Strategic Sourcer

Brookhaven National Laboratory seeks an experienced talent acquisition professional to lead strategic sourcing efforts supporting the Laboratory’s scientific mission, institutional priorities, and emerging workforce needs. This role combines deep sourcing expertise, talent market intelligence, and candidate engagement with the full-cycle recruitment experience needed to guide complex searches and deliver hiring results. As a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory, Brookhaven brings together scientists, engineers, technicians, and operational professionals to address some of the nation’s most complex scientific and technological challenges.

Our mission depends on the people advancing discovery and the experts supporting the infrastructure, technology, safety, and business operations that make it possible. You will partner with Talent Acquisition colleagues, hiring managers, and senior leaders to translate strategic priorities into targeted sourcing plans. You will identify talent beyond incoming applications, engage professionals who may not be actively seeking opportunities, and build pipelines for current and anticipated hiring needs.

The primary focus is proactive sourcing for specialized, difficult-to-fill, and mission-critical positions. This role also serves as a flexible recruiting resource, assuming full-cycle recruitment responsibilities and managing an assigned requisition portfolio as organizational priorities, hiring demand, and team coverage needs evolve. Success requires technical curiosity, persistence, consultative skill, and the ability to turn research and relationships into qualified candidates and successful hires.

Strategic Sourcing & Talent Intelligence Translate Laboratory strategic initiatives and workforce priorities into actionable sourcing plans with defined talent profiles, target markets, outreach approaches, and delivery milestones. Independently develop and execute sourcing strategies for specialized scientific, engineering, technical, leadership, and operational positions. Conduct talent mapping, organizational research, and labor market analysis to identify relevant expertise, talent availability, geographic trends, competitive demand, and emerging skills.

Leverage generative AI and AI-enabled recruiting technologies to accelerate talent research, talent mapping, market intelligence, sourcing strategy development, candidate outreach, data synthesis, and other recruitment activities, while independently validating outputs and maintaining appropriate human judgment, accuracy, confidentiality, and compliance. Use advanced search techniques, sourcing platforms, professional networks, scientific publications, conference programs, research communities, and referrals to identify prospective candidates. Identify transferable skills and adjacent talent markets that expand candidate pools while meeting position requirements.

Identify and test practical applications of emerging AI technologies that improve sourcing effectiveness, recruiter productivity, candidate engagement, and Talent Acquisition processes; develop repeatable practices and share effective approaches with the broader team. Present market intelligence and recommendations that help stakeholders refine candidate profiles, assess hiring feasibility, and adjust search strategies.

Serve as a strategic talent advisor to Laboratory leaders and hiring managers, engaging early to understand workforce needs, define position requirements, assess talent availability, and develop effective recruitment, sourcing, and engagement strategies. Lead full-cycle recruitment for assigned positions, from intake and search planning through…