Senior Talent Sourcing Specialist

About the role

Ektis is seeking a Senior Talent Sourcing Specialist to lead proactive, direct sourcing and headhunting across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and support regional expansion. The role is hands‑on, focusing on building pipelines of passive talent, executing team lift‑outs and multi‑hire campaigns, and partnering closely with hiring managers.

Key responsibilities

• Identify, research and proactively approach passive candidates through direct outreach, headhunting, referrals and networking.
• Build detailed market maps of target companies, teams and individuals, maintaining live intelligence on compensation and movement.
• Plan and execute discreet team grabs and lift‑outs from competitors, managing multi‑threaded outreach.
• Develop and maintain warm, segmented talent pipelines and pools for priority and recurring roles.
• Conduct compelling first conversations to sell the opportunity, qualify motivation and keep candidates warm.
• Partner with hiring managers and the Talent Acquisition Lead to take briefs, calibrate profiles and provide real‑time market insight.
• Utilise LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, talent databases, referrals and creative channels to reach non‑responsive talent.
• Support graduate, early‑career and internship sourcing, building relationships with universities.
• Track outreach, response and conversion metrics, using data to sharpen targeting and report progress.
• Source in line with company policies, Middle‑East labour considerations and DEI principles.

Required profile

• Natural hunter who thrives on finding talent others cannot, comfortable with phone outreach to passive candidates.
• Hands‑on sourcing or research experience, preferably in executive search, RPO, agency or in‑house, with exposure to the Middle‑East market and KSA hiring.
• Strong market‑mapping and talent‑intelligence capabilities.
• Confident in direct headhunting outreach and discreet team lift‑outs.
• Fluent in modern sourcing tools (Boolean, LinkedIn Recruiter, referrals, creative channels) and data‑informed decision‑making.
• Thrives in a fast‑growing, entrepreneurial environment and comfortable with ambiguity.

Required skills

• Talent databases
• Talent intelligence
• Market mapping
• Headhunting
• Candidate engagement
• Early careers sourcing
• LinkedIn Recruiter
• Direct sourcing
• Pipeline development
• Boolean search
• Data tracking