Sourcing Manager

Join our organisation, where we engineer a better future for our planet and its people. When you start this role with us, it could take your career wherever your interests lie. You'll find everyone here is willing to pitch in and help because we all want you to succeed, and we're ready to help you grow.

We’re AtkinsRéalis, a world-class Engineering Services and Nuclear organization. We connect people, data, and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers, and project managers, we can change the world.

At People Hub, we are 270+ talented folks diversified into different global process groups - Recruitment, Lifecycle, Offboarding, Service Excellence, and Contact Management. We value your unique identity and perspective and are fully committed to providing equitable opportunities and building a workplace that reflects the diversity of society. We welcome you to bring your authentic self and create a better tomorrow with us. The future-focused HR organisation largely possesses a strong Onshore Partnering Team and the Centre of Excellence, complemented by a robust Global Operations, Sourcing, and Service Delivery Team offering top-class services to employees from the HR People Hub, Bangalore.

About the Role: We are seeking a dynamic and strategic Global Sourcing Manager to lead a team of 20+ sourcing professionals who support the North America, UK, AMEA, and India regions. This pivotal role involves shaping innovative sourcing strategies, driving talent pipeline development, and leveraging market intelligence to inform and shape business hiring decisions. Key responsibilities will include maintaining high candidate satisfaction, ensuring compliance and process excellence, creating efficient and effective processes, advising onshore teams, technology adoption & optimization, and maintaining a highly engaged and motivated workforce. The ideal candidate will excel in sourcing processes, data-driven recruitment strategies, and have a proven track record of building high-performing teams while ensuring stakeholder satisfaction.

What Is Your Role?

• Innovative Sourcing Strategies & Market Intelligence: Develop and implement best-in-class sourcing strategies using social networking, referrals, internet searches, and other innovative methods. Conduct market mapping to provide key business stakeholders with insights on talent availability, emerging skills, and market trends. Proactively engage and pipeline external candidates to meet both immediate and future hiring needs.
• Strategic Thinking: Ensure sourcing delivery is measured against key performance indicators and service level agreements (SLAs). Promote compliance and process excellence, embedding best practices across sourcing functions. Develop long-term sourcing strategies aligned with business goals, anticipating future talent needs and market shifts. Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement by regularly reviewing and refining sourcing processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Efficient and Effective Processes: Create efficient and effective processes for seamless delivery with robust investment in candidate pipeline and workforce planning. Foster a proactive approach to talent acquisition, identifying the right candidates and tracking skills for the future. Collaborate with global recruitment and marketing teams to enhance candidate attraction and strengthen employer branding.
• Advisory Role: Advise onshore teams on various sourcing processes and applications. Take the lead on all sourcing matters and projects in the region, acting as an extended strategic partner for the regions. Provide insights and recommendations to senior leadership on sourcing trends, challenges, and opportunities, contributing to the overall talent strategy.
• Global Accountability: Reinforce the global nature of the role by taking accountability for each regional team delivering against KPIs and meeting stakeholder expectations. Work closely with the heads of recruitment in each region to deliver on individual recruitment plans and address the nuances of a global recruiting model.

What Will You Contribute:

• Partnership Skills: Demonstrate strong partnership skills and the ability to influence critical decisions. Experience in complex environments, managing stakeholder expectations, and supervising teams is essential. Building rapport and managing expectations at all levels is crucial.
• Global Sourcing Model: Extensive experience in sourcing delivery, with leadership experience being essential. Proven expertise in talent sourcing and recruitment, utilizing platforms like LinkedIn, job boards, and CRM systems, is essential. Experience in a COE HR model is advantageous. Leading and managing teams, with a focus on developing sourcing professionals, is key. Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities in a fast-paced, global environment is necessary.
• Technical Know-How: Distinctive technical expertise, collaborative outlook, and business acumen are vital. Experience in data and analytics is a plus. Strong communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills are essential. Understanding candidate relationship management and engagement to build effective talent pools is important. Proficiency in ATS systems, CRM platforms, and recruitment analytics tools is required.
• CRM Adaptation: Proven track record in working with and adapting a CRM within a sourcing team.

Measures & Metrics of Success:

• Client Delight and Client Centricity: Strive to achieve client delight scores exceeding 90%.
• Service Delivery Excellence: Ensure efficient and agreed turnaround times and conversion ratios, while maintaining consistent delivery.
• Technology Optimization: Enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of recruitment processes through the optimization of Beamery and Workday platforms.
• Highly Engaged and Motivated Staff: Aim for high Voice of Workforce scores, targeting 90+.

Join us in shaping the future of recruitment and sourcing delivery and make a significant impact on our organization and employees. Apply now to be part of our dynamic team!

What We Can Offer You:

• Varied, interesting and meaningful work.
• A hybrid working environment with flexibility and great opportunities.
• Opportunities for training and, as the team grows, career progression or sideways moves.

Why work for AtkinsRéalis?

We at AtkinsRéalis are committed to developing its people both personally and professionally. Our colleagues have the advantage of access to a high ranging training portfolio and development activities designed to help make the best of individual’s abilities and talents. We also actively support staff in achieving corporate membership of relevant institutions.

Created by the integration of long-standing organizations dating back to 1911, we are a world-leading professional services company dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. News and information are available at www.atkinsrealis.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

When it comes to work-life balance, AtkinsRéalis is a great place to be. So, let's discuss how our flexible and remote working policies can support your priorities. We're passionate about are work while valuing each other equally. So, ask us about some of our recent pledges for Women's Equality and being a 'Disability Confident' and 'Inclusive Employer’.

Meeting Your Needs:

To help you get the most out of life in and outside of work, we offer employees ‘Total Reward’. Making sure you're supported is important to us. So, if you identify as having a disability, tell us ahead of your interview, and we’ll discuss any adjustments you might need.

Additional Information:

We are an equal opportunity, drug-free employer committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. To help embed inclusion for all, from day one, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. We care about your privacy and are committed to protecting your privacy. Please consult our Privacy Notice on our Careers site to know more about how we collect, use and transfer your Personal Data. Link: Equality, diversity & inclusion | AtkinsRéalis India (atkinsrealis.com)

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.