238 Talent Sourcing jobs in Saudi Arabia

Job Title:
Talent Sourcing Specialist

Location:
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Company:
Confidential

Position Summary:

The
Talent Sourcing Specialist
will be responsible for proactively identifying, engaging, and building pipelines of top talent to meet current and future hiring needs. This role focuses on strategic sourcing, headhunting, and leveraging advanced search techniques across platforms such as LinkedIn, job boards, and professional networks. The Talent Sourcing Specialist plays a vital role in ensuring the company attracts and hires the best candidates in alignment with business growth and Saudization objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

Candidate Sourcing & Pipeline Management

• Use
  Boolean searches, LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, and networking strategies
  to source qualified candidates.
• Build and maintain a strong talent pipeline for critical, recurring, and hard-to-fill positions.
• Map markets, industries, and competitors to identify potential candidates.

Screening & Candidate Engagement

• Conduct initial screening interviews to assess candidate fit, motivation, and availability.
• Ensure a positive candidate experience through timely communication and follow-ups.
• Engage passive candidates and build long-term relationships for future opportunities.

Collaboration & Reporting

• Partner with Talent Acquisition Managers and HRBPs to understand hiring needs and role requirements.
• Provide market intelligence on talent availability, salary benchmarks, and competitor hiring trends.
• Maintain accurate sourcing reports, candidate trackers, and metrics for pipeline progress.

Employer Branding & Networking

• Represent the company professionally in job fairs, industry events, and online forums.
• Promote the company's culture, values, and opportunities to enhance employer brand.
• Support social media campaigns and referral programs to attract talent.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 2–4 years of experience in
  sourcing, headhunting, or recruitment
  , preferably in construction, real estate, or multi-industry groups.
• Strong expertise in
  LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, and ATS systems
  .
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office; experience with
  Teamtailor, Oracle, or SAP SuccessFactors
  is a plus.
• Bilingual in
  Arabic and English
  is a Must.

• Support the Regional Category Manager in development of category strategy (for Local/Hub categories).

• Define and implement category strategy (for local categories).

• Implement the category strategic procurement process for local/hub suppliers.

• Provide insight into specific local /hub suppliers, markets and business factors; ensure compliance with global policy.

• Interface between the local/hub business and the category, and be first contact for suppliers

• For local categories, define category strategy based on internal present and future requirements utilizing supplier and competitor market analysis, local HOP and key business stakeholders.

• Ensure deployment and maintenance of local category strategy in all entities.

• Manage contracts and supplier relationship in the long term.

• Be accountable for the procurement performance related to his/her portfolio

Resolve issues related to supplier in his/her portfolio.

• The Sourcing Specialist is responsible for the sourcing strategy of equipment/materials/services in the specified local category. Jointly with the Operations, the Sourcing Specialist has the responsibility to prepare the Annual Sourcing Strategy/Plan, based on business objectives and the need to improve safety, quality, reliability, on-time Delivery, competitiveness or reduce risks related to product supply. Sourcing Specialist is in charge of overseeing local category management and ensures central-local collaboration in Coordinated/Enforced categories.

• The sourcing plan shall primarily focus on supplier qualification (new or extension), frame agreement, co-development, alliances, early partnering on key projects. The Sourcing Specialist focuses on identifying and partnering « Best Class » suppliers, offering innovative technology solutions at a competitive price. The Sourcing Specialist is accountable for the supplier market analysis, besides their responsibilities to deploy the sourcing strategy on key categories, thus improving safety, quality, reliability, on-time delivery, competitiveness or reduce risks related to product supply. The Sourcing Specialist is expected to negotiate frame contracts for local suppliers and manage strategic relationships

• He/She collaborates with the critical vendors to enhance transparency and integration, better (Quality) control of sub-vendors as well as competitiveness opportunities. Enhanced interaction will enable to decrease significantly our procurement costs through a Design-To-Cost approach, an adjustment of the scope of supply (with the vendors focusing on their core competencies) and a development of a new supply approach on sub-components such as motors etc. (e.g.: Technical, Price agreement).

