Talent Acquisition Lead – Pharma

• Manage roles end to end, from intake through offer and onboarding handover
• Recruit across medical, commercial, regulatory, quality, legal, and business support functions
• Proactively source candidates using Boolean search, headhunting, and passive outreach
• Recruit hard-to-find pharmaceutical talent at all levels up to senior leadership
• Build talent intelligence before, during, and after each search
• Set realistic expectations and guide stakeholder decisions using market insight
• Adapt recruitment approaches across the UK and Europe
• Prioritise workload and consistently deliver to SLAs
• Identify blockers, improve processes, and provide solutions
• Own recruitment data and proactively provide market insight to the Talent Acquisition Director
• Share knowledge and support colleagues
• Build trusted relationships with hiring managers up to VP level
• Understand business and hiring priorities and plan for future demand

• Proven pharma recruitment experience is essential
• Strong in-house, RPO, or embedded recruitment experience
• Track record of delivering to SLAs and hiring targets
• Agency recruitment experience with deep pharma experience and a partnership mindset also welcome
• Skilled at direct sourcing and headhunting
• Confidence building Boolean searches and engaging passive candidates
• Experience partnering with senior stakeholders, including challenging, influencing, and managing expectations
• Comfortable using data and market insight to drive hiring decisions
• Organised and resilient, able to prioritise competing demands in a fast-paced, competitive market
• Genuinely curious about AI and already experimenting with AI tools for sourcing, screening, writing, or research
• Keen to keep learning how AI can improve recruitment
• Additional language skills are nice to have

• 100% remote with flexible hours
• Flexa-accredited workplace with a 3-star “World-Class” rating from Best Companies
• Internal progression strategy with clear paths into broader roles across Talent Acquisition and beyond
• Regular in-house training, knowledge-sharing, and career support
• Global, inclusive team culture
• R6,500 personal L&D budget (pro rata)
• R3,500 home office budget (pro rata)
• Internal mobility opportunities
• Medical Aid
• Hybrid working flexibility