Talent Acquisition Manager

Talent Acquisition Manager

Are you looking for a challenging new opportunity to test and growth your recruiting skills? We have an immediate need for a Talent Acquisition Manager to join our Talent Acquisition Team in Ireland. This position reports to the Site Lead of Talent Acquisition and will be based at our Dun Laoghaire Manufacturing site.

About the Role:

Do you excel at building strong partnerships and creating impactful recruitment strategies? In this Talent Acquisition Manager role, you will work closely with Site Talent Acquisition Lead, Hiring Managers and Business Leaders to deliver full-cycle recruitment services for key roles at our site. You’ll manage the recruiting process from start to finish, ensuring that we attract top talent while fostering a memorable candidate experience that reflects our mission and culture.

In this role, you’ll also oversee a team of external recruiters to manage high-volume recruitment and drive continuous improvements across the recruitment process.

Key Responsibilities:

Talent Strategy & Business Partnership: Establish and maintain strong relationships with hiring managers to stay aligned with current and future business needs. Support recruitment efforts across multiple functions, managing requisitions from intake to hire.

Full-Cycle Recruitment: Own the recruitment process, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, and assessing candidates for job, motivational, and culture fit. Facilitate selection decisions, negotiate offers, and guide the relationship between the candidate and the business.

Requisition & Pipeline Management: Create and manage the recruitment pipeline for critical roles and capabilities, consistently reviewing candidate pools and ensuring a steady flow of qualified candidates.

Resourceful Talent Sourcing: Leverage internal and external resources, including job boards, social media, and innovative recruiting tools, to create recruitment strategies and source high-quality candidates. Partner internally and externally to maximize sourcing efforts.

Employer Branding/Recruitment Marketing: Support the creation of impactful employer branding strategies and drive their implementation across recruitment efforts, ensuring we attract high-caliber candidates who resonate with our values and culture.

Team Oversight: Manage a team of external recruiters, overseeing the recruitment workload and allocating roles to effectively deliver high-volume hiring goals.

Continuous Improvement: Drive process and technology improvements to streamline recruitment practices across teams while maintaining the unique strengths of each.

Key Competencies for Success:

• Strategic Thinking: Ability to create and align recruitment initiatives with business strategies, ensuring talent acquisition supports overall company goals.
• Influencing & Partnership: Strong communication and relationship-building skills to collaborate effectively with hiring managers, business leaders, and key stakeholders.
• Candidate Experience Focus: A commitment to creating a positive and memorable candidate experience that reflects the company’s mission and values.
• Adaptability & Innovation: Ability to embrace new technologies, think creatively, and continuously seek improvements to enhance recruitment processes.
• Resilience & Dealing with Ambiguity: Comfortable navigating uncertainty, and demonstrating resilience in the face of changing priorities and challenges
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Use data and metrics to inform recruiting strategies, track performance, and make process improvements.
• Problem Solving: Effective at identifying challenges in recruitment and developing solutions to overcome obstacles quickly and efficiently.
• Employer Branding Expertise: Ability to create and execute impactful employer branding strategies to position the company as an employer of choice.

• Team Oversight: Proven experience managing and motivating recruiters ensuring high performance and efficient delivery of high-volume hiring goals will be an additional asset .

Beyond that, you will also need:

• Degree in Human Resources, Social Studies, Business and/or Life Sciences
• 5yrs minimum prior experience performing full recruitment cycle, preferrably in a manufacturing environment
• Experience with a wide variety of systems and tools (e.g. LinkedIn, Workday, Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• The ability to get involved and roll up your sleeves in a fast paced environment in order to deliver for the business

What We’re Looking For:

We’re seeking a proactive, strategic thinker with proven experience in managing end-to-end recruitment. You thrive in a dynamic environment, enjoy solving complex recruiting challenges, and are passionate about creating standout candidate experiences. Your ability to balance day-to-day operations with high-level strategic thinking will be critical to success in this role.

At Amgen, our mission is serving patients. Our staff are dedicated to pushing the boundaries of science to transform medicine and turn the tide on serious illnesses. Central to achieving this mission is our “people-first” philosophy. We recruit the best talent, build an environment that facilitates career growth, and provide staff with the opportunity to make significant contributions for patients and our business.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.