Talent Acquisition Life Sciences

SHRADDHA SHARMA

*** ******* ** *, ******* NJ ****5

646-***-**** ***********@*****.***

SUMMARY

Strategic and people-first Talent Acquisition and Development Leader with over 12 years of global experience across healthcare, life sciences, insurance, and industrial sectors. Adept at designing scalable talent strategies, implementing leadership development programs, and aligning L&D initiatives with business goals. Proven track record in full-cycle recruiting, DEI-driven sourcing, and cross-functional collaboration with HR and business leadership. Recognized for delivering high-impact programs that enhance employer brand and strengthen internal pipelines. Passionate about building inclusive cultures, growing future leaders, and creating meaningful employee experiences across distributed teams. WORK EXPERIENCE

Talent Acquisition (East Region) April 2023 - February 2025 Reworld Waste

Reworld™ is a leader in sustainable waste solutions, providing innovative and environmentally responsible services to a global community. Reworld™ is committed to advancing zero waste initiatives and supporting sustainability goals through state-of-the-art technologies that reimagine, reduce, reuse, recycle, recover and renew.

● Led talent pipelining and hiring to support industrial, engineering, operations, maintenance, technical roles with a keen eye for diverse and underrepresented talent, across different functions, levels and geographies.

● Led engagement with assigned Business Units, HR and TA COE teams to develop and execute talent strategies to meet assigned goals and KPIs.

● Launched an internal job shadowing pilot across regional offices to support cross-functional development and promote internal mobility.

● Collaborated with HR leadership on career pathing and development mapping for technical and operational staff.

● Partnered with local leaders to identify high-potential talent and informally mentor them into stretch assignments. Key Achievements:

● Successfully hired 60- 80 candidates across engineering, operations, sales and maintenance roles in just 6 months of joining reworld by passive sourcing, leading hiring events in our different field locations and providing exceptional experience to the candidates and your internal/ external partners. Senior Talent Acquisition Manager June 2022 – Feb 2023 Honeywell

Honeywell is a fortune 100 software industrial company, and the business today is organized into five strategic business groups Aerospace, Honeywell Building Technologies, Performance Materials and Technologies, Safety and Productivity Solutions and Honeywell Connected Enterprise.

● Identified and attracted top executive talent for C-suite & senior leader roles within Honeywell Safety and Productivity Solutions (SPS) for Healthcare & Life Sciences, Aerospace & Defense, Transportation & Logistics, Manufacturing, Distribution Centers and Retail.

● Worked closely with Business Unit Presidents, Corporate Function Leaders & partnered with Human Resources/Hiring Leaders to provide strategic guidance and support in delivering on Honeywell’s Executive talent requirements.

● Developed and implemented innovative, disruptive and transformational talent acquisition strategies, tactics, and approaches to ensure niche skillset requisitions are filled in a timely manner

● Established Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs, KPI’s, processes and sourcing strategies to support and enhance recruiting efforts across SPS to develop a pipeline of diverse talent.

● Leveraged data and analytics to provide strategic expertise by monitoring and staying abreast of competitive landscape, industry trends, best practices, legal developments, benchmark comparisons, functions as subject matter expert on all business unit recruitment activities Key Achievements:

● Implemented panel interview strategy with all Hiring Managers at the time of the intake and reduced time to fill (TTF) to 70 days on Executive and band 4 requisitions – Chief Strategy Officer, VP R&D Transformation Leader, Sr. Director Strategy, Sr. Director M&A, Chief Technology Officer

● Captured and completed 90% of external requisitions assigned to me - 5 star rating on all search and 100% NPS. Talent Acquisition Partner June 2021 – June 2022

Beacon Platform

Beacon Platform is the premier enterprise innovation platform designed to supercharge developer productivity, enabling innovative financial services firms to get more value out of their R&D. Beacon partners with and empowers clients to become change agents in their organizations through cutting-edge technology tools. Beacon is developing the future of financial services on the cloud.

● Led the end-to-end recruitment process for engineering and corporate roles across NY, London, and Tokyo, while fostering a culture of learning and growth through candidate and hiring manager enablement.

