Lead full lifecycle recruitment for critical leadership positions, ensuring cultural fit and alignment with company growth objectives. Drive process enhancements, streamline the interview process, and improve candidate evaluation, resulting in better hiring decisions, increased offer acceptance rates, and reduced time to hire. Implement effective recruitment strategies to secure dynamic, talented leaders and champion a high-touch candidate experience strategy. Provide coaching to hiring managers on positive candidate interactions and communicate candidate feedback to C-level leadership for continuous improvement. Facilitate offer negotiations and develop competitive salary packages to attract top-tier talent.

Led high-pressure end-to-end recruitment processes, sourcing and recruiting top Technical Solutions Architecture and Engineering talent. Innovated and utilized creative sourcing strategies to meet Amazon’s high standards in a high-volume environment. Analyzed recruiting funnel metrics to identify trends and areas for improvement, presenting actionable insights to stakeholders. Streamlined recruitment processes, directly impacting time-to-fill for niche roles and enhancing efficiency. Supported roles in Quantum Computing, Applied Science, HPC, AI/ML, Edge Security, Elemental Technologies, and Container Services.

Managed a team of 8 Sourcing Recruiters, aligning with aggressive growth targets across the US, MX, and Canada. Standardized recruiter-sourcer partnership SOPs for enhanced collaboration and efficiency. Conducted sourcing and recruiting efforts for a full requisition load, performed performance reviews, provided individualized coaching, evaluated and implemented new recruiting tools and technologies, analyzed metrics, and presented findings to senior management for process enhancements. Managed vendor partnerships to optimize sourcing efforts.

IT Sourcing - Focus Areas: Systems Integration, Information Management, Big Data, SAP, Digital Technology, Cloud, Mobile, Salesforce.com, NetSuite ERP, Java/J2EE, Business intelligence (BI), EDWConducted candidate outreach, candidate interviews (technical and soft skills assessment), and made recommendations for hiring process. Developed candidate generation initiatives and participated in developing attractive messaging and utilizing marketing materials to elicit a greater candidate response rate. Focus aimed at sourcing passive candidates and building out robust pipelines for niche skill areas. Emphasis on relationship building for long term hiring goals in key skill areas. Responsible for gathering market intelligence and industry trends to identify target candidate pool and build comprehensive talent acquisition go-to market strategy. This included partnering with Sr. Recruiting and TA leadership to fill key roles across Deloitte US Delivery Centers. Knowledge of sourcing/recruiting process optimization and creative candidate generation initiatives including marketing/ad-campaigns, virtual meet-ups/online job fairs, and social media recruiting.

Recruited qualified candidates for contract (W-2, Independent/1099 and Associate Vendor), contract-to-hire and permanent IT openings, focusing on business applications services and information systems for various clients in the greater Atlanta areaManaged open job requisitions throughout the full recruiting life cycle for positions including but not limited to Program/Project Managers, Business Analysts, Systems Analysts, Project Coordinators, Delivery/Resource Managers, Quality Assurance, Application Developers, Virtualization, Cloud, OOD/OOP, and Engineering skill sets Clients include: various Fortune 500 and 1000 companies in industries such as government, communications, healthcare, technology, manufacturing, travel, hospitality, consumer goods, consulting services, finance, and bankingActed as the recruiting team mentor and PMO Lead Recruiter responsible for ongoing training and development of Jr. Recruiters; led qualification calls and sourcing strategy.Consulted candidates on resume writing, personal branding, interview and career coaching etc. Supported the PMO Practice Director by leading qualification calls, and supporting candidate relocation initiatives nationwide.Ran the full life cycle of new openings: intake calls with hiring managers for in-depth understanding of openings, sourcing/recruiting candidates, scheduling interviews, rate negotiations, offer presentation and on boarding paperwork etc.Built trusted-advisor relationships with hiring managers, executives, and internal customers.Awards/Recognition: 5X recipient of the Apex Systems Top Performer (Company wide achievement) Award for Outstanding Recruiting Achievement Consistently ranked among the top 5% of performers nationally with over 600+ recruiters and 70+ office locations.