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Downers Grove, Illinois, Us

Leading the continuous development of Dover's Global Talent Acquisition Center of Expertise (COE) by means of advancing and accelerating the global strategy and successful execution and operations for employer branding, sourcing, recruiting, and selection.

Downers Grove, Il, Us

• Lead the Talent Acquisition transformation by means of building, developing and implementing systems, end-to-end hiring processes, expanding team structure, while managing a talented team of recruiting professionals to support Univar Solution's growth and success.• Partnered with the HR Team and business stakeholders to gain a deep understanding of business goals and initiatives, industry and key competitors, and the talent needed to fuel Univar’s growth.• Implemented technology solutions to support talent acquisition while enhancing process effectiveness, providing analytics to enable data-driven decision and delivering a positive candidate (and hiring manager) experience.• Lead and completed a Talent Retention project that achieved leadership awareness on turnover trends, improved turnover reporting capabilities and outsourced the exit interview and survey process.• Influenced regions outside the U.S. (Latin America, Europe, Canada) to work within a Global Talent Acquisition framework while serving as a foundation for global expansion use of the Applicant Tracking System.• Designed and implemented a Talent Acquisition KPI dashboard with People Analytics team via Tableau functionality and ATS data, which included Diversity Recruiting tracking.• Partnered with communications and marketing to develop and maintain employment branding strategy which effectively represents the company’s image, organizational culture, key differentiators, and reputation and core values.• Awarded 2018 Human Resources Leader of the Year.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

-- Responsible for management and direction of the Global Corporate Talent Acquisition Team to fill professional roles at all levels, including internships, for the Corporate and U.S. based headquarter locations which included designing a global recruiting process in partnership with HR Partners. -- Focused on modernizing the McDonald’s staff candidate experience by means of talent acquisition technology, processes, on boarding and employment messaging.-- Built and developed the Talent Acquisition team’s capabilities by designing a department structure consisting of a full-time strategic staff with an outsourced RPO/contractor staff to allow focus on the strategic and transnational elements of Talent Acquisition.-- Directed large-scale recruiting initiatives to ensure the talent acquisition team can deliver on business demands and meet hiring manager expectations.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

-- Responsible for building, designing, and managing the Corporate Talent Acquisition Team which experienced substantial professional hiring growth over 5 years span.-- Streamlined and defined talent acquisition policies and processes.-- Identified recruiting and process training needs of hiring managers and oversaw the development and delivery of training to close any knowledge gaps.-- Earned the most individual prestigious award, the McDonald’s President’s Award in 2009 – recognized as top 1% of McDonald’s global performers.-- HR Business Partner (development role in addition to above responsibilities) Assigned to the Global Corporate Social Responsibility and Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) departments:

Chicago, Illinois, Us

-- Hired to lead full-cycle recruiting for multiple departments such as Operations, Marketing, Human Resources, and Construction. Influenced a community of hiring managers to leverage Talent Acquisition.

Naperville, Il, Us

-- Hired to lead full cycle recruiting for the IT, Gas Control, Call Center, Finance, and Engineering Departments. Facilitated interview training for Hiring managers. -- Lead recruiter for sister company, Nicor Services and enhanced employment processes and recruiting for IT, Finance, Sales, Training, and HVAC.-- Partnered with the Applicant Tracking vendor on upgrading the system and training the recruiting team.

Uxbridge, West London, Gb

-- Hired on originally as a recruiter and then promoted Manager to perform as the strategic recruiting business partner to field Human Resources team and management across a four state and 3,000 employee division. Lead and implemented Corporate sponsored recruiting initiatives by providing direction, training, and coaching in the area of recruiting to a team of 10 Recruiters, 4 HR Managers, and 1 HR Director.-- Accomplished to manage a Full-cycle recruiting workload which included a diversity of recruiting for talent at division headquarters, bottling plants, fountain and vending centers, truck driving hubs, and sales centers. -- Managed the division's employment processes and ensured that users had effective training and tools (background checks, interview materials, ATS, job postings, etc.).

Telecommunications staffing firm with major clients including Motorola, Molex, Tellabs. As a Sr. Recruiter had to sell to potential applicants Avalon's services as well as place the best applicants to represent Avalon at the clients' business. Occasionally sold Avalon's services to potential clients.