Associate Director, Talent Acquisition

Syneos Health

Associate Director of Talent Acquisition at Syneos Health leading strategic recruitment and talent acquisition teams. Collaborating with business leaders to fulfill workforce planning and hiring needs.

Posted 5/9/2026full-timeHyderabad • 🇮🇳 IndiaSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Collaborates directly with senior business leaders on workforce planning and talent acquisition needs.
Leads a team that develops sourcing strategies and recruiting plans, presents pre-qualified top candidates to hiring managers, develops/negotiates offers with candidates and creates the onboarding experience for all new hires.
Selects, trains, develops, coaches and evaluates team members within the region or function.
Ensures hiring manager's experience a collaborative, proactive, and customer-focused talent acquisition support from the assigned team.
Designs, builds, implements and manages strategic sourcing and talent acquisition programs.
Explores proactive, traditional and innovative approaches to Talent Acquisition.
Balances providing subject matter expertise with fostering open communication.
Leads with an operational focus, setting strategy, objectives and policies.
Establishes operational objectives for the region or function including work plans and delegating assignments to team.
Identifies relevant indicators to monitor programs and their performance.
Tracks key talent acquisition metrics, including lead and lag measures.
Ensures team achieves results.
Facilitates strategic regional or functional workforce planning or progress updates with stakeholders to identify skill, capability and roles required to support short and mid-range goals/objectives.
Promotes an environment of creativity and innovation focused on useable improvements, as well as innovation that support the organization's mission and further its vision.
Champions implementation of approaches that improve Talent Acquisition processes, approaches, tools and outcomes.
Lead, inspire, and coach a smart, ambitious recruiting team across multiple locations while driving a high level of performance against aggressive hiring plans and in accordance with Syneos Health and Talent Acquisition’s core values.
Foster a data-driven organization structure, leveraging talent acquisition metrics and analytics to drive decision making, implement strategies, measure team productivity and program ROI and to partner with regional business leaders to meet hiring needs.
Build a comprehensive strategic hiring plan by setting the vision, strategy, and goals.
Provide expertise in market insights, talent landscape, and an understanding of talent needs to assist in developing company growth plans and forecast.
Ensure the organization is fully leveraging the ATS while working to achieve talent acquisition metrics and goals including quality, hiring volume, time to fill and overall customer satisfaction.
Analyze success against metrics, create and execute plans to achieve ongoing improvement in results that will increase satisfaction.
Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
Experience as a Talent Acquisition Specialist / Recruiter in a corporate or agency environment
Talent Acquisition Leadership experience in a full cycle recruitment environment
Proven ability to succeed and lead in a performance based culture, driving and managing to specific levels of accountability
Demonstrated success in building high performing teams through active performance management, including coaching, developing and hiring.
Proven track record of partnering with senior leaders to drive high impact, strategic talent decisions.
Excellent problem solving, influencing, negotiating and facilitation skills
Strong time management skills and able to work independently
Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
Strong attention to detail and an ability to maintain confidentiality.

Benefits

Comp & perks

We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Talent AcquisitionRecruitmentSourcing StrategiesPerformance ManagementData AnalysisMetrics TrackingOnboardingNegotiationCoachingWorkforce Planning

Soft Skills

LeadershipCollaborationCommunicationProblem SolvingInfluencingFacilitationTime ManagementAttention to DetailCreativityInnovation

Certifications

Bachelor’s Degree