Recruiter

At Argenta, we partner with our customers to take animal health solutions from molecule to market. Our teams combine deep scientific expertise with world-class manufacturing capabilities to deliver innovative therapies that improve the lives of animals around the world.

About the Role

Argenta is seeking a Recruiter to join our Global team. This role is responsible for delivering both strategic and operational recruitment across Argenta’s global business.

This role partners closely with senior leaders to understand current and future capability needs, translating business strategy, organisational design, and value creation priorities into targeted hiring plans.

Operating within a fast-paced environment, the Recruiter will build and proactively manage high-quality talent pipelines across functions and geographies, ensuring we attract and secure top-tier talent to support growth, transformation, and our long-range plans.

Combining hands-on recruitment delivery with strategic talent advisory, this role plays a critical part in strengthening Argenta’s talent capability, enhancing hiring quality, and enabling a high-performing, globally aligned organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted partner to functional leaders, aligning hiring activity to Argenta’s growth strategy, organisational design, and value creation plan.
• Own and deliver full lifecycle recruitment across functions and geographies, ensuring high-quality and timely hiring outcomes.
• Build and maintain proactive talent pipelines, including “athlete” talent that can flex across functions, regions, and evolving business needs.
• Leverage AI tools, market insight, and innovative sourcing strategies to identify and engage high-quality candidates.
• Deliver a consistent, high-quality candidate and hiring manager experience, strengthening Argenta’s employer brand.
• Ensure recruitment processes are efficient, scalable, data-driven, and aligned to global governance standards
• Implement structured interview and assessment frameworks to drive consistency, quality, and fairness in hiring decisions.
• Embed feedback mechanisms to measure and continuously improve candidate and hiring manager experience.
• Capture, track, and improve diversity and equality outcomes across the recruitment lifecycle.
• Partner with the Global Head of HR to support broader people transformation initiatives where hiring is a critical enabler.
  

About You

• Proven experience in an in-house or agency recruitment role within a global organisation.
• Experience within CDMO, Animal Health, or broader life sciences environments is highly desirable.
• Experience recruiting across multiple functions, including highly technical or specialist roles.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and challenge constructively.
• Demonstrated success operating in fast-paced, high-growth or transformation-led environments.
• Experience within private equity-backed businesses, with an understanding of pace, performance expectations, and value creation levers.
• Strong sourcing capability, including direct search, talent mapping, and pipeline development.
• High level of commercial and business acumen.
• Experience using recruitment systems, tools, and data to drive insights and decision-making.

Why Join Argenta?

At Argenta, we are building a culture of ownership where our people play a direct role in shaping the future of the organisation. You will work alongside passionate experts across science, manufacturing and commercial functions to deliver life-changing outcomes for animals worldwide.

We offer the opportunity to work within a growing, global business where your leadership and expertise will have a meaningful impact on performance, transformation, and long-term success.

We are One Argenta - working together across teams, disciplines and geographies to create meaningful impact.