Talent Acquisition Partner

Your Role

As a Talent Acquisition Partner at Baxter, you are responsible for delivery of excellence throughout the Talent Acquisition lifecycle in individual assignments and larger scale recruitment projects. As a TA Partner you will take a lead role in helping drive quality outcomes through partnering closely with your hiring managers, other members of Talent Acquisition and your HR Business Partners to ensure efficient and effective delivery of hiring projects. You are accountable for managing the hiring and selection process including quality candidate sourcing that meet the needs of your Hiring Manager, the role and Baxter. Your focus will be to deliver a positive and professional hiring experience for candidates and hiring managers.

What you will be doing

• Lead recruiting activities through to successful hire with a strong focus on direct, candidate identification and sourcing of talent
• Responsible for collaborating with Hiring Manager to create impactful advertising, driving engagement across social media, talent identification and headhunting and proactive solicitation of referrals
• Accountable for effective use of recruitment marketing and branding materials to engage and communicate with internal and external talent
• Proactively provide meaningful, market intelligence and recruiting insights to the business and HR, demonstrating your value as a trusted advisor
• Deliver an engaging candidate experience by uncovering and understanding factors that influence talent, knowing their motivators and adjusting your approach to manage situations
• Showcasing your recruiting skills, able to confidently motivate and guide team members to support successful activities related to screening, presenting candidates, conducting interviews, and making hiring choices
• Understand and accurately representing Baxter's total compensation philosophy when managing offer negotiations
• Train candidates on effective preparation for selection stages and timely feedback following local regulations and standard processes
• Accountable for correctly managing and updating requisitions through to completion including responsibility for ensuring real time system updates
• Collaborate with the business to understand critical and repeatable roles to inform talent pipelining strategy
• Know Your Customer: proactively maintain and enhance your knowledge of Baxter to ensure there is continuous improvement to your business understanding and knowledge
• Assess and analyze recruitment activity of your business areas to support meaningful conversation around volumes, performance and forecasting
• Participate in continuous improvement projects

What you will bring

• 3-5 years working in Talent Acquisition
• Experience recruiting engineering or technical position, preferred
• Previous experience in full cycle recruiting
• Proven capability in effectively managing concurrent hiring priorities and partners at different stages of the recruitment lifecycle, without impacting delivery quality and timelines
• Proven ability in building strong relationships and grow to be an advisor to your partners for the purposes of improving future hiring outcomes
• Experience conducting behavioral based interviews for a variety of roles and successful use of assessment methodologies to facilitate 'right first time' hiring
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and proven experience in business partnering, ideally within an in-house environment
• Functional knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Proficient in using recruiting technologies (ATS and CRMs) and direct sourcing tools and techniques
• Previous experience working in a transformative environment with an ability to deal effectively with multiple, potentially conflicting priorities and ambiguity
• Able to accommodate occasional travel to meet the needs partners and candidate