Talent Acquisition Specialist

Talent Acquisition Specialist - 6 month contract

Australia

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Job Description

This role will be responsible for managing the recruitment process for internal and external roles across all clinical and support divisions. It would suit an agency or inhouse recruiter with expensive Clinical Trials/Pharma/Laboratory recruitment experience. This role will initially support the China and Australia teams, and the successful candidate must be able to speak and write Mandarin.

This initial 6 month contract role will be hybrid with 2 days based in our offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane or Shanghai. This contract role may have an option of converting to permanent after the initial 6 months. The successful candidate will also be available for an immediate start.

Responsibilities Include:

- Business partner with Line Managers to design, refine, and implement innovative high volume recruiting strategies.

- Day to day drive the full recruiting lifecycle across senior and executive of open roles helping management find, hire, and retain quality talent.

- Grow and foster relationships with active and passive talent including talent mapping active talent pooling.

- Stay active with current job boards, social networks, and platforms to find talent, and plan, create, and release announcements. Utilise knowledge of multiple recruiting sources and execute innovative recruiting strategies to find quality candidates.

- Attend meetings with hiring managers and provide updates on recruitmentprogress.

Desired Qualifications and Experience:

- Applicants will ideally be educated to degree level.

- A minimum of 2 years’ recruitment experience in clinical and or pharma/clinical recruitment. Laboratory recruitment experience will be highly regarded.

- High degree of familiarity and competence with LinkedIn Recruiter.

- Personal integrity and respect for confidential information.

- Self-organised and methodical with a sense of urgency.

- An excellent relationship builder with the ability to influence and partner with senior stakeholders.

Novotech is proud to offer a great workplace. We are committed to being an employer of choice for gender equality and providing an inclusive work environment where everyone is treated fairly and with respect.

Our team members are passionate about what we do, but we understand work is only of the things that is important to them. We support our team members with flexible working options, paid parental leave for both parents, flexible leave entitlements, wellness programs and ongoing development programs.

We are looking for people who are passionate about working clinical research and biotech, including people who identify as LGBTIQ+, have a disability or have caring responsibilities.

We are a Circle Back Initiative Employer and commit to respond to every application. We look forward to contacting you regarding your application.

About Us

Novotech is a global full-service clinical Contract Research Organization (CRO).

Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, Novotech has 34 offices acrossAsia-Pacific,North America, andEurope. Novotech employs over 3000 employees and has over 5000 site partnerships and the resources and infrastructure to scale regionally and globally as clinical programs advance.

Novotech provides clinical development services across all clinical trial phases and therapeutic areas including feasibility assessments, ethics committee and regulatory submissions, data management, statistical analysis, medical monitoring, safety solutions, central lab services, report write-up to ICH requirements, project and vendor management. Novotech obtained the ISO 27001 certification which is the best-known standard in the ISO family providing requirements for an Information Security Management System. Together with the ISO 9001 Quality Management system, Novotech aims at the highest IT security and quality standards for patients and biotechnology companies.

About the Team

At Novotech we have advanced therapeutic and regulatory expertise, the ability to execute across markets and a client‑centric service model, so that our clients get a trusted, long‑term partner and an accelerated path to bring their life‑changing advances to market. This gives our employees the opportunity to develop their careers by joining a diverse and supportive global organization with a collaborative culture, whilst working with clients on the cutting‑edge of life sciences. At Novotech you will work alongside empowered teams with a shared commitment to success.

- Strategic vs transactional mindset.

- Ability to gain insights and make proactive decisions quickly.

- Culture that fosters partnership and collaboration, where every voice is heard and valued.

- Ongoing support from senior stakeholders and leadership team.

Job Info

- Job Identification 3522

- Posting Date 10/29/2025, 02:26 AM

- Job Schedule Full time

- Locations Level 13, 440 Collins Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, AU

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