Contract Senior Recruiter- Corporate roles, Remote in EST or CST

September 22, 2026

Korn Ferry is searching for a Contract Senior Recruiter, ideally experienced within a pharma or life sciences company, to support hiring for our client's corporate functions and sales roles. The contract is expected to last approximately 6 months. As a member of Korn Ferry, the Senior Recruiter will build and extend client relationships through excellence in recruitment process delivery including sourcing, screening, assessing, and marketing candidates to clients. This role focuses on high touch candidate relationship management as well as customer focus and responsiveness in client facing activities. The Senior Recruiter is the subject matter expert around applicant tracking systems, candidate sourcing methodologies and recruitment process effectiveness. Key Responsibilities Create and execute multi-channel sourcing strategy to source candidates meeting client profile and/or building talent pool for current and future requirements Client Relationship Management - Conduct interactions with clients in a timely, professional and responsive manner Identify & communicate continuous improvement opportunities and strategies Conduct role briefing with client and set expectations for recruitment process Process Management & Sourcing Follow agreed client recruitment process for recruitment delivery Use competency interviewing to identify and differentiate candidate in presentation and short-list process Candidate Relationship Management Effectively communicate position opportunity and client value proposition Required Skills 5+ years of full cycle, client facing, corporate functions experience (A&F, IT, HR, Sales, etc) Ideally, experienced recruiting for corporate functions and sales roles within a pharma or life sciences company 5+ years of client facing experience interacting with Hiring Managers throughout the recruitment process 5+ years of experience conducting competency/behavioral based interviews 5+ years of Applicant Tracking System experience 5+ years of experience developing and executing sourcing methodologies to include: market mapping, recruitment strategies and Boolean searches High School diploma; 4-year degree preferred

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