Accountabilities & related Activities

• Manage local spend in the category
• Perform rigorous analysis on local category cost base and suppliers to ensure delivery of spend and efficiency targets
• Ensure supply to the business and execution of local procurement
• Own, manage and negotiate local supplier relationships and take sourcing decisions
• Manage local supplier performance (performance to SLAs, continuous improvement – cost and innovation)
• Stay abreast of market conditions and trends (including global pricing benchmarks) to inform strategy and ensure supply continuity
• Define and implement a local category strategy if required
• Implement best practice category management techniques
• Implement standards, processes and tools consistent with overall procurement function
• Comply with overall procurement spend and preferred supplier policies, and monitor compliance of business end users
• Participate in the local and central skill development plan activities

1. Category Strategy

• Define 3 years local category strategy including the supplier strategy for its scope
• In close cooperation with Stakeholders, establish yearly ambition and its updates (within the target and rolling forecast processes)
• Implement and manage the local category strategy
• Liaise with other HUB Category Managers / clusters / countries counterparts to ensure alignment on sourcing initiatives and priorities, as well as assessing practices for consideration in own efforts
• Analyze current procurement portfolio, spend, supply base, contracts for the local entity
• Analyze industry market profile and key suppliers, TCO drivers
• Identify Risks & Opportunities
• Perform internal and external benchmarks in relationship with the Procurement Performance Manager
• Identify short term opportunities (volumes consolidation, bundling) and long term opportunities (standardization, etc) and consolidate needs (OPEX and CAPEX), establish RFx planning

2. Sourcing execution & Contract Management

• Analyse requirements and challenge specifications with requesters
• Identify potential suppliers and propose the list to requesters
• Launch RFx to pre-selected suppliers and deploy the process of suppliers selection (technical and commercial) with requesters
• Analyze offers using TCO and "Should Cost" approaches, make scenarios and propose short list of suppliers based on fact-based and agreed criteria to requesters
• Select suppliers and negotiate contracts/purchase orders in alignment with Regional Category Managers
• Communicate and explain contracts to Spot Buyers / Requisitioners and finance team for deployment and appropriate execution, including Purchase Requisition to Purchase order creation in the system.
• Communicate contracts to internal customers (Supply chain)
• Establish measures and controls to ensure and track successful implementation of the contract in collaboration with Procurement Performance Manager
• Follow and manage contract implementation (application of price escalation formulas, volume rebate collection, products and services portfolio management, progress clauses, renewal etc.), including
• Update of procurement database (contracts, catalogues.)
• Define and periodically review buying channels
• Manage incidents and claims

3. Suppliers relationship management

• Lead SRM activities for key suppliers of his/her category (supplier strategy, evaluations, review and audit, innovation initiatives, internal promotion of supplier, supplier days)
• Understand (and in some cases is involved in) the strategy of his/her most important suppliers
• Animate the supplier qualification and audit process in collaboration with Inspection teams, HSEQ and Technical experts
• Support in Corporate Social Program (CSP) nomination process (validation)
• Lead supplier risk identification and mitigation to ensure compliance with risk mapping regulation.
• Manage supplier qualification and system on-boarding in collaboration with relevant stakeholders.
• Facilitate introduction of suppliers to company level stakeholders

4. Stakeholders management

• Develop and manage relationship with internal customers to ensure deployment of category strategies
• Develop internal customer feedback on category strategies
• Develop internal customer feedback regarding Supplier Performance
• Lead working sessions with internal customers to identify TCO reduction opportunities
• Develop proactive proximity and build recognition of the procurement function with internal customers

