Talent Acquisition Partner

Job Description Summary

As Talent Acquisition Partner for MACC (Mexico, Andean, Central America and Caribbean Countries), you will connect great talent with opportunities to make a meaningful difference for patients. You will partner with Hiring Managers and P&O stakeholders to identify and attract the capabilities Sandoz needs for the future, while managing recruitment end to end across a diverse group of markets. You will be a key ambassador for Sandoz in the external talent market, building relationships with candidates, creating an engaging and inclusive recruitment experience, and helping them understand our purpose, culture and the opportunities to grow and contribute at Sandoz.

Job Description

Major accountabilities: 

• Manage end-to-end recruitment for assigned requisitions, from intake and role clarification through sourcing, assessment, selection, offer management and pre-employment activities, ensuring timely and high-quality recruitment delivery.
• Partner closely with Hiring Managers and P&O stakeholders to understand business needs, role requirements and critical capabilities, providing TA expertise and constructively challenging requirements to enable effective and timely hiring decisions.
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies and talent pipelines using direct sourcing, external platforms, referrals, agencies, talent mapping and proactive candidate engagement, with particular focus on niche, recurring and business-critical capabilities.
• Drive structured and objective assessment and selection practices, guiding Hiring Managers on interviewing, candidate evaluation and evidence-based selection to support consistent, high-quality hiring decisions.

• Provide talent-market insights and intelligence on candidate availability, compensation expectations, competitor activity and market trends to inform sourcing approaches, hiring strategies and stakeholder expectations.
• Deliver an engaging and inclusive candidate and Hiring Manager experience, ensuring clear and timely communication throughout the recruitment journey, while acting as an ambassador for the Sandoz purpose, culture and employee value proposition and supporting onboarding activities for new joiners.
• Ensure operational excellence, data quality and compliance, maintaining accurate recruitment data, managing external recruitment partners as needed, and adhering to applicable employment legislation, data-privacy requirements and Sandoz TA policies and processes.
• Drive recruitment performance and continuous improvement by monitoring agreed TA KPIs, identifying bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement, sharing best practices, and collaborating across the local and Global TA, P&O and Center of Excellence network on relevant initiatives and projects.

 Key performance indicators:

• Success in the role will be measured against agreed Global TA KPIs, including recruitment delivery, requisition management, time to hire, sourcing effectiveness, candidate and Hiring Manager satisfaction, data quality and compliance.

 Minimum Requirements: 

• Bachelor Degree, +5 Years of Experience in Talent Acquisition, in-house recruitment, executive search or recruitment consulting
• Practical knowledge of structured interviewing and talent-assessment methods
• Ability to interpret recruitment data and convert insights into practical actions
   

Work Experience:

• Experience supporting employer-brand or recruitment-marketing initiatives
• Experience supporting multiple countries - Desirable
• Experience coordinating pre-boarding and onboarding activities
• Strong stakeholder-management, consulting, communication and influencing capability

 Skills:

• Talent Sourcing and pipeline management
• Interviewing and Candidate assessment
• Data and Analytics
• Stakeholder Management
• Talent Market intelligence
• Planning and Execution
• Employer Brand
• Judgement and problem solving
• Collaboration
• Customer and candidate focus

 Languages:

• Spanish. Professional proficiency
• English. Professional proficiency required to assess candidates
• Portuguese. Desirable

Why Sandoz?

Sandoz is the global leader in Biosimilar and Generic medicines, a segment of the healthcare industry that delivers 80% of the world’s medicines at 30% of the cost, touching the lives of more than 1 billion people across 100+ countries! While we are proud of our achievements, we have an ambition to do more, so that everyone can achieve the basic human right of access to good healthcare. 

With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help even more people gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.  

Our momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills, experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful careers, where diversity of thought is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!  

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