Senior Talent Sourcing Specialist

Introduction to role:

Join our team as a Senior Talent Sourcing Specialist, where you will provide research and sourcing services to the Talent Scout and Critical Hiring teams. You will deliver high-quality research and sourcing services, ensuring a positive candidate, and hiring manager experience. This role is typically in regional and cluster alignment and will specialize in one or more pre-determined critical/niche talent areas. As a Senior Researcher, you will build warm, validated pipelines, create market mapping, and provide advice on the appropriate channels available for talent sourcing and the internal/external requirements and timescales for a recruitment activity to be completed.

Accountabilities:

As a Senior Talent Sourcing Specialist, you will support the Talent Scouts to identify and develop key talent in pre-determined pipelines. You will conduct research to produce ‘candidate long list’ against active business critical recruitment, within your area of focus. You will also conduct activity to deliver market mapping projects (globally) and build warm talent pipelines for identified roles. Applying market insight to both support pipeline growth and build business knowledge. Consolidate insight information and produce meaningful insight reports and recommendations.

Essential Skills/Experience:

- Strong recruitment and candidate sourcing experience within a similar fast-paced environment

- Experienced in direct search methodologies (i.e LinkedIn, ATS, CRM) and other recruitment tools to identify and engage with top talent

- Demonstrable experience of research/mapping for executive level recruitment. Producing content/lists that detail company structure, department hierarchy and key individuals.

- Inquisitive, Curious personality, enjoys learning and discovery

- Detail oriented and comfortable with analyzing and presenting data

- Tenacity and resilience

- Delivery focused

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

- Proactive approach in addressing obstacles/barriers

- Standout Colleague – Collaborative style of working, sharing successes with wider team

- Capability of building credibility with candidates at all levels

Desirable Skills/Experience:

- Pharma industry knowledge and experience preferred

- Educated to degree level

- Experience of working and sourcing candidates internationally within/for a large global matrix organization

- Multilingual would be advantageous to support a global marketplace

- Research/Mapping experience gained within an executive search environment/function is highly desirable.

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That’s why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we’re not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Why AstraZeneca?

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company. We focus on discovering, developing and commercializing prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases. But we are more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. At AstraZeneca, we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science, challenge convention and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. To embrace differences and take bold actions to drive the change needed to meet global healthcare and sustainability challenges.

Ready to make a difference in medicine, patients, and society? Apply now and join our fast-growing multinational.