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Ready to make your mark and improve lives? Join Roche as a Talent Acquisition Partner and be the pivotal force in shaping our future by hiring the best talent for our significant business ambitions across the Roche EMEA region. This is an opportunity to fully leverage your recruiting and consulting expertise to seek, attract, and bring in top talent now and in the future.
About the Role & Your Impact
You will be a key player within the highly skilled Roche EMEA Recruiting team, part of the Integrated Workforce Strategies (IWS) organization. While your primary focus will be South Africa, you will collaborate closely with Talent Acquisition Partners across the EMEA Region and our global network. This role offers wide exposure beyond South Africa, including opportunities to recruit for other countries and take part in or lead high-impact recruitment transformation projects across functions and geographies.
Key Challenges
In this highly strategic and challenging role, you will focus on these core activities:
Strategic Consulting & Partnership: Act as a professional, consultative partner to business leaders on all talent acquisition aspects. You will closely collaborate with People & Culture Business Partners to gain insight into upcoming business priorities.
End-to-End Recruitment Mastery: Expertly drive full cycle recruiting processes, designing customized talent acquisition strategies and solutions. This includes active candidate sourcing & pipelining, talent marketing, selection, ensuring a positive candidate experience, and prioritizing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I).
Offer Management: Oversee the complex offer process, including creating proposals based on the Roche compensation & benefits framework and pay equity considerations, obtaining approvals, extending offers, and negotiating with candidates when required.
Confidentiality & Transformation: Work with People Relations Partners to ensure a high level of confidentiality on recruitment topics. You may also have the opportunity to lead recruitment transformation projects across functions/countries.
Who you are as our Ideal Candidate
Essential Qualifications:
Experience & Passion: At least 5 years of proven work experience in HR or Talent Acquisition, with success as a recruiter, headhunter, or consultant (internal and/or external). You have a strong passion for People & Culture/Human Resources, particularly Talent Acquisition.
Strategic Acumen: Expertise in building and maintaining relationships with stakeholders on all hierarchical levels, both within the business and the People & Culture team. You are well-versed in talent attraction, sourcing, and assessing.
Influence & Negotiation: First-class communication and interpersonal skills are a must, as you network and build long-term relationships, often at a very senior level. You have high influencing skills and are an excellent negotiator.
Tool Dexterity: You are a diligent user and expert of applicant tracking and sourcing tools such as Workday, Phenom People, and LinkedIn.
The Ideal Profile (Assets):
Proven experience in the Life Science/Pharma industry.
Experience working in a multinational matrix organization.
Excellent coaching and advising skills, enabling you to be a trusted partner to business clients in their hiring decisions.
Ability to work effectively within international and cross-divisional teams.
A mindset that thrives in a dynamic, self-organized environment, driving innovation and embracing new challenges.
The dexterity to participate in or lead recruiting squads across regions or globally.
Note that relocation benefits are not available for this role.
Where pay transparency applies, details are provided based on the primary posting location. For this role, the primary location is Johannesburg. If you are interested in additional locations where the role may be available, we will provide the relevant compensation details later in the hiring process.
A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.
Let’s build a healthier future, together.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.