● Partnered with leadership to define headcount strategies and developed scalable recruiting processes that supported career development and internal progression within product and technical teams.

● Introduced internal capability-building sessions to train interviewers and hiring leads on structured, unbiased hiring techniques.

● Acted as the bridge between TA and brand, partnering with marketing and hiring managers to co-create job preview content that reflected day-in-the-life scenarios and inspired employee pride.

● Analyzed feedback loops through candidate and new hire surveys to continuously improve onboarding and early employee experience.

● Reduced agency reliance by 60% by enabling internal stakeholders through strategic sourcing workshops and peer coaching.

Key Achievements

● Hired 40+ engineers globally with over 30% diversity in senior hires.

● Launched the company's first internal employer brand toolkit to activate ambassadors across LinkedIn and industry communities.

● Successfully implemented Greenhouse ATS, training all teams on its use, while redesigning onboarding flows and recruitment analytics dashboards.

Senior Manager, Recruitment Jan 2018 – June 2021

The Custom Group of Companies

The Custom Group of Companies is a Certified Women- Owned Business Enterprise and has been a leader in the recruitment industry providing creative, custom solutions to several industry groups, with a specialty in Office Support, Creative, Healthcare, Human Resources, Legal, Marketing, and Technology and Accounting and Finance.

● Managed full life-cycle recruitment for contract and permanent Healthcare positions specializing in Registered Nurses, Radiology Technologists, Clinical Directors, Care Managers, Manager Clinical Pharmacy, Anaesthesiologists, RN Clinical Manager – Averaging 15-20/week job requisitions from healthcare clients in NY Tri-State and Massachusetts: New York-Presbyterian/Weil Cornell Medical Center, Northwell Health, NYU Langone Health, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, Salem Hospital, Good Samaritan Medical Center

● Worked technical requirements in Application Development, Infrastructure, Data & AI, Cyber Security, Enterprise Resource Planning (PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards) from our Financial services/banking, law firms, technology and telecommunications clients nationwide.

● Account/Client management - worked with hiring managers, group or organization leads and other key stakeholders to understand recruiting needs and developing strategy to meet hiring goals.

● Led onboarding and development of a team of 4–5 recruiters, including workshops on interview best practices, coaching, and career growth.

● Partnered with executive leadership to launch mid-level leadership readiness sessions for internal team leads

● Developed knowledge-sharing forums and peer-led learning events to reinforce internal best practices.

● Managed and built companies social media presence on LinkedIn, Facebook, Glassdoor to ensure positive company brand and candidate experience. Encouraged most trusted employees to share elements of their professional lives on social media to give potential candidates a sneak peek into our company’s culture identifying and cultivating unique opportunities for building an employer brand that is critical to capturing the attention of potential job seekers. Key Achievements:

● Promoted to the position of Senior Manager in less than 2 years for exceptional organizational skills and exceeding KPIs by 90%.

Senior Consultant Feb 2016 – May 2017

Evolution Recruitment Solutions Pte Ltd, Singapore Evolution Recruitment Solutions are an award winning, specialist I.T. & Digital recruitment consultancy with offices in UK, Germany, Australia and Singapore

Part of the Banking/IT contracts division managing major accounts like Bank of America, Ministry of Health – Singapore and Continental covering Singapore, Malaysia and U.S.

● Collaborated with senior HR leaders in developing strategies to attract and retain top talent from diverse candidate pool

● Developed business strategies and built new clients like Tokio Marine and Pentair

● Member of ‘Workforce Singapore’ (formerly known as WDA) to collaborate and design training frameworks for diverse industries to develop talent pool of graduates from top schools & universities

● Designed a rotational onboarding program for graduate trainees to experience multiple sectors via structured job shadowing.

