Talent Acquisition Partner – BioPharmaceuticals Research & Development

Location: Cambridge, UK

Competitive Salary & Benefits Package

At AstraZeneca we work together across global boundaries to make an impact and find answers to challenges. We continuously forge partnerships that help pursue world-class medicines in new ways, combining our people’s exceptional skills with those of people from all over the globe.

In joining BioPharma R&D Talent Acquisition, you would become part of a close, collaborative, global team working to find the specialists capable of continuing AstraZeneca’s work to unlock the power of what science can do. We are working towards treating, preventing, modifying and even curing some of the world’s most complex diseases. Here we have the potential to grow our pipeline and positively impact the lives of billions of patients around the world.

This is a great opportunity to engage, inspire, persuade and influence as part of a cutting-edge in-house Talent Acquisition Function.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

As a Talent Acquisition Partner for Biopharma R&D you will be responsible for delivering Talent Acquisition solutions, seamlessly across international borders, in partnership with the Hiring Manager/ Team Manager/ HRBP and Talent Acquisition colleagues to proactively identify and fill vacancies with talented individuals with the right capability and skills in a fast-paced challenging market.

Staying true to our values, with an emphasis on the best possible candidate and hiring manager experience, using our talent attraction resources, you will partner with the business, proactively developing and executing sourcing plans for individual roles, as well as wider campaigns. This includes; building global talent pipelines, conducting direct sourcing activity, research, screening, interviewing, pre-selecting, offer management and managing the hiring administration process.

Where required, you will work with our internal Talent Scout team for senior hires/pipelines of talent, as well as recruitment marketing & employer branding teams for campaigns, working with 3rd party agencies from our approved vendor list where necessary. Your role will include opportunities to influence external talent pipelines and early talent through supporting and attending Conferences, College and Career Fairs - ensuring consistency in messaging and materials for recruitment branding and skill set targeting. 

Using your recruitment subject matter knowledge, you will advise the business about recruitment responsibilities, legal requirements and appropriate candidate management techniques; provide resources and tools as needed to educate and enhance the skills of individuals involved in the hiring processes, working with the business to ensure continuous levelling up of manager knowledge. 

You will also support one or more central Talent Acquisition projects locally and/or globally.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Experience of delivering full life cycle, global recruitment services in this sector

• Experience of planning and leading international, complex recruitment campaigns for hard-to fill skills sets (for example, physicians/biometrics/regulatory) using a range of methods, tools attraction channels

• Within your area of specialism, ability to guide and mentor business stakeholders, HRBP’s as well as colleagues within talent acquisition

• Ability to pool knowledge from TAq (and other) centres of excellence to create balanced business cases, presenting to stakeholders for resources required to successfully execute sourcing strategies.

• Persuading & influencing skills, with a strong ability to manage expectations.

• Stakeholder management and relationship building skills

• Ability to work in a fast-paced changing agile environment

• Customer focused, results orientated approach

• Experienced in hiring globally and UK Immigration processes

Desirable Skills & Experience:

• Educated to degree level

• Broad understanding of Pharma industry

So, what’s next?

Are you ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available and we hope it’s yours.

Where can I find out more?

Our web pages https://www.astrazeneca.com/sustainability.html

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Additional information

Our Company Values & behaviours underpin everything we do so please take a moment to familiarize yourself with them. You may also want to check out our new R&D Video showing how we turn Science into Medicines.

Job advert opening date: 07/09/2021

Job advert closing date: 21/09/2021

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AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.