Recruitment Talent Advisor

Posted:
1/21/2026, 4:00:21 AM

Location(s):
Cork, Munster, Ireland ⋅ Munster, Ireland

Experience Level(s):
Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
People & HR

McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve – we care.

What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow’s health today, we want to hear from you.

The Talent Advisor reports to the Sr Manager Talent Acquisition and is accountable to deliver the best talent with the right combination of skills and experience to drive organizational impact. The Talent Advisor acts as a talent acquisition consultant to business clients and is responsible for assisting in identifying the best candidates to fill open positions and deliver on organizational objectives.

The Talent Advisor will support the talent acquisition efforts for a business unit or units and/or specific functions and/or geographies. The Talent Advisor acts in an individual contributor capacity and will work closely with the hiring managers and strategic partners. 


Key Responsibilities

  • Partners with hiring manager for identified businesses/functions to understand and prioritize position requirements, and influences staffing decisions according to business needs.
  • Gains agreement on service level agreements and sets clear expectations with hiring manager.
  • Facilitates the assessment process with the hiring manager by conducting thorough intake sessions, clarifying hiring roles and responsibilities, and ensuring hiring job descriptions reflect accurate knowledge, skills and abilities required.
  • Gains understanding and visibility of internal and external candidate pool and skill sets
  • Establishes best selection process in terms of strategy, tools and participant experience.

Sourcing

  • Engage in the proactive sourcing and successful identification of top talent for open requisitions within a business unit or units and/or specific functions; facilitates prioritization of talent needs. 
  • Suggests and executes effective and efficient recruitment strategies needed to acquire top talent.
  • Conducts a full in-depth Interview with qualified candidates to determine level of qualification and assesses and vets out top talent for open positions.   
  • Delivers slates of qualified and diverse talent for current and anticipated roles in the organization.

Selection Influence

  • Utilizes a consultative approach with hiring teams for assessment and selection ensuring business needs are met.  
  • Influences and provides guidance to HRBPs and business leaders to ensure the right people are hired for the right positions at the right time.
  • Educates hiring managers on conducting behavioural interviewing, and facilitates selection process and discussion, in order to ensure effective, legal interviewing practices.
  • Manages positive candidate and employee experience throughout the recruitment process.
  • Influences overall hiring process to achieve timeliness of SLAs.

Offer Process

  • Assists hiring manager in developing and gaining approval for competitive offer packages.
  • Facilitates understanding of offer components to gain offer acceptance with the candidate.
  • Hands off candidate information/offer components to coordinator/HR Ops.

  Communication and Reporting

  • Responds to talent acquisition needs and inquiries from HRBPs, business leaders, hiring managers, TA strategists, etc., with firm-specific business knowledge      
  • Provides hiring manager accurate and timely update on candidate activity, tracks talent acquisition metrics and reports trends and issues to TA leadership, providing recommendations for improvement
  • Maintains up-to-date candidate records in the applicant tracking system for accurate reporting and analysis
  • Reaches out to new hires to raise awareness of the employee referral program, as applicable and harvest referrals
  • Maintains strong cross functional partnerships with business, HRBPs, business leaders, hiring managers and strategic partners

Minimum Requirements

  • 4-+ years recruiting experience


Critical Skills

  • 4+ years of full lifecycle recruiting in a corporate multinational environment (some agency recruiting experience preferred.)
  • Proven ability to report on metrics and leverage recruitment analytics to inform hiring decisions
  • Strong customer orientation and influencing skills with hiring managers
  • Strong project management skills and the ability to execute fast paced and high-volume recruitment efforts
  • Excellent relationship management skills-ability to establish credibility and partner with leaders to identify talent gaps, needs, risk and plans for actions
  • Knowledge of employment law, corporate recruitment practices

Additional Knowledge & Skills

  • Excellent organizational and time management skills
  • In-depth experience in competency-based interview and assessment techniques preferred
  • Strategic, creative and innovative thinking skills, ability to exercise sound judgment highly preferred
  • Demonstration of the following skills also highly preferred
    • Influence and negotiation skills
    • Client partnering
    • Builds collaboration
    • Influences others w/o authority 
    • Talent Champion
    • Innovative mindset
    • Leadership


Education

  • 4-year degree in human resources, business or related field or equivalent experience

At McKesson, we care about the well-being of the patients and communities we serve, and that starts with caring for our people. That’s why we have a Total Rewards package that includes comprehensive benefits to support physical, mental, and financial well-being. Our Total Rewards offerings serve the different needs of our diverse employee population and ensure they are the healthiest versions of themselves.

As part of Total Rewards, we are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations.  In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. 

Our Base Pay Range for this position

€53,400 - €89,000

McKesson has become aware of online recruiting-related scams in which individuals who are not affiliated with or authorized by McKesson are using McKesson’s (or affiliated entities, like CoverMyMeds or RxCrossroads) name in fraudulent emails, job postings or social media messages. In light of these scams, please bear the following in mind:

McKesson Talent Advisors will never solicit money or credit card information in connection with a McKesson job application.


McKesson Talent Advisors do not communicate with candidates via online chatrooms or using email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail. Note that McKesson does rely on a virtual assistant (Gia) for certain recruiting-related communications with candidates.

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