Talent Acquisition Partner

Talent Partner - Life Sciences Manufacturing (Contract, Embedded On-Site 4 days a week)

Employer: BioTalent

Location: On-site, Southern California

Contract: Rolling month-by-month, up to 6 months

Rate: Highly competitive

Start: ASAP

BioTalent has been engaged on a major embedded RPO partnership with a large Southern California pharmaceutical business. Following a board-mandated growth plan, the programme will deliver approximately 150 hires in six months across production, manufacturing, quality and engineering.

We're building a small on-site delivery team led by our programme lead, previously Global TA Lead at a top-tier cell therapy company. This is a genuinely high-visibility piece of work with executive sponsorship behind it.

The role

You'll be embedded on-site as part of the delivery team, owning requisitions end-to-end across your assigned functions:

• Full-cycle recruitment at volume - sourcing, screening, interview coordination, offer management and close


• Acting as a trusted advisor to hiring managers in manufacturing, quality and engineering


• Building and running proactive sourcing strategies for hard-to-fill technical and GMP-regulated roles


• Managing pipeline health and reporting against aggressive weekly and monthly hiring targets


• Contributing to process, market intelligence and candidate experience as the programme scales

What we're looking for

• Proven full-cycle recruitment experience within life sciences, pharma, biotech or medical devices


• Direct experience hiring into manufacturing, production, quality or engineering functions - GMP environment experience strongly preferred


• Comfortable operating at high volume without dropping quality or candidate experience


• Confident partnering with senior stakeholders and managing expectations directly


• Agency, in-house or RPO background all welcome; embedded/RPO experience an advantage


• Able to work on-site in Southern California and start at short notice

This is a contract engagement running on a rolling month-by-month basis, up to a maximum of six months, aligned to the programme timeline.

What's on offer

• Strong contract rate


• Real ownership of a defined, high-impact programme rather than a slice of someone else's desk


• Working alongside an experienced programme lead with deep cell therapy TA background


• Exposure to a large-scale, board-sponsored hiring programme in a growing SoCal pharma business

Due to the confidential nature of this engagement, the client will not be named at application stage. Full details shared under NDA with shortlisted candidates.