At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.

A Day in the Life

Our Talent Acquisition Centre of Expertise focuses on identifying and engaging top talent for our operations sites in Ireland. As a Senior Talent Sourcing Specialist, you will play a critical role in proactively identifying and attracting high-caliber candidates, particularly within R&D and Engineering functions, as well as across key support areas.

Working closely with recruiters, hiring managers, and HRBPs, you will develop tailored sourcing strategies and deliver high-quality pipelines that support our long-term hiring needs.

Come for a job, stay for a career!

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:

Strategic Sourcing Partnership

Collaborate with recruiters, HRBPs, and hiring managers to understand hiring needs and define tailored sourcing strategies
Act as a sourcing subject matter expert by advising on best practices for market engagement, channel mix, and messaging

Proactive Talent Sourcing

Use advanced search techniques, such as Boolean logic, X-ray searching, data mining, and targeted outreach, to identify and engage passive talent
Build and maintain talent pools for critical and recurring roles to ensure a steady pipeline of qualified candidates

Market Intelligence

Conduct market mapping and competitor analysis to provide insights into talent availability, compensation trends, and location strategies
Share actionable market insights to help hiring teams make informed decisions

Technology and Tools

Leverage sourcing platforms, CRM tools, and the applicant tracking system (ATS), Workday, to manage talent pipelines and candidate data
Stay informed of emerging sourcing technologies and recommend tools to enhance sourcing effectiveness

Candidate Experience

Serve as a brand ambassador and ensure a high-quality candidate experience from initial outreach through to handoff to recruiters
Communicate Medtronic’s value proposition clearly and consistently to candidates

Metrics and Reporting

Track sourcing performance metrics (e.g., time-to-source, outreach response rates, pipeline conversion)
Use data insights to refine and improve sourcing strategies

Required Knowledge and Experience:

Requires a Bachelors degree and minimum of 4 years of relevant talent sourcing experience, or advanced degree with a minimum of 2 years relevant experience
Experience sourcing/recruiting Engineering / R&D roles within a highly regulated industry
Proven ability to work as part of a team
Previous mentorship experience (Hiring Managers, Recruiters)
Experience in employer branding desirable
Experience with Workday recruiting software

Medtronic offer a competitive salary and flexible Benefits Package

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Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position. 

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.

About Medtronic

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.

Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here

Senior Talent Sourcing Specialist

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