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.

Position Summary:

As a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist, you will be responsible for full-cycle recruitment of all positions within our Diagnostics and Spatial Segment (DSS). This includes recruitment for both exempt (up to Director level) and non-exempt positions across a variety of functions and locations within the United States. Outside of full-cycle recruitment, you will serve as a key strategic partner to the executive leadership of DSS, providing guidance in workforce planning, strategic recruitment initiatives, and competency-based talent assessment. Our ideal candidate is enthusiastic, innovative, service-oriented, and strategic.

This position reports into the Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition and joins the Talent Acquisition Department that currently services all Bio-Techne North America and European locations.

This is a fantastic opportunity to elevate your recruitment skills in a strategic position within a dynamic and growing company!

Key Responsibilities:

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

• Effectively negotiates and extends 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

• Tracks and maintains reporting of applicant and position metrics

• Track and manage recruitment agency spend of your assigned business unit

• Implements creative recruitment tactics that attract new and experienced staff; aware of local, state, and national labor and recruitment trends

• Develops best practices for recruitment and retention

• Work within ATS system guidelines and define manage applicant and candidate activity

• 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 a national focus supporting business needs

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

• Develops and maintains contacts with schools, professional organizations, and companies to find and attract applicants

• Performs additional duties as assigned

Education and Experience:

• Position requires a 4-year degree and a minimum of 4+ years of recruitment experience

• Or, High School equivalent with 8+ years of relevant recruitment experience

• Or, an equivalent combination of relevant education and experience

• Experience sourcing passive candidates is required

• Experience working with and influencing upper-level management is required

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

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Demonstrated experience sourcing and converting passive talent into hires

• Proven relationship building skills

• Excellent interpersonal and coaching skills

• 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 and with a team