Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist, It & Tech Recruiting

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Cherrywood, Dublin, Ireland location or Warsaw, Poland in the EMEA Talent Acquisition Division.

Abbott’s Talent Acquisition team is a global organization supporting global hiring, executive recruitment, Early Careers, employer branding, and diversity and inclusion strategies. We strive to provide a fast and high-quality service to our internal customers and provide a great candidate experience.

As the Senior TA Specialist, IT & Tech Recruiting, you will be responsible for ensuring a seamless Hiring Manager and Candidate experience across functions: IT, Digital Software & Tech Recruiting, including roles within Electrical Engineering, Design Engineering and System Engineering.

You will manage the full-cycle recruiting efforts for individual contributors and managerial positions across whole EMEA region and will support long-term branding and sourcing strategy development for the Segment of Tech & IT.

What You’ll Do:

• Deliver full cycle recruiting for Technology positions in mid- career, senior or leadership level.
• Own and manage the relationship with internal clients to drive partnership, business excellence and industry learning.
• Work independently and autonomously while partnering with Recruitment Coordinators, and all stakeholders.
• Use cost-effective recruiting channels, implement direct sourcing initiatives, and create innovative campaigns to attract the best talent for your business in scope. May use the additional support of a sourcing specialist or external search partners as required.
• Apply your knowledge and experience to recruit for technology roles, taking ownership of end-to-end recruitment to deliver technical talent in software engineering, networks, infrastructure, and cybersecurity, including full stack, back end, and data engineering.
• Lead Talent Acquisition technology focused projects in EMEA region.
• Have excellent command of reporting as well using and presenting data by utilizing Abbott HR & TA systems, Power BI and MS suite to educate and influence clients.
• Use data in all you do – an excellent storyteller who can inform on market insights to help shape and drive recruitment strategy.

Required Qualifications:

• University degree or equivalent.
• Fluent English language skills are required, another EMEA language would be an advantage.
• Strong track record of direct sourcing via tools and technology industry networks.
• 5 + years technical/technology experience, ideally a combination of agency and in-house.
• Strong assessment skills to assess capabilities, technical background, and key behaviors.
• Experience partnering with senior leadership, hiring managers, and all stakeholders,
• Knowledge with MS Office, including Word, Excel, and Outlook

Capabilities:

• Understand the business needs and develop recruiting tactics that yield strong outcomes. Identify challenges and proactively develop solutions as projects progress.
• Gain credibility with hiring managers, candidates, and team through successful placements, expertise of the technology labor market and Abbott’s divisions and business dynamics. Understand and articulate the hiring managers' needs in a concise manner.
• Problem-solve and push past obstacles to reach hiring goals with manager support.
• Lead recruitment cycles with efficiency for multiple positions, deliver on tight deadlines, and manage client groups. Strong competitive drive to overachieve targets.

What we will give you:

• Opportunity to work in a leading global organization, Abbott has been named one of the World's Most Admired Companies by Fortune magazine every year since 1984.
• Working on some of the most exciting expansion projects in the Life Sciences sector.
• Competitive compensation package with family healthcare and pension.
• Up-skilling/ training in the Abbott suite of Talent Acquisition Tools.

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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