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Pfizer

Associate, Recruitment & Onboarding

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Coordinate recruitment operations and onboarding activities across EMEA markets to ensure a seamless transition for new Pfizer hires.

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Why Patients Need You

At Pfizer, bringing life-changing medicines to patients starts with bringing the right talent into the organization. Every colleague who joins Pfizer plays a role in advancing our mission of breakthroughs that change patients' lives.

 

As a Recruitment & Onboarding Associate, you will help ensure that candidates and new hires experience a seamless transition into Pfizer. By coordinating critical recruitment and onboarding activities, maintaining compliance with local requirements, and supporting stakeholders across EMEA, you will help new colleagues feel welcomed, supported, and equipped for success so they can focus on making an impact for patients.

 

What You Will Do

 Recruitment Operations

  • Manage recruitment activities throughout the hiring process, including job posting, offer administration, and candidate communications.
  • Partner with recruiters and hiring teams to support recruitment operations across EMEA markets.
  • Support hiring activities while ensuring all tasks are completed accurately and within agreed service levels.

 

Onboarding & Employee Experience

  • Serve as a point of contact for candidates, new hires, hiring managers, and recruiters following the interview process and offer acceptance, ensuring a smooth onboarding experience.
  • Coordinate onboarding activities, documentation, and pre-employment requirements.
  • Track onboarding milestones and proactively resolve issues that may impact a candidate's readiness to begin work.
  • Help ensure new hires have access to the tools, systems, and resources needed for a successful start.

 

Compliance & Continuous Improvement

  • Ensure processes comply with local legal, regulatory, and privacy requirements.
  • Manage assigned cases and transactions, while delivering excellent customer service.
  • Meet established service level agreements (SLAs) and key performance indicators (KPIs).
  • Identify opportunities to improve recruitment and onboarding processes and support new technology and process implementations.

 

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, or a related field.
  • Fluent written and verbal communication skills in English.
  • Strong customer service focus and commitment to delivering exceptional experiences.
  • Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strong communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team environment.

 

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in Human Resources, Recruitment Operations, Talent Acquisition Coordination, Shared Services, Customer Service, Employee Services, Operations, Administration, or other customer-focused environments.
  • Experience supporting recruitment, onboarding, or employee lifecycle processes.
  • Familiarity with Workday, ServiceNow, Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), or similar HR technologies.
  • Additional language skills in Arabic and/or Spanish.
  • Experience supporting stakeholders in a multinational environment.

  
 

Work Location Assignment: Hybrid

Please apply by sending your CV and a motivational letter in English

Purpose 

Breakthroughs that change patients' lives... At Pfizer we are a patient centric company, guided by our four values: courage, joy, equity and excellence. Our breakthrough culture lends itself to our dedication to transforming millions of lives.  

Digital Transformation Strategy

One bold way we are achieving our purpose is through our company wide digital transformation strategy. We are leading the way in adopting new data, modelling and automated solutions to further digitize and accelerate drug discovery and development with the aim of enhancing health outcomes and the patient experience.

Flexibility  

We aim to create a trusting, flexible workplace culture which encourages employees to achieve work life harmony, attracts talent and enables everyone to be their best working self. Let’s start the conversation!  

Equal Employment Opportunity 

We believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is crucial to building a successful business. As an employer, Pfizer is committed to celebrating this, in all its forms – allowing for us to be as diverse as the patients and communities we serve. Together, we continue to build a culture that encourages, supports and empowers our employees.

Disability Inclusion

Our mission is unleashing the power of all our people and we are proud to be a disability inclusive employer, ensuring equal employment opportunities for all candidates. We encourage you to put your best self forward with the knowledge and trust that we will make any reasonable adjustments to support your application and future career. Your journey with Pfizer starts here!


Pfizer endeavors to make www.pfizer.com/careers accessible to all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process and/or interviewing, please email disabilityrecruitment@pfizer.com. This is to be used solely for accommodation requests with respect to the accessibility of our website, online application process and/or interviewing. Requests for any other reason will not be returned.



To learn more about acceptable and prohibited uses of AI during the recruitment process, please review our candidate AI-use guidelines available on Pfizer Careers.

 

 

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How we rate this

Associate, Recruitment & Onboarding at Pfizer rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
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  1. Tell me about a project where recruitment was part of your work. What did you do?
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  3. Tell me about a project where compliance was part of your work. What did you do?
  4. Tell me about a project where stakeholder management was part of your work. What did you do?
  5. Tell me about a project where hr operations was part of your work. What did you do?

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