Talent Acquisition Manager

Posted:
10/20/2025, 1:26:08 PM

Location(s):
Shanghai, China

Experience Level(s):
Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
People & HR

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Working with Us
Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren’t words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. You’ll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams. Take your career farther than you thought possible.

Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their goals, both at work and in their personal lives. Read more: careers.bms.com/working-with-us.

Detailed Position Responsibilities

  • Maintain current market knowledge and external trends.
  • Build and maintain meaningful and trusted relationships that result in dynamic hiring manager and candidate experiences
  • Participation in business leadership team meetings, work to improve processes, identify gaps, and make changes as needed.
  • Utilize BMS’s Employer Brand to effectively build relationships with external candidates and to ‘market’ opportunities within BMS and the future direction of the organization
  • Lead and facilitate recruitment strategy meetings for active requisitions, which provide an overview of the external market, as well as a firm understanding of the capabilities needed by the business
  • Lead and set expectations on roles & responsibilities of the hiring manager and HRBP.
  • Responsible for ensuring that recruiting team is providing quality candidates to the hiring manager, timeliness of their presentations, while providing updates throughout the interview process.
  • Execute the full life cycle recruiting process including sourcing, interviewing, presenting candidates, and negotiating offers (including the presentation and explanation of BMS’ benefits package)
  • Responsible for providing quality candidates to the hiring manager in a timely manner
  • Manage relationships with third party vendors (if engaged)
  • Champion structured interviewing and selection methodology / approach with client group and ensure strong interview capabilities for those on the panel
  • In partnership with TA Lead, provide recruiting updates (including reporting analytics), trends, obstacles, and competitive market intelligence on the talent pools we’re actively sourcing from
  • Provide preparation /overview to the candidate prior to their interview day
  • Manage candidate debrief sessions following the interviews and communication with the candidate throughout the interviewing process
  • Work with Compensation/Total Rewards to put forward a competitive offer package with input from the hiring manager
  • Metrics: provide dashboard for LTs, on time and trends in TA, data analysis, help build & deliver TA narrative & proactive view of recruitment and business needs.
  • Responsible for data integrity within the Applicant Tracking System, Candidate Relationship Management and other systems

    Skills/Knowledge Required:

  • Demonstrated experience in recruiting in Pharma or FMCG industry.
  • Demonstrated experience/interface with senior level management and TA business partners
  • Proficient in using an ATS - Workday preferred
  • Demonstrated ability to manage stakeholders at all levels of a highly matrixed organization; ability to work across cross-functional, cross-organizational teams
  • Superior communication skills, both written and verbal
  • Ability to work independently on multiple concurrent tasks.
  • Ability to appropriately handle highly confidential information.
  • Ability to work with limited day-to-day supervision.
  • Ability to perform role with high degree of professionalism.
  • Demonstrated attention to detail, ability to meet tight deadlines and superior customer service are all critical success factors for this role.
  • Strong understanding of technology and experience using talent acquisition systems, including Applicant Tracking, Candidate Relationship Management, social media, and other predictive tools
  • 10% travel within China
  • Qualifications:

  • BA/BS degree in a concentration related to business, marketing required or equivalent in work experience
  • 3-5years of successful recruiting experience including full cycle recruiting work in-house TA experience preferred

    If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

    Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
    With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in a supportive culture, promoting global participation in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

    On-site Protocol

    BMS has an occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

    Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

    BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles. Applicants can request a reasonable workplace accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your inquiries to [email protected]. Visit careers.bms.com/eeo-accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment Opportunity statement.

    BMS cares about your well-being and the well-being of our staff, customers, patients, and communities. As a result, the Company strongly recommends that all employees be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 and keep up to date with Covid-19 boosters.

    BMS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your area.

    If you live in or expect to work from Los Angeles County if hired for this position, please visit this page for important additional information: https://careers.bms.com/california-residents/

    Any data processed in connection with role applications will be treated in accordance with applicable data privacy policies and regulations.

    Bristol Myers Squibb

    Website: https://bms.com/

    Headquarter Location: New York, New York, United States

    Employee Count: 10001+

    Year Founded: 1887

    IPO Status: Public

    Last Funding Type: Post-IPO Debt

    Industries: Biotechnology ⋅ Health Care ⋅ Medical ⋅ Pharmaceutical ⋅ Precision Medicine