Daniel Gradel Email & Phone Number

United States

Paris La Défense, FR

• Tarkett/Tarkett SportsTalent Acquisition Leader that designed, implemented, and managed the national roll out of the first Talent Acquisition COE serving a $3B business with 5k+ employees for 2 business segments in.
• Saved the company $1M in vendor fees.
• Built and implemented a standardized recruiting process. o Recruiting process roadmap o Hiring manager guides o Structure Interview Guides o Standardized all recruiting templates. o Training for new COE process o.
• Created and implemented EVP
• Developed and implemented standardized recruiting metrics and reporting.
• Achieved TA TTF of 51 days for salaried/exempt roles.

Plano, Texas, US

Founded a professional staffing firm. Managed all sales and recruiting efforts for staffing solutions. Landed fortune 500 clients to small businesses in tech, manufacturing, defense, and aerospace. 360 recruiting requires selling both sides of the deal - prospecting and finding both clients and candidates through targeted searches on multiple platforms.

Ipsley Church Lane, Redditch, Worcestershire, GB

• Talent Acquisition Leader that designed, implemented, and managed the national roll out of the first Talent Acquisition COE serving $7B -10k+ employees for all 4 GKN Businesses in North America: Driveline/Automotive.
• Saved company $8M in vendor fees and was instrumental in VMS selection for contingent labor contributing to a 35% reduction in cost.
• Built and implemented a standardized recruiting process. Including process roadmap, hiring manager guides, standardized templates, and training for new COE process.
• Developed and implemented standardized recruiting metrics reporting
• Achieved a COE TTF of less than 60 days for salaried/exempt roles.
• Consolidated OFCCP and job board vendors to one master agreement.

• Developed recruiting strategies necessary to meet the client’s current and forecasted staffing needs.
• Led a national team of full cycle recruiters (7 - 10 team members)
• Directly interfaced with client stakeholders to improve recruiting processes and delivery strategy.
• Assessed and developed recruiters in a matrix based environment to ensure the client’s staffing requirements are delivered with high quality.
• Developed and implemented candidate sourcing strategies to build pipelines to deliver on workforce planning targets.
• Led continuous process improvement projects (Intake Call Improvement, Hiring Manager Toolkit, OFCCP Compliance) to achieve process excellence.

Chicago, Illinois, US

- Successfully sourced Senior Associate to Partner level requisitions for 17 offices in the Central region Tax and Assurance Practice.- Initiated a sponsored networking event with the Dallas CPA Society resulting in increased candidate flow and brand awareness. This model is now standard with the Society and was rolled out regionally with McGladrey..

Minnetonka, Minnesota, US

- Built and maintain relationships with client hiring manager to ensure proper culture and skill set match with candidates.- Sourced and interviewed potential candidates to determine depth of knowledge and career focus through active listening and intelligent open ended questions.- Built candidate pipelines for targeted positions using multi channel.

Menlo Park, CA, US

- Managed a team of 3 ensuring resources were provided for success and goals were planned and met.- Drive the sales process through market research, networking and active marketing including cross sale calls, cold calls and client visits.- Consult with client’s accounting, finance and human resources managers to identify specific staffing needs.- Determine.

Bachelors, Finance

Civil Engineering