Talent Acquisition Partner

Join a recruiting team built around strong partnerships and end-to-end hiring delivery. This onsite Talent Acquisition Partner role at Baxter in Round Lake, IL supports an excellent candidate and hiring manager experience while helping the business make high-quality hires. You will manage recruiting work across time zones, apply recruiting marketing and branding, and provide market insights that improve future outcomes.

Compensation: $80,000 - $110,000 base salary annually.
Experience: 3-5 years in Talent Acquisition.

What you’ll do

• Lead full-cycle recruiting from candidate identification and sourcing through successful hire.
• Collaborate with Hiring Managers to develop compelling job advertising, drive engagement across social media, and execute proactive talent identification, headhunting, and referral solicitation.
• Use recruitment marketing and branding materials effectively to engage and communicate with internal and external talent.
• Act as a trusted advisor by sharing meaningful market intelligence and recruiting insights with the business and HR.
• Shape an engaging candidate experience by understanding candidate motivators and adjusting approach based on factors influencing talent.
• Support screening, candidate presentation, interviews, and hiring decisions, including motivating and guiding team members involved in selection activities.
• Represent Baxter’s total compensation philosophy during offer negotiations and manage offers accurately.
• Train candidates for preparation ahead of selection stages and provide timely feedback following local regulations and standard processes.
• Manage and update requisitions to completion, ensuring real-time system updates.
• Partner with the business to understand critical, repeatable roles and inform talent pipelining strategy.
• Maintain and improve knowledge of Baxter to continuously strengthen business understanding.
• Assess and analyze recruitment activity by business area to support conversations around volumes, performance, and forecasting.
• Participate in continuous improvement projects.

What you bring

• 3-5 years of experience working in Talent Acquisition.
• Experience recruiting engineering or technical positions is preferred.
• Proven full-cycle recruiting experience.
• Ability to manage concurrent hiring priorities and partners across different stages without impacting quality or timelines.
• Track record of building relationships and partnering to improve future hiring outcomes.
• Experience conducting behavioral-based interviews and using assessment methodologies to support “right first time” hiring.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with proven business partnering experience (ideally in-house).
• Functional knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Proficiency with recruiting technologies including ATS and CRMs, plus direct sourcing tools and techniques.
• Experience working in a transformative environment with comfort navigating ambiguity and conflicting priorities.
• Ability to accommodate occasional travel to meet business and candidate needs.

Tools you’ll use

• Microsoft Office
• ATS
• CRMs

Benefits at Baxter

• Medical and dental coverage starting on day one
• Basic life, accident, short-term and long-term disability, and business travel accident insurance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with discounted company stock purchase
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (RSP) with employee contribution options and company matching
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Educational assistance programs
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off ranging from 20 to 35 days based on length of service
• Family and medical leaves of absence
• Paid parental leave
• Commuting benefits
• Employee Discount Program
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Childcare benefits
• Discretionary bonuses (may be eligible)

Location: Round Lake, Illinois, United States (onsite).

Work authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. Baxter is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.