Recruiter, Life Sciences & Commercial - Contractor

Syneos Health, Inc.; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 55,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Health benefits to include Medical, D

Job summary

Syneos Health in Raleigh, NC is seeking a dynamic Talent Acquisition Partner to support recruiting across Commercial, Medical Affairs, Consulting and other strategic areas. You will act as a flexible recruiting resource, partnering with hiring leaders to understand workforce needs and to deliver a positive candidate experience.

The role requires a strong full-cycle recruiter with proactive talent pipelining, ability to learn new roles quickly, and the capability to manage multiple searches while

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience; agency, RPO, healthcare, life sciences, or professional services recruiting experience preferred.
• Experience recruiting across multiple functions, including clinical, commercial, consulting, healthcare, life sciences, or professional services roles.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead full-cycle recruitment for positions including individual contributor, management, and leadership-level roles.
• Partner with hiring managers and business leaders to understand workforce needs, hiring priorities, and talent market dynamics.
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies utilizing LinkedIn Recruiter, talent databases, referrals, networking, and direct outreach.
• Build and maintain robust talent pipelines for current and future hiring needs.
• Manage candidate screening, interview coordination, offer management and negotiation.
• Drive a positive candidate experience while ensuring timely communication and process transparency.
• Track recruiting metrics and provide insights to HR, hiring managers, and cross-functional partners regarding hiring progress, challenges, and opportunities.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve recruiting processes, efficiency, and hiring outcomes.

Skills

Full-cycle recruiting

Sourcing

LinkedIn Recruiter

Stakeholder management

ATS/CRM

Multi-functional recruiting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

ATS

CRM platforms

LinkedIn Recruiter

Job description

Updated: October 6, 2026
Location: Raleigh, NC, United States
Job ID:18860

We are seeking a dynamic and adaptable Talent Acquisition Partner to support a broad range of recruiting roles across the organization. This role will serve as a flexible recruiting resource capable of supporting Commercial, Medical Affairs, Consulting and other strategic hiring needs as business priorities evolve.

The ideal candidate is a full-cycle recruiter who thrives in a fast-paced environment, builds strong partners with hiring leaders, and can successfully recruit across multiple functional disciplines. This individual will demonstrate strong business acumen, proactive talent pipelining, and the ability to quickly learn new roles and markets while delivering an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead full-cycle recruitment for positions including individual contributor, management, and leadership-level roles.
• Partner with hiring managers and business leaders to understand workforce needs, hiring priorities, and talent market dynamics.
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies utilizing LinkedIn Recruiter, talent databases, referrals, networking, and direct outreach.
• Build and maintain robust talent pipelines for current and future hiring needs.
• Manage candidate screening, interview coordination, offer management and negotiation.
• Drive a positive candidate experience while ensuring timely communication and process transparency.
• Track recruiting metrics and provide insights to s HR, hiring managers, and cross-functional partners regarding hiring progress, challenges, and opportunities.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve recruiting processes, efficiency, and hiring outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience; agency, RPO, healthcare, life sciences, or professional services recruiting experience preferred.
• Experience recruiting across multiple functions, including clinical, commercial, consulting, healthcare, life sciences, or professional services roles.
• Strong sourcing, networking, and talent mapping capabilities.
• Ability to manage multiple searches simultaneously while maintaining a high level of quality and responsiveness.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
• Experience using ATS, CRM platforms, LinkedIn Recruiter, and other sourcing tools.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to adapt to changing business priorities.

Success Profile

• Agile and adaptable recruiter who can pivot across business lines.
• Consultative partner to hiring leaders.
• Strong talent hunter with proactive sourcing skills.
• Data-driven and results-oriented.
• Collaborative team player with a customer-service mindset.
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and managing competing priorities.

The hourly rate for this position ranges from $40/hr. to $60/hr.. The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high of the Syneos Health range for this position. Actual salary will vary based on various factors such as the candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role. In addition, some positions may include eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and / or individual performance.

At Syneos Health, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace.

At times, we will consider transferable skills from previous roles.

We partner with industry experts to solve and execute against today's toughest commercialization challenges facing the world's leading healthcare companies. The diversification and breadth of our new and existing partnerships create a multitude of career paths and employment opportunities on our Commercial Operations and Leadership teams. Join our game-changing, global company dedicated to creating better, smarter, faster ways to get biopharmaceutical therapies to patients. Experience the thrill of knowing that your everyday efforts are contributing to improving patients' lives around the world.

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Syneos Health companies are affirmative action/equal opportunity employers (Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled)

At Syneos Health, we believe in providing an environment and culture in which Our People can thrive, develop and advance. We reward and recognize our people by providing valuable benefits and a quality-of-life balance.

• Competitive compensation package
• Health benefits to include Medical, Dental and Vision
• Company match 401k
• Flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time

Because certain states and municipalities have regulated paid sick time requirements, eligibility for paid sick time may vary depending on where you work. Syneos Health complies with all applicable federal, state, and municipal paid sick time requirements.

Discover what our more than 29,000 employees already know: work here matters everywhere. We work hard,and smart, all in the name of getting much-needed therapies to thosewho need them most. A career with Syneos Health means your everyday work improvespatients’ lives around the world. Selecting us as an employer secures a career inwhich you’re guaranteed to:

Syneos Health is a leading fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization built to accelerate customer success. We translate unique clinical, medical affairs and commercial insights into outcomes to address modern market realities. Together we share insights, use the latest technologies and apply advanced business practices to speed our customers’ delivery of important therapies to patients.