Senior Recruiter- Greater Toronto Area , Canada (hybrid)

About Us

Korn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm. We help clients synchronize strategy and talent to drive superior performance. We work with organizations to design their structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people to bring their strategy to life. And we advise them on how to reward, develop, and motivate their people.

Our 10,000 colleagues serve clients in more than 50 countries. We offer five core solutions:

• Organizational Strategy
• Assessment and Succession
• Talent Acquisition
• Leadership Development
• Total Rewards

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Job description

Korn Ferry is searching for a Senior Recruiter with strong commercial sales, marketing, and corporate functions recruitment experience to support hiring for our prestigious, global, pharmaceutical client. This is a hybrid role with 3 days onsite weekly at our client site in Thornhill, Ontario, and 2 days work from home. The role is slated to move to Toronto in early 2026 with the hybrid schedule.

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

• Ability to go onsite 3 times weekly in Thornhill, ON until early 2026, and then onsite 3 times weekly in Toronto
• 5+ years of full cycle recruitment experience
• Experience recruiting for commercial sales roles, marketing and corporate functions, entry-level through leadership, ideally in life sciences/pharma
• 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
• Bilingual French/English valued, not not required

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Salary range represents the compensation Korn Ferry expects to pay to a candidate with the requirements for the job posted. Korn Ferry offers competitive compensation and benefits commensurate with experience.

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Korn Ferry Benefits

The Korn Ferry Cares Wellbeing Platform offers Employees health benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, Short Term Disability, Basic Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment), Critical Illness, Accident Injury, Hospital Indemnity, and Legal Insurance. Employees are eligible to enroll in Korn Ferry’s Tax Deferred Savings plan 401(k). Employee Stock Purchase Program is available to all permanent employees who work 20 hours or more after 6 months of service.

Employees are eligible to receive a total of 15 days vacation annually plus paid time off for 16 company holidays. Full time eligible employees will accrue sick time commencing on the first date of employment at the rate of 3.33 hours per pay period for an annualized maximum of 80 hours.

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Internal Mobility at Korn Ferry

If you currently work for Korn Ferry or one of our affiliates, you must be eligible to apply for a different position within Korn Ferry to use the Careers Site. If you accept such a position, your benefits programs and Human Resources policies may change. Please consult with your HR contact for the new position concerning application eligibility, including any immigration/visa needs, benefit programs, and HR policies applicable to that position.

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Korn Ferry is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial, or local law.

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