What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sourcing Specialist-Fashion and Product position at EMERGING BLUE?
Job Description
Sourcing Specialist-Fashion and Product
Department: Recruiting
Reports To: Sr. Director of Creative Recruiting
Location: Remote / Hybrid
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Applicant Tracking System (ATS) / Tools: Avionté, LinkedIn
Role Summary
The Sourcing Specialist is responsible for proactively identifying, engaging, and building strong candidate pipelines that Recruiters and Account Directors leverage to submit qualified talent to clients. This role focuses on pipeline development, market research, outreach, and data accuracy. Success is measured by the quality, relevance, and usability of pipelines that directly support recruiter screens and client submissions. For this role specifically we are seeking someone who demonstrates an understanding of fashion industry organizational structures and key functional areas, including design and merchandising. Experience using Canva, Excel, ChatGPT, and Adobe are strongly preferred.
Key Responsibilities
Sourcing Specialist-Fashion and Product
Department: Recruiting
Reports To: Sr. Director of Creative Recruiting
Location: Remote / Hybrid
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Applicant Tracking System (ATS) / Tools: Avionté, LinkedIn
Role Summary
The Sourcing Specialist is responsible for proactively identifying, engaging, and building strong candidate pipelines that Recruiters and Account Directors leverage to submit qualified talent to clients. This role focuses on pipeline development, market research, outreach, and data accuracy. Success is measured by the quality, relevance, and usability of pipelines that directly support recruiter screens and client submissions. For this role specifically we are seeking someone who demonstrates an understanding of fashion industry organizational structures and key functional areas, including design and merchandising. Experience using Canva, Excel, ChatGPT, and Adobe are strongly preferred.
Key Responsibilities
- Proactively source candidates for active, upcoming, and evergreen roles across fashion, apparel, beauty, lifestyle, and consumer industries.
- Work with Recruiters and Account Directors to understand ‘brands’ and roles within the industries Emerging Blue supports.
- Familiarize with Emerging Blue current and previous brand partners.
- Build and maintain high-quality candidate pipelines that Recruiters and Account Directors can screen and submit to clients.
- Execute targeted outreach campaigns to engage passive and active talent.
- Review resumes and profiles to assess alignment with role requirements.
- Partner closely with Recruiters and Account Directors to understand search priorities and ideal candidate profiles.
- Provide pipeline updates, sourcing insights, and market feedback to recruiting teams.
- Support sourcing efforts for business development and prospective clients.
- Identify and test new sourcing channels and strategies.
- Maintain accurate pipeline and status updates within Talent Acquisition (TA) tools such as Avionté, LinkedIn, and other sourcing or recruiting platforms.
- Uphold data integrity, organization, and responsiveness standards.
- Support administrative tasks as assigned by members of the team, to include posting open positions in Avionte.
- Pipeline quality, relevance, and volume
- Pipeline of candidates that lead to Recruiter screening conversions
- Recruiter and Account Director satisfaction with candidate quality
- Time-to-source for active searches
- Accuracy and cleanliness of data throughout systems (Avionte, Excel, LinkedIn, Talin)
- Displaying a working knowledge of brand alignment and candidates background
Salary : $18 - $20