Senior Pharma Recruiter – Feltham, UK

Merck Serono - Feltham, UK (United Kingdom)

Job Description

Summary
The Regional Recruiter is responsible for developing an understanding of the assigned region’s workforce planning needs and developing active sourcing and talent acquisition strategies to pro-actively identify, attract and hire best-in- talent for the region. He/she supports ongoing internal and/or external talent needs by managing all aspects of candidate generation.

Key Competencies
-Builds up and maintains a vast network of professional relationships over a long period of time by pro-actively sourcing and developing internal and external talent acquisition strategies
-Ability to prioritize and complete a high volume of work, managing multiple projects and coordinating multiple requests to successful completion
-Demonstrates excellent business acumen with the ability to interact with individuals at all levels of the organization
-Demonstrates strong written and oral communication skills (fluent English), exhibit strong interpersonal skills, excellent creative thinking and writing proficiency
-Persuades and influences decision makers
-Excellent interviewing, assessment, selection, negotiation, and communication skills
-Proven ability to take initiative and build strong and productive personal relationships
-Excellent organizational skills and meticulous attention to detail as well as strong analytical skills
-Proven intercultural competencies
-Highly service oriented with the ability to act on demand
-Ability to act successfully in a matrix organization
-Ability to succeed in a global process landscape with global global mind-set
-Sales oriented mind-set
-Is aware and use “state of the art” key recruiting technologies and systems


Key Responsibilities
-Interpret internal employment demands and translate them into timely, results -driven action items
-Support Merck’ initiatives by ensuring best candidates are internally or externally sourced and hired within the appropriate guidelines
-Develop and administer sourcing strategies for identifying and recruiting potential new hires, develop, execute, and monitor online candidate search campaigns using a variety of internet search engines as a delivery vehicle for producing quality candidates
-Pro-actively identify and define the position and challenge Hiring Managers and HR BPs on positioning of requirement (ie. GG, expertise, skill sets, complementary profiles …)
-Develop and execute innovative search techniques to generate a pool of internal and /or external candidates necessary to staff open positions
-Act as a primary liaison to all sourcing contacts
-Generate candidate leads through e-mails, cold calls, and field presence
-Map targeted talent and build Merck's knowledge base for talents
-Place advertising with vendors in compliance with local and regional guidelines and company policies
-Conduct screening of resumes and initial behavior-based phone screens or in person interviews (when feasible) and refer candidates for the next level of interviews
-Conduct reference checks when appropriate, communicate status of selection process to applicants , and develop with HRBP, TR and Hiring Manager employment offers
-Interact with hiring managers regarding all openings and candidate status and ensure all positions are posted internally and externally in a qualitative and attractive way
-Evaluate a campaign's value based upon its cost effectiveness and ability to attract top-level candidates
-Attend large scale recruitment events (like career days, job fairs or professional trade shows) as well as campus recruitment’s and build a strong rapport with universities in the assigned region
-Closely interact with other teams within CoEs, HRBPs, Hiring Managers, HR Services

Desired Skills & Experience

Education and Experience Requirements

-Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or related field
-At least 5 years recruiting experience, ideally in a recruiting agency or Executive Search
-A proven experience on pro-active sourcing with deep usage of professional networks and CV databases
-Proficiency in Microsoft Office and management system software as well as Applicant Tracking Systems and Tools such as recruiting and social/professional medias
-Excellent English language skills (verbal and written), German or French are an asset

Company Description

Merck Millipore is the Life Science division of Merck KGaA of Germany and offers a broad range of innovative, performance products, services and business relationships that enable our customers' success in research, development and production of biotech and pharmaceutical drug therapies. Through dedicated collaboration on new scientific and engineering insights, and as one of the top three R&D investors in the Life Science Tools industry, Merck Millipore serves as a strategic partner to customers and helps advance the promise of Life Science. Headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts, the division has around 10,000 employees, operations in 68 countries and 2010 revenues of $2.2 billion. Merck Millipore is known as EMD Millipore in the U.S. and Canada. 

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