Premier Research
Director/ Senior Director, Global Talent Acquisition (East Coast)
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Leads global talent acquisition strategy and team development in a clinical research environment. Responsibilities include hiring and mentoring recruiting teams, partnering with executives, aligning recruitment with growth plans, standardizing global processes, developing sourcing strategies, managing workforce planning, analyzing talent metrics, improving operations, and overseeing recruitment vendors.
Premier Research is looking for a Director/ Senior Director, Global Talent Acquisition (East Coast) to join our Talent Acquisition team.
You will help biotech, medtech, and specialty pharma companies transform life-changing ideas and breakthrough science into new medicines, devices, and diagnostics. What we do is profoundly connected to saving and improving lives, and we recognize our team members are the most valuable asset in delivering success.
We are here to help you grow, to give you the skills and opportunities to excel at work with the flexibility and balance your life requires.
Your ideas influence the way we work, and your voice matters here.
As an essential part of our team, you help us deliver the medical innovation that patients are desperate for.
Join us and build your future here.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Manages and develops talent team capabilities by hiring, training, and mentoring within a global, fast-paced, distributed, high growth environment.
- Partners with functional leaders on advise on recruitment related actions.
- Aligns recruiting priorities with business growth needs.
- Analyzes current talent acquisition processes, identifies efficiencies, gaps and determines a strategy to streamline and standardize processes globally.
- Develops a global recruitment strategy that cost effectively delivers sources for a strong candidate pool. Holds team accountable for sourcing candidates for open positions.
- Understands the workforce planning process to better project future skill and capability needs.
- Develop and reports on metrics to measure the effectiveness of the talent team and drives performance and outcomes Analyzes data and trends to provide informed recommendations on team strategy, structure, and priorities.
- Evaluates, selects and manages vendor relationships. Assesses and measures effectiveness and ensures compliance with negotiated agreements. Monitors labor market trends and provides competitive insights to inform and execute
What We Are Searching For:
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 10+ years of talent acquisition experience within Clinical Research
- 5+ years of people management experience
- Experience hiring, developing and managing global talent acquisition teams with cross-cultural differences.
- Proven experience in developing strategies to recruit and hire employees through effective sourcing and evaluation processes. Ability to design and manage processes with appropriate degrees of consistency for a global business.
- Demonstrated capability to take a data-driven approach to strategy development and operational management.
- Passion for driving process improvement.
- Experience managing multiple stakeholders and working with C-level executives.
US East Coast working hours are required
Premier Research is proud to be an equal opportunity employer that is compliant with all federal guidelines. All qualified applicants will receive equitable consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status
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