Salary: Competitive with excellent employee benefits

At AstraZeneca, we believe in the potential of our people and you’ll develop beyond what you thought possible. We make the most of your skills and passion by actively supporting you to see what you can achieve no matter where you start with us.

As a Global Talent Scout in our Commercial Team primarily supporting US and Global Commercial across our Biopharmaceuticals Unit, your role will be akin to an in-house Head-hunter and you will work in partnership with the business as a trusted advisor to strategically create and maintain business critical, senior-level external talent pipelines. You will also be conducting proactive, sophisticated searches for live executive vacancies and sharing insight into the talent market. Ideally, you will have worked within one or more of these areas or within executive recruitment.

You will build and maintain proactive and targeted talent pipelines that improve our ability to hire outstanding critical capability quickly and at a reduced cost of hire. Your efforts will be essential to enhance candidate experience and enable our internal hiring capability to be world-class.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Talent Acquisition helps to deliver AstraZeneca’s business strategy through recruiting extraordinary (internal and external) talent to meet the needs and demands of the business. To succeed as a Talent Scout, you will be a ‘recruiter at heart' who has a passion and focus on the candidate experience.

• Lead the executive recruitment on the Biopharmaceutical Business Unit’s most senior Commercial roles

• Your background will demonstrate expertise as a head-hunter, executive recruiter or talent acquisition professional with a track record of building talent pipelines in highly technical skill-sets at a senior level and globally diverse locations.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Implement the strategy to develop a rich external talent pipeline directly linked to key roles/critical skills in AstraZeneca. Ensuring successful conversion of talent pipeline prospects into active candidates and then hires.

• Liaising with key partners (HR Lead, business managers) and internal partners (i.e. Global Talent Acquisition Lead, Talent Management, HR Business Partners) to understand meaningful roles, important skills and the current population in order to assess risk areas where the talent pipeline would need growth to meet future global (1-3 year horizon) talent requirements.

• Ensuring engaged talent is shared and visible across all relevant business units and geographies, and that senior-level prospects are reviewed at the Senior Executive Team level.

• Building knowledge and providing insight into external talent presence (i.e. talent heat maps) to resolve the best approach to engage talent and steer workforce planning.

• Create extensive networks through multiple channels, including attending relevant global external meetings/conferences to meet and assess talent.

• The role will report into the Global Commercial Talent Scout Lead with a positive relationship with the Global Talent Acquisition Lead for our Biopharmaceutical Business Unit. This is an opportunity to work at the most senior levels in the organization, to further engage, encourage, persuade and influence our transformation to a ground-breaking in-house Talent Acquisition Function.

Requirements:

• Significant experience as an Internal Executive Recruiter/Talent Scout or Head-Hunter/Senior Researcher/Consultant

• Demonstrable experience and ability to cultivate a talent network within relevant commercial pharmaceutical communities

• Professional competence with outstanding communication and influencing skills

• Ability to indirectly lead and drive a successful Talent Scout team in a sophisticated, matrixed environment

Desirable Requirements:

• Previous Commercial Pharmaceuticals recruitment experience

• Experience of pipeline development using a CRM

• Experience working globally or across more than one geography

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 ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available, and we hope it’s yours.

Job Posted: 28/04/2023

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.