About the Position:

The Talent Acquisition Partner serves as a strategic partner to internal leaders and external clients, providing consultative guidance and data-driven insights to support effective hiring strategies. This role leads full-cycle recruitment efforts across high-volume programs, managing sourcing, interviewing, candidate qualification, and offer processes while ensuring a seamless candidate experience. The Talent Acquisition Partner also guides and supports recruiting teams and contributes to continuous process optimization within an RPO delivery model.

We are seeking a temporary team member for a 4–6 month contract supporting a customer project in Cary, NC, beginning in 2026.

About Us:

We support a leading life sciences recruitment organization known for transforming how companies build critical teams throughout the drug development lifecycle. With a proprietary pricing model and flexible support options, we help clients scale efficiently while maintaining exceptional hiring quality. Our corporate teams play a key role in delivering operational excellence, strong client partnerships, and a thoughtful, transparent experience for every candidate. We take pride in being people-first, data-driven, and committed to value, focusing on outcomes that truly make a difference. When you join our corporate team, your work contributes to advancing scientific innovation and helping life-changing therapies reach patients faster. 

What You’ll Do:

• Participate in planning with team leadership to identify recruiting strategies, client needs, and methods that achieve the highest fill rates, while providing input on system enhancements and process improvements. 

• Source potential candidates through the company database, job boards, social media, networking events, and referrals, expanding the network of qualified talent. 

• Conduct interviews to assess candidates’ skills, experience, cultural fit, and critical success factors using behavioral and situational techniques, then qualify and submit candidates per client and RPO guidelines. 

• Manage the full recruiting lifecycle, including submission, interview coordination, offer development, negotiation, closing, and all related administrative components, while maintaining strong communication with candidates from application through placement. 

• Negotiate compensation packages with consideration for individual and team gross margin goals and extend offers of employment on behalf of the client.

• Maintain accurate ATS records and ensure all recruitment activities comply with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations. 

• Support large-scale, high-volume recruiting programs by leveraging expertise in RPO delivery, ATS management, process optimization, and event-based hiring. 

• Provide day-to-day leadership and coaching to recruiting teams, promoting accountability, ownership, and adherence to SOPs and client processes. 

• Partner closely with internal and external leadership on key initiatives, project planning, and process enhancements, applying strategic, data-driven insights to drive efficient hiring and continuous improvement. 

• Build and sustain strong, consultative client relationships and proactively identify and resolve challenges while influencing outcomes and adapting to diverse client needs. 

• Stay informed on industry trends, innovative recruiting techniques, and competitor activity, recommending enhancements to recruitment strategies and overall departmental effectiveness. 

• Travel approximately four weeks over a three-month period, to support client hiring events, special projects, and team initiatives.

What You’ll Bring:

• Two years of full cycle recruiting in life sciences; commercial experience preferred. 

• Possess an overall knowledge of business functions and understanding of services, business strategy, policies and procedures, and job’s impact to the organization. 

• Work with electronic hardware and software applications specific to the role.  

• Work independently, see business needs and proactively accomplish them for the betterment of their team and the organization.  

• Analyze work, set goals, develop plans of action, utilize time.  

• Proactively obtain and share information tailored to the audience. 

• Attend to the needs and expectations of customers. 

• Affect or change others' positions and opinions. 

• Engage effectively in dialogue. 

Salary: Annualized at $65,000 (actual pay will be prorated based on the length of the temporary assignment) + bonus eligibility.