Sr Talent Acquisition Specialist

Syneos Health, Inc.; Morrisville (NC); On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Syneos Health, Inc. is seeking a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist to partner with hiring managers and lead full-cycle recruitment across multiple business units in Canada. You will educate managers, develop sourcing strategies, and drive efficient processes to attract top talent.

The role emphasizes strategic thinking, proactive sourcing, and delivering a seamless candidate experience while partnering with HR and leadership to meet current and future resource needs.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Talent Acquisition Specialist / Recruiter in a corporate or agency environment.
• Proven direct sourcing and end-to-end recruiting process experience.
• Demonstrated leadership skills and strategic influence.
• Ability to work with multi-functional teams at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Create a deep and diverse talent pool to service resourcing requirements across business units.
• Partner with hiring managers to build a strategic hiring plan and set goals.
• Present top candidates, negotiate offers, and manage onboarding for new hires.
• Provide market insights and talent landscape understanding to set expectations with customers.
• Maintain data accuracy in the applicant tracking system and communicate with HR.

Skills

Full cycle recruiting

Sourcing strategy

Candidate assessment

Stakeholder management

Process improvement

Training mentorship

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Workday

CRM

Job description

Description

Sr Talent Acquisition Specialist

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

Job Summary

As the Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist you will serve as a strategic business partner to your customers while executing the full cycle recruitment for your assigned positions. You will partner closely with Hiring Managers to manage the recruiting process from end-to-end, developing strategies and implementing action plans related to both candidate sourcing identification and recruitment process execution. This includes but is not limited to: Educating and advising hiring managers to enable an effective and efficient recruiting process, identifying and sharing recruitment best practices across the business and industry, maintaining current market knowledge, legal and recruitment trends, and developing sourcing methodologies and strategies to target and identify qualified candidates.

The successful candidate will be passionate about Syneos Health's mission and culture, thrive in a fast paced environment, be proactive, resourceful and efficient. This person must be well organized, flexible, and enjoy the challenges of supporting a growing company.

Core 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.
• Presents pre-qualified top candidates to hiring managers, develops/negotiates offers with candidates and creates the onboarding experience for all new hires. Ensures hiring manager's experience a collaborative, proactive, and customer-focused talent acquisition support through the hiring process
• 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.
• As a system and process SME you will be responsible for providing mentorship and training to new TAS
• You will proactively identify opportunities to drive process improvement and partner with Talent Acquisition leadership to drive efficiency
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

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

  Critical

  • Experience as a full cycle Talent Acquisition Specialist / Recruiter supporting a CRO or in the Pharmaceutical industry
  • Experience working with Workday
  • Experience with a CRM

  Get to know Syneos Health

  Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

  No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.

  http://www.syneoshealth.com

  Additional Information

  Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive. The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above. Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract. Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees. The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.