Mix Talent LLC - Talent Consulting Leader

About Us

Mix Talent is a biotech and healthcare-focused talent acquisition and management consulting firm that recognizes the power of company culture, and specializes in identifying, recruiting, assessing, selecting, and developing talent that fits and fortifies that culture. We believe long-term success is enabled by the right mix of skills, experience, personality, and personal motivation. Our unique mix of knowledge, technology, and instinct have helped clients go beyond just hiring headcount to truly create dynamic organizations.

We are headquartered in Columbus, Ohio and have teammates remotely located in seventeen other states across the US.  

We are seeking a Talent Consulting Leader to join our team. This position can be remote or based out of our headquarters in Columbus, OH. Travel to client sites is expected to be 15-20%. 

Responsibilities

As the Talent Consulting Leader, you will be responsible for leading and delivering a wide variety of consulting and assessment engagements with our clients. No day will be exactly the same, but you can expect to work in at least some of the following areas:

• Assessment Process Development and Implementation: Working with our clients and internal Mix project teams to build pre-employment selection strategies and solutions. This includes job analysis, behavioral modeling, building interview guides, and consulting with clients on how to best make use of objective selection tools.
• Individual Assessment: Engaging one-on-one with executives (both candidates and incumbents) and generating insights for our clients to use in their selection and development decisions.
• Leading a Team: Managing a small team of dedicated, talented consultants.
• Research and Design: Building new assessment tools and keeping the ones we have on the cutting edge.
• Thought Leadership: Bringing your perspective, experience, and expertise to our current and prospective clients through white papers, podcasts, webinars, and other mediums.
• Choose Your Own Adventure: We are a small, nimble, and entrepreneurial team serving clients with evolving, dynamic needs. When you have ideas, we want to hear about them and will empower you to bring new capabilities and perspectives to our clients.  

Background and Experience

• Graduate-level training (PhD preferred) in industrial/organizational psychology (required)
• Client-facing external or internal consulting experience (required)
• People management experience (preferred)
• Executive assessment experience (preferred)
• Pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry experience (preferred)
• Experience using validated psychometric tools in your consulting and assessment (e.g., OPQ, Hogan suite) (preferred)

Values and Competencies

Our Mix Operating System (MixOS) guides the way Mixers show up with each other, our clients, and the candidates with whom we interact every day.  

In addition to embodying the MixOS, the ideal candidate will demonstrate:

• Technical Excellence: Demonstrates deep expertise in industrial/organizational psychology, particularly in the areas of assessment design, validation, job analysis, and psychometrics. Maintains fluency in emerging research and translates it into client-ready solutions.
• Executive Communication and Influence: Has excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex information into actionable insights, manage expectations, and respond to feedback. Adapts approach to meet the needs of diverse stakeholders, and frames recommendations in ways that influence decision-making and align stakeholders around action.
• Strategic Collaboration and Consulting: Builds strong, trust-based relationships internally and externally. Partners consultatively to create talent solutions that merge behavioral science best practices with client realities to create win-win solutions.  
• Entrepreneurial Mindset: Brings curiosity, initiative, and a builder’s mentality to the table. Seeks new ways to expand capabilities, co-develop offerings, and respond to evolving client needs in a dynamic, high-growth life sciences environment.
• Team Development & Leadership: Mentors and leads others with authenticity, empathy, and accountability. Develops team members’ skills and careers through thoughtful coaching, mentorship, and feedback. Creates psychological safety and fosters a culture of learning, excellence, and belonging.
• Strategic and Systems Thinking: Sees the big picture and connects dots across organizational, team, and individual levels. Understands the interdependencies across talent processes and designs solutions that support both immediate needs and long-term business goals.
• Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Demonstrates a proactive mindset and curiosity to learn and explore new functionalities. Proactively identifies, develops, socializes, and implements forward-thinking opportunities to evolve our tools and approaches to enhance client outcomes and internal efficiencies. The skills to manage these changes effectively is crucial.
• Project Management: Leads multiple projects across assessment and consulting scopes from conception to completion, delivering on time, within scope, and with measurable impact, even in the absence of hard deadlines. Ensures alignment in own and others’ work with Mix’s high standards of client delivery and responsiveness.  

As an equal opportunity employer, Mix Talent does not discriminate in hiring or terms and conditions of employment on the basis of any federal, state, or locally protected class.

Mix Talent participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm you are authorized to work in the United States. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and the opportunity to contact the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.