Ben Foster, Phr, Cdr Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Kohler, Wisconsin, Us

Full-cycle hiring of global leadership + building/elevating the internal executive recruiting capabilities, processes & service delivery at KOHLER. Proud to serve this global organization full of wonderful people and elegant, dependable products that provide gracious living.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, Us

Lead a small team and boutique search practice based upon an unbiased, equity-driven recruiting. With roots in Marketing & Advertising recruitment, 4SIGHT SEARCH provides retained & contingent recruiting services in addition to contract staffing, sourcing talent from executive leadership to specialized individual contributors across multiple corporate, technical & SG&A functions. We serve heavily in the Fortune 500 through midcap space. Enterprise experience. Boutique service. 4SIGHT COACHING: a boutique practice providing modern, highly-tailored, virtual job transition coaching services, 4SIGHT COACHING is disrupting the outplacement industry. We serve organizations & individuals in most private/corporate sector and non-profit industries. Recruiters Who Coach. 4SIGHT is a certified MBE (Minority Business Enterprise), and donates 5% of all sales to charitable organizations.

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

[Contract role cut short by layoff ... #RecruiterLife]. Built relationships with world-class pharmaceutical, medical device, biologics, cell therapy (CAR T) & gene therapy supply chain leaders throughout the United States and Europe. Supplied specialized diversity-driven talent market mapping services to TA partners and business units.

Boston, Ma, Us

[FTE role impacted by mass layoff ... #MoreRecruiterLife]. Led critical searches for the highest levels of executive leadership within the tech org at Wayfair. Saved retained search firm spend by sourcing new Head of Security / CISO. Designed sourcing upskilling training for a 150-person global tech recruiting team, with focus on DEI & market mapping. Pitched & initiated company's first Talent Council platform to leadership.

St. Paul, Mn, Us

Lead executive recruiter for external hiring on in-house search team supporting Ecolab, Nalco & Purolite. Led full-cycle executive-level hiring assignments across Marketing, Digital & IT, Supply Chain & Quality Manufacturing; sourcing practices; and D&I recruiting initiatives. Saved six-figures of search spend; led executive recruiting processes through 2nd largest global merger in company's history ($4BB); trained & mentored team in sourcing strategies & best practices; helped build & design executive recruiting processes, internal playbook & service delivery. Sat on executive global talent council for C-Suite & SLT business leaders.

Arden Hills, Minnesota, Us

Full-cycle talent acquisition at high-growth Fortune 200 food, CPG & agriculture corporation. Hired as first dedicated corporate HQ recruiter for Land O'Lakes International Development nonprofit (now Venture37), and Moark, LLC ($700MM eggs business). Progressed to serving as a "utility player" on the TA team, servicing all food production & commercial business units including Corporate, Purina, Winfield & Dairy Foods. Heavy sourcing for niche-based (food & agricultural science) + general functional reqs (marketing, IT, sales, finance & accounting, admin, supply chain & plant manufacturing) on national and global scales. Spearheaded & formalized processes for international searches within the commercial and non-profit businesses across Canada, Asia Pacific, Africa & Latin America. Authorized on Land O'Lakes, Inc. corporate social media. Partnered with Marketing & Corp Comm on production of HR and employer branding collateral.

Edina, Mn, Us

Aggressive search & staffing within the Twin Cities robust marketing & advertising industry. Served a variety of F500 corporations, marketing / advertising agencies & non-profits. Contract and direct-hire. Helped drive Celarity and our small team of 3 recruiters (at that time) to record-setting billable hours & hires within its then 20-year firm existence. Achieved top scores in a vendor evaluation at Target Corporation, based on performance & retention of hires. Lead hand in building Medtronic's Global Interactive team.

San Francisco, California, Us

High-volume, national recruitment after Wells Fargo / Wachovia merger.

fH360 was a joint-venture management consulting & recruiting firm specializing in campus recruiting and entry-level "millennial" talent management. I served in a recruitment & integrated marketing capacity, formally reporting into both HR and Marketing. MARKETING: concepted, copy wrote, art directed and managed print and digital employment branding campaigns (back when social media recruiting and YouTube recruitment videos were just emerging). - Concepted our "Career-ing (def.)" campaign.- Concepted our "Cafe 360" job fair booth that set the trend for experiential career fair booths in the campus recruiting circuit. "Cafe 360" consisted of multiple high tables, 4-5 minute small group interactions with our recruiters, beverages, 'menus' with our job openings and upbeat background music to mimic a professional networking event at a venue. Our millennial audience dug it, and the big brand campus recruiters soon followed suit. The result was instant PR, near 500% increase in candidate interaction, and a 40% increase in online applications the next year. Those who visited our booth didn't remember us for the pen, mug or candy they received, but for the experience they had. RECRUITING: split-desk recruiting hiring college interns through associate-level college graduates into Sales, Marketing, IT, Finance/Accounting, Admin and Healthcare positions; conducted onboarding and orientation sessions.

B.A., Communication - Rhetoric

Education record

M.A. Coursework, Rhetoric & Technical Communication