Sourcing Specialist

About us

Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live. The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry.

To be successful we must anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow. This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business.

National Grid is hiring a Sourcing Specialist. This hybrid role will sit in our Brooklyn, NY location.

Job Purpose

The Recruitment Sourcing Specialist works closely with our Recruitment Partners and uses innovative sourcing strategies and methodologies to identify and source candidates, finding and engaging with the best diverse talent in the market, delivering outstanding candidate experience and for building a strong talent pipeline for National Grid’s current and future talent needs.

Recruitment Sourcing Specialists support our UK and US recruitment and are part of a global recruitment team.

Key Accountabilities

- Develop & execute a sourcing plan of action to meet immediate client hiring requirements.

- Create innovative sourcing strategies making use of forums, online networks, and internet interrogation

- Identify passive candidates using online tools/networks/technologies

- Create talent communities via LinkedIn and engage them with regular and relevant communications

- Balance deadlines and deliverables for multiple searches at a time.

- Maintain data quality and accuracy within the company’s internal database.

- Conduct ongoing candidate pipeline development activities and talent network expansion for active and future requisitions.

- Market mapping, business intelligence

- Remain curious about emerging sourcing technologies and methods to help us on our journey to best in class

- Complete telephone screening calls with candidates to assess their suitability for roles.

- Provide diverse candidate shortlists within agreed timeframes.

- Engage with the candidate community to understand and map their career goals and motivations.

- Build great relationships with candidates, communicating with them throughout the process

Qualifications

- Minimum 2 years of experience as a sourcer, recruiter, or related role

- Proven track record of recruiting for a variety of positions and levels

- A high degree of customer focus and the ability to build and maintain professional relationships.

- Curious and creative approaches to engaging talent.

- Strong drive for results and a commitment to producing a high level of work efficiently and often within tight time frames.

- Excellent verbal and creative written communication skills.

- Strong presence and experience amplifying employer brand and jobs on social media. (ie. LinkedIn, Facebook, X (Twitter) etc.)

- Ability to adapt to new processes and effectively deal with change and ambiguity.

- Excellent candidate management skills

- Ability to plan, organize and prioritize

- Experience using AI tools for sourcing

More Information

Salary

$73,000 - $86,000 a year

This position has a career path which provides for advancement opportunities within and across bands as you develop and evolve in the position; gaining experience, expertise and acquiring and applying technical skills. Candidates will be assessed and provided offers against the minimum qualifications of this role and their individual experience.

National Grid utilizes an assessment that evaluates the job qualifications/characteristics using AI or statistically based scoring. For more information, please view NYC Local Law 144.

National Grid is an equal opportunity employer that values a broad diversity of talent, knowledge, experience and expertise. We foster a culture of inclusion that drives employee engagement to deliver superior performance to the communities we serve. National Grid is proud to be an affirmative action employer. We encourage minorities, women, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans to join the National Grid team.