Talent Acquisition Partner - Barcelona

Join us as a Talent Acquisition Partner in our Barcelona Hub. This is an exciting opportunity to champion evolution in our dynamic and agile environment. Here you will experience a fast-paced and agile environment as we continue to support the business on a journey of evolution and growth, driven by new, exciting technology and digital innovations. It's challenging and sometimes demanding, and that's why we love it.

Our Barcelona Hub has been built to achieve the next wave of breakthroughs that help us do what’s never been done before, as we expand our global footprint. Up to 2000 R&D, IT & Commercial specialists will be hired to work at our Barcelona Hub in the coming two years.

Accountabilities:

As Talent Acquisition Partner, you will be responsible for delivering Talent Acquisition solutions seamlessly – aligned to a business area/capability in partnership with the Hiring Manager, HR Business Partner and Talent Acquisition colleagues to proactively identify and fill vacancies with talented individuals with the right capabilities and skills in a fast-paced challenging market. You will manage the entire recruitment process, from initial candidate contact to offer, ensuring a smooth and positive candidate experience. You will also be responsible for ensuring that all recruitment activities are compliant with our policies and procedures.

Essential Skills/Experience:

• Demonstrable experience in Talent Acquisition – within a global environment
• Experience in delivering full life cycle recruitment services in an in-house environment or similar
• Experience of planning and leading complex recruitment campaigns for hard to fill skills sets using a range of methods and tools attraction channels
• Experience with Workday application tracking system or other related system
• Ability to adopt and utilise digital/AI tools
• Stakeholder management and relationship building skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced changing agile environment
• Customer focused, results orientated approach
• Persuading and influencing skills, with a strong ability to manage expectations
• Written and spoken proficiency in English and Spanish
• Location: Barcelona

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Educated to degree level/postgraduate qualification in a HR related specialism
• Recruiting experience in the Pharmaceutical or IT industry

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That’s why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we’re not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Why AstraZeneca?

Join a talented global team that's powering AstraZeneca to better serve patients, every day. The fuel behind our evolving, rapidly growing enterprise, we're here to help unlock the power of what science can do and ultimately have a big impact on patients' lives. Integrated and closely aligned with the whole enterprise, we offer our expertise, and leverage exciting new technology and digital innovations, to accelerate AstraZeneca's evolution. We do all of it strategically, looking ahead to the new challenges we'll face and improving the way the enterprise operates today.

Are you ready to make a difference? Apply now and join us in our mission to improve lives through science!

Date Posted

26-nov-2025

Closing Date

03-dic-2025

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity.  We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills.  We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.  We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics.  We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorisation and employment eligibility verification requirements.