Talent Acquisition Partner

Job Description

Talent Partner - Life Sciences Manufacturing (Contract, Embedded On-Site 4 days a week)

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Employer: BioTalent

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Location: On-site, Southern California

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Contract: Rolling month-by-month, up to 6 months

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Rate: Highly competitive

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Start: ASAP

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BioTalent has been engaged on a major embedded RPO partnership with a large Southern California pharmaceutical business. Following a board-mandated growth plan, the programme will deliver approximately 150 hires in six months across production, manufacturing, quality and engineering.

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We're building a small on-site delivery team led by our programme lead, previously Global TA Lead at a top-tier cell therapy company. This is a genuinely high-visibility piece of work with executive sponsorship behind it.

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The role

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You'll be embedded on-site as part of the delivery team, owning requisitions end-to-end across your assigned functions:

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• Full-cycle recruitment at volume - sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer management and close
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• Acting as a trusted advisor to hiring managers in manufacturing, quality and engineering
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• Building and running proactive sourcing strategies for hard-to-fill technical and GMP-regulated roles
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• Managing pipeline health and reporting against aggressive weekly and monthly hiring targets
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• Contributing to process, market intelligence and candidate experience as the programme scales
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What we're looking for

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• Proven full-cycle recruitment experience within life sciences, pharma, biotech or medical devices
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• Direct experience hiring into manufacturing, production, quality or engineering functions - GMP environment experience strongly preferred
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• Comfortable operating at high volume without dropping quality or candidate experience
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• Confident partnering with senior stakeholders and managing expectations directly
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• Agency, in-house or RPO background all welcome; embedded/RPO experience an advantage
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• Able to work on-site in Southern California and start at short notice
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This is a contract engagement running on a rolling month-by-month basis, up to a maximum of six months , aligned to the programme timeline.

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What's on offer

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• Strong contract rate
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• Real ownership of a defined, high-impact programme rather than a slice of someone else's desk
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• Working alongside an experienced programme lead with deep cell therapy TA background
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• Exposure to a large-scale, board-sponsored hiring programme in a growing SoCal pharma business
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Due to the confidential nature of this engagement, the client will not be named at application stage. Full details shared under NDA with shortlisted candidates.