Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

By joining Bio-Techne, you’ll join a company with a powerful and positive purpose of enabling cutting-edge research in Life Sciences and Clinical Diagnostics. Bio-Techne, and all of its brands, provides tools for researchers to further treat and prevent disease worldwide.

Pay Range:

$78,100.00 - $128,500.00

Our ideal Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist is an enthusiastic, innovative, high-energy, and self-motivated recruitment professional, with deep experience in full-cycle recruitment and managing talent acquisition strategies and partnership within a corporate business setting. You will be responsible for recruiting specialized and management-level positions across a variety of departments and locations for our Protein Sciences Segment Operations team. Outside of full-cycle recruitment support, you will also manage headcount planning and recruitment strategy with the business leaders; actively improve recruitment process and strategy; and develop new recruitment training resources for your business leaders. This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to contribute to a global life sciences organization within a senior-level recruitment position amidst a dynamic and global Human Resources team.

This is a hybrid position based out of our Minneapolis, MN site, reporting into the Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct intake sessions with Hiring Managers, review resumes for minimum qualifications, conduct phone interviews, and participate in face-to-face interviews in collaboration with the wider hiring team

• Partner with Hiring Managers to ensure effective negotiation of hiring offers

• Actively source passive candidates using tools such as LinkedIn and Indeed

• Closely strategize with Hiring Managers and HR Business Partners to provide insight on market data of candidates

• Develop internal and external networks to support passive sourcing efforts

• Track and maintain reporting of applicant and position metrics

• Track and manage recruitment agency spend

• Implement creative recruitment tactics that attract relevant talent

• Employ interviewing techniques to assess the fit between a candidate's previous experience and the position

• Work closely with HR Business Partners and internal business customers to manage recruiting strategy with focus supporting business needs

• Partner with business leaders up to the executive level, acting as a trusted advisor and consult on recruitment strategy and headcount planning

• Train Hiring Managers on the recruitment process and the steps that they are responsible for completing

• Work closely with talent acquisition management to further define the recruitment process and develop ongoing talent acquisition strategies to attract qualified candidates

• Provide leadership and mentorship to others on the recruitment team serving as the subject matter expert for sourcing

• Develop and maintain contacts with schools, professional organizations, and companies to find and attract applicants

• Performs additional duties as assigned

Education and Experience:

• Position requires a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and a minimum of 6+ years of recruitment experience

• Significant experience sourcing passive candidates is required

• Experience working with and influencing senior management is required

• Experience in talent acquisition process management and strategy creation is highly preferred

• Experience in developing and implementing new talent acquisition process is highlighted preferred

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Demonstrated experience sourcing and converting passive talent into hires

• Proven relationship building skills, particularly at the senior level

• Excellent interpersonal and coaching skills

• Ability to effectively influence stakeholders and lead change management

• Ability to work with various business units and departments

• Gather and analyze information skillfully

• Demonstrate resourcefulness and initiative in dealing with daily assumptions

• Skills in problem solving; including the ability to identify and appropriately evaluate a course of action

• Ability to act independently on routine assignments or projects

• Ability to plan, organize and multi-task to complete assignments in an efficient manner

• Ability to communicate professionally, both oral and written

• Ability to pay attention to details and perform at a high-level accuracy

• Ability to work independently a