Brian Cordero
Clayton,NC
Summary
Experienced partner with 20 years of industry experience, showcasing a track record of improving recruitment strategies and aligning hiring practices with organizational goals. Proficient in fostering team collaboration, driving recruitment processes, and adapting to evolving organizational needs. Demonstrates expertise in candidate sourcing, interviewing, and onboarding, with a strong emphasis on achieving results. Reliable and flexible, consistently ensuring alignment with company goals and culture.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Global Talent Acquisiton Partner
Worldwide Clinical Trials
03.2023 - Current
- Works closely with business leaders on a global level as a trusted partner and valued advisor, building a deep understanding of the business, role requirements, and desired candidate profiles while delivering outstanding support and service
- Owns the end-to-end recruiting process for multiple Clinical Research related roles. By embracing new technologies to ensure that the sourcing, recruiting, assessment, offer, onboarding, credentialing, and communication processes run smoothly contributing to a positive candidate experience
- This requires working closely with the department and division chiefs as well as the directors and managers to review position requirements, department needs, and hiring timelines
- Continuously works to improve the talent acquisition process to meet the changing needs of the business and provide best-in-class recruitment support
- Implemented data-driven decision-making processes in talent acquisition efforts, continuously optimizing for success.
- Developed and maintained strong working relationships with executives, HR team, and hiring managers to foster partnerships that produced consistent results.
- Developed communication and marketing plan and leveraged talent acquisition tools, resources, and campaigns to source and attract top talent.
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
ICON Clinical Research
06.2020 - 03.2023
- Manage end to end full life cycle recruiting focus area of Early Clinical and Translational Research of PhD and non-PhD scientists
- Long cycle of managing the relationship with candidate from initial presentation of the opportunity, HR interview, offer negotiations, relocation assistance, sponsorship guidance and onboarding
- Lead a training team and newsletter initiative to company information, share market intel and drive company training, LinkedIn and Skyrecruit usage across the M3 Talent Acquisition team of 20+ Recruiters
- Responsibilities also include pulling LinkedIn data usage, creating report and distributing across the team
- Proactively source candidates (active and passive) through referrals, networking, innovative research tactics and internal databases;
- Partner with hiring managers, interviewing teams, and senior leadership on hiring initiatives;
- Effectively communicate and negotiate all pieces of an offer package;
- Establish and build trust with hiring teams and important stakeholders to maintain a great working relationship;
- Streamline existing recruiting processes and maintain a high close rate
Talent Acquisition Specialist
WL Gore & Associates
08.2018 - 06.2020
- Lead in-house recruiting for East Coast operations comprised of corporate headquarters, 2 warehouses and 5 manufacturing plants across 4 states
- Works closely with managers to gain a comprehensive understanding of the company's hiring needs for each position and meet competitive hiring goals and expectations
- Manages the full recruiting lifecycle across a variety of open roles helping management find, hire, and retain quality talent - posting and updating job descriptions, sourcing, screening, scheduling, interviewing
- Foster high-touch relationships with a database of qualified active and passive talent to pull from as new positions open up
- Continuously partner with recruiting team and senior managers to design, refine, and implement innovative recruiting strategies
- Utilize knowledge of multiple recruiting sources and execute innovative recruiting strategies to find quality candidates and prospect for new business
- Screen resumes and prospects, qualify, interview, and manage candidates throughout interview process from prepping before interviews to assisting with final offer negotiation
- Manages an active workload of 30-40 requisitions at a time
- Work in tandem with Director and Corporate HR to recruit roles ranging from assist in the development and implementation of new recruitment and employee relations policies and procedures
- Attend job fairs, perform internet recruiting and job posting, college campus recruiting
Account Recruiting Manager
Aerotek
05.2014 - 08.2018
- Managed one the company’s largest accounts generating up to $2.5M annually
- Fostered lasting client relationships as a trusted hiring partner with a 98% job-fulfillment rate and one of the lowest fall-off rates throughout tenure
- Manage an average of 60-100 requisitions
- Build and maintain strong, collaborative business and peer relationships; leveraging these relationships to drive results
- Responsible for directing performance of Recruiters, Client Coordinators and Field Support Team
- Serve as a primary point of contact for contractors, management, human resources personnel to manage Aerotek’s relationship with its client Bloom Energy
- Saturate and expand key assigned territories through fulfillment of quality candidates and exceptional customer service
- Design and execute recruitment strategies based on Bloom Energy’s business needs
- Effectively communicates with potential employees, clients, and internal staff nationwide
- Maintain contractor requisition process by qualifying openings with the client
- Coordinate the fulfillment of open requisitions with the delivery team (National Account Managers, Local Account Managers and a team of 5+ Recruiters)
- Maintain and manage contractor workforce of over 130 contractors (i.e
- Monitoring attendance, providing warnings and counseling’s, terminations, etc.)
