Talent Acquisition systems to ensure data integrity and compliance.

Essential Skills

• At least 6 years of experience in Talent Acquisition, executive search, or talent sourcing, preferably within financial services or another complex professional-services environment.
• Proven success in identifying and engaging senior-level passive talent.
• Advanced experience with LinkedIn Recruiter and other sourcing, research, and talent-intelligence tools.
• Strong market-mapping and talent-research capabilities.
• Ability to translate business needs into sophisticated and targeted sourcing strategies.
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