Senior Talent Partner - Life Science - 12 Month FTC in Oxford

Our Mission is to change the way teams scale forever and for the better. Empowering visionaries, to leave their print on the planet.

About Bond: We’re not your average Talent Consultancy, because we don’t work with average companies or employ average people. We work with game changing visionaries of the future in Deeptech, Cleantech and Biotech. We’re proud to be the world’s first certified net-zero talent solution company. We care deeply about people and the planet. Work from anywhere? Absolutely. Wellbeing, flexibility, and the freedom to do your best work? That’s not a perk, that’s the bare minimum.

About the role: We’re on the lookout for talented people to join our amazing BioTech team, based in or around Oxford on a 12 month FTC. Our Talent Partners embed into super cool companies like Arsenale Bioyards, Brilliant Planet, Deciphera and many more! We design recruitment processes fit for rapid growth businesses, while headhunting some pretty niche roles! We don’t have KPI’s, targets or BD requirements at Bond, it’s all about the outcomes. Data underpins all of our processes and we’ve built a world class bespoke dataverse so that we can make informed decisions always.

Our people are the most important thing at Bond. The real secret is to hire and retain the very best talent professionals in the world! Therefore, we need awesome Talent Partners that share our mindset on this. We’re also super innovative when it comes to people strategy and we want someone that is going to bring us CRAZY ideas that are 2-5 years into the future.

Responsibilities Include:

• Visiting clients twice a week to collaborate and build strong relationships.
• Developing and implementing attraction and delivery strategies.
• Building and maintaining strong working relationships with stakeholders and candidates.
• Advising on recruitment best practices and discussing appropriate assessment processes.
• Supporting the implementation of our talent solution, helping design and set up end-to-end recruitment processes with the partner while headhunting for niche roles.
• Partner with the businesses hiring managers to work as one team.
• Conducting thorough recruiter screens and managing interview de-briefings.
• Maintain accurate data to use to influence stakeholders.
• Delivering weekly and monthly data and progress reports.
• Involvement in weekly meetings with project teams to discuss challenges and successes.
• Proactively design solutions or bring new ideas to overcome challenges.
• Knowledge sharing and training (onboarding, structured training, lunch & learns).
• Develop an understanding of market conditions, always be learning and keeping an eye on the latest trends/markets.

Skills Required:

• In-depth Life Science or Technical recruitment knowledge.
• Outstanding headhunting/delivery capability.
• Previous inhouse, RPO, or embedded recruitment experience.
• Solutions focused mindset and drive to fix problems.
• Adaptable to change.
• Strategic mindset.
• A positive outlook and energy.
• A “think big” approach.

32 days holiday (+ all bank holidays)

Our Company Values:

• Challenge: “We are at our best being kept just beyond our comfort zone.”
• Collaborate: “The power of many is better than the power of one.”
• Innovate: “Always be looking 2-5 years in the future.”