5. Continuous Improvement

• Conduct periodic surveys to measure internal customer feedback for continuous improvement in collaboration with the Procurement Performance Manager
• Get suggestions from suppliers to improve AL processes and develop innovations originating from suppliers
• Undertake corrective actions with suppliers to improve performance (e.g. Supplier development programs, progress plans,…) and track progress
• Undertake corrective actions with Functions to improve contract compliance
• Proactively organize sessions with internal customers to identify further TCO/TVO reduction opportunities: standardization, joint process improvement opportunities, value engineering, etc
• Identify opportunities for automating Purchase Orders (catalogues, Open PO, Blanket Purchase Orders, etc.)
• Analyze spot buying reduction opportunities, define and implement corrective actions

6. Reporting

• Consolidate and present Category Management action plan to his/her Management
• Provide periodic activity reporting to his/her Management on actual and projected savings related to his/her categories

Education:

Bachelors degree in business/finance/economics.

Language:

English.

Knowledge and Knowhow specific to the job

• Be Act Engage
• Category & Sourcing Strategy (Must have)
• Category & Market Expertise (Must have)
• Supplier Selection, Qualification & Relationship (Must have)
• Negotiations & Contract Knowledge (Must have)
• Performance & Process Management (Data, KPI & Digital Tools) (Must have)
• Planification & Expediting (Good to have)
• Financial Analysis (Transversal) (Should have)
• Project Management (Transversal) (Must have
• Data analysis.

Complementary Capabilities

• Thinking & Partnering strategically
• Influencing for Change
• Managing conflict
• Analysing and solving problems
• Strong interpersonal skills including written and oral communication skills.

Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.

Overview

Sourcing / Buyer Specialist. Do you enjoy being part of a successful team? Would you like to be part of our INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS Product Line? Join our Baker Hughes IS Sourcing Product Line!

IS product line handles LSTK projects & CTD projects of Baker Hughes, delivering wells to clients in a timely and efficient manner. We focus on identifying and sourcing the right services and products at the right time to ensure flawless operation and satisfy client requirements.

• Floating RFQ/Inquiry to potential local and global suppliers based on operations requirements.
• Performing negotiations with suppliers on techno-commercial aspects and aligning terms of purchase favorably.
• Short term and long-term contracts initiative with suppliers and service providers through the help of Legal and Sourcing leadership team.
• Getting purchase orders issued according to operations requirement and closing them after delivery.
• Evaluating & monitoring supplier performance thru monthly/weekly scorecards. Communicate effectively with Baker Hughes Global supplier base in different time zones.
• Connecting with Site Material, Engineering, Project team on shortages while identifying and implement process improvements.
• Managing Push-Out and Pull-In of orders, organize parts pick up while reducing overall logistics costs with timely deliveries.
• Being responsible for all aspects related to parts supplier management and execution, monitoring parts availability.
• Developing risk mitigation strategies including contingency plans, lead-time reductions and supply chain efficiency. Knowledge of Inco terms, EU and US regulatory and import requirements.
• Communicate with internal product line and identify and prioritize services/products that can be delivered to mitigate and optimize cost exposure.
• Monitor purchase order report for closure of each purchase (delivery, GR, invoicing) in a timely manner within procurement KPI’s.

• Have bachelors from an accredited university or college (with 1-2 yrs. of experience in Sourcing), preferably oil field background.
• Have ERP experience with SAP & Ariba; data analysis and presentation skills are advantageous.
• Have hands-on experience and ability to handle multiple priorities in an international environment.

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We invest in health and well-being, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

• Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities
• Comprehensive private medical care options
• Safety net of life insurance and programs
• Tailored financial programs
• Additional elected or voluntary benefits

With operations in over 120 countries, we provide better solutions for our customers and richer opportunities for our people. As a leading partner to the energy industry, we're committed to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!

We are an energy technology company that provides solutions to energy and industrial customers worldwide. Built on a century of experience and conducting business in over 120 countries, our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward – making it safer, cleaner and more efficient for people and the planet. Baker Hughes Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.