Talent Acquisition Partner (Temporary | 4–6 Months Assignment)

About the Position:

The Talent Acquisition Partner serves as a strategic partner to internal leaders and external clients, providing consultative guidance and data-driven insights to support effective hiring strategies. This role leads full-cycle recruitment efforts across high-volume programs, managing sourcing, interviewing, candidate qualification, and offer processes while ensuring a seamless candidate experience. The Talent Acquisition Partner also guides and supports recruiting teams and contributes to continuous process optimization within an RPO delivery model.

We are looking to add a temporary team member for a 4–6 months engagement supporting a customer project.

What You’ll Do:

• Participate in planning with team leadership to identify recruiting strategies, client needs, and methods that achieve the highest fill rates, while providing input on system enhancements and process improvements.
• Source potential candidates through the company database, job boards, social media, networking events, and referrals, expanding the network of qualified talent.
• Conduct interviews to assess candidates’ skills, experience, cultural fit, and critical success factors using behavioral and situational techniques, then qualify and submit candidates per client and RPO guidelines.
• Manage the full recruiting lifecycle, including submission, interview coordination, offer development, negotiation, closing, and all related administrative components, while maintaining strong communication with candidates from application through placement.
• Negotiate compensation packages with consideration for individual and team gross margin goals and extend offers of employment on behalf of the client.
• Maintain accurate ATS records and ensure all recruitment activities comply with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations.
• Support large-scale, high-volume recruiting programs by leveraging expertise in RPO delivery, ATS management, process optimization, and event-based hiring.
• Provide day-to-day leadership and coaching to recruiting teams, promoting accountability, ownership, and adherence to SOPs and client processes.
• Partner closely with internal and external leadership on key initiatives, project planning, and process enhancements, applying strategic, data-driven insights to drive efficient hiring and continuous improvement.
• Build and sustain strong, consultative client relationships and proactively identify and resolve challenges while influencing outcomes and adapting to diverse client needs.
• Stay informed on industry trends, innovative recruiting techniques, and competitor activity, recommending enhancements to recruitment strategies and overall departmental effectiveness.
• Travel approximately four weeks over a three-month period, to support client hiring events, special projects, and team initiatives.

What You’ll Bring:

• Two years of full cycle recruiting in life sciences; commercial experience preferred.
• Possess an overall knowledge of business functions and understanding of services, business strategy, policies and procedures, and job’s impact to the organization.
• Work with electronic hardware and software applications specific to the role. 
• Work independently, see business needs and proactively accomplish them for the betterment of their team and the organization.
• Analyze work, set goals, develop plans of action, utilize time.
• Proactively obtain and share information tailored to the audience.
• Attend to the needs and expectations of customers.
• Affect or change others' positions and opinions.
• Engage effectively in dialogue.

Pay: $75,000.00 - $96,000.00 per year

Application Question(s):

• What is your expected salary?
• Are you open to a contract or temporary work opportunity?

Experience:

• Full cycle recruiting in life sciences: 2 years (Required)
• Recruitment within the pharma or biotechnology industry: 2 years (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Andover, MA 01810

Salary : $75,000 - $96,000