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At Smart Partners Consulting, LLC we are dedicated in specializing in connecting great people with great opportunities. We are a boutique search firm who can execute on Executive Recruitment strategies, DE&I strategies, consultants for hire and help streamline your process by being proactive recruitment and consulting partners.Examples of expertise: * Full-cycle search * Technology * Analytics * Social media * Retained SearchIndustries include: * Technology * Banking/Financial Services * eCommerce * Consumer Packaged Good (CPG) * Entertainment * Insurance * HealthcareAnd many more! Let us help augment your recruitment needs and put programs in place that work for your business for years to come. With over 20+ years in the market, we have 1st hand connections who are proven and highly valued professionals.

Beverly Hills, Ca, Us

Managing full-life cycle recruiting and creating a standard for the multiple business groups supported, including Comedy Touring & Comedy Ticketing, Strategy & Ventures, IQ & Data Analytics, Engineering, eSports & Gaming, Corporate Services, KLUTCH Sports Group, Music, and Finance to name a few. Responsible for vendor management, including contract negotiations, employer branding, return to office hiring and onboarding. Helped grow the agency from 1400 employees to 2000 employees with offices in Beverly Hills, New York, Nashville, Atlanta, and London while working in partnership with C-Suite and partners. Supported by a small team consisting of Sourcers, Assistant and Scheduler.

Holmdel, Nj, Us

Docupace is a leading digital operations technology provider that simplifies how wealth management firms process and digitize data, increasing efficiency, productivity, and profits. With the secure, cloud-based Docupace Platform, the Docupace team provides a suite of digital solutions that helps broker-dealers, RIAs, and their advisors streamline and automate client onboarding, document management, advisor transitions, Regulation BI, cybersecurity, and other critical workflows while maintaining SEC and FINRA compliance.With headquarters in Los Angeles, California, Docupace is proud to serve a variety of firms, including some of the largest in the financial services industry, through a combination of proven technology and hands-on service.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Provided expert service to our internal customers Insights & Analytics Marketing team by delivering high touch, fast turnaround and consultative services when hiring a diverse set of, Data Scientist, Strategic Analyst, BI Developers, Digital Analytics Leaders and Financial Analyst. Manage complex negotiations of comp and bonus structures and multiple FMLA status’ within Capital Group. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Salesforce.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

FANDOM is a global entertainment media brand powered by fan passion. The fan-trusted source in entertainment, FANDOM provides a home to explore, contribute to, and celebrate the world of pop culture. FANDOM has a global audience of almost 200 million monthly uniques and encompasses over 400,000 fan communities and currently feature more than 55 million pages of content, inclusive of video.• Developed the recruiting operations roadmap to improve current processes and procedures that align with business goals and departmental needs. Responsible for all recruitment needs for BU’s including Engineering, Marketing, Finance, Accounting, Sales & Creative while building strong partnerships.• Led team in hiring for North America, EMEA, APAC, LATAM and Australia. Ran performance metrics to make sure we were exceeding targets when it comes to time-to-fill, offer acceptance rates and benchmarking when compared to market data.• Implemented a Global Internship Program that had been dormant for roughly 4 years. Selected and hired 15 interns in LA, SF, NY, Poland & Australia who landed in Product, Finance, Engineering, Content, Video and Sales. Created the first real pipeline for entry level positions across the company.• Launched the companies first employee resource groups

Pasadena, Ca, Us

OpenX is a global leader in digital and mobile advertising technology. We create highly efficient, high-quality programmatic advertising markets that deliver optimal value to buyers and sellers and evolve rapidly to support the growth of the digital economy across screens and formats. • Managed a team of on-site and remote Sr. Recruiters, Coordinators, and Researchers for Engineering and Product Team.• Led the recruitment efforts for DevOps, TechOps, PMO and Product Management for the business. Responsible for forging relationships with department heads to understand the needs for the business, then working with my team to write and post compelling job descriptions and update regularly with CTO.• Roles responsible for include Site Reliability & Release Engineers, Technical Program & Project Managers, Solution Architects, QA Managers, Back-End Devs. Product team include Directors, Leads, PM’s and Technical Writers that make up Product.• Responsible for the selection and integration of vendors like Greenhouse, TalentBin, and WePow for video interviewing which was introduced to the organization to speed the rate of hires and source more direct candidates for open source technologies.

