Talent Sourcing Researcher
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: People
Closing date: 06 July 2026
Requisition ID: 400067044
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Talent Sourcing Researcher means being part of a dynamic and inclusive team focused on mapping and managing talent pools to address skill shortages and talent gaps. You'll play a crucial role in sourcing passive candidates, utilising various channels to ensure the quality and diversity of talent align with our long-term goals. With a strong emphasis on candidate engagement, data analytics, and collaboration with the Recruitment team, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to recruitment strategies and influence the growth and success of our organisation. At Sainsbury's, you'll be empowered to make a real impact, drive diversity and inclusion initiatives, and work in a fast-paced environment where innovation and excellence are celebrated.
What you'll do
As a Talent Sourcing Researcher at Sainsbury's, you will play a crucial role in mapping and managing talent pools to address specific skill shortages and talent gaps. Your primary focus will be on sourcing passive candidates through various channels, ensuring that the quality and diversity of talent align with the organisation's long-term talent pipelines and inclusion goals. Additionally, you will provide data analytics and insights to inform recruitment strategies, collaborating closely with the Recruitment team to deliver a set quantity of qualified leads against talent plans, emphasising building relationships with external candidates and contributing to the overall success of the recruitment process.
Who you are
As a Talent Sourcing Researcher at Sainsbury's, you are a recruitment professional with an understanding of external talent markets and proven experience sourcing and engaging passive candidates. Your passion for candidate sourcing, networking, and service delivery is evident in your ability to build strong relationships with external talent and maintain talent pipelines aligned with long-term business goals. With your knowledge of resourcing technologies and commitment to staying abreast of industry innovations, you bring a strategic approach to talent pooling and market mapping, contributing to the overall success of recruitment strategies and talent acquisition objectives. Your collaborative nature, strong judgement, and dedication to diversity and inclusion ensure that you make a positive impact on the recruitment process and support the wider team in hiring top talent for the organisation.
Essential Criteria
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Clear recruitment experience and an understanding of the theory or proven knowledge of recruitment best practices in the external marketplace, including Talent Pooling and Market Mapping.
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A passion for candidate sourcing, networking, and service delivery.
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Knowledge and experience in the use of resourcing technologies and social networking to build candidate/talent pools, across several areas.
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Ambition to increase knowledge and commercial awareness whilst keeping up to date with new innovations in attraction methodologies.
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Excellent judgement and the ability to collaborate effectively with different teams.
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Confidence when interacting with candidates, whilst demonstrating a passion for diversity and inclusion in all approaches.
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Championing recruitment processes and sharing knowledge with others.
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Ability to thrive in a fast-moving, creative, flexible environment.
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 5% of salary, depending on how we perform. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme. Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
