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Direct Hire Full Cycle

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Newton, NJ

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July 03, 2023

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Sean Patrick Fitzmorris

** ****** **** ***** • Hardyston, NJ 07419 • 973-***-****

adx2b0@r.postjobfree.com

SENIOR TALENT ACQUISITION RECRUITER

I develop and implement innovative sourcing methods for both complex and general requirements to identify passive top talent. I have always been responsible for my own hands-on sourcing and full cycle recruiting for multiple specialty areas including Commercial Sales, Manufacturing, R&D, Clinical Research, Regulatory Affairs, Quality Control & Assurance. Strong story-teller with impressive persuasive, analytical skills with the ability to present information to audiences at all levels of the organization.

My roles have worked in client facing and remote talent acquisition positions where I worked directly with my internal stakeholders as a strategic partner. This has required me to build strong professional relationships to earn the trust of hiring managers in multiple specialty areas. Earning this trust has been critical in allowing me to establish myself as the recruiting subject matter expert and providing the opportunity to influence and establish streamline recruiting efforts.

My expertise is with learning the nuances of multiple specialty areas and having superb candidate and client management skills while understanding every element of full cycle recruiting from requisition development through on-boarding, with a special emphasis on all the intricate sourcing details in between within fast paced environments.

My refined relationship building translates into a high touch with all my stakeholders - recruitment process owners, hiring managers, colleagues, and candidates and I manage perfectly through all the routine imperfections that accompany high volume, multiple recruiting cycles. Attention to client compliance policies, ATS Data Integrity and Metrics Reporting.

My recruitment philosophy is being innovative in how I source, always seeking diversity, streamlining the hiring process and never forgetting it’s all about the candidate experience.

Career Highlights:

11+ years experience with Commercial Recruiting

9+ years of Clinical Research Recruiting

8.5 years of R&D & Manufacturing Recruiting

Executive recruiting experience Director to VP level

Client facing experience Onsite & Remote, RPO, Direct Hire, Consultant

LinkedIn Recruiter Expert

ATS Systems: Taleo, People Soft, Green House, Work Day, Zoho, ADP

20+ years of hands-on full-cycle recruiting expertise for multiple levels of professional within multiple specialty professional areas within multiple industries including Life Sciences / Biotech / Pharmaceuticals (20+yrs), Healthcare, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Semi-Conductor and Engineering.

Education:

Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ M.A Public Relations

Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ B.A Communications

Financed 80% of undergraduate expenses through on-campus employment & 100% of graduate expenses through a graduate assistantship

AREAS OF IMPACT

Relationship Building

Candidate Management

Tenacious Approach to Sourcing & Recruiting

Negotiation / Communication / Influencing

Lead Generation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Continuity (Client-Lexicon Pharma) Sr. Recruiter (Consultant / Remote) 10/2022 – 4/2023

(Reason for seeking new professional opportunity: Project successfully ended)

Lead recruiter for 25 territories within the New England, Northeast and Northern Pacific regions for Lexicon’s nationwide 2023 Cardiovascular Sales Specialist launch team for a heart failure SGLT-2, Sotaglifozin product.

Brunel RPO: (Client - Click Therapeutics) Senior Recruiter (Direct Hire / Remote) 11/2021 – May 2022 (Reason for seeking new professional opportunity: Client hired new VP of HR who canceled contract 6 months earlier than expected wanting their own internal recruiting team)

Client facing role recruiting all non-technical positions. Hands-on sourcing & full cycle recruitment across the organization including position titles of VP of Marketing & VP Global Commercial Strategy, Director of Corporate Communications, Director of Portfolio Strategy, Manager of Regulatory Affairs, Director of Clinical Operations, Director of Medical Affairs, Senior Medical Writer, Clinical Research Manager & CRA, Accounting Manager, Senior Accountants, Business Development Manager. Director of Biostatistics, Director of Digital Biomarker, Scientific Manager Schizophrenia & Migraine Headache. Click Therapeutics is a Digital Health Company.

RxSalesPros: Senior Recruiter (Consultant/Remote) 2/2019–11/2021 (Reason for seeking new professional opportunity: Expected new project delayed indefinitely)

Selected to be a member of a project team that was responsible for successfully sourcing, full cycle recruiting, candidate & client management for three full client projects.

Responsible for successfully sourcing, full cycle recruiting, candidate & client management for 19 Midwest and Western territories for Nabriva Therapeutics. Built commercial launch team that will launch two antibiotic first in class, novel drugs (Contepo & LeFamulin) into US market.

Built new Elite Neuroscience commercial sales launch (Capyta) team for Intra Cellular Therapies recruiting 27 territories in Pacific Northwest New York and Mid Atlantic Coast. Regions.

Worked on expanding and back filling Collegium Pharmaceuticals pain management (Xtampza) field sales team covering Western, Midwest and Mid Atlantic regions covering 23 territories.

Cielo RPO: Senior Recruiter / Sourcer (Direct Hire / Remote) 5/2016 - 1/2019 (Reason for leaving: Position was eliminated during Cielo restructuring)

At Sanofi, built new commercial team where solely responsible for the sourcing and recruiting for a new hematology rare blood disease drug (aTTP - Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura) for a nationwide team of 24 territories selling Isatuximab completed in a seven-week period. Worked directly with VP Jim Sinder.

Member of RPO team that successfully launched two new client contracts with Kite Pharma and ASML.

