Talent Acquisition Business Partner

Vantive: A New Company Built On Our Legacy

Baxter is on a journey to separate our ~$5B Kidney Care segment into a standalone company. Vantive* will build on our nearly 70-year legacy in acute therapies and home and in-center dialysis to provide best-in-class care to the people we serve. We believe Vantive will not only build our leadership in the kidney care space, it will also offer meaningful work to those who join us.

At Vantive, you will become part of a community of people who are focused, courageous and don’t settle for the mediocre. Each of us are driven to help improve patients’ lives worldwide. Join us as we revolutionize kidney care and other vital organ support.

*Completion of the proposed separation of Kidney Care from Baxter into a standalone company (to be named Vantive) remains subject to the satisfaction of customary conditions.

You are accountable for managing the hiring and selection process including quality candidate sourcing that meet the needs of your Hiring Manager, the role and Baxter. 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.

Essential Duties and 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 relevant, 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.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• Previous experience in 360 recruiting within a global organization, preferably within healthcare, medical technology or pharmaceutical sector.
• Proven capability in effectively managing 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 proven experience in business partnering, ideally within an in-house environment.
• 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.
• Able to accommodate occasional travel to meet the needs stakeholders and candidate.

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.

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