Loes Vyncke

Hands-on Talent Specialist responsible for identifying, attracting, and delivering impactful talent of all levels, including C-level, that are “in sync” with corporate hiring objectives and key to the continued development/growth of the firm's targeted people growth. Over the years I have built and am managing a results-oriented recruiting team that knows how to find great talent to achieve company hiring goals for the America's region.

• Develop and drive America's talent strategy for Mindtree's digital portfolio and Product innovation and experience studio. Keeping focus on proactive candidate sourcing for key roles and locations, resulting in attracting and retaining diverse pipeline of qualified candidates in high growth environment.
• Partner closely with executive team and key leaders to understand recruiting plans across all functions.
• Ensure excellence in all aspects of recruiting process
• Coach Recruiters in meeting and exceeding weekly/monthly/annual production goals leveraging KPI's, related analytics, industry data, and personal experiences.
• Mentored recruiting team in presentation of company's value proposition and attracting of talent in line with company need and direction.
• Act as subject matter expert on recruiting trends, market dynamics and competitive recruiting practices.
• Leverage creative, innovative, sourcing strategies to identify candidates faster, more effectively, and in greater volume than competition.
• Develop and implement new talent sourcing and closing strategies
• Superior ability to attract talent using effective marketing strategies, promoting company strengths and differentiating attributes, while positioning candidate career growth and progression.
• Act as Project Manager for recruiting Programs, including theme/branding, kick-off and regular team calls, stakeholder role definition and communications, external vendor direction.
• Partner with firm's business leaders to understand short- and long-term hiring objectives, strategize around workforce planning/management, and align appropriate recruiting efforts to deliver.
• Led regional business strategy efforts to implement new cost-effective and efficient tools, adopt creative Talent Acquisition approaches in order to provide greater business unit support and achieve higher level of hiring manager satisfaction
• Identify and develop relevant recruitment metrics, utilizing dashboards to track team performance, create recruiting reports, and inform business decisions.
• In collaboration with Head of Talent, responsible for influencing achievement of company annual goal targets related to Time to Hire, Cost per Hire, Gross Profit Margin, Headcount Growth, etc. on both a regional and national level.
• Participated in ATS vendor selection and implementation. Managed implementation, training activities, and workflow guidelines.

• Resourcing high quality niche candidates, particularly using social media channels to attract active and passive candidates in cost-efficient way
• Understand and keep up to date with SAP technologies, new release, and updates
• Conduct first screening, in-depth interviews and serving as POC for both hiring managers and candidates
• Creating and maintaining database of candidates and client details
• Reporting to clients about status of vacancies, using various CRM systems and Excel spreadsheets
• Meeting clients to introduce activity and building relationships with decision-makers
• Asked open-ended questions to determine exactly what customers required, available budgets and target recipient for each purchase.
• Negotiating terms of business and offer packages, assisting line managers in defining their recruitment needs
• Working closely with my colleagues to identify and develop business opportunities across Europe and North America

Square One is one of the leading IT & ERP specialist recruitment agencies in Europe

• Work within team of 6 European consultants and am solely responsible for whole recruitment process for client base in Benelux
• Resourcing high quality niche candidates, particularly using social media channels to attract active and passive candidates in cost-efficient way
• Conduct first screening, in-depth interviews and serving as POC for both hiring managers and candidates
• Creating and maintaining database of candidates and client details
• Reporting to clients about status of vacancies, using various CRM systems and Excel spreadsheets
• Meeting clients to introduce activity and building relationships with decision-makers
• Negotiating terms of business and offer packages, assisting line managers in defining their recruitment needs
• Working closely with colleagues to identify and develop business opportunities across Europe
• Achievements:
• Opened up several new clients for Square One with focus on retail e.g.
• Carrefour, Delhaize, Sioen apparel Levi Strauss and Nike as well as successfully maintained relationship with Philips.

• Ensuring recruitment and selection of IT professionals as well as increasing market share and gross contribution of Business Unit for Belgium and Luxemburg
• Selecting, retaining, and actively offering qualified candidates to fill existing project orders successfully
• Writing of personality report, based on previous assessment of candidate
• Account Management for customers in Belgium and Luxemburg e.g., ING Bank, Philips, Barco
• Achievements:
• Due to clients such as NXP, Philips (now TP vision) and Niko. MBA started up business within consumer electronics market/industry as this market was new to MBA.

Main Responsibility: ensuring the recruitment and selection of engineers (mainly the link between IT and Engineering) to strengthen XPE's own workforce as well as increasