Lead Talent Sourcing Specialist (Contract)

The Role

The Bloomberg Recruitment team is seeking an experienced Talent Sourcing Specialist to proactively identify and attract top talent across multiple business areas and geographies with particular focus on financial products. The successful candidate will have proven sourcing or recruitment experience in a demanding environment, a passion for research and a creative approach to sourcing.

You will work with a variety of internal stakeholders with drive and tenacity and will be responsible for a number of roles within Bloomberg, focusing on directly sourcing high quality candidates for those roles under tight deadlines.

This is a contract role.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Proactively partner with recruiters to develop an in-depth understanding of the company's resourcing needs to guide internal customers and assist in targeting the best talent - Identify and network with key talent pools to actively headhunt passive candidates and generate pipeline for current and future roles - Design innovative sourcing strategies to identify top talent for Bloomberg - Deliver market intelligence/specific mapping projects for the business - Attend wherever practical any face to face role briefings given by the business, actively participating in these meetings regarding candidate research methods, market conditions with relation to candidate sourcing etc. - Add value to the business area through awareness and understanding of skills, trends and market knowledge of the business - Be a fundamental part of the team and must be passionate and driven to help deliver recruitment services to the business in line with agreed service levels. This is a key role that requires a responsive and client facing individual - Attend relevant recruitment events/conferences

Required knowledge/experience:

- Must have up-to-date knowledge of innovative sourcing methodologies and strong track record of successfully networking externally - Proven ability to be pro-active in engaging candidates over the telephone and face to face - Have a proactive and methodical approach with the ability to work to key targets, under pressure and within tight timelines with multiple vacancies to source -Plan, coordinate and prioritize activities successfully to work independently and as part of a team environment - Good understanding of the financial industry - Excellent communication skills both written and verbal with the ability to influence, experience of working with multiple stakeholders and build strong relationships, ability to listen and understand the needs of the business and candidates

The Company

Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company's strength - delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately - is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 315,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg's enterprise solutions build on the company's core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government, Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Bloomberg BNA, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through the Bloomberg Professional service, television, radio, mobile, the Internet and three magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets and Bloomberg Pursuits, covers the world with more than 2,400 news and multimedia professionals at more than 150 bureaus in 73 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 15,000 people in 192 locations around the world.

Bloomberg is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and we welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or any other classification protected by law.

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