- Spearheaded recruitment efforts for R&D, product design, and innovation teams, ensuring talent alignment with business objectives and culture fit.- Developed and executed scalable talent acquisition strategies to support rapid organizational growth, achieving considerable reduction in time-to-hire across teams.- Enhanced candidate experience by streamlining interview processes and improving feedback loops, increasing candidate and hiring manager satisfaction.- Collaborated with C-suite executives and senior management to align talent strategy with business goals, driving workforce optimization and organizational effectiveness.- Implemented data-driven decision-making, utilizing metrics and analytics to refine sourcing, screening, and hiring strategies.

- Led and mentored a team of 7+ recruiters across two locations, developing and executing comprehensive recruitment strategies to scale high-performance teams.- Drove diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives by introducing targeted recruitment efforts, resulting in an increase in diverse hires within product creation and R&D functions.- Partnered with leadership to create proactive talent pipelines, ensuring top-tier candidates were ready to meet long-term business needs.- Successfully built and optimized recruitment processes, reducing hiring timelines while maintaining quality and cultural alignment.

- Led full-cycle recruitment for design, creative, and R&D roles across multiple product categories, consistently meeting hiring goals.- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to understand hiring needs, providing consultative services to senior managers on talent market trends and organizational design.- Enhanced the candidate experience by optimizing interview and assessment processes, resulting in improvement in offer acceptance rates.- Drove innovative sourcing strategies, using social media, talent mapping, and partnerships with industry organizations to attract passive talent.- Provided actionable insights to leadership on talent trends, compensation, and market data to inform hiring decisions and budget planning.

To further immerse myself and strengthen my understanding in the creative field, especially Footwear, Apparel, Color&Materials and Graphics as well as storytelling, I got the opportunity to do a short term assignment in which I facilitate, manage and optimize the design process via project management on a day-to-day, quarterly and annual level.Key Responsibilities:- Pro-actively support the development of multiple concepts and projects for the Football Departments projects ensuring objectives and timelines are met, and ensuring on-time delivery to platforms for market adaptation and implementation.- Manage project progress from initial briefing and schedule development to concepting- Manage overall project workload and maintain project list.- Ensure clear communication and a defined project scope are maintained between project stakeholders and creative team.- Support Design teams in all operational issues, including scheduling regular meetings, driving to outcomes and recording and cascading of meeting minutes and other documents. Participate in creative brainstorming, research and ideation with the wider BU Football team, and support in the design/creation of mood boards and research documents.- Support implementation of BU Football guidelines/strategies.- Drive the use of Project Management tools to communicate due dates, responsibilities and deliverables across team.- Contribute to creative community – culture and behaviors.

- Leading 360-degree recruitment for creative roles across lifestyle and performance categories with experience in all disciplines from Assistant Designer to Design Director level hires. - Additional experience with Future Talent programs exp. adidas Design Academy and creative Internships - Driving all aspects of the process including; Business Strategy Briefing, Proactive Sourcing, Assessment/Decision Making and Offer Management (HRBP Partnering). Project Work: Creative Judge on panel for the Woolmark Performance Challenge (global design competition for young design talents in the apparel innovation sector with 10k cash prize), consultative member of University team to create key school and campus strategy, Global Talent Acquisition Process Harmonization with internal HR Services team.

- Responsible for full coordination of 360- degree recruitment cycle for several categories across lifestyle and performance, supporting the recruiters, senior managers and HRBP.- Liaising with internal stakeholders being the single point of contact to coordinate between the Business, recruiters and external as well as internal candidates.- Screening and interviewing for various positions in Marketing and Design as well as Project Management- Main contact for maintenance for internal/external job postings for Brand and Design