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Brian Ream

Washington,DC

Summary

Experienced talent acquisition professional with 3+ years of full-cycle corporate recruiting. Hired 70+ staff across operations, finance, business development, and technical departments. Developed company-wide summer internship program and updated entry-level hiring processes globally. Created interview frameworks still in use. Seeking to contribute expertise to a fast-paced recruitment team.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Associate, Talent Acquisition

THE PALLADIUM GROUP
10.2024 - 03.2025
  • Lead full-cycle recruitment for multiple portfolios, including Operational Excellence, Process Excellence, Business Development, Contracts & Compliance, Cost & Pricing, and Center for Technical Excellence, hiring over 30 staff members from Directors to Senior Technical Leaders
  • Developed and executed Palladium's flagship internship program, the International Development Career Accelerator, focusing on candidates from under-represented backgrounds in the development industry, resulting resulting in 6 interns hired in 2022, 9 hired in 2023, and 11 hired in 2024
  • Trained new staff on hiring processes and operational systems, as well as supervised multiple recruitment coordinators in sourcing and scheduling efforts
  • Primary technical lead for recruitment platforms, including organizational lead for Cornerstone, SHL Talent Assessments and SkillSurvey reference platforms

Associate, Talent Acquisition

THE PALLADIUM GROUP
10.2022 - 09.2024
  • Lead full-cycle recruitment for Operations and Financial Management portfolios, hiring over 50 staff including Director of Capacity Strengthening, Vice-President of Finance and Deputy General Counsel
  • Conducted company-wide Entry Level and Associate recruitments, working to source and interview candidates to fill roles across portfolios, including project management and business support groups, resulting in over 20 hew hires
  • Managed sourcing and recruiting activities, including but not limited to reviews of applications, initial screens of candidates, determining compensation and incentive values and shepherding prospective applicants through interview processes
  • Conducted training and development of new staff, both within the talent acquisition team and in the broader business, providing trainings on job postings, external systems, and internal measurement tools

Analyst, Agile Team

THE PALLADIUM GROUP
06.2021 - 09.2022
  • Worked as a business analyst on multiple USAID projects, the Alliance for eTrade Development, a 12 million dollar program promoting online business growth for small and medium enterprises in developing countries, and Lebanon LIFE, an 8.5 million dollar program focusing on micro-finance business loan programs in Lebanon
  • Facilitated research and development of project operations involving new contracts and scopes of work, focusing on in country staff in Lebanon for Lebanon LIFE and in multiple countries including Egypt, Nigeria, Georgia, Indonesia, and India for eTrade
  • Lead coordinator of recruiting systems, including job ad and candidate experience, for the Americas recruiting team, while subsequently providing recruitment systems support for Europe, Middle East, and Africa partnership

Business Analyst

INSIGHT2PROFIT
06.2020 - 08.2020
  • Summer analyst working in continuous improvement phase, reviewing pricing strategies and adjusting recommendations based on updating data.
  • Developed new adjusted margin % for client in both parts and freight pricing structures using new cost buckets based on customer and product type developed in excel modeling to display changes to margin % easily based on individual product line changes to historical data. These changes lead to revenue increases of 6% in the month of July and an overall 8% growth in 2020
  • Created presentation for the client to represent sales entries based on salesperson in order to realize the effectiveness of new invoice entry system, based on specific branches within the client

Education

BBA - Business Administration

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
05.2021

Skills

  • Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc)
  • Deltek Costpoint
  • LinkedIn Recruiter
  • Cornerstone Applicant Tracking System
  • Full-cycle Recruitment
  • SHL Talent Assessment Platform
  • DevAid
  • Devex
  • ATS Integration

Timeline

Senior Associate, Talent Acquisition

THE PALLADIUM GROUP
10.2024 - 03.2025

Associate, Talent Acquisition

THE PALLADIUM GROUP
10.2022 - 09.2024

Analyst, Agile Team

THE PALLADIUM GROUP
06.2021 - 09.2022

Business Analyst

INSIGHT2PROFIT
06.2020 - 08.2020

BBA - Business Administration

University of Michigan

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