● Facilitated internal knowledge exchanges and skill development workshops to upskill junior recruiters. Key Achievements:

● Maintained large contract pipeline and brought in over $200,000 in new business - Ranked #2 in Asia as ‘overall individual revenue contributor’ for 2 consecutive quarters in 2016 & 2017

● Managed & on-boarded an unprecedented 30 hires for one of our premium client’s graduate program from Asia’s Top University - Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

● Performed full cycle recruiting on 35-40 job requisitions, averaging 4-5 hires/month

● Represented evolution at the International Day against Homophobia (IDAHO) event at the British high commission in Singapore

Senior Recruiter Sep 2012 - Feb 2016

Disys Pte Ltd, Singapore

Digital Intelligence Systems Corporation (DISYS) is a US based company providing IT Consulting, Strategic Sourcing Solutions, and Business Solutions to companies ranging in size from small start-ups to the largest Fortune 500 firms. Managed full life-cycle recruitment for contract and permanent positions specialising in Enterprise Resource Planning

(PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards) – Averaging 20/week job requisitions from Oracle, ExxonMobil, FedEx, Prudential & Dell covering Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, India and U.S.

● Effectively identified candidates through Applicant tracking systems (ATS - iRecruitment, PeopleSoft and Bullhorn), Job Boards (Monster, Job Street, Jobs DB) & social networking sites (LinkedIn, Facebook) Key Achievements:

● Partnered with HR Manager at ExxonMobil to develop an end-to-end recruitment strategy and an extensive 6-9 month Training Program for graduate talent from top Asian universities

● Promoted to Senior Recruiter in less than 3 months after joining the firm

● Consistently exceeded sales goals and performed in the top 2% of the global team – Successfully surpassed my monthly target of $40,000 in gross revenue.

Talent Acquisition Executive Oct 2011 – Sep 2012

Faro Recruitment, Singapore

Established in 1981, Faro Recruitment is an international staffing solutions provider with presence in Asia-Pacific, Europe, Oceania, and the Americas.

360 Recruitment and sourcing for major clients including Apple, Dow Chemicals, Olympus, Canon & Groupon - worked on permanent and contract roles in Sales, Marketing and IT. Key Achievements:

● Organised multiple on-campus events for major clients to attract graduate talent - Built IT database of clients and contacts for the company

● Identified, sourced and on-boarded new clients by ‘cold calling’, client meetings and networking - SingTel, NCS, Crimson Logic & SOS International

Recruitment Consultant Oct 2010 – Oct 2011

Maltem Consulting, Singapore

Maltem is a French Consulting firm specializing in information system management in Financial, Banking, Insurance, Energy, Telecom and Media domains.

Responsible for strategic staffing and placement of local and foreign talent for top tier Banking clients like BNP Paribas, Commerzbank, ANZ and JP Morgan in Singapore & Hong Kong. Technical Recruiter Dec 2009 – Sep 2010

Vanguard Consulting, New Delhi, India

Vanguard specializes in Recruitment, Organizational Behaviour, Labor Law and Applied Psychology. It focuses on servicing some of the major clients in the industry like Accenture, IBM, Microsoft, Samsung, British Council etc Responsible for placements for major global clients - Accenture & IBM through ~30 requisitions/week and making 5-6 placements a month using various platforms such as Monster, Naukri and 3rd party vendors. Won the “Sourcer of the month” award for 4 consecutive months.

Manager (Recruitment + Training & Development) Jun 2008 – Dec 2009 Integrate, New Delhi, India

Integrate is a provider of solutions for recruiting, developing, managing, rewarding and optimizing organizational talent to increase workforce productivity and maximize operating performance. Full life cycle recruiter for clients such as Microsoft, Wunderman and Leo Burnett - Assisted the HR Managers in recruiting applicants from TOP Universities such as Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management.

● Coordinated and facilitated trainings on personality development, voice & accent at target schools within the Delhi NCR region including career fairs and on-campus recruitment. EDUCATION

● Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science – Birla Institute of Technology, India : 2004 - 2008 CERTIFICATIONS & TRAINING

● CEI (Certificate of Employment Intermediaries) from Ministry Of Manpower, Singapore

● Certificate for ‘Spoken mandarin’ course from Delhi School Of Languages, New Delhi, India

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