Talent acquisition Partner, Insulin Facility Beijing

This Talent Acquisition Partner position is critical to Sanofi's strategic growth, supporting the InsuLINK project - the largest ever investment initiative in our global history. Based in Beijing, this role carries full responsibility for China IFB (Insulin Factory Beijing) recruitment, supporting a world-class greenfield drug substance facility that represents almost 100% incremental headcount from 2024 through 2032 full operations.

The successful candidate will collaborate with key global stakeholders across glocal M&S leadership team to ensure the success of this mission-critical recruitment initiative. Their contribution will be instrumental in building the foundation for this landmark investment and securing Sanofi's manufacturing future in the region.

This individual will be responsible for setting and leading the end-to-end search strategy, as well as executing and leading metric-driven search assignments, while also ensuring the organization is focused, successful and competitive to meet recruitment goals.  

This individual will also deliver best-in-class relationship management with candidates, internal/external clients and partners, and vendors. Design and manage strategic recruitment projects related to diversity.  Demonstrated experience in proactively leading client relationships in addition to proactive talent attraction tools are essential for these positions. 

The Talent Acquisition Partner will proactively identify and implement forward-thinking attraction and passive sourcing strategies in response to the business needs and will be responsible for identifying and assessing internal and external talent.  This position will be accountable for driving these strategies through collaboration with our People Business Partners and Hiring Managers to ensure the timely and cost- effective identification and selection of high quality and diverse talent required to achieve business short- and long-term goals.

About Job

Partner with Hiring Managers to design, implement, and execute talent acquisition strategies. Provide guidance on selection processes and hiring decisions based on the Sanofi Leadership model.

•  Proactively generate a continual, diverse pipeline of highly qualified candidates.

•  Responsible for delivering weekly, quarterly, and annual performance and status reporting, market feedbacks and insights to P&C and Line Managers with complete transparency on progress against open positions as well as any potential barriers and risk factors to completing search objectives.

•  Participate in conferences, industry organizations, and networking events to amplify Sanofi’s presence in the marketplace.

•  Create and utilize innovative and aggressive recruitment methods that are designed to deliver an exceptional, diverse pool of candidates to Hiring Managers in an effective and efficient manner.

•  Successful performance against staffing metrics including, but not limited to:  Number of Positions Filled, Time to Fill, Diversity, Source of Hire, Offer/Acceptance, Cost Per Hire, and other internal measurements and standards that drive an effective talent acquisition process.
•  Lead the overall talent acquisition effort for assigned functional clients with the goal of driving country-wide staffing projects as assigned.

•  Proactively and continuously utilizes effective sourcing strategies (passive and non-passive) in an effort to build a network of high quality, diverse candidates for current and future openings.

•  Consults with People Business Partners and Hiring Managers regarding specific diversity recruitment goals and develops and implements appropriate tactics ensuring diverse candidate slate for each position.

•  Provides appropriate counsel and recommendations throughout the entire acquisition process on candidate assessment and selection, offer recommendation, and other guidance as necessary.

•  Proactively identifies recruitment challenges, and provides timely and proper solutions.

About You

Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of professional recruitment experience and/or relevant experience with transferrable skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience recruiting within the life sciences, pharma, bio-technological or related industries and/or recruiting for Manufacturing and Supply, Corporate, Engineering, R&D within a mid to large matrixed multinational organization, capable of global stakeholders management

•  DDI or Lominger certification desired.

•  Experience utilizing applicant tracking systems; prior use of Workday is a plus.

•  Experience with a broad range of recruiting methodologies including sourcing capabilities (active and passive), internet, employee referrals, professional networking, etc.

•  Demonstrated experience managing the candidate process orchestrating a positive candidate experience throughout.

•  Prior experience managing retained searches very desirable.

•  Recruitment experience gained at a contingency or retained search firm experience a plus.

•  Must have strong business acumen and savvy.