Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist - Quants & Strats

Job Title: Principal Sourcing Specialist – Investment Banking

Location: London – Hybrid

Employment Type: Permanent

Working hours/ Shifts: Full Time – 37.5 hours per week

Start Date September 2025

Talent is our World.

At AMS, we believe in nurturing talent and fostering a culture where passion for success thrives. As part of our commitment to your growth and development, we encourage you to explore opportunities available within our organisation.

Your talent is our greatest asset, and we're dedicated to providing avenues for you to reach its fullest potential. We do so by providing the environment, resources, networks, and career experiences essential for your progress.

Take the next step in your career journey and discover our exciting opportunities.

The Role:

The role supports the process of hiring high quality candidates by designing attraction strategies to generate direct applications and screening in an efficient manner to provide long-lists of relevant and engaged candidates.

The Principal Sourcing Specialist will be seen as an expert in providing a white glove service to both stakeholders and candidates. You will take ownership of requisitions, pro-actively searching / headhunting and tracking the performance of those roles, directly with client stakeholders as required.

What you’ll be doing

• Pro-active sourcing and head hunting for senior positions for Quants & Strats
• Work with colleagues to design and implement effective candidate attraction strategies to drive direct applications to meet overall demand
• Market mapping to ensure a healthy pipeline of candidate
• Fully utilise relevant ATS (Applicant Tracking System) ensuring that activities are conducted within the ATS as appropriate, that data accuracy and quality is maintained through all processes and that it accurately reflects the status of all activity
• Engage with Recruiters and Hiring Managers (as directed) to take detailed briefs on role requirements, sharing expertise and best practice as appropriate

You’ll need to demonstrate

Must haves

• Specialist niche hiring experience
• Extensive experience in pro-active head-hunting / sourcing
• Extensive experience in quants / strats
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong recruitment/ sourcing experience within a busy and challenging environment

Nice to haves

• Financial or Professional Services experience will be favourable

Why AMS?

At AMS, we recognise the value of different perspectives and experiences in prompting innovation, sparking creativity, and solving problems.

We come from every walk of life, and our culture is open and inclusive. Our people enjoy flexibility, autonomy, and being trusted to work their way. We offer you career opportunities in every direction you want to explore. It’s our world but you can do it your way.

We offer:

• Full training and support
• High value and challenging work
• A vibrant, diverse, and collaborative culture
• Flexible working
• A competitive reward and benefits package*
• The opportunity to embark on a recruitment career with one of the world’s leading recruitment companies

*Details may vary slightly depending on your location, local labour law, etc.

Our culture of inclusion and belonging.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, and all aspects of employment are based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon age, disability, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic.

If you require any accommodations or have any accessibility needs, please reach out via email [email protected] or make a member of our Talent Acquisition team aware at any time.

Hit the Apply now button to get your journey started!

We take pride in being Disability Confident. This helps to ensure that you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long- term health conditions, or are neurodiverse. You will be shortlisted based on minimum criteria for the role and will be offered support and/or adjustments for the recruitment process if you wish.

Expiration Date: 17/07/2025