Recruiting Specialist

The Recruiting Specialist plays a critical role in building strong talent pipelines to support current and future hiring needs. This role is responsible for identifying, engaging, and nurturing high quality candidates across scientific, technical, and corporate functions. The ideal candidate is a proactive, research driven talent partner who leverages data, market insights, and creative sourcing strategies to attract exceptional talent in a competitive landscape.

Talent Pipeline Development

• Build, manage, and maintain targeted pipelines for critical roles across the organization.
• Conduct proactive research and market mapping to identify talent pools in relevant scientific, technical, and business domains.
• Create and execute sourcing plans to support high volume, niche, and hard to fill roles.

Candidate Identification & Engagement

• Use advanced Boolean searches, LinkedIn Recruiter, talent databases, referrals, and alternative channels to identify top talent.
• Craft personalized outreach messages that drive high response and engagement rates.
• Screen and assess candidate fit based on skills, experience, and alignment with organizational values.

Stakeholder Partnership

• Partner closely with Recruiters, Hiring Managers, and HRBPs to understand role requirements and ideal candidate profiles.
• Provide regular updates on pipeline progress, competitive insights, and sourcing metrics.
• Collaborate to refine search criteria, adjust sourcing strategies, and ensure alignment.

Candidate Experience

• Serve as an initial brand ambassador, delivering a positive, transparent, and engaging experience for all prospects.
• Maintain accurate and timely data in Workday to ensure operational excellence.
• This role may also assist with the potential coordination of interviews between candidates and interviewers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• 5 years of sourcing experience within an RPO, staffing, or internal corporate environment.
• Demonstrated ability to source for specialized or hard to fill roles within biotech, pharma, or scientific industries required.
• Commercial recruiting experience required
• Experience using Workday ATS and LinkedIn Recruiter is required
• Recruitment experience in a fast-paced environment
• Skilled in Boolean search, talent mapping, and competitive research.

Skills and Competencies

• Detailed oriented; strong technical and organizational skills
• Exceptional written and verbal communication
• Excellent people skills, having the ability to build relationships at all levels.
• Strong sense of urgency and accountability; Goal oriented and self-motivated
• Scrappy way of working, willingness to roll up sleeves to get job done quickly.
• Transparent, willing to give and receive feedback, admit and learn from mistakes.
• Collaborative, works to develop trust and maintain relationships in remote environment.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, professional corporate environment; adaptable and responsive to changing priorities.
• Passion for delivering an exceptional candidate and client experiences.
• Ability to problem solve and identify issues proactively and independently.

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $100,000 to 110,000. The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high of the Syneos Health range for this position. Actual salary will vary based on various factors such as the candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role. In addition, some positions may include eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and / or individual performance.

At Syneos Health, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. At times, we will consider transferable skills from previous roles. We also encourage you to join our Talent Network to stay connected to additional career opportunities.

Why Syneos Health? We partner with industry experts to solve and execute against today's toughest commercialization challenges facing the world's leading healthcare companies. The diversification and breadth of our new and existing partnerships create a multitude of career paths and employment opportunities on our Commercial Operations and Leadership teams. Join our game-changing, global company dedicated to creating better, smarter, faster ways to get biopharmaceutical therapies to patients. Experience the thrill of knowing that your everyday efforts are contributing to improving patients' lives around the world.

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Syneos Health companies are affirmative action/equal opportunity employers (Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled)

Syneos Health has a voluntary COVID-19 vaccination policy. We strongly encourage all employees to be fully vaccinated. Additionally, certain local governments or Syneos Health customers may have vaccine requirements that apply to some of our employees. These employees are required to submit proof of vaccination to Syneos Health and maintain compliance with these requirements.
At Syneos Health, we believe in providing an environment and culture in which Our People can thrive, develop and advance. We reward and recognize our people by providing valuable benefits and a quality-of-life balance. The benefits for this position will include a competitive compensation package, Health benefits to include Medical, Dental and Vision, Company match 401k, flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time. Because certain states and municipalities have regulated paid sick time requirements, eligibility for paid sick time may vary depending on where you work. Syneos Health complies with all applicable federal, state, and municipal paid sick time requirements.