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Tel Aviv-Yafo, Il

Mountain View, Ca, Us

o Lead HR strategy and operations for global teams of 300+ engineers across 10+ countries in North America, Israel, and EMEA.o Managed all HR aspects of due diligence and Post-Merger Integration (PMI) for Redis’ first strategic M&A.o Supported leadership through a significant change management process with the appointment of a new CTO in the U.S. to drive collaboration and performance between R&D and Product teams.o Managed a team of 4 HR professionals, driving initiatives on talent acquisition, employee engagement, and retention.Leading international hiring strategy and implementation in more than 15 countries- opening entities, designing benefits schemes and local policies

New York, Us

o Led HR operations for a global workforce of 130+ employees in Israel and the U.S., including organizational design, talent management, compensation, and global HR policies.o Successfully decentralized the global sales team, establishing new regions and teams across EMEA, LATAM, and APAC to meet aggressive revenue targets.o Redesigned all HR policies and processes, including transitioning to a new Professional Employer Organization (PEO) in the U.S. to streamline operations.

Chesterfield, Mo, Us

Amdocs Optima is a standalone business unit within Amdocs that was formed from a few acquisitions with more than 1000 employees spread globally in over 50 sites (including Product, R&D, Sales, Delivery, Support and MGS)As the HRBP I have multiple responsibilities, supporting global units of pre-sales, account management and development units as well as the Israel site HR lead for a diverse team of 200 employees in two sites.Activities include: Part of global management teams, supporting the managers in all business aspects including: organization design, leadership development, performance betterment, AOP, identify learning needs and develop tailor made development plans.As the Israeli site HR I am supporting first line managers in their development process as well as the employees in their moments of truth and responsible for welfare program at a unit level.Achievements:• Development of leadership community in IL• Support units in large organizational change including structure development, communication and change management• Development of innovation led leadership program to unit’s 2nd’ level management

Chesterfield, Mo, Us

Responsible for recruitment, internal mobility and succession planning for the organization’s leadership positions (top 250). Work with the organization’s senior executives to define profiles and recruit top talent to leadership positions in all group divisions globally (Sales, delivery, services and R&D). Activities include: succession planning, internal progression, external headhunting, Career coaching to executives, building internal candidate pool, participation in design of excellence programs selection process, design and negotiations of compensation package and local employment agreements, work closely with local HR teams to manage relocation and on-boarding process.Achievements: Lead and designed the development of internal on-boarding mobile application to new hired executives. Developed and strengthened the connections with local headhunters in major regions Built strong position and credibility within the leadership community both for personal career development as well as for management teams design and development.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Responsible for recruitment activities in all four Business Units: Cellular, Enterprise Business Unit (switching and routing), Design Technology and Operations. Activities include: workforce planning and HC management, work with executives to define recruiting targets and sourcing strategy, management of academic relations activities and daily work with global corporate recruiting and HR teams.Achievements: Managed a strategic recruitment of an organic design team of 50 engineers. (including: negotiations, determine and manage recruitment and selection process, comp structuring and integration) Restructured all local recruitment process including:o Replacing existing CVC vendor company (including: selection process, negotiation of terms and legal contract)o Recruited and trained a new team of recruiters and coordinatorso Reviewed and revised all recruitment workflow and procedures in alignment to corporate guidelines o Selected and implemented new local recruitment system (including: benchmarks, define specifications, negotiation and implementation) Enhanced sourcing strategy by improving brand visibility to target audience and direct contact with potential candidates Worked to improve academic relations by implementing a summer internship program for outstanding students and an industrial projects program

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Solely responsible for all recruitment efforts in five sites across Europe, which employ 300 engineers, with average of 60 open requisitions. Working remotely from Israel with occasional visits at the sites.Achievements:- Implemented standardized recruiting processes in all European sites- Created annual recruitment and sourcing plan and monitoring reports- Increased HR and recruitment presence and influence, among managers and engineers.- Reduced the use of headhunters and recruitment agencies to one hire in two quarters.- Increased company presence online on job boards, search engines, Linkedin and professional forums.Activities include:- Providing complete process guidance to managers, from procedures education, to job description, candidates search and hiring decisions.- Responsible for sourcing, prescreening and HR interviews (Via video conference)- Participating in occasional recruiting and HR team projects.- Develop and facilitate training sessions to managers Via VC and on site

Dublin 2, Ie

I am responsible for recruitment activities for permanent roles, in the different business units within the outsourcing workforce.Recruiting for a variety of positions mainly in the IT and financial business unitsActivities include:• Liaising with hiring managers and executives throughout the process in order to: understand the needs of the business unit, set expectations and provide guidance.• Managing the application process of internal and external candidates in a unionized and non-unionized environment.• Posting job description on external job boards, industry websites and local newspapers.• Developing external candidates’ pipeline for the different roles.• Negotiating offers with successful candidates.• Facilitating and coordinating assessment days.• Responsible for campus and CO-OP recruitment for Accenture in British Columbia.• Authorized Performance Factors Interviewer.• Managing all on-boarding procedures such as referrals, back-check, HR etc.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Responsible for recruitment activities generated from our clients' personnel needs in West Canada (BC, Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan)Activities include:- Sourcing potential candidates by utilizing an internal database to identify potential candidates, posting job requirements on different job boards to increase available candidate pool and developing creative recruiting resources to attract qualified professionals- Screening potential candidates by: conducting over the phone and face-to-face interviews; negotiating rates and securing commitment from candidates before presenting them to clients in order to ensure excellent requirement matches and mitigate "back out" situations- Preparing resumes for presentation to clients using client's vendor management system, and leading candidates through client interview processes- Always open to help candidates who are open to work or looking for new opportunities to find their calling

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Participated in the whole recruitment cycle for positions in diversified industries such as: IT, Financial services and HRResponsibilities include:- Sourcing potential candidates by using methodologies such as: research, cold calling, referrals and proprietary data-base- Screening candidates for the different positions by conducting pre interviews and office interviews- Liaison between the clients and candidates in order to arrange interviews and negotiate employment offers- Creating, writing and posting job descriptions on electronic job boards such as Workopolis, professional association boards, etc.

Bachelors, Business Administration

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