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**Job Description** ## The Role We are seeking a forward-thinking, data-driven Sourcing Manager to join our dynamic Talent Acquisition (TA) team. In this leadership role, you will lead a team of sourcing professionals while owning key sourcing workstreams that support critical technical talent needs across multiple leadership portfolios and priority business areas. Reporting to a Senior Talent Acquisition Manager, you will design and execute sourcing strategies, serve as a strategic sourcing partner to senior leaders, and drive operational excellence across tools, data, process, and capability building. You will play a critical role in mapping competitive talent markets, developing innovative sourcing approaches, and enabling recruiter productivity to help GM attract top talent to power the company’s future. ## ## Responsibilities ### Sourcing Strategy & Execution - Lead the design and execution of sourcing strategies that deliver high-quality pipelines aligned to business hiring needs across priority talent segments, leadership portfolios, and enterprise workstreams. - Translate demand forecasts, workforce plans, and market intelligence into proactive market mapping, talent pooling, engagement strategies, and multi-quarter sourcing plans. - Own sourcing support for designated senior leader portfolios and critical teams, ensuring aligned execution against evolving business priorities and organizational bandwidth. - Partner with recruiters and hiring leaders to calibrate profiles, refine messaging, and adjust strategies based on real-time feedback and results. - Serve as a strategic advisor to recruiting leaders and business stakeholders on talent market trends, competitive intelligence, and proactive strategies for critical skill areas. ### Team Leadership & Development - Lead, coach, and develop a team of Sourcers, creating a culture of accountability, learning, and continuous improvement. - Set clear goals and metrics aligned to Talent Acquisition priorities, including pipeline health, conversion rates, time-in-stage, quality of slate, and candidate generation outcomes, and regularly review performance. - Define team priorities, roles, responsibilities, and workload allocation to ensure the team is focused on the highest-impact business needs. - Stand up and lead a sourcing training and enablement process that provides clear onboarding and capability-building for both new and current recruiters. - Build a roadmap for sourcing capability development, including training, onboarding, best practices, and ongoing learning assets that accelerate enablement and improve productivity across the broader TA organization. ### Operational Excellence & Systems - Drive operational excellence in how the team uses our ATS, CRM, and sourcing tools, with a strong focus on data quality, tracking, hygiene, and scalable execution. - Build and refine repeatable processes, playbooks, standard operating procedures, and workflows that enable consistent, scalable delivery across requisitions, portfolios, and talent segments. - Partner with TA Operations, Process, Enablement, and Solutions teams to shape, implement, and optimize tools, features, and workflows that enhance sourcing productivity and candidate generation capacity. - Help define and drive the execution roadmap for sourcing-related capabilities, including process improvements, tool adoption, and role clarity across partners. - Develop scalable mechanisms that strengthen sourcing effectiveness across the TA organization and support broader enterprise hiring outcomes. ### Insights, Data & Market Intelligence - Use data and analytics to diagnose bottlenecks, optimize sourcing channels, and inform decision-making for TA leaders, recruiters, and business stakeholders. - Lead competitive landscape mapping for key talent segments, generating insights on market conditions, talent availability, competitor activity, and hiring trends. - Translate market intelligence into actionable sourcing strategi…