Talent Acquisition Manager Jobs in Illinois

Req # 210338 Location Round Lake, Illinois, United States Job Category Human Resources Date posted 10/02/2026

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At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond.

Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results.

Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride.

Your Role:

As a Talent Acquisition Partner at Baxter, you are responsible for delivery of excellence throughout the Talent Acquisition lifecycle in individual assignments and larger scale recruitment projects. You will take a lead role in helping drive quality outcomes through partnering closely with your hiring managers, other members of Talent Acquisition and your HR Business Partners to ensure efficient and effective delivery of hiring projects!

You are accountable for managing the hiring and selection process (across multiple time zones) including quality candidate sourcing that meet the needs of your Hiring Manager, the role and Baxter. Your focus will be to deliver a positive and professional hiring experience for candidates and hiring managers.

What you will be doing:

• Lead recruiting activities through to successful hire with a strong focus on direct, candidate identification and sourcing of talent
• Responsible for collaborating with Hiring Manager to create impactful advertising, driving engagement across social media, talent identification and headhunting and proactive solicitation of referrals
• Accountable for effective use of recruitment marketing and branding materials to engage and communicate with internal and external talent
• Proactively provide meaningful, market intelligence and recruiting insights to the business and HR, demonstrating your value as a trusted advisor
• Deliver an engaging candidate experience by uncovering and understanding factors that influence talent, knowing their motivators and adjusting your approach to manage situations
• Showcasing your recruiting skills, able to confidently motivate and guide team members to support successful activities related to screening, presenting candidates, conducting interviews, and making hiring choices
• Understand and accurately representing Baxter’s total compensation philosophy when managing offer negotiations
• Train candidates on effective preparation for selection stages and timely feedback following local regulations and standard processes.
• Accountable for correctly managing and updating requisitions through to completion including responsibility for ensuring real time system updates
• Collaborate with the business to understand critical and repeatable roles to inform talent pipelining strategy
• Know Your Customer: proactively maintain and enhance your knowledge of Baxter to ensure there is continuous improvement to your business understanding and knowledge
• Assess and analyze recruitment activity of your business areas to support meaningful conversation around volumes, performance and forecasting
• Participate in continuous improvement projects
  

What you will bring:

• 3-5 years working in Talent Acquisition
• Experience recruiting engineering or technical positions, preferred
• Previous experience in full cycle recruiting
• Proven capability in effectively managing concurrent hiring priorities and partners at different stages of the recruitment lifecycle, without impacting delivery quality and timelines
• Proven ability in building strong relationships and grow to be an advisor to your partners for the purposes of improving future hiring outcomes
• Experience conducting behavioral based interviews for a variety of roles and successful use of assessment methodologies to facilitate ‘right first time’ hiring
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and proven experience in business partnering, ideally within an in-house environment
• Functional knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Proficient in using recruiting technologies (ATS and CRMs) and direct sourcing tools and techniques
• Previous experience working in a transformative environment with an ability to deal effectively with multiple, potentially conflicting priorities and ambiguity
Able to accommodate occasional travel to meet the needs partners and candidate

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We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. At Baxter, we are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. The estimated base salary for this position is $80,000 - $110,000 annually. The estimated range is meant to reflect an anticipated salary range for the position. We may pay more or less than of the anticipated range based upon market data and other factors, all of which are subject to change. Individual pay is based on upon location, skills and expertise, experience, and other relevant factors. This position may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses. For questions about this, our pay philosophy, and available benefits, please speak to the recruiter if you decide to apply and are selected for an interview.

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US Benefits at Baxter (except for Puerto Rico)

This is where your well-being matters. Baxter offers comprehensive compensation and benefits packages for eligible roles. Our health and well-being benefits include medical and dental coverage that start on day one, as well as insurance coverage for basic life, accident, short-term and long-term disability, and business travel accident insurance. Financial and retirement benefits include the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), with the ability to purchase company stock at a discount, and the 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (RSP), with options for employee contributions and company matching. We also offer Flexible Spending Accounts, educational assistance programs, and time-off benefits such as paid holidays, paid time off ranging from 20 to 35 days based on length of service, family and medical leaves of absence, and paid parental leave. Additional benefits include commuting benefits, the Employee Discount Program, the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), and childcare benefits. Join us and enjoy the competitive compensation and benefits we offer to our employees. For additional information regarding Baxter US Benefits, please speak with your recruiter or visit our Benefits site: Benefits | Baxter

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Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.

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