Merck Group
Senior Talent Acquisition Advisor EMEA
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Work Your Magic with us!
Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.
United As One for Patients
Our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices, and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology, and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive, and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.
Your Role
As a Talent Acquisition Partner for our Healthcare business, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the talent landscape across a dynamic and fast-evolving sector. Partnering closely with hiring managers and senior stakeholders, you will own the full recruitment lifecycle – from developing targeted attraction strategies through to offer acceptance – for a portfolio of mid- to senior-level roles spanning individual contributors to Senior Directors.
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- Act as a trusted advisor to both candidates and the business
- Bring a consultative mindset and a genuine passion for connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities
- Build lasting relationships with candidates and internal stakeholders
- Advise hiring managers on role competencies and structured interviewing practices
- Embed our High Impact Culture principles into every hiring conversation
- Proactively identify improvements to recruitment tools and processes
- Embrace data, technology, and AI as standard enablers of your work
- Contribute actively to the broader EMEA Talent Acquisition team through cross-functional projects spanning TA systems, diversity, equity and inclusion, and hiring manager capability building
Who You Are
- Bring substantial full-cycle recruiting experience, with experience gained within the Pharmaceutical industry
- Confident managing complex, senior-level searches end to end
- A consultative partner to hiring managers and senior leaders, able to influence talent decisions with well-reasoned, evidence-based recommendations
- Conduct structured, competency-based interviews with skill, assessing candidates across technical fit, functional expertise, soft skill competencies, and cultural alignment
- Handle sensitive information with discretion, maintaining a high standard of confidentiality throughout the recruitment process
- Experienced with applicant tracking systems, professional networking platforms, and talent intelligence tools, and you use data proactively to inform and improve your hiring approach
- Demonstrate AI literacy – understand how artificial intelligence tools work, their practical applications in talent acquisition, and the ethical considerations around bias, fairness, and data privacy, enabling you to make informed and responsible decisions in your role
- Organized, adaptable, and comfortable managing multiple priorities simultaneously, bringing clarity to ambiguous situations and a drive for simplification
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This role is open to applicants from UK, Spain, and Portugal.
What we offer
We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe that this variety drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress!
Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!
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