At AstraZeneca we believe in the potential of our people and you’ll develop beyond what you thought possible. We make the most of your skills and passion by actively supporting you to see what you can achieve no matter where you start with us. We don’t follow the crowd and that means we don’t expect our people to either. To develop life-changing medicines we approach problems in a different way – agile and nimble, passionate about our patients and what our people can do to make groundbreaking discoveries.

The Vendor Manager can be based either at our Södertälje site, which is one of the world's largest pharmaceutical manufacturing units or at our Gothenburg Research & Development site, one of AstraZeneca’s three strategical R&D hubs. At either location, you would enjoy a vibrant workplace surrounded by extraordinary Life Science expertise and groundbreaking IT skills in an international environment with encouraging leadership.

Talent Acquisition helps to deliver AstraZeneca’s results-oriented business strategy through recruiting outstanding talent to meet the demands and needs of the business.

We have transformed our recruitment approach to become a world-class function built on being proactive with our recruitment by developing long term pipelines of talent. We are passionate about delivering a truly differentiated candidate experience and in-house teams deliver this for the business.

Main Responsibilities

The Vendor Manager has overall responsibility for handling and partnering with external partners for AstraZeneca. Utilizing our tools and systems you will drive our values, brand and Employee Value Proposition via our external partners. You will be the specialist who strives for best practice, excellence and consistency.

With a focus on day-to-day operations as well as building creative strategies in partnership with our Global Talent Acquisition Leads. Your operations mindset will provide you with insights into external market trends and internal recruitment trends. You will provide training and mentorship to HR Business Partners, Recruitment Partners, Hiring Managers on engaging with suppliers and validated methodology with selection and compliance.

Liaising with our Global Talent Acquisition Leads you will assist in building recruitment strategies for key areas of the business. You will partner with COEs to assist with the development and local implementation of enterprise-wide processes and tools aligned with Global and local standards. Service delivery is key, and you will align these needs and provide metrics and analytics to ensure that performance against critical metrics is met.

You will have the opportunity to work with a variety of external providers – including, but not limited to MSP, RPO, background screening providers, search agencies, staffing agents and recruiting technologies.

Essential Skills

As an experienced recruitment services delivery specialist, you have a consultative approach to business challenges and are highly proficient in providing consistent solutions. You are detail-focused and confident analyzing and presenting data. With supplier management skills and a deep understanding of the recruitment and staffing process, you will truly understand how to work effectively with external partners.

Your inquisitive and curious nature lends you to be knowledgeable about what makes ‘outstanding’. You’ll also enjoy investing time in what methods and solutions will be the up and coming ‘best in class’.

Your key accountabilities will include:

• Partnering with our external partners to drive improvement in quality, performance and cost per KPI’s.
• Negotiating, preparing and reviewing contractual agreements in partnership with Global Procurement.
• The main point of contact for responding effectively to vendor queries, whether this is from an internal or external standpoint.

So, what’s next?

If you’re curious to know more, then please connect with Kathy Edwards, Vendor Manager, Talent Acquisition at kathy.edwards@astrazeneca.com.

We will be interviewing continously and we do encourage you with your application, no later than May 4, 2020!

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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.