About This Role
This role focuses on proactively identifying, engaging, and developing relationships with prospective talent to support RaceTrac's hiring needs. Operating within a shared, flexible sourcing team, the Talent Sourcer focuses on talent mapping, pipeline development, market research, and candidate engagement to ensure a continuous flow of qualified, diverse candidates for current and future opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Proactively source talent through online platforms, professional networks, referrals, industry associations, events, and direct outreach
- Develop and maintain talent pipelines and communities for critical, difficult-to-fill, and future-focused roles
- Create sourcing strategies tailored to specific business units, job families, and labor markets
- Continuously expand talent networks and candidate pools, and deploy sourcing capacity against the highest-priority and highest-volume needs
- Conduct outreach campaigns and build relationships with passive and active talent
- Articulate RaceTrac's employee value proposition (EVP) and career opportunities as an initial point of contact for prospective candidates
- Maintain regular communication to foster long-term engagement and conduct initial screens before hand-off to Recruiters
- Monitor labor-market conditions, workforce trends, and competitive hiring activity
- Conduct talent mapping and workforce-availability analysis
- Provide insights on talent supply, geographic markets, and emerging skill trends, and recommend innovative sourcing approaches
- Develop sourcing strategies that promote broad and diverse candidate representation
- Identify partnerships, networks, and talent communities that expand access to qualified talent
- Support RaceTrac's diversity hiring objectives through proactive outreach and pipeline development
- Maintain accurate candidate records within the ATS and candidate-relationship-management (CRM) tools, including Workday
- Track sourcing activity, pipeline metrics, and candidate-engagement data to support speed and efficiency
- Ensure compliance with employment laws, company policies, and recruiting processes
- Support continuous improvement of recruiting technology, sourcing methodologies, and candidate experience
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, Marketing, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years in talent sourcing, recruiting, sales, customer relationship management, business development, or a related field
- Strong research and networking capabilities
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong organizational and time-management abilities
