Talent Acquisition Sourcer - Level 3

About the role

The Talent Acquisition Sourcer – Level 3 plays a pivotal role in the recruiting strategy, technology optimization, and recruiting marketing for the Space Sector. This role supports aggressive hiring goals and shares a high impact culture, core values, and passion for delivering exceptional service to customers.

Responsibilities

• Provide sourcing support for a variety of engineering and possibly manufacturing & operations and functional areas, to include: sourcing, screening, and managing candidate relationships with recruiters.
• Manage competing priorities, remaining highly flexible in an ever-changing environment while consistently anticipating and delivering exceptional talent acquisition solutions to recruiters.
• Source and recruit qualified talent while maintaining excellent customer service with hiring managers, candidates, and other stakeholders.
• Work closely with client-facing recruiters and hiring managers to understand the hiring needs and build formal targeted sourcing plans and present them to our teams.
• Support events-based sourcing, focused invitational events, and targeted career fairs.
• Arrange for the attraction of cleared talent to the company and have a knowledge base of security clearances.
• Ensure data integrity of the candidate management database.
• Apply a business mindset to the talent acquisition function.
• Research market conditions and industry trends as it relates to our competitors to assist in decision-making and marketing positions.
• Make connections between all talent management phases (acquisition, development, retention, culture).
• Leverage data and market intelligence to develop and execute staffing strategies.
• Utilize professional networks to source candidates for active requisitions.
• Source candidates from a variety of sources, with a strong emphasis on LinkedIn, HireEZ, ClearanceJobs.com, Indeed.com, social media, and search engines (Google Chrome, Google X-ray, advanced Boolean searching strings and niche job boards).
• Use social networking mediums (i.e., LinkedIn groups and other online forums) to promote employment brand messaging that drives traffic to open roles by establishing and promoting positive relationships.
• Utilize CRM to track day-to-day sourcing activity in the candidate management system.
• Successfully source and attract passive external talent.
• Perform extensive data mining of various social media platforms to identify candidate profiles.
• Conduct phone screens to pre-qualify qualified candidates and maintain candidate contact.
• Consult with clients to understand the business, program, technological, and cultural challenges.
• Accurately assess candidates (via in-person or phone) for cultural, competency and skill fit.
• Quickly synthesize candidate and hiring manager feedback.
• Routinely pre-close candidates (early in the process) to ensure high acceptance rates.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of relevant professional experience in sourcing and/or full-cycle recruiting experience – OR – Master’s degree with 3+ years of relevant professional experience in sourcing and/or full-cycle recruiting.
• Will consider an additional 4+ years of experience in lieu of degree.
• Strong customer service and interpersonal communication skills.
• Experience with sourcing technical talent across various engineering disciplines (Systems, Software, Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace) and non-technical disciplines (business, production, operations, supply chain).
• Experience sourcing cleared talent.
• Experience sourcing using LinkedIn Recruiter or other sourcing platforms.
• Experience with Microsoft Office, to include Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of relevant professional experience in sourcing and/or full-cycle recruiting experience – OR – Master’s degree with 3+ years of relevant professional experience in sourcing and/or full-cycle recruiting.
• Will consider an additional 4+ years of experience in lieu of degree.
• Strong customer service and interpersonal communication skills.
• Experience with sourcing technical talent across various engineering disciplines (Systems, Software, Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace) and non-technical disciplines (business, production, operations, supply chain).
• Experience sourcing cleared talent.
• Experience sourcing using LinkedIn Recruiter or other sourcing platforms.
• Experience with Microsoft Office, to include Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Secret security clearance.

Skills

• Aerospace/defense industry experience with the ability to understand relevant skills, target companies and user groups.
• Active in the social digital and recruitment arena.
• Experience in both agency and corporate recruiting.
• Experience with Workday or a comparable applicant tracking system and Eightfold.

Benefits

Northrop Grumman offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

Pay

The annual salary range for this position is $81,400.00 - $141,200.00. Offers may vary based on factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate's experience, education, skills, and current market conditions. Additionally, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Long Term Incentives may also be available for certain positions.

Schedule

The schedule for this role is typically full-time, with occasional travel up to 10% of the time.