- Conduct meetings and lunches with clients, contractors and internal employees
- Responsible for FAA and DOT compliance and documentation
- Responsible for all steps associated with sourcing and delivering qualified, diverse candidates to Bloom Energy
Talent Acquisition Partner
AstraZeneca
05.2010 - 05.2014
- Captured and analyze feedback from various sources for continuous improvement
- Full-life cycle recruitment including proactive sourcing planning and delivery (both direct sourcing and attraction), pipelining, screening, interviewing, pre-selecting, offer management, in addition to hiring and onboarding administrative tasks
- Represented AstraZeneca by attending conferences, college events and career Fairs; promoted consistent message and sharing materials for recruitment branding and skill set targeting
- Educate the business on interviewing standard methodologies by recommending resources and techniques for assessing and evaluating candidates
- Contributed to new ways of working and appropriately challenging the recruitment process to ensure hiring activities have the appropriate priority and to select the top candidate considering a mix of skills, abilities, potential, and diversity
- Interface with hiring team to create alignment to collectively determine positions, job descriptions for roles, salary, and core qualifications
- Negotiating salary, benefits, and relocation expenses
- Managing candidate database and generating client leads
- Developing strategic candidate searches using Crelate, LinkedIn, and other proven recruitment channels
Technical Recruiter
BMG Engineering
12.2004 - 12.2010
- Responsible for full life cycle technical and non-technical recruiting activities, which included screening, interviewing and submitting qualified candidates to job openings
- Worked closely with hiring managers to schedule and facilitate interviews, as well as provide feedback to candidates
- Maintained strong relationships with candidates by frequently following up throughout the recruiting process, including offer negotiations, contract signing and assignment check-ins
- Interfaced with hiring managers to assess their needs and collaborated with them to develop job descriptions
- Compiled and maintained detailed information on current and prospective clients
US Marine Corps
12.1999 - 08.2003
Education
Professional in Human Resources Certification (PHR) -
03.2009
High School Diploma -
Concord High School
Wilmington12.1999
Skills
- Full Cycle Recruitment
- Diverse Market Industry Knowledge
- Retention Expert
- Reporting
- Budgeting
- Deadline Driven
- Project Planning and Management
- Networking Expert
- Outstanding Leadership Skills
- Customer Relationship Building
- Marketing
- Recruitment and hiring
- Performance Analysis
- Proficient in platforms such as; Talentwise, Workday, Taleo, Oracle, Bullhorn, LinkedIn Recruiter platform, iCims, Workday ATS software
Accomplishments
- Constructed a special remuneration program that addressed scarce skills, which was accepted and implemented company-wide.
- Collaborated with team of 8 as a key member for vital human resources organization wide implementation of Work Day platform at Worldwide Clinical Trials.
Certification
Professional in Human Resources Certification (PHR), 03/01/09
Affiliations
Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM), Member
Timeline
Senior Global Talent Acquisiton Partner
Worldwide Clinical Trials
03.2023 - Current
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist
ICON Clinical Research
06.2020 - 03.2023
Talent Acquisition Specialist
WL Gore & Associates
08.2018 - 06.2020
Account Recruiting Manager
Aerotek
05.2014 - 08.2018
Talent Acquisition Partner
AstraZeneca
05.2010 - 05.2014
Technical Recruiter
BMG Engineering
12.2004 - 12.2010
US Marine Corps
12.1999 - 08.2003
Professional in Human Resources Certification (PHR) -
High School Diploma -
Concord High School
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