Talent Scouting & Intelligence Manager

About Sound:

Headquartered in Tacoma, WA, Sound Physicians is a physician-founded and led, national, multi-specialty medical group made up of more than 1,000 business colleagues and 4,000 physicians, APPs, CRNAs, and nurses practicing in 400-plus hospitals across 45 states. Founded in 2001, and with specialties in emergency and hospital medicine, critical care, anesthesia, and telemedicine, Sound has a reputation for innovating and leading through an ever-changing healthcare landscape — with patients at the center of the universe.

Sound Physicians offers a competitive benefits package inclusive of the items below, and more:

• Medical insurance, Dental insurance, and Vision insurance
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending account
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match
• Paid time off (PTO) begins accruing immediately upon start date at a rate of 15 days per year, in accordance with Sound's PTO policy
• Ten company-paid holidays per year  

About the Role:

The Talent Scout Manager will be responsible for leading a team of talent scouts, growing and nurturing our Talent community, leveraging talent and competitive intelligence to design and implement engagement and nurturing strategies.

The Talent Scout team will be responsible for growing and nurturing Sound’s talent community. As a savvy and skillful people-connector, the Talent Scout Manager has both a recruiting and a marketing mindset. The ideal candidate is a market intelligence researcher, a networking strategist, and an expert on all things related to sourcing, engaging and nurturing top talent. With the goal of identifying & connecting with quality talent, the person in this role is an expert in building relationships converting leads to prospects over time. Top candidates will bring innovative sourcing & engagement strategies and will be able to leverage both new and existing tools creatively. Unlike traditional sourcing roles, this role is focused on pipelining for future opportunities versus roles we are recruiting for today.

The person in this role must be able to coach and lead a team, move at a very fast pace, be highly organized, and can efficiently prioritize. This person must also be able to regularly report on identified key performance indicators to demonstrate the effectiveness of primary activities.

The Details: This opportunity will require the ability to travel (15%).

In this role, you will be responsible for:

Team & Functional Leadership (50%)

• Leading a team of three Talent Scouts in achieving sourcing, engagement and nurturing goals
• Coaching team on engagement and nurturing strategies
• Functional admin for our CRM (Beamery) managing workflows and rules of engagement with recruiting and marketing specialists
• Partnering with Talent Attraction Operations Manager to request system enhancements, ensuring adoption, enablement and optimization as well as reporting functionality and design
• In partnership with Recruiting leadership, designing a residency & program outreach strategy across all service lines

Talent Community Growth & Pipelining (25%)

• Growing and nurturing Sound’s talent community through inbound and outbound sourcing & marketing efforts
• Developing an engagement and nurturing strategy
• Partnering with Marketing Specialist to develop thoughtful and personalized campaigns to engage and nurture talent
• Sourcing passive talent from the internet, social media, target companies, cold calling, networking groups, job boards, events and other combinations of recruitment marketing strategies
• Engaging with clinicians to understand their career ambitions, motivators and requirements to consider a new opportunity either now or in the future and passively screening them for Sound’s core values of Integrity, Service Teamwork, Quality and Innovation
• Understanding Sound’s reputation in the market and building brand sentiment
• Managing talent profiles within CRM and updating based on outcomes from engagements
• Supporting outreach for recruiting events to increase brand awareness and networking opportunities – including marquee events, tabletop career fairs and social gatherings
• Promoting Bringing Better to the Bedside through all communications
• Supporting social media presence by sharing career opportunities and brand awareness content, acting as a brand ambassador across identified channels
• Positively projecting the values and goals of Sound Physicians with the sophistication and maturity required to build credibility with physicians and Sound Physicians colleagues & clients
• Representing Sound at industry and hiring events to promote our employer brand and attract top talent

Talent & Competitor Intelligence (25%)

• Analyzing business, economic, and talent trends to identify opportunities to enhance sourcing & engagement strategies
• Conducting competitor analysis and monitoring sourcing trends to provide the team with new ideas and strategies for clinician sourcing
• Serving as a subject matter expert on the clinician national talent market

Measuring Success

• Growth of talent community
• Health of Pipeline
• Engagements
• Influenced Hires

What we are looking for:

A successful candidate will have a demonstrated track record of a combination of these values, knowledge, and experience:

Values:

• Self-Motivated: Proactively jumps in to start a task or project with limited direction; asks to take on more responsibility and what is next
• Communication: The ability to speak, write, and listen clearly and consistently
• Relationship Building and Maintenance: The ability to create and nourish healthy, strong relationships, as the face of Sound
• Teamwork: Demonstrates the ability to pull people together into highly effective teams along with ability to work in a highly matrixed organization
• Critical Thinking: Demonstrates the ability to be proactive, anticipate needs; ability to make good decisions with incomplete, ambiguous information
• Resourceful: Demonstrates proactive willingness to utilize available information and tools to figure things out
• Customer-focused:Puts the customer's (internal and external) needs first and makes customers their top priority
• Intellectually Curious: Demonstrates a genuine interest in learning new things and wants to know the reason “why” behind the way things are done
• Strategic Thinker: Demonstrates the ability to look at the big picture and proactively develop a plan of action
• Collaborative: Demonstrates the ability to work well with others to accomplish a goal and get the work done; takes opinions of others into consideration; includes others in the decision-making process
• Adaptable: Demonstrates flexibility and a willingness to change as circumstances evolve

Knowledge:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience required
• Demonstrates ability to work in conjunction with marketing and talent acquisition teams in a comprehensive team approach

Experience:

• 5+ years’ experience in a recruiting, sourcing or sales role, preferably within healthcare, pharmaceuticals or biotech
• 2+ years’ experience in a team lead or manager role
• Proven experience leveraging talent insights and intelligence to develop an outreach strategy
• Experience with online sourcing job boards, job posting, and social media
• Experience with sourcing, tracking, and managing candidates within a robust ATS and/or CRM

Sound Physicians is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion at the bedside and in our workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

This job description reflects the present requirements of the position.  As duties and responsibilities change and develop, the job description will be reviewed and subject to amendment.