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Responsible for leading a team of 7 remote based Recruiters aligned to Optum Corporate Functions. This includes Mid-level to Executive-level roles within Corporate Marketing/Communications, Finance, Sales, Project Management, Business Operations, Legal/Regulatory/Compliance, and Analytics across North America. Partner with Human Capital and Business Leaders to drive Inclusion and Diversity, Redeployment/Internal Mobility and Mergers and Acquisitions. Develop and lead projects to achieve business and talent acquisition priorities.• Developed and implemented Career Care across Optum, a recruiter-led presentation designed to assist internal employees in their career development resulting in an increased Net Promoter Score for internal candidates• Worked with internal divisions to develop strategies to promote inclusion and diversity specific to their business

Responsible for leading a team of up to 11 local and remote based Recruiters that recruit for Mid-level to Executive level roles across the Sales, Marketing, Product, Business Operations, Technology and Regulatory functions of OptumRx in North America. Actively partner with Human Capital Leaders, Business Leaders and Talent Acquisition Partners to develop successful recruitment strategies for current and future needs. Lead projects that advance Talent Acquisition to be best in class.

Responsible for leading a team of 5 Sourcers and 2 Researchers that strategically pipeline and actively source talent for business needs across North America. Develop and execute Talent Acquisition's diversity and military strategy to attract and retain top talent. Partner with Global Inclusion and Diversity, Talent Management, and Business Unit HR Leaders to align priorities.• Established new sourcing model to support the most critical positions within Cargill and pipelining talent for future needs.• Developed a flexible recruiting model to balance workload among the Recruiting Team and Sourcing Team.• Created a series of training sessions for all of Talent Acquisition North America focused around diversity, sourcing, and talent advisor capabilities.

Responsible for leading a team of 7 local and remote based Recruiters that handle the recruitment of Executives for 38 Distribution Centers and Headquarters. Partner with Supply Chain SVP, VPs, HR Director and HR Managers to strategically align resources to staff the business.• Established consistent routines and prioritization of positions to ensure that Talent Acquisition was filling the most critical roles.• Created flexible recruitment strategies across multiple business units to increase productivity resulting in a 20% decrease in days to fill.• Developed a team culture of trust through transparent communication, building partnerships, empowerment and provided direction which led to exceeding business results and high team morale.• Partnered with Campus Talent Acquisition Managers to communicate Supply Chain forecast and strategically drive Campus hire results.• Covered a three month Leave of Absence for the Supply Chain Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition. Led a team of 13 recruiters responsible for Distribution Centers and Headquarters Supply Chain staffing.

Responsible for recruiting qualified candidates across Corporate Headquarters for Supply Chain. Established myself as a leader through creating recruiter acumen development plans and navigating recruitment challenges, leading to an in role promotion in July, 2013.• Hired exempt level team members within Supply Chain with a 43% offer rate and 97% accept rate and decreased average days to accept by 16%.• Developed and implemented a priority position strategy for the Supply Chain Headquarters Distribution Recruiters resulting in closing priority positions within 30 days.• Created and delivered a social media and diversity recruitment training to 75 remotely based recruiters resulting in increased recruiter acumen for sourcing passive candidates.• Recognized for building strategic partnerships with the Transportation VP, Directors and HR to drive overall efficiency in external recruitment.• Created and implemented diversity conference strategy for HQ Supply Chain resulting in a 50% offer rate.

• Proactively ramped up Distribution Center recruiting for Colorado and Kansas markets increasing offer rate in each market• Increased female and diversity leadership percentages within the Distribution Centers• Coached and mentored peers with onboarding and client relationships• Led the creation of an action plan to increase team engagement• Initiated field relationships with campus and stores partners resulting in talent sharing• Demonstrated urgency by filling specialty roles in different markets under the goal time for average days to fill• Built relationships with General Managers, HR Managers and Senior Leaders in Colorado and Kansas through market visits, statuses, and invitations for calibration

• Manage full cycle recruiting for non-exempt staffing nationwide with Fortune 500 companies• Source and screen resumes to fill high volume of positions• Present candidates through multiple VMS systems• In top 15% of recruiters for number of hires each month

• Managed a high volume workload up to 70 requisitions, consistently achieved over 30 hires a month for exempt level staffing.• Effectively built strong relationships with over 50 hiring managers at a time and consulted with them regarding the recruitment landscape.• Achieved Producer’s Award each month and Quarterly Awards

• • Sourced candidates through cold calls, career fairs, and media resulting in a 75% closing ratio of candidates.• Solicited accounts and negotiated employer rates.• Achieved the company’s highest production month year to date.