New York City, Ny, Us

• Created a Center of Excellence around the recruiting function where one did not previously exist. I was the sole point person for all of studio production and non-production hires, as well as Technology and Engineering at the Universal City lot. • Partnered with hiring managers and HRM's to engage talent and act as an influencer when called upon for global entertainment leader. Focus of hires were not limited to LA, also made a good portion of hires NY, SF, TX, Seattle & Orlando.• Focus on Tech & Eng, Production and Post-Production positions on Universal Studios Hollywood lot for roughly 70/30.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Full life-cycle recruiting for Marketing

El Segundo, California, Us

• Hired IT Directors, Managers, Project Managers, Digital Asset Managers (DAM) and Analyst, Supply Chain Sr Managers, Information Security Sr Directors and Technical Architects to name a few. Data-mining Kenexa ATS, LinkedIn, external recruitment sites and professional network. Responsible for hiring two third of the Global IT Team.• Owned Global IT while also responsible for hiring in Digital Marketing, International Tax, Consumer Insights and some traditional marketing positions including international.• Responsible for filling mobile and digital positions for Digital Initiatives Group (DIG), positions include ecommerce. Social Media Analyst, Sr. Mobile Apps Mgrs., Associate & Digital Marketing Managers, Producers and Directors.• Worked closely with Immigration for candidates who required visa and Green Card sponsorship in collaboration with Mattel’s Legal Department.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

• Recruited talent for the Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) infrastructure supporting 11,000 employees and clinical technical staff for the largest privately-owned medical center in California.• Recruited 25 candidates that were certified in Epic’s electronic medical records systems (EMR) with extensive clinical experience, these would equate to PM’s outside of the medical field in scope of job function.• Recruited 125 new information technology staff to grow into a 400-person IT department. Worked with 20 IT directors and managers in recruiting A+ candidates. Conducted due diligence on all potential candidates with respect to background and reference checks.• Provided weekly status reports to the Human Resources Sr Vice President and the CIO of Enterprise Information Systems.• Performed all elements of full lifecycle recruiting, including prospecting, selection and pre-screening, utilizing automated tracking systems (ADP Virtual Edge), job boards, referrals, network and direct sourcing.• Converted position description questionnaires (PDQ’s) and job specifications into fully fleshed recruitment postings.

New York, Ny, Us

Engage in direct and indirect recruiting efforts including the identification, qualification and presentation of candidates. •Full lifecycle recruiting from candidate generation to offer: Prospect, identify and interview new candidates. Conduct initial screening interview, reference checks, negotiate salary & relocation. •Maintain applicant tracking system and provide weekly status reports to executive management team •Participate as a business leader in weekly staffing meetings

Burbank, California, Us

• Brought in on a five-month contract to fill creative positions of writers, producers, creative directors, editors, marketing coordinators, marketing managers, set designers, financial analyst, business analysts and department coordinators. Recruited 20 professionals in the first six weeks. Left after three months for a return to Fox for full-time employment.

New York, Ny, Us

• Provided recruitment support to fill technical positions for Fox’s IT Division on a four-month contract. Successfully recruited 30 IT professionals who were Oracle and SQL DBA’s, IT Business Analysts, Exchange Engineers, Storage Engineers, Project Managers and IT Directors.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

•Created Marketing Center intranet site to support external sales force with product information and sales tools while managing new product campaigns for all communications internally and to B2B partners nationwide. Also developed marketing materials and communications for internal and external clients while responsible for online content to B2B site, (cwbc.com) where 97% of business flows through portal.•Coordinated efforts of programmers, help desk analyst and senior management to ensure website content and external communications are consistent with branding identity while tracking ROI and ensuing results of product and technology related campaigns and make adjustments based on targets and profitability using historical data and performance metrics. •Create process methodology to streamline email campaign workflow between Marketing, email vendor, Marketing IT and final delivery to business partners.

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•Architect and launch internet site www.capitalsix.com used to support sales force with sales tools, product high lights, flyers and forms for brokers to drive internet strategy and traffic to site. Contributed to the development of a new division of the company with branding, product flyers, training collateral and sales presentations to support field sales efforts.•Lead in the development of creating account executives websites to drive broker business to host site and analyzed and presented CRM database for sales tracking solutions where none previously existed.•Analyzed print, copier and warehousing vendors in a cost and service analysis, then presented finding to senior management which led to saving the company over $20,000 annually in vendor fees.

•Placement of Information Technology professionals, Network Engineers, IT Managers and Analyst in project or permanent jobs throughout the Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties.•Created newspaper ads and internet job boards, conducted mass marketing mailer campaigns to prospective clients and maintain client database while providing tactical research to penetrate companies while assessing their technology, and organizational assessment through directors, and then market our company’s niche to present solutions.

Marketing

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