Talent Acquisition Specialist II

Syneos Health, Inc.; India; On-site; INR 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Syneos Health, Inc. is seeking a Talent Acquisition Specialist II to build deep and diverse candidate pools, partner with hiring managers to create strategic hiring plans, and provide market insights for informed staffing decisions.

The role requires leadership, strong business acumen, and the ability to manage end-to-end recruitment across multiple business units, ensuring timely updates and high-quality candidates for critical roles.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Experience as Talent Acquisition Specialist/Recruiter in a corporate or agency environment.
• Proven track record in direct sourcing and managing an end-to-end recruiting process.
• Demonstrated leadership skills.
• Strong business acumen and ability to think and influence strategically.
• Proven track record in utilizing creative recruitment techniques and measurement of results.
• Ability to work well with multi-functional team and with all levels within organization.
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to effectively manage multiple demands without missing deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Create a deep and diverse talent pool to service resourcing requirements across multiple business units.
• Collaborate with hiring managers to understand business and skill set requirements to build a strategic hiring plan.
• Provide market insights and talent landscape to establish expectations and build collaboration with customers.
• Ensure customer satisfaction by providing regular updates to hiring managers and setting expectations on the hiring process.
• Utilize sourcing channels to identify qualified candidates.
• Monitor recruitment sourcing methods and provide recommendations to improve applicant attraction.
• Offer creative solutions to sourcing hard-to-fill requisitions in collaboration with the business.
• Manage full cycle recruiting process from initial screening to verbal offers.
• Ensure data accuracy within Applicant Tracking System (ATS).
• Initiate and maintain open communication with hiring managers and HR colleagues.

Skills

Direct sourcing

End-to-end recruiting

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Talent Acquisition Specialist II

Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.

Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering-for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support.

Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:

Why Syneos Health

• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to building an inclusive culture - where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose - "Driven to Deliver" - which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone's life.
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.

Job Responsibilities

• In conjunction with all of Talent Acquisition, creates a deep and diverse talent pool to service resourcing requirements across multiple business units.
• Collaborates directly with hiring managers to understand business and skill set requirements to build a comprehensive strategic hiring plan by setting the vision, strategy, and goals to ensure current and future resource demands are met.
• As a strategic partner to your hiring managers, provide expertise in market insights, talent landscape, and an understanding of talent needs to establish expectations and build a collaborative approach with your customers to meet demands.
• Ensure customer satisfaction by providing regular updates to hiring managers and setting expectations on the hiring process per requisition or department, or both, as required.
• Utilize appropriate sourcing channels (including applicant tracking system, candidate relationship management system, job boards, advertising, networking, employee referral program) to identify qualified candidates.
• Monitor recruitment sourcing methods and provide recommendations to improve applicant attraction. Suggests innovative solutions to sourcing challenges and competitive intelligence from those efforts.
• Offers creative solutions to sourcing hard to fill requisitions in collaboration with the business.
• Responsible to manage full cycle recruiting process to include but not limited to complete initial screening interview of potential candidates and reject non-relevant applications, prepare candidate profile for hiring manager following interview screen, submit short listed candidates to hiring managers for review, conducts candidate debrief session after interviews are completed and extends verbal offers of employment to successful candidates.
• Ensures data accuracy within Applicant Tracking System.
• Initiates and maintains open communication with hiring managers and Human Resources (HR) colleagues in meeting recruiting needs.
• May create collateral HR materials for trade shows, professional organization meetings, and career fairs. May attend trade shows, professional organization meetings and career fairs.
• May provide training and coaching activities for Talent Acquisition Specialists.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

What we're looking for:

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• Experience as a Talent Acquisition Specialist / Recruiter in a corporate or agency environment
• Proven track record in direct sourcing and managing an end-to-end recruiting process required.
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Strong business acumen and demonstrated ability to think and influence strategically
• Proven track record in utilizing creative recruitment techniques and measurement of results
• Ability to work well with multi-functional team and with all levels within organization
• Strong problem solving, influencing, negotiating, facilitating and partnership skills required
• Ability to effectively engage and build relationships with line management, employees, and HR team at all levels
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to effectively manage multiple demands without missing deadlines
• Strong time management skills and able to work independently
• Proficiency in M