Talent Acquisition Partner to AstraZeneca

Hays is now looking for a Talent Acquisition Partner for a 1-year contract at AstraZeneca!

Are you an experienced Recruiter ready for an exciting role? Can you envision using your expertise to impact the development of life changing medicines? Then this is an opportunity you don't want to miss!

At AstraZeneca, they are 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. Always committed to lifelong learning, growth and development.

Human Resources (HR) at AstraZeneca is a fast-paced, creative and purposeful environment where ambitious innovative thinking is encouraged. Within HR, they have built a global world class Talent Acquisition function - a team with diverse experience, competence and personalities. They partner with hiring managers and cross-functional specialists throughout the whole recruitment process, and they are passionate about delivering a truly differentiated hiring manager and candidate experience

AstraZeneca are now looking for a new colleague to join its team as Talent Acquisition Partner for a 12 month assignment. AstraZeneca truly believe that everyone contributes with a unique set of competence. Your curiosity and passion for personal development combined with support from colleagues, mentors and leaders, will ensure that you maximise your skills, abilities and contribution.

What you'll do
First and foremost, you will be responsible for managing multiple recruitment processes with local and global top talents. To do this in a successful way, you will partner with hiring managers, HRBPs, business leaders and colleagues.

A typical day includes working with advertising, sourcing, branding, interviewing, candidate discussions, including offers and managing the end-to-end recruitment administration process. Many of their candidates are international talents that relocates to Sweden to join AstraZeneca. The offer process thus includes promoting Sweden as a great place to live, AstraZeneca Gothenburg as a great place to work and their relocation support. In addition to the day-to-day recruitment you may also be working with 3rd party suppliers, supporting projects both locally and globally and mentoring hiring managers. You will be part of a collaborative team where we appreciate and support each other in a high paced and flexible working environment.

Essential for the role
You have a degree in a Science or Human Resources related field, complemented with experience of balancing multiple parallel full life cycle recruitment processes, including the offer process. Your interpersonal skills are excellent and you have a team delivery attitude.

We also believe you have:
* Experience utilizing a range of candidate attraction channels, including LinkedIn
* A creative and innovative approach to utilizing relevant employer branding assets
* Ability to work in a fast-paced, agile and changing environment
* Ability to learn and adopt IT tools and systems
* Demonstrable ability to collaborate across skillsets, personality styles and cultures

Desirable for the role
* Experience of recruiting within Life Sciences, Research & Development, Clinical Operations & Development or Data Science or AI
* Experience of running full life cycle recruitment processes across different countries and skillsets
* Experience of complex recruitments including offering relocation of candidates
* Experience of hiring into Sweden and familiar with basic Swedish employment law.

What to do next
If you are interested in the role, please submit your application with an updated CV now. For specific questions on the role, please contact Greta Kezelyte, greta.kezelyte@hays.com. Applications will be processed as they come, so don't hesitate to submit your application today.

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