Talent Acquisition Sourcing Specialist (Part-Time)

Join Avient's dynamic team as a Talent Acquisition Sourcing Specialist and enjoy the flexibility of part-time remote work! Dive into a role where your sourcing skills will connect top talent with an innovative leader in material science solutions.

Part- Time: Approximately 25 hours per week, during standard business hours

Location: Remote with occasional travel to Avient World Headquarters in Avon Lake, Ohio

Avient is seeking an experienced, high-performing Talent Acquisition Sourcer to identify and engage passive talent for critical and hard-to-fill roles across the United States and Canada. This part-time role operates as a strategic sourcing partner to Talent Acquisition, translating business needs into targeted search strategies, market insights, and sustainable talent pipelines.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on sourcing expert who is comfortable working independently, advising Talent Acquisition partners, and using advanced research, outreach, and talent intelligence techniques to reach specialized candidates. The position will support a range of professional, technical, engineering, manufacturing, operations, information technology, scientific, sales, and leadership needs.

Essential Functions

• Lead sourcing strategy for assigned requisitions, talent pipelines, and project-based hiring initiatives, with emphasis on specialized, business-critical, and difficult-to-fill talent.

• Partner with Talent Acquisition partners and hiring teams during intake discussions to define the target profile, clarify must-have qualifications, identify comparable talent, and establish an efficient sourcing plan.

• Build and execute advanced search strategies across LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, internal databases, professional networks, referrals, targeted web research, and other relevant channels.

• Craft personalized candidate outreach and multi-touch campaigns that clearly communicate Avient's value proposition and generate interest from passive candidates.

• Conduct initial outreach and qualification conversations to confirm candidate interest, relevant experience, location, compensation alignment, and willingness and availability to speak with a Talent Acquisition Partner.

• Provide talent market intelligence, competitive landscape, location considerations, compensation observations, and potential barriers to the search.

• Maintain accurate and timely candidate, campaign, talent pool, and activity documentation within the applicant tracking system and recruitment CRM.

• Manage multiple sourcing priorities independently while adapting quickly to changing business needs.

• Contribute sourcing expertise, tools, templates, and best practices that strengthen the broader Talent Acquisition function.

• Partner with Marking and Communications on campaigns to attract passive candidates and job seekers to Avient.

• Other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience

• 3+ years of progressive talent acquisition experience for salaried roles, with significant responsibility for proactive sourcing and passive-candidate engagement required.

• Advanced proficiency with LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, Boolean search, X-ray search, social sourcing, talent mapping, and targeted research techniques required.

• Experience creating and managing talent pools, outreach campaigns, and candidate pipelines within an applicant tracking system or recruitment CRM required.

• Experience translating a complex hiring need into a clear target profile and consultative sourcing strategy required.

• Experience using sourcing metrics, funnel conversion data, and market insights to guide decisions and adjust strategy required.

• Oracle Recruiting Cloud experience preferred.

• Experience sourcing for a multi-site manufacturing, materials, chemical, industrial, or similar technical organization preferred.

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant experience will be considered.

Our purpose at Avient Corporation is to be an innovator of materials solutions that help our customers succeed, while enabling a sustainable world.

Innovation goes far beyond materials science; it's powered by the passion, creativity, and diverse expertise of 9,000 professionals worldwide. Whether you're a finance wizard, a tech enthusiast, an operational powerhouse, an HR changemaker, or a trailblazer in materials development, you'll find your place at Avient.

Join our global team and help shape the future with sustainable solutions that transform possibilities into realities. Your unique perspective could be the key to our next breakthrough!

We believe that all of our global employees are leaders and that the six most important behaviors for driving our strategy and culture are the same no matter if an employee is a leader of self, a leader of others, or a leader of the business.

By playing to win, acting customer centric, driving innovation and profitable growth, collaborating seamlessly across Avient, and motivating and inspiring and developing others and yourself you will accelerate your ability to achieve Avient's strategic goals, to meet our customer needs, and to accomplish your career goals.

At Avient, we believe a wide variety of thoughts, ideas and backgrounds gives us the creativity to be successful in a rapidly changing world. In support of this, we stress equality of opportunity for all qualified individuals in accordance with applicable laws. Decisions on hiring, promotion, development, compensation or advancement are based solely on a person's qualifications, abilities, experience and performance.

Avient is an equal opportunity employer. We maintain a policy of non-discrimination in providing equal employment to all qualified employees and candidates regardless of race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, color, religion, national origin, disability, genetic information, protected veteran's status, or other legally protected classification in accordance with applicable federal, state and local law. If you need an accommodation because of a disability to complete an online application, please contact the Avient HR Team by emailing, ApplicationAccommodation@Avient.com.