Senior Talent Acquisition Partner

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.

Your role at Baxter:

As a Senior Talent Acquisition Business Partner, you are responsible for delivery of excellence throughout the Talent Acquisition lifecycle in individual assignments and larger scale recruitment projects. You will take a lead role in helping drive quality outcomes through partnering closely with your hiring managers, other members of Talent Acquisition and your HR Business Partners to ensure efficient and effective delivery of hiring projects.

You are accountable for handling the hiring and selection process including quality candidate sourcing that meet the needs of your Hiring Manager, the role and company.  You will have a strong focus on direct sourcing and will understand how to effectively leverage the employer brand and understanding of the opportunity to screen and attract top talent. Your focus will be to deliver a positive and professional hiring experience for candidates and hiring managers.

If you are looking for a place where you choose to work with talented and dynamic people whose primary focus is to save and sustain lives and your work values focus on speed, simplicity, courage and collaboration. Then we would love to hear from you.

What are your responsibilities?

• Lead recruiting activities through to successful hire with a strong focus on direct, candidate identification and sourcing of talent
• Responsible for collaborating with Hiring Manager to create impactful advertising, driving engagement across social media, talent identification and headhunting and proactive solicitation of referrals
• Accountable for effective use of recruitment marketing and branding materials to engage and communicate with internal and external talent
• Proactively provide meaningful, market intelligence and recruiting insights to your Hiring Managers and HR, demonstrating your value as a trusted advisor
• Deliver an engaging candidate experience by uncovering and understanding factors that influence talent, knowing their motivators and adjusting your approach to handle a variety of situations
• Leveraging your recruiting expertise, capable of effectively challenging and influencing stakeholders to drive successful and quality-oriented activities around screening, slate presentation, interviewing and hiring decisions
• Understand and accurately representing Baxter’s total compensation philosophy when managing offer negotiations
• Coach candidates on how to effectively prepare for selection stages and provide feedback in a timely manner in accordance with local legislation and recruitment best practices 
• Accountable for correctly managing and updating requisitions through to completion including responsibility for ensuring real time system updates
• Identify and escalate risk or compliance issues
• Collaborate with the business to understand critical and repeatable roles to inform talent pipelining strategy
• Attend marketing or industry events, community networking as required
• Know Your Customer: proactively maintain and enhance your knowledge of Baxter to ensure you are continuously evolving your business understanding and knowledge
• Monitor and analyze recruitment activity of your business areas to support meaningful conversation around volumes, performance and forecasting
• Participate in continuous improvement projects

We are presently seeking people who have:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Previous experience in 360 recruiting within a global organization, preferably within healthcare, medical technology or pharmaceutical sector
• Shown capability in effectively running concurrent hiring, priorities and stakeholders at different stages of the recruitment lifecycle, without impacting delivery quality and timelines
• Experience conducting behavioral based interviews for a variety of roles and successful use of assessment methodologies to facilitate ‘right first time’ hiring
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and that are fluent in English and Spanish (additional languages would be a bonus)
• Functional knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Proven capability using recruiting technologies (ATS and CRMs) and direct sourcing tools and techniques
• Previous experience working in a transformative environment with an ability to deal effectively with multiple, potentially conflicting priorities and ambiguity

Why do you want to work at Baxter?

• Competitive total compensation package
• Professional development opportunities
• High importance placed on work life balance (Family Responsible Certificate efr)
• Flexible benefits (childcare vouchers, employee discounts, etc.)
• Commitment to growing and developing an inclusive and diverse workforce – Baxter Spain holds the DIE certificate "Equality in the Workplace" that is awarded by the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality since 2016. You can read more about our values at www.baxter.es

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer and is therefore firmly committed towards making employment opportunities available to all qualified applicants without regard to gender, race, age, disability, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, responsibility for dependents, religion or trade union membership.

Reasonable Accommodations

Baxter is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities globally. If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process, please click on the link here and let us know the nature of your request along with your contact information.

Recruitment Fraud Notice

Baxter has discovered incidents of employment scams, where fraudulent parties pose as Baxter employees, recruiters, or other agents, and engage with online job seekers in an attempt to steal personal and/or financial information. To learn how you can protect yourself, review our Recruitment Fraud Notice.