Astrazeneca
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Sr. Talent Acquisition Partner - Early Talent

Location
Gaithersburg, MD
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What you'll do

In this role, you'll own end-to-end recruitment across multiple talent segments, partnering closely with Hiring Managers, HR Business Partners and Talent Acquisition colleagues to anticipate needs and build robust talent pipelines.

You'll lead full life cycle hiring, from first conversation through to offer, making sure every candidate enjoys a clear, respectful and timely experience. You'll harness AI-enabled tools, data and market intelligence to advise stakeholders, shape hiring strategies and influence decisions, and you'll design and run targeted campaigns for hard-to-fill roles, testing new channels and approaches to stay ahead in a competitive market.

Moving at pace never means cutting corners: you'll maintain thorough compliance with our policies and procedures. As a trusted talent advisor, you'll challenge thinking where needed, align hiring with future skills needs and help continuously improve how we recruit.

Leading Early Talent across the Americas

You'll provide regional leadership for Early Talent recruitment across the Americas, building and executing an integrated approach to internship, co-op, graduate and other emerging-talent hiring. Working with business leaders, HR, Talent Acquisition and key university and external partners, you'll turn workforce priorities into targeted Early Talent strategies and sustainable talent pipelines.

You'll develop and drive the annual Americas Early Talent recruitment plan, aligned to business demand, priority capabilities and key hiring locations. You'll guide attraction and engagement strategies, university partnerships, recruitment events and selection approaches, while championing consistency, collaboration and best practice across the region.

Using recruiting analytics, market intelligence and program insights, you'll measure pipeline strength, conversion, candidate experience and overall program effectiveness, then turn those insights into recommendations that sharpen the Early Talent strategy, lift recruitment outcomes and inform future investment and workforce planning decisions.

  • Above all, you'll champion innovation and continuous improvement in Early Talent recruitment, finding new ways to attract, engage, assess and convert emerging talent while building sustainable pipelines for the skills of tomorrow.
  • Ready to champion change and help redefine how we attract talent in a fast-moving, digital world? We'd love to hear from you.

Essential for the role

  • Bachelor's degree highly preferred, with 5+ years of relevant experience.
  • Proven Talent Acquisition experience within a global environment.
  • Track record delivering full life cycle recruitment in an in-house or similar setting.
  • Experience planning and leading complex recruitment campaigns for hard-to-fill skill sets, using a broad mix of methods, tools and attraction channels.
  • Confidence engaging with senior leaders, both internally and externally.
  • Hands-on experience leveraging AI-enabled recruiting analytics and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, ATS/CRM insights, sourcing assistants, screening automation and content generation) to improve funnel health, reduce cycle time and elevate candidate experience.
  • Experience operating as a strategic, consultative talent advisor to the business, using market and skills intelligence, recruiting analytics and structured hiring practices to shape hiring plans and influence stakeholder decisions.
  • Experience leading or contributing to Early Talent programs, including university, campus, internship, co-op or graduate recruitment, with the ability to build strong partnerships across business, HR and external stakeholders.
  • Thrives in a fast-paced, changing and agile environment.
  • Customer-focused and results-oriented.
  • Strong persuasion and influencing skills, with the ability to manage stakeholder expectations effectively.

Desirable for the role

  • Postgraduate qualification in an HR-related specialization.
  • Recruiting experience within the pharmaceutical industry.
  • Experience developing or delivering Early Talent strategies across multiple locations, business areas or markets.
  • Experience building university and external partnerships, and using data to evaluate the effectiveness and return on investment (ROI) of Early Talent recruitment programs.
  • Date Posted
  • 13-Nov-2026
  • Closing Date
  • 26-Nov-2026
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