Talent Acquisition Partner, Contingent Workforce

BGB Group

Talent Acquisition Partner, Contingent Workforce

Our Agency

BGB is a healthcare communications agency that offers a wide range of services, including traditional pharmaceutical advertising, promotional medical education, payer marketing, and consulting services. Known for excellence and professionalism, we’re hired as strategic and creative partners by our biopharmaceutical clients to drive category/brand awareness and growth.

Position Overview

The Talent Acquisition Partner, Contingent Workforce, will lead all initiatives related to sourcing, onboarding, managing, and optimizing freelance and temporary talent across the agency. This individual will build and maintain scalable systems to organize the agency’s freelance pipeline, partner closely with Resource Management, Creative Leadership, and Finance, and ensure a seamless experience for all contingent staff. The ideal candidate is highly organized, relationship-driven, and passionate about building a best-in-class freelance program that strengthens the agency’s creative and operational capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Source, vet, and hire freelance and temporary talent across all disciplines, ensuring alignment with agency needs and standards.
• Build and maintain an organized system to track and manage all temporary resources, including availability, skills, performance management and project assignments.
• Partner with Resource Management to forecast needs, monitor utilization, and maintain the creative org chart reflecting ongoing movements and resourcing updates.
• Oversee the freelance “bench” of active and potential talent, ensuring readiness to meet evolving business demands.
• Manage all aspects of onboarding and offboarding for freelance talent, including documentation, HR coordination, and systems access.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for freelance staff, addressing inquiries, supporting engagement, and resolving operational or HR-related issues.
• Partner with hiring managers and department leaders to design onboarding and training plans tailored to temporary roles.
• Collaborate with Creative Leadership to track freelance performance, identify top talent, and evaluate opportunities for conversion to full-time employment.
• Work closely with Finance on role approvals, rate management, and cost tracking to ensure alignment with budget and compliance standards.
• Maintain and oversee relationships with third-party vendors and staffing agencies, ensuring all vendor agreements, invoices, and records are current and organized.
• Champion a positive and consistent experience for all freelance talent, reflecting the agency’s culture and values.
  
  

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in talent acquisition or resource management, within a creative, marketing, or agency environment.
• Proven experience managing large-scale freelance or contingent workforce programs.
• Strong understanding of freelance hiring practices, contracts, and compliance considerations.
• Exceptional organizational and communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with cross-functional teams, including Creative, Resource Management, HR, and Finance.
• Tech-savvy, with the proven ability to implement and maintain systems that track freelance activity and performance including experience in Applicant Tracking Systems.
• A collaborative, proactive, and solutions-oriented approach.
  
  

Salary Range: $80,000 - $100,000

The salary range provided is for the NYC-hybrid position, which requires occasional in-office presence, and represents what a potential hire may expect to earn in this role at BGB. For candidates in other locations, salary will be adjusted to reflect local market rates. Actual salary decisions will be influenced by several factors that we use to determine overall fit, including experience (both direct and indirect), education, training, demonstrated qualifications, and organizational need. Salary is only one component of the total rewards package offered at BGB Group.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.