Talent Acquisition Partner to AstraZeneca in Södertälje!

Are you an experienced Recruiter with passion for recruiting and sourcing outstanding talents?

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! We, at Hays, are searching for a Talent Acquisition Partner to AstraZeneca.

At AstraZeneca, they are not afraid to do things differently. They building a new kind of organization to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means they are opening new ways to work, pioneering cutting edge methods and bringing unexpected teams together.

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

The team is growing, and they are now looking for new colleagues to join. They 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.

The role is an approximately 12 month assignment based in Södertälje, Sweden.

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 you will partner hiring managers, HRBP´s, business leaders and colleagues.

A typical day includes working with sourcing building key talent pipelines, branding, interviewing, candidate discussions including offers and managing the start to end recruitment administration process. 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 team where we appreciate and support each other in a high paced and flexible working environment.

As Talent Acquisition Partner at AstraZeneca you are aligned to support specific business functions, and we are looking forward to bring in new colleagues to support our Global Operations function. With the right "Can do" attitude and excellent collaboration skills you will thrive at this position!

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. 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
* Ability to work in a fast-paced, agile and changing environment
* Demonstrable ability to collaborate across skillsets, personality styles and cultures
* A passion for recruiting and driving direct sourcing methods


You are fluent in Swedish and English in both verbal and writing, and naturally you will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills Building and maintaining professional relationships is a must as is a positive and professional outlook.

Desirable for the role


* Experience of recruiting in different countries, managing multiple stakeholders and adjusting to different cultures
* Strong organisational and prioritisation skills
* Experience of working within Life Sciences or the Pharmaceutical industry is desirable as is experience of recruiting
* Experience of using direct search and research methodologies i.e. LinkedIn and other recruitment tools.