Talent Acquisition Partner - Contract

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Talent Acquisition Partner – Contractor

About Astrazeneca

AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on discovering, developing, and commercializing prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.

Role Summary

Responsible for Developing and implementing recruitment strategies in partnership with the Human Resources Business Partners, Senior Business Leaders, and Hiring Managers to identify and fill vacancies with talented individuals with the right capability and skills in a timely and cost-efficient manner. Will involve proactive activity anticipating talent needs, developing and executing sourcing plans, screening, interviewing, pre-selecting, offer management, and managing the hiring administration process.

What you’ll do

• Manage and deliver the end-to-end talent acquisition process and workflow according to the TAQ strategy and global standards.
• Develop strong partnerships with HRBPs and hiring managers to find the right talent for the right role through employer branding initiatives, social media, and relevant recruitment channels.
• Develop positive relationships with internal partners and candidates, building a bench of top talent to meet both current and anticipated business needs.
• Participate in all activities in the recruitment life cycle including, sourcing planning, screening, interviewing, prescreening, offer management, hiring, and onboarding.
• Lead recruitment services delivery against company standards to time to fill, cost, and quality targets and metrics.
• Ensure assigned recruitment services follow Global recruitment and country policies/guidelines.
• Educating business clients in the use of interviewing approaches, recommend resources and techniques for interviewing, assessing, and evaluating applicants.
• Advising internal stakeholders and hiring managers about recruitment responsibilities, legal requirements, and appropriate candidate management techniques, providing resources and tools as needed to educate and improve the skills of individuals involved in the hiring process.
• Develops and implements comprehensive search strategies for specific hiring projects.
• Support the employee value proposition agenda “EVP” to attract the right talent for AZ.
• Proactively source for candidates given future or critical roles.
• Manage third-party providers and vendors according to the procurement standards.
• Consistent reporting & governance on TAQ update.
  
  
  

Only applications based in UAE will be considered.

Essential for the role

• Progressive recruiting experience particularly in attracting, sourcing and interviewing candidates.
• Minimum of 5 year of experience in the talent acquisition function within a multinational organization.
• Demonstrated ability to build pools of external pipeline of candidates using various search tools.
• An established record of success in managing and delivering multiple small projects to a range of customers on time, within budget and to the desired quality.
• Successful track record of sourcing and attracting the right talent.
• Ability to build relationships with customers (hiring managers, HR colleagues and candidates) and suppliers by partnering and consultation.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in teams, collaboration skills.
• Ability to develop, analysis and evaluate objectives, plans and data. Interpret and communicate progress and results.
• Skill in soliciting input and evaluating business, client and candidate needs addressing concerns.
• Ability to influence, challenge and deliver constructive advice, diagnose, and resolve problems and positively influence change.
• Managing relationships with universities & career services desks,
• Experience with campus activation
  
  
  

Desirable for the role

• Experience with hiring nationals
• Pharmaceutical or FMCG industry experience
  
  
  

Why AstraZeneca?

At AstraZeneca we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. There’s no better place to make a difference to medicine, patients, and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration, and always committed to lifelong learning, growth, and development. We’re on an exciting journey to pioneer the future of healthcare.

So, what’s next?

• Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.
• Are you ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available, and we hope it’s yours.
  
  
  

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