AstraZeneca Hiring for Talent Acquisition Partner – Enabling Functions Job at Cambridge, East of England, England Full Time

Title: Talent Acquisition Partner, Enabling Functions

Cambridge, UK

Competitive Salary & Benefits

Do you have talent and passion for recruiting? Would you like to apply your expertise to impact the Enabling Functions business in an organization that is pioneering within the pharmaceutical industry and turns ideas into life changing medicines? Then AstraZeneca might be the one for you!

As a Talent Acquisition Partner (TAq) for the Enabling Functions, you will be a part of a motivated team, who cover 7 different areas: HR, Finance, Global Corporate Affairs (GCA), Legal, Compliance & Sustainability, Global Project Management, and Global Business Development. Our goal is to identify hardworking individuals for current and

What you’ll do

As part of a diverse and global team, you will we work to create and implement Talent Acquisition strategies in partnership with Global Talent Acquisition Leads, Senior Business Leaders, Hiring Managers and Human Resources Business Partners. You will play a pivotal role in identifying talented professionals who make it possible for our scientists to make a positive impact on patients’ lives, managing the recruitment process lifecycle. Working within the largest area of the Enabling Functions, this role will be an integral part of the team, ensuring true partnering in all Talent Acquisition related projects or initiatives, and working strategically with key stakeholders to pipeline and run campaigns.

Accountabilities will include:

• Develop positive relationships with hiring managers and candidates, building a bench of top talent to meet current and anticipated business needs
• Develop and lead recruitment services delivery against delivery of time and quality targets
• Provide consultation, project management and service delivery to respective counterparts
• Participate in all activities in the recruitment life cycle including
• Educate business client in the use of interviewing approach, recommend resources and techniques for interviewing, assessing and evaluating applicants
• Strive for quality in everything that you do, exploring new techniques if needed for an outstanding candidate and hiring manager experience
• Appropriately challenge recruitment process to ensure hiring activities have the appropriate priority and to select the top candidate considering a mix of skills, abilities, potential, and diversity.
• Maintain fully compliant Global Recruitment services in line with country policies/guidelines

Essential Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Extensive experience leading full life cycle recruitment campaigns, assessing candidates to meet and exceed business goals, providing recommendations to hiring managers in a credible and balanced manner.
• Professional in identifying and securing passive candidates via various ‘direct’ channels – Social Media; LinkedIn, networking, market mapping, careers fairs, industry events etc
• Experience in leading a structured sourcing / talent pipeline project using various Talent Acquisition tools and resources
• Sophisticated communication, presentation and project management skills
• Highly proficient IT skills, including all Microsoft office, spreadsheets, databases, reports and able to produce significant management information.
• Strong persuading, influencing, negotiating and consultation skills, with the ability to build and maintain a vast network of professional relationships

Desirable Experince:

• Master’s Degree, recruiting certifications (AIRS, CIR, CSSR, CDR, etc) other HR certifications (PHR, etc.)
• Extensive knowledge of government regulations regarding employment topics
• Experience recruiting within the Finance industry is highly desirable.
• Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology demonstrable experience (or strong desire to learn industry)
• Global recruitment experience

About AstraZeneca

At AstraZeneca, we ‘re passionate about being a Great Place to Work where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and fuel your results focused spirit. Play your part in contributing to a business truly dedicated to its purpose and patients. Working for an enterprise at the ground breaking of science, we feel a huge sense of pride in our potential to transform the lives of patients with unmet needs.

So, what’s next?

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

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 regardless of their characteristics. We align with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.

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