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

Korn Ferry
Newcastle upon Tyne
2 weeks 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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