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Brett Connell

Remote, US

Summary

Established recruiting leader with deep international experience hiring diverse technical and non-technical talent across biotech, SAAS and STEM staffing companies. Successfully scaled and led teams in early and late-stage start-up environments, as well as larger public corporations. Consistently recognized and rewarded for exceeding goals and building winning partnerships with executives, hiring teams and candidates. Dual US/UK citizen.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Director, Global Talent Acquisition

Incorta
San Mateo, CA (Remote)
08.2021 - Current
  • Restructured talent acquisition team at series-D funded, data analytics software company
  • Managed international recruiting team across US and Egypt, focused on hiring technical talent across North America, Europe, Middle East and Asia
  • Instituted formal operating procedures and processes that impacted cost-to-hire as well as time-to-hire. Decreased spend by $250k annually, and time-to-hire by 2.5 months
  • Improved Incorta's employer brand, introduced new careers site and increased Glassdoor score by 1.1 points
  • Trusted partner to global leadership team influencing headcount planning, forecasting and budgeting. Hired to 105% of plan H1'22
  • Designed, built and led Incorta's first management and leadership training series 'Leadership Matters' to 50+ leaders globally, provided coaching office hours
  • Introduced weekly automated reporting to executive team
  • Winner of Incorta's 'Love' award for exemplifying company values Q2'22 voted for by global Incorta team

Senior Director, Talent Acquisition

Berkeley Lights
Emeryville, CA (Remote)
05.2019 - 08.2021
  • Partnered with executive team and internal stakeholders to understand business objectives and translated them to recruiting strategies. Company IPO July 2020
  • Managed team of 4 recruiters and one coordinator, including 1:1s, quarterly reviews, performance management through OKR framework
  • Personally averaged 35 technical hires per year across R&D, engineering, biology, sales and marketing, without using any third party agencies; total of 82 hires made during tenure
  • Developed strong relationships with candidates by providing them white-glove experiences resulting in 94% offer acceptance rate
  • Overhauled recruiting and interview process for all departments which decreased time-to-fill by 30%
  • Trained hiring managers on best interviewing methods and practices by influencing through data and metrics
  • Sourced from a variety of channels including LinkedIn Recruiter, cold-calling, internet searches and networking to develop a pipeline of qualified diverse candidates
  • Promoted twice in two years

Director, Talent Acquisition

SThree
San Francisco, CA
01.2015 - 05.2019
  • Lead talent acquisition function across 10 US offices, including management of 14 corporate recruiters across 4 geographical hubs. Record performance Q1 2019
  • Established university recruitment strategy across all US locations, including domestic and international internship program
  • Organize and participate in regular campus recruitment activities, including: job fairs, career talks with business classes, resume workshops, networking events
  • Build and maintain excellent relationships with senior leadership in order to drive strategy, goals, processes and metrics
  • Created new competency behavioral interview process for all US hiring managers
  • Coached hiring managers on interview best practice when interviewing intern and entry level candidates
  • Drove high performance and manage underperformance through coaching and setting objectives and key results
  • SThree USA's "Support Services MVP 2017" out of 150+ nominees, SThree USA's "Manager of the Year 2018" out of 50+ business leaders

Manager, Talent Acquisition

Michael Page International
New York, NY
08.2013 - 11.2014
  • Set up and implemented talent acquisition strategy across 12 North American offices from scratch
  • Grew talent acquisition team from 1 to 6 in four months, onboarding over 220 hires in 2014
  • Independently created training program and career development plan for talent acquisition team
  • Strategically hired into each office through proactive headhunting and sourcing of candidates
  • Created competency behavioral interview process and standardization with all hiring managers
  • Exceeded goal of sourcing 25% of company's total hires by 150%

Manager, Talent Acquisition

SThree
New York, NY; London, UK
09.2007 - 08.2013
  • Promoted from trainee recruiter to manager between September 2007 and December 2010 in UK
  • Recruited with focus on continental Europe (DACH, BeNeLux) as well as UK hires
  • Managed UK Talent Acquisition team of 6 from 2010-2011, including daily set-ups, 1:1s, reviews and appraisals
  • Project managed university career fair events across UK and Germany
  • Relocated to NYC in July 2011 to devise and grow new TA team from scratch
  • Grew remote US TA team to 4 recruiters in six months
  • Global Talent Acquisition #1 for direct hires made in 2008, 2009 and 2010

Education

Bachelor of Science -

King's College London, University of London
London, UK
07.2007

Skills

  • Full Life-Cycle Recruiting
  • Leadership Coaching
  • Team Management
  • Employer Branding
  • Strategic Planning
  • Fluent German speaker

Timeline

Senior Director, Global Talent Acquisition

Incorta
08.2021 - Current

Senior Director, Talent Acquisition

Berkeley Lights
05.2019 - 08.2021

Director, Talent Acquisition

SThree
01.2015 - 05.2019

Manager, Talent Acquisition

Michael Page International
08.2013 - 11.2014

Manager, Talent Acquisition

SThree
09.2007 - 08.2013

Bachelor of Science -

King's College London, University of London

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