• Lead full-cycle recruitment efforts for exempt/professional roles, including sourcing, screening, interviewing, and onboarding.• Develop and implement recruitment marketing strategies to attract top talent through social media, digital platforms, and other channels.• Manage relationships with staffing agencies, background check providers, and assessment tool vendors, handling contract negotiations and performance evaluations.• Oversee recruiting platforms such as LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, and the ATS, optimizing their use for success.• Collaborate with local HR teams to support non-exempt/production role recruiting efforts.• Track and report standard recruiting metrics (time to fill, candidate quality, cost per hire) and continuously refine processes.• Embrace and implement new technologies and AI tools to enhance recruiting processes and the candidate experience.

Hiring top talent for Cisco’s ONEx (including the US Public Sector), Sales, Engineering, Corporate Functions and SR Director/Executive roles across the US. Well versed in developing key relationships with hiring managers and business partners to gain a solid understanding of job requirements, business objectives, sourcing strategies and recruiting trends. Generate market insight reports/research of talent landscape, compensation, target companies and competitor activity to educate the business as to strategies to secure specific qualifications. Focus on reaching active and passive candidates via the Internet and Social Networking tools, via cold calling and less traditional sourcing methods. Implement pipeline activities to enhance candidate pools from key competitors. Promote and ensure diversity and inclusion efforts are in place and executed. Manage requisitions from opening to candidate on boarding. Successful track record of exceeding goals/KPI's 130%.