Director Talent Acquisition & Staffing

The Director of Talent Acquisition is a global, strategic talent leader responsible for designing and delivering best in class talent acquisition solutions across Consulting, Commercial Operations, and Commercial Strategy & Solutions. Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Global Recruiting Solutions, this role partners closely with the Presidents and executive leadership teams of these businesses to enable growth, transformation, and competitive advantage through exceptional hiring outcomes.
This leader will oversee a globally distributed team of recruiters and talent researchers, personally lead executive hiring, and own the strategy and governance for all contingent workers worldwide. The role blends enterprise talent leadership with deep business partnership, ensuring talent acquisition strategies directly support commercial objectives and long term capability needs.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Partnership & Business Leadership

• Act as a trusted strategic partner to the Presidents of Consulting, Commercial Operations, and Commercial Strategy & Solutions, aligning talent acquisition strategies with global business plans and commercial priorities
• Collaborate closely with the Senior Vice President of Global Recruiting Solutions to shape and execute enterprise wide recruiting strategies
• Translate workforce plans, growth strategies, and capability requirements into proactive, scalable talent acquisition roadmaps
• Provide executive leaders with market intelligence, talent insights, and competitive analyses to inform decision making

Global Talent Acquisition Strategy & Execution

• Lead the end to end global talent acquisition strategy for Consulting and Commercial businesses, spanning permanent, executive, and contingent hiring
• Drive workforce planning, demand forecasting, and hiring prioritization across regions and functions
• Develop innovative sourcing and research strategies for scarce, high impact, and future critical skill sets
• Ensure a consistent, high quality candidate experience and strong employer brand across all geographies

Executive & Critical Talent Hiring

• Personally lead and oversee executive level recruitment, including confidential and succession critical searches
• Partner with senior leadership, HR Business Partners, and Total Rewards on executive selection, assessment, and offer strategy
• Ensure rigorous, equitable, and compliant executive hiring practices globally

Contingent Workforce Leadership

• Own the global strategy, governance, and optimization of the contingent workforce, including contractors and temporary labor
• Partner with Procurement, Legal, Finance, and HR to ensure compliance, cost effectiveness, and vendor performance
• Implement scalable contingent workforce models that balance flexibility, speed, and risk management

Team Leadership & Capability Building

• Lead, develop, and inspire a global team of Talent Acquisition Managers, Recruiters and Talent Researchers
• Establish clear performance expectations, career paths, and development frameworks within the Talent Acquisition organization
• Build a high performance, inclusive culture grounded in accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement

Operational Excellence & Governance

• Ensure global consistency in recruiting processes while enabling regional market flexibility
• Leverage recruiting technology, analytics, and dashboards to measure performance and drive continuous improvement
• Manage TA budgets and resource allocation in partnership with the SVP of Global Recruiting Solutions
• Ensure compliance with local labor laws, data privacy regulations, and enterprise policies

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred
• 15+ years of progressive talent acquisition experience, including 7+ years of senior leadership in a global or multi country model required.
• Proven experience supporting Consulting, Professional Services, Commercial Life Sciences, or highly matrixed pharmaceutical services business.
• Demonstrated success as a strategic advisor to Presidents and executive leadership teams
• Extensive experience leading executive recruitment and global, complex searches
• Strong expertise in contingent workforce strategies and global labor models
• Experience building and leading high performing, globally distributed team of TA Managers, Recruiters and TA Researchers.
• North America based role with Northeast US preferred

Key Competencies

• Strategic and commercial acumen
• Executive presence and strong influencing skills
• Deep knowledge of global talent markets and trends
• Data driven decision making and storytelling
• Ability to operate effectively in complex, fast moving environments
• Inclusive, enterprise minded leadership approach

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $195,000 to $235,000. 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)

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.