Talent Acquisition Operations Manager
Description
This is a great opportunity to join an attractive and well-funded clinical-stage biotech company at a very exciting time, as they are starting to scale up quickly and build out organizationally. This is a rare opportunity to step into a newly created, high-impact role at a fast-growing biotech company where you will be a key part in helping build talent acquisition operations from the ground up. With direct exposure to an accomplished HR and executive leadership team and the chance to shape processes, implement cutting-edge tools (including AI-driven solutions), and drive hiring strategy, you’ll play a visible and meaningful role in the company’s growth journey and next level of organizational maturity. If you are excited by the energy of a scaling organization, embrace the small/startup biotech culture, thrive on creating/building/optimizing structure from scratch, and want your work to make an immediate and visible impact on the scalability at one of the most sought-after startups in Biotech, this is an ideal opportunity to get in there and shine.
Location
NJ Area
Features
ATTRACTIVE FEATURES ABOUT THIS COMPANY & OPPORTUNITY:
- Unique Ground-Floor Opportunity: This is a newly-created position and a unique clean-slate type of opportunity where you will have the chance to create, build, develop, and truly help shape/implement/optimize talent acquisition operations for the first time at the company.
- Impact & Visibility: You will be the VP’s “right hand” person and lead TA Operations and be looked upon to transform the company’s talent operations and lead key initiatives that will have a tremendous impact on the company’s scalable growth.
- Small/Startup Biotech Culture: Join a successful and financially stable company, while also getting all the pluses of working for a small fast-growing organization that is very much in scale-up/building mode.
- Internal Growth Opportunity: You will be joining at the perfect time as our client is still small but expanding rapidly across the organization, which will afford you tremendous visibility/exposure, growth opportunity, and a real chance to impact from day one
- Fantastic Hiring Manager & Accomplished Senior Leadership: Work closely with an industry experienced and accomplished Senior Leadership team with a proven track record of success in this space.
Responsibilities
RESPONSIBILITIES IN A NUTSHELL:
- Lead Talent Acquisition Operations as a centralized enablement function, driving consistency, compliance, and scalable execution across global recruiting processes, systems, reporting, and vendor partnerships.
- Developing, implementing tools and resources and leading efforts to improve sourcing efficiency, optimize recruiting/ATS (Greenhouse) workflows, funnel metrics, and TA reporting dashboards, and recruiting analytics/reporting.
- As the TA Team Lead and the right hand person to the VP to deliver key TA Operations initiatives and develop TA reporting frameworks to improve transparency and accountability, and to support scalable growth.
- Building TA reporting dashboards to track hiring velocity, workforce planning, pipeline health
- Design and optimize operational frameworks (dashboards, KPIs, etc) supporting TA, including standardized workflows, documentation, and best practices across the hiring lifecycle to improve efficiency.
- Develop and maintain dashboards and KPI reporting to enhance visibility into hiring performance, enabling data-driven decision-making and stronger operational accountability
- Partner with HRBPs and senior HR leaders to refine talent operations, hiring strategy, workforce planning, and forecasting, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and business needs.
- Leading initiatives to automate workflows and reporting analytics across various regions
- Implementing AI-driven tools/optimization processes to enhance candidate matching, significantly increasing the effectiveness of recruitment efforts.
- Utilize knowledge of AI/automation tools to increase overall TA efficiency and recruitment ROI.
Qualifications / Requirements
DESIRED EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelor’s degree is required.
- 7+ years of relevant experience in the biotech industry working in HR/TA Operations (specifically recruiting analytics and reporting, building reporting dashboards, optimizing ATS workflows, improving funnel metrics, optimizing AI as an overlay into Talent Acquisition, etc.)
- Must be tech-savvy, specifically as it relates to optimizing workflows (tools, integrations, AI workflows), understanding and navigating dashboards/reports, AI enablement, etc.)
- Experience working with Greenhouse (ATS system) is a big plus.
- Prior recruiting experience is a plus as well.
- Proven ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, startup/entrepreneurial type of environment, to be self-motivated, and to communicate effectively with leadership on-site and internally.
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