Sourcing Specialist (RPO)

Introduction

Ready to help build IBM's biggest asset - its talent? As a Recruitment Professional, you serve an integral role as the main point of contact for both candidates and hiring managers, guiding them through the full recruiting lifecycle. Work with a team using the most innovative approaches to attraction, sourcing, selection, interviewing, offering, and closing. This is an opportunity to shape IBM's future. Start your journey now!

Your role and responsibilities

The Sourcing Specialist is responsible for bringing in "best in class" talent into our customer's organization. You will be tasked with developing innovative and aggressive methods to source, evaluate, and pipeline candidates to support our client's hiring needs. You will collaborate with the Talent Acquisition Partners or Recruiters to maintain a clear understanding of the client's business and culture, as well as define the positions, functions and selling points for all positions being sourced.

This role requires exceptional sourcing and communication skills, both oral and written. You will consult with the Talent Acquisition Partners or Recruiters about any issues related to sourcing. Skill sets for this position include knowledge of sourcing techniques, demonstrated proficiency with the Internet, MS Office applications and applicant tracking systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develops, influences, and executes sourcing strategy for passive and active candidates
• Develops relationships with key candidates and large-scale talent pools
• Engages with Talent Acquisition Partners to understand profiles for role-based sourcing
• Builds a substantial competitive intelligence knowledge base of functional roles
• Sources for passive and active candidates from internal ATS, Job Boards and other appropriate media outlets
• Tracks all sourcing activities in the CRM (Greenhouse) tool for all pipelines, conversions, and hires
• Identifies new methods and approaches for sourcing of candidates
• Shares creative sourcing skills among the broader sourcing team
• Conducts outbound calls to potential candidates
• Drives applicants through sourcing activities to apply for open requisitions
• Provides daily updates to keep team apprised of sourcing efforts
• Assists in other markets/countries as needed

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Has a minimum of 4-6 years extensive sourcing experience
• Has Market Research/Insights experience
• Strong sourcing knowledge - Boolean, Google X-ray, etc.
• At least 2 years in a client management role working across a variety of stakeholders
• Knowledge in sourcing through different job boards and social media channels
• Knowledge in Applicant Tracking system
• Effective English Oral and Written communications skills
• Amenable to work Rotational shift
• Has RPO / Technical Recruitment experience

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Client-provided location(s): Manila, Philippines

Job ID: IBM-55621

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-08-30T18:49:14