Talent Acquisition Partner

At AstraZeneca we work together across global boundaries to make an impact and find answers to challenges. The work we do here is meaningful. Every action we take is focused on putting our patients first, and they add up to something bigger. We help AstraZeneca to run faster and better, powering everyone else to focus on what’s important and work towards delivering life-changing medicines. 

As Talent Acquisition Partner, you will play a pivotal role in channelling our scientific capabilities to make a positive impact on patients’ lives. This is an exciting opportunity for someone to engage, inspire, persuade and influence and be part of a cutting-edge in-house Talent Acquisition Function- supporting Alexion Operations & RD in Ireland.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

As a Talent Acquisition Partner for Alexion you will be responsible for delivering Talent Acquisition solutions in partnership with the Hiring Manager/ Team Manager/ HRBP and Talent Acquisition Lead to proactively identify and fill vacancies with talented individuals with the right capability and skills in a fast paced challenging market.

This will involve proactive activity, developing and executing sourcing plans, building talent pipelines, conducting direct sourcing activity, research, screening, interviewing, pre-selecting, offer management and managing the hiring administration process.

This role is full lifecycle recruitment in a very hands-on fast moving environment where your subject matter expertise will allow you to advise, coach and influence hiring managers to ensure best in class service delivery to the business and candidates.

You will build strong trusting relationships both with internal stakeholders and candidates and ensure both have a good experience with Talent Acquisition throughout the process.

You will be targeted on a direct fill rate – utilizing our internal Talent Scouts for senior hires and internal recruitment marketing teams for campaigns.

Collating feedback and providing hiring metrics and data analytics on performance and reporting to identify areas for continuous improvement will also be key in this role

You will develop and manage recruitment services delivery, both personally and through vendors against delivery of key Time, Cost and Quality targets and metrics 

Whilst developing strong partnerships with hiring managers and candidates, you will build a bench of qualified candidates to meet both current and anticipated business needs. 

You will ensure assigned recruitment services are in compliance with Global Recruitment and country policies/guidelines and ensure 3rd party providers adhere to required procurement and policy standards.

You will participate in all activities in the recruitment life cycle including; sourcing planning and delivery (both direct sourcing and attraction), screening, interviewing, pre-selecting, offer management, hiring and onboarding .

You will educate hiring manager and other assessors in the use of Interviewing approach, recommend resources and techniques for interviewing, assessing and evaluating applicants.

You will advise the business about recruitment responsibilities, legal requirements and appropriate candidate management techniques; provide resources and tools as needed to educate and enhance the skills of individuals involved in the hiring processes.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Experience in delivering full life cycle recruitment services in this sector
• Experience utilizing a range of attraction channels
• Demonstrate knowledge of relevant roles and ability to identify key candidate sources externally to build potential candidate pools
• Persuading & influencing skills
• Stakeholder management and relationship building skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced changing agile environment
• Customer focused, results orientated approach

Desirable Skills & Experience:

• Educated to degree level

• Broad understanding of Pharma industry

Date Posted

10-Apr-2026

Closing Date

14-Apr-2026

Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion, starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of characteristics. We offer reasonable adjustments/accommodations to help all candidates to perform at their best. If you have a need for any adjustments/accommodations, please complete the section in the application form.