At Kite, successfully sourced and recruited mid to senior level candidates for Clinical Research, Marketing, and IT teams. After four months, was asked to join another new launch rollout at ASML Semiconductor.

At ASML, worked on-site for 4 months, built relationships with senior leadership within Manufacturing, Optics & Engineering by working closely to educate about the new recruiting process / procedures logistics and program benefits. Transitioned into dedicated remote sourcing role where average weekly candidate submissions are 12-15 for an average of 30+ open requisitions. Responsible dispositioning Talent Link ATS.

Future Step RPO: Senior Recruiter (Consultant/Remote) 12/2015 – 5/2016

(Reason for leaving: Successfully completed project earlier than scheduled, no new projects available)

Provided RPO services to Novartis Pharmaceuticals commercial division with their sales force expansion for their heart failure product Entrusto.

Worked directly with three Area Business Leaders (ABLs) as a strategic partner, successfully sourced, recruited, and filled 18 field sales representatives within the Philadelphia, Western Pennsylvania and Upstate New York territories within 75 days.

Xela Communications- Independent Talent Acquisition Sr. Consultant (Remote) 7/2015 - 12/2015

(Reason for leaving: Consulting client projects successfully completed)

Consulted on time sensitive full cycle recruiting search projects for leading Telecommunication professional services consulting company that is focused on delivering greater value from their Telecom Providers.

Identified and placed Director of Project Management and two critical positions Service Delivery Project Manager and Client Services Analyst that support Xela’s largest client Tenet Healthcare based in Dallas Texas.

Celgene Corporation: Sr. Recruiter / Sourcer (On-site / Contractor) 6/2013 –6/2015

(Reason for leaving: Contract ended after being extended five times)

As a member of the Global Recruiting Team, dedicated to ground-up built out of the new Immunology & Inflammation commercial organization for their product launch of their psoriasis product Otezla.

Worked directly with the Eastern Regional Sales Director in the hiring of all Eastern Regional District Sales Managers (8) and sales representatives (40) within 120-day period. to ensure the initial sales team is fully staffed for Q1 2014 new first in class product launch. After project was completed, asked to join Corporate Recruiting Team in a multi-functional role that involved sourcing, full cycle recruitment and research projects (Developed 12-month college recruiting & a Diversity Recruiting program proposal) Recruited mid to senior level Scientist I, II, III and Associate Director professionals within specialty areas that included Quality Assurance, Regulatory, Clinical Research, R&D, IT, Biologics & Marketing.

Life Science Management Solutions (Independent Consultant) 5/2010 - 5/2013

(Reason for leaving: Desired to return to corporate environment)

Started independent recruitment consulting LLC that worked with multiple clients within several industries including Telecommunications, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, GMP Manufacturing and Recruiting Consulting firms.

Consulting roles varied from working remotely and on-site in differing roles including full cycle recruitment efforts,

Recruiting projects conducted with The Beaker Group, The Brentwood Group, Life Bridge Healthcare, Xela Communications, Convatec, Diiachi Sankyo Pharmaceuticals, Veru Healthcare, GWave Engineering and PDI.

Enzon Pharmaceuticals: Manager of Recruitment Services (On-site / Direct Hire) 5/2004 –5/2010

TWC RPO – Terry Williams Consulting - Enzon On-site Manager (Direct Hire) 5/2004 - 11/2005

(Reason for leaving: Stakeholder takeover led to selling off of all products & divisions led to eventual closing)

Reported directly to Sr. VP of HR, solely responsible for developing, implementing and managing first formal centralized recruiting program and leading the staffing function for a $500M business with responsibility for the company’s complete recruiting function for their GMP Manufacturing, Clinical Research, R&D, and Corporate divisions

Managed day-to-day talent acquisition operations acting as a hands-on manager that maintained own requisition load even while managing 4 recruiting consultants. Worked as an extension of Enzon’s HR organization becoming the liaison between internal stakeholders, candidates and point person for vendor management of third-party recruiting vendors.

Acted as a positive business partner sharing market intelligence and with a consultative approach to recruitment.

Program produced diverse and sustainable talent pipeline supporting revenue growth from under 200 employees on arrival to over 450+ employees. Recruiting efforts resulted in an estimated cost savings of $3.5 million dollars in recruiting placement fees for $13.5 million in base salaries for 180 permanent placements.

Organized & hosted two on-site Enzon Open House events (2006 & 2007) that resulted in 250+ attendees respectively and several eventual hires.

Managed 2-3 Senior Recruiters and a junior Recruiting Coordinator

Selected to become a member of the four-person Corporate HR Policy Team, responsible for identifying revisions to and/or recommendations for new corporate employee manual including but not limited to performance management, training and development initiatives, and new code of conduct policies.

Averaged 15-30 open direct hire requisitions throughout the six-year period.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

ClinForce Incorporated – Clinical Recruiting Specialist (On-site / Direct Hire) 6/2003 -5/2004

K-Force Scientific/Scientific Staffing Inc.: Recruitment MGR (On-Site / Direct Hire) 1/2000 – 6/2003

William Paterson University - Area Coordinator (Direct Hire) 8/1998 - 5/1999

Drexel University - Area Director/ Residence Director (Direct Hire) 7/1994 - 6/1998

Drew University - Complex Residence Director (Direct Hire) 8/1993 - 6/1994

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