Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.
 
Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support.
Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know:
 
Why Syneos Health
• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
• We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life. 
• We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress. 

Job Responsibilities

JOB SUMMARY

As the Associate Director of Talent Acquisition, you'll lead a team of Talent Acquisition Specialists (regionally or globally), who are responsible for building talent pipelines and managing hiring processes across your area of responsibility. You will lead full cycle strategic recruiting that enables your region or function to meet its quality and operational goals across clinical/non-clinical areas. You will enable a proactive, collaborative and strategic approach in supporting the customer while achieving key performance indicators / objectives. You will maintain responsibility for legal and regulatory compliance of talent acquisition policies and practices while supervising and directing your employees using both professional and supervisory discretion and independent judgment.

The successful candidate will be passionate about Syneos Health’s mission and culture, thrive in a fast-paced environment, be proactive, resourceful and efficient. This person must be well organized, flexible, and enjoy the challenges of leading in and supporting a growing company.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Talent Acquisition Leadership

• Lead, mentor, coach, and develop a team of global recruiters and talent acquisition professionals supporting multiple geographies and business functions.
• Establish performance expectations, hiring standards, and operational excellence across the recruiting organization.
• Drive recruiter capability development through coaching, training, succession planning, and performance management.
• Foster a high-accountability, collaborative, customer-centric culture focused on quality, speed, candidate experience, and business partnership.
• Ensure alignment of recruiting activities with organizational growth strategies and workforce plans.
• Ensure recruitment practices comply with applicable employment laws, regulations, and company policies across supported geographies.
• Promote fairness, consistency, and integrity throughout all talent acquisition processes.
• Operate as both a people leader and an individual contributor for strategic and high-impact hiring initiatives.
• Responsible for achievement of hiring targets, recruiter productivity, quality of hire, stakeholder satisfaction, and operational excellence metrics.

Talent Delivery & Recruitment Execution

• Maintain direct ownership of critical, executive-level, niche, confidential, and business-critical requisitions across global markets.
• Lead end-to-end recruitment processes including sourcing strategy, candidate assessment, stakeholder management, offer negotiation, and hiring execution.
• Partner with recruiters and hiring leaders to ensure successful delivery of hiring plans and achievement of key recruitment metrics.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on quality of hire, speed of hiring, productivity, diversity hiring, and process efficiency.
• Drive proactive talent pipelining for high-demand skill sets and future workforce requirements.
• Establish and monitor talent acquisition KPIs and operational performance metrics.
• Drive data-informed decision-making to improve productivity, hiring outcomes, and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Ensure an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience throughout the recruitment lifecycle.
• Champion recruitment governance, compliance, and operational consistency across all supported regions.

Employer Branding & Talent Market Intelligence

• Strengthen the organization's employer brand and value proposition across global talent markets.
• Leverage market research and competitive intelligence to inform hiring strategies and workforce planning activities.
• Build and maintain external talent networks and strategic talent communities.
• Partner with HR, marketing, and business leaders on employer branding initiatives that support organizational growth and talent attraction goals.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 10+ years of progressive Talent Acquisition experience, including significant experience within the CRO, life sciences, pharmaceutical, healthcare, or related industries.
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing recruiting teams across multiple geographies.
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale, full-cycle recruitment programs in a global environment.
• Proven track record of partnering with senior executives and business leaders to influence talent decisions and workforce strategies.
• Experience managing recruitment operations, talent acquisition metrics, and workforce planning initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder management, influencing, negotiation, and executive communication skills.
• Exposure to global hiring across North America, Europe, APAC, and emerging markets.

Preferred

• Experience leading global recruiting teams within a matrixed or global organization.
• Experience supporting clinical development, medical affairs, biostatistics, data management, regulatory, pharmacovigilance, commercial, and corporate hiring. Experience implementing recruiting technology, ATS optimization, and talent analytics solutions.

Get to know Syneos Health

Over the past 5 years, we have worked with 94% of all Novel FDA Approved Drugs, 95% of EMA Authorized Products and over 200 Studies across 73,000 Sites and 675,000+ Trial patients.

No matter what your role is, you’ll take the initiative and challenge the status quo with us in a highly competitive and ever-changing environment. Learn more about Syneos Health.
 

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Additional Information

Tasks, duties, and responsibilities as listed in this job description are not exhaustive.  The Company, at its sole discretion and with no prior notice, may assign other tasks, duties, and job responsibilities. Equivalent experience, skills, and/or education will also be considered so qualifications of incumbents may differ from those listed in the Job Description. The Company, at its sole discretion, will determine what constitutes as equivalent to the qualifications described above.   Further, nothing contained herein should be construed to create an employment contract.  Occasionally, required skills/experiences for jobs are expressed in brief terms. Any language contained herein is intended to fully comply with all obligations imposed by the legislation of each country in which it operates, including the implementation of the EU Equality Directive, in relation to the recruitment and employment of its employees.  The Company is committed to compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, including the provision of reasonable accommodations, when appropriate, to assist employees or applicants to perform the essential functions of the job.