Recruiter - Life Sciences - Italian Speaking (6 month FTC)

Korn Ferry

Manchester

2 months ago

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We are looking for an experiencedRecruiterto join our RPO Talent Acquisition team with one of Korn Ferry’s Global Pharmaceutical clients.

Working as an integral part of our team, you will be responsible for the full recruitment process including sourcing, screening, assessing, and marketing candidates to clients, as well as client management.

The successful Recruiter will be asked to carry out the following duties:

Take ownership of the recruitment life cycle for several key and high-profile business areas, with a strong focus on direct sourcing and diversity
Involved in creating various strategies to ensure maximum, successful output
Maintaining and creating relationships with hiring managers and stakeholders
Discuss relevant recruitment strategies with hiring managers
Utilise all available direct sourcing tools to ensure a quality candidate pipeline
Actively source candidates and build candidate talent pools
Be a ‘recruitment best practice’ champion into the business
Support and deliver on the overall service delivery targets
Provide information to Hiring Managers regarding market conditions, candidate availability, salary benchmarks
Maintain critical metrics and provide promote the highest data integrity within reporting

The Recruiter will have the following skills:

Experience within the Recruitment / RPO field / Agency
Experience in hiring within the Pharmaceutical/ Life Sciences industry
Fluency in both oral and written English and an additional language such as French, Spanish, Italian or German is required.
Ambassador for premium candidate experience through professional recruitment practices
IT Literate with MS Office suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word etc.)
Experience interpreting data and reporting
Promote process excellence
Strives for process innovation and high-performance working
Shown team working capability
Excellent stakeholder and networking skills
Ability to be involved in a wide range of talent acquisition projects

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