International Talent Acquisition Specialist

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

In order to support its fast and sustainable growth, Eurofins is hiring an International Talent Acquisition Specialist who will not only be an ambassador of Eurofins but also a trusted recruiting partner whose main goal will be to attract the best-in-class executive candidate to the Eurofins Network.

You are an ambassador of Eurofins as a trusted recruiting partner and your goal is to attract the best of class executive candidates to the Eurofins Network in order to achieve their goals.

The Talent Acquisition Specialist’s primary responsibility is to partner with internal clients and research associates and drive the strategy, process, and timelines as it relates to candidate identification and development. This includes a key strategic component in terms of providing consultation to our internal customers regarding the marketplace and constantly evolving, tweaking, and improving the search strategy to deliver on our promise of outstanding results to our clients

As a key member of the European Talent Acquisition Team, which is structured as an in-house executive search team, you will manage the recruitment of senior executives for our different business lines across Europe normally with an international scope.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for the Talent Acquisition/Recruitment cycle from A-Z (from draft of Position Description up to signature of the Offer Letter);
• Lead local and remote Recruitment Researchers to generate ideas, leverage existing resources (Eurofins ATS, social media, databases and any other open sources) and share information that facilitates an effective sourcing and candidate attraction strategy;
• Act as Single Point of Contact for the Senior Leadership and work closely with the Heads of the different Department and Divisions;
• Work on improving candidate experience maintaining a very close relationship to attract high potentials and develop a broad professional network of top talent;
• Own all aspects of candidate recruitment including setting strategy, crafting a message, executing on calls/video interviews, networking, developing, and building relationships with candidates, and advising the internal clients on the potential candidates;
• Proactively develop robust candidate pipelines across a diverse range of business areas, leveraging technology to discover and sustain leads and prospects. Utilize appropriate Social Media sourcing and branding tools to support with talent attraction;
• Execute executive research which may include networking, identifying applicant associations/pools/professional groups and affiliations, alumni websites, Boolean searches, targeted companies/individuals, use of analytics tools, etc.;
• Provide talent market insights, competitive intelligence, and talent demographic data to enable business unit heads and hiring managers to be well-informed on market conditions.

Education

Education: Bachelor/Master’s Degree in Business, Human Resources, Psychology, or related fields.

Experience

• Overall 3-5 years of recruiting or candidate sourcing experience, delivering end-to-end recruitment assignments, including passive candidates sourcing for open roles, market mapping and creating/maintaining talent pools;
• Of those minimum 3 years of full cycle middle-to-senior level recruitment experience in an agency (Executive Search) or in-house recruitment within a corporate environment is desirable;
• Prior project responsibility for sourcing specialists is key.

Language / IT

• Fluent in English and French; Flemish would be a plus
• Proficiency with Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Outstanding recruitment and interviewing skills
• Strong communications skills (written and verbal)
• Relevant organizational and interpersonal skills
• Accurate and detail oriented
• Used to a fast-paced environment
• Entrepreneurial spirit
• Networker abilities to identify outstanding candidates
• Eager learner

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 61,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 61 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.