Talent Sourcing Specialist - Contract

Company Description

The Klick Group—comprising Klick Health (including Klick Katalyst and btwelve), Klick Media Group, Klick Applied Sciences (including Klick Labs), Klick Consulting, and Klick Ventures—is an ecosystem dedicated to realizing the full potential of our people and clients in life sciences. Founded in 1997, we have offices in New York, Philadelphia, Saratoga Springs, Toronto, London, São Paulo, and Singapore. Consistently named a Best Managed Company, Most Admired Corporate Culture, and Great Place to Work, Klick is committed to fostering a high-performance, people-first culture with creativity, collaboration, innovation, and impact across everything we do.

About Our Talent Acquisition Team

Our Talent Acquisition team, part of our People Practices Craft, is responsible for attracting, assessing, and hiring talent across Klick. We partner closely with leaders to understand business needs and build sustainable pipelines. We design inclusive, thoughtful hiring processes that prioritize skills, potential, and experience. Our work ensures Klick continues to grow with the right people, at the right time, in the right roles.

Job Description

The Talent Sourcing Specialist (Contract) supports proactive talent pipeline development across multiple craft areas at Klick, including Client Services, Strategy, Creative, Media, Science, Regulatory, Data, and Omnichannel. This role partners closely with Talent Acquisition Partners to anticipate hiring needs, map talent markets, and engage high-quality passive candidates. The focus is on building structured, diverse pipelines before hiring demand peaks and delivering recruiter-ready candidates aligned to business priorities.

What You’ll Do

• Partner with Talent Acquisition Partners to support approximately 15 concurrent requisitions by building targeted sourcing strategies aligned to workforce plans.
• Build and maintain 8–12 active talent pipelines within the first 90 days using LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search techniques, and talent mapping frameworks.
• Identify, engage, and nurture passive candidates within agency and healthcare marketing talent markets, delivering 5–8 recruiter-ready candidates per active requisition within agreed SLAs.
• Conduct competitive talent mapping and market research, documenting insights and candidate activity within SmartRecruiters (Community and tagging functions).
• Track sourcing metrics including pipeline volume, response rates, and qualified-to-interview conversion, targeting a 40–50% conversion rate from sourced candidates.

Qualifications

Required:

• 3–5 years of talent sourcing or full-cycle recruiting experience, including demonstrated ownership of proactive pipeline development across multiple business functions.
• Hands-on experience using LinkedIn Recruiter and advanced Boolean search techniques to build and engage passive talent pools.
• Experience supporting high-volume environments, managing sourcing activity across approximately 15 concurrent requisitions with structured tracking.
• Demonstrated success delivering qualified candidate shortlists with measurable recruiter handoff outcomes (e.g., interview conversion rates, time-to-slate metrics).
• Experience sourcing within agency, healthcare, marketing, or similarly specialized talent markets, with evidence of targeted outreach campaigns and engagement metrics.

Desired:

• Comfort and enthusiasm for using AI as a regular part of how work gets done.
• Experience using SmartRecruiters, including Community functionality, tagging, and candidate documentation.
• Experience conducting formal talent mapping and competitive market analysis across specialized disciplines.
• Exposure to diversity-focused sourcing strategies and measurable pipeline diversification efforts.
• Experience developing personalized outreach campaigns with trackable response and engagement rates.

Additional Information

This posting is for a newly created role at Klick.

The base salary range for this position is between CAD $70,000 - $85,000. The final amount offered will be determined based on several factors such as a candidate's work location, their unique skill set, education, and prior work experience.

This is a 6-month contract role based in Toronto with a Hybrid Schedule 

Our Commitment to Inclusion

Klick uses an AI-powered tool as part of an automated process to support our hiring process by analyzing your experience, skills, and qualifications to help identify alignment with role requirements. Please note that the tool does not make final decisions or automatically disqualify candidates. Hiring decisions are made by our team, with thoughtful human judgment and oversight. We are committed to fair and transparent hiring practices and have implemented safeguards to help mitigate bias and support compliance with applicable laws. If you have questions, accessibility needs, or concerns about the use of this tool, please contact us. Klick is consciously creating a culture where everyone can thrive and grow in their careers. We believe that our best work comes from our diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We strongly encourage members of historically underrepresented communities to apply, including Black people, Indigenous peoples, and other people of color, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and people with intersectional identities. We're also committed to developing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. Should you require any accommodation, please contact us at careers@klick.com and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs and ensure you have a positive experience.