Contract IT Talent Acquisition Sourcer

Flagship Pioneering is a bioplatform innovation company that invents and builds platform companies that change the world. We bring together the greatest scientific minds with entrepreneurial company builders and assemble the capital to allow them to take courageous leaps. Those big leaps in human health and sustainability exponentially accelerate scientific progress in areas ranging from cancer detection and treatment to nature-positive agriculture.   

 What sets Flagship apart is our ability to advance biotechnology by uniting life science innovation, company creation, and capital investment under one roof in a way that is largely without precedent. Our scientific founders, entrepreneurial leaders, and professional capital managers are each aligned around an institutionalized process that enables us to innovate and transform for the benefit of people and planet.   

Many of the companies Flagship has founded have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.  

Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies, and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. 

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced, entrepreneurial, and strategic Technical Talent Acquisition Sourcer who will be a valued member of Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team. S/he will be responsible for building talent pipelines for current and upcoming IT roles, leveraging technology and proactively discovering new and innovative channels for identifying top talent with a view on both short and long-term needs. This role will focus specifically on IT searches.

Responsibilities:

• Recruit passive candidates, blending the art and the science of people, gauging chemistry of candidates and identifying their motivations.
• Build and maintain network of potential candidates through pro-active market research and on-going relationship management; conducts in-depth interviews of potential candidates, demonstrating ability to anticipate hiring manager preferences through high offer-to-interview ratios.
• Recommend ideas and strategies related to recruitment that will contribute to the long-range growth of the company, implementing any new processes and fine-tuning standard processes for recruiting
• Identify and champion new and innovative approaches to diversity and inclusion.
• Possess strong ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver a pipeline of external candidates
• Demonstrate thorough knowledge of hiring practices and suggest best in class process improvements along the way.
• Establish and utilize recruiting reports, metrics and analytics to keep all stakeholders informed throughout the recruiting process as well as to identify trends, manage performance and measure TA effectiveness to ensure efficiency and quality of the hiring process.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 2+ years recruiting/sourcing experience for IT roles, preferably within the tech or biotechnology/pharmaceutical or healthcare industry 
• Proficiency in using various sourcing tools and platforms, such as LinkedIn, GitHub, Stack Overflow, and specialized job boards
• Strong business acumen with a deep understanding of how great talent impacts business strategy
• Ability to understand, communicate with, and effectively interact with people across cultures
• Experience attracting diverse talent to an organization
• Proven success at building strong credible advisory relationships at all levels of the organization
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• A self-motivated professional who has a strong work ethic, agility, and grit to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, innovative often ambiguous environment and is driven by results
• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience with developing recruiting strategies and executing innovate sourcing strategies, techniques, tools and results e.g. direct sourcing/cold calling passive candidates, market intelligence gathering, target company/organization mapping and org charting, pipeline building.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to influence and build support for ideas and initiatives.
• Exceptional candidate assessment skills and behavioral interviewing techniques
• Team player. Able to contribute to the overall goals of the team