Senior Director Talent Acquisition

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

As the Senior Director of Talent Acquisition, you'll lead a team of Talent Acquisition Specialist  (regionally or globally), who are responsible for building talent pipelines and managing hiring processes across your area of responsibility.  You will lead full cycle strategic recruiting that enables your region or function to meet its quality and operational goals across clinical/non-clinical areas.  You will enable a proactive, collaborative and strategic approach in supporting the customer while achieving key performance indicators / objectives.   You will maintain responsibility for legal and regulatory compliance of talent acquisition policies and practices while supervising and directing your employees using both professional and supervisory discretion and independent judgment.

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 leading in and supporting a growing company.

Collaborates directly with senior business leaders on workforce planning and talent acquisition needs. Leads a team that develops sourcing strategies and recruiting plans, presents pre-qualified top candidates to hiring managers, develops/negotiates offers with candidates and creates the onboarding experience for all new hires. Selects, trains, develops, coaches and evaluates team members within the region or function. Ensures hiring manager's experience a collaborative, proactive, and customer-focused talent acquisition support from the assigned team.

Designs, builds, implements and manages strategic sourcing and talent acquisition programs. Explores proactive, traditional and innovative approaches to Talent Acquisition. Balances providing subject matter expertise with fostering open communication. Leads with an operational focus, setting strategy, objectives and policies. Establishes operational objectives for the region or function including work plans and delegating assignments to team.

Identifies relevant indicators to monitor programs and their performance. Tracks key talent acquisition metrics, including lead and lag measures. Ensures team achieves results.

Acts as a key stakeholder to senior management on the development of overall policy and long-term goals of the region or function.

Facilitates strategic regional or functional workforce planning or progress updates with stakeholders to identify skill, capability and roles required to support short and mid-range goals/objectives.

Participates in budget preparation and has financial accountability for assigned areas and projects.

Promotes an environment of creativity and innovation focused on useable improvements, as well as innovation that support the organization's mission and further its vision.

Champions implementation of approaches that improve Talent Acquisition processes, approaches, tools and outcomes.

Lead, inspire, and coach a smart, ambitious recruiting team across multiple locations while driving a high level of performance against aggressive hiring plans and in accordance with Syneos Health and Talent Acquisition’s core values

Foster a data-driven organization structure, leveraging talent acquisition metrics and analytics to drive decision making, implement strategies, measure team productivity and program ROI and to partner with regional business leaders to meet hiring needs 

Build a comprehensive strategic hiring plan by setting the vision, strategy, and goals that you are responsible

Provide oversight and ownership for the function and provide hands on support to insure overall regional hiring needs are met.

Provide expertise in market insights, talent landscape, and an understanding of talent needs to assist in developing company growth plans and forecast.

Ensure the organization is fully leveraging the ATS while working to achieve talent acquisition metrics and goals including quality, hiring volume, time to fill and overall customer satisfaction.  Analyze success against metrics, create and execute plans to achieve ongoing improvement in results that will increase satisfaction.

Works in conjunction with the Global Talent Acquisition Leadership to ensure the department budget is maintained.

Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
• Experience as a full cycle Talent Acquisition Specialist / Recruiter in a corporate or agency environment
• Talent Acquisition Leadership experience in a full cycle recruitment environment 
• Proven ability to succeed and lead in a performance based culture,  driving and managing to specific levels of accountability
• Demonstrated success in building high performing teams through active performance management, including coaching, developing and hiring. 
• Proven track record of partnering with senior leaders to drive high impact, strategic talent decisions.
• Excellent problem solving, influencing, negotiating and facilitation skills 
• Strong time management skills and able to work independently
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook). 
• Strong attention to detail and an ability to maintain confidentiality

Preferred Qualifications

• Talent Acquisition Leadership experience in the CRO or Pharmaceutical industry
• Talent Acquisition Leadership experience as a Regional Leader  
• Experience as a Talent Acquisition Specialist / Recruiter supporting a CRO or in the Pharmaceutical industry

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.
 

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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.