Senior Talent Sourcing Specialist
- Galway
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Collaborate with recruiters, HRBPs, and hiring managers to understand hiring needs and define tailored sourcing strategies
- Act as a sourcing subject matter expert by advising on best practices for market engagement, channel mix, and messaging
- Use advanced search techniques, such as Boolean logic, X-ray searching, data mining, and targeted outreach, to identify and engage passive talent
- Build and maintain talent pools for critical and recurring roles to ensure a steady pipeline of qualified candidates
- Conduct market mapping and competitor analysis to provide insights into talent availability, compensation trends, and location strategies
- Share actionable market insights to help hiring teams make informed decisions
- Leverage sourcing platforms, CRM tools, and the applicant tracking system (ATS), Workday, to manage talent pipelines and candidate data
- Stay informed of emerging sourcing technologies and recommend tools to enhance sourcing effectiveness
- Serve as a brand ambassador and ensure a high-quality candidate experience from initial outreach through to handoff to recruiters
- Communicate Medtronic’s value proposition clearly and consistently to candidates
- Track sourcing performance metrics (e.g., time-to-source, outreach response rates, pipeline conversion)
- Use data insights to refine and improve sourcing strategies
- Requires a Bachelors degree and minimum of 4 years of relevant talent sourcing experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience
- Experience sourcing/recruiting Engineering / R&D roles within a highly regulated industry
- Proven ability to work as part of a team
- Previous mentorship experience (Hiring Managers, Recruiters)
- Experience in employer branding desirable
- Experience with Workday recruiting software
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.About MedtronicWe lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity