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 Team:

As a Talent Acquisition Partner at Baxter, you are responsible for delivery of excellence throughout the Talent Acquisition lifecycle in individual assignments and larger scale recruitment projects. As a TA Partner 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.

Your Role:

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.

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What you will be doing:

• 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 manage 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

What you will bring:

• 3-5 years working in Talent Acquisition

• Experience recruiting engineering or technical position, preferred

• Previous experience in full cycle recruiting

• Proven capability in effectively managing concurrent hiring priorities and stakeholders at different stages of the recruitment lifecycle, without impacting delivery quality and timelines

• Proven ability in building strong relationships and grow to be an advisor to your stakeholders for the purposes of improving future hiring outcomes

• 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

• Strong knowledge in 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

US Benefits at Baxter (except for Puerto Rico)

This is where your well-being matters. Baxter offers comprehensive compensation and benefits packages for eligible roles. Our health and well-being benefits include medical and dental coverage that start on day one, as well as insurance coverage for basic life, accident, short-term and long-term disability, and business travel accident insurance. Financial and retirement benefits include the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), with the ability to purchase company stock at a discount, and the 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (RSP), with options for employee contributions and company matching. We also offer Flexible Spending Accounts, educational assistance programs, and time-off benefits such as paid holidays, paid time off ranging from 20 to 35 days based on length of service, family and medical leaves of absence, and paid parental leave. Additional benefits include commuting benefits, the Employee Discount Program, the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and childcare benefits. Join us and enjoy the competitive compensation and benefits we offer to our employees. For additional information regarding Baxter US Benefits, please speak with your recruiter or visit our Benefits site: Benefits | Baxter

Equal Employment Opportunity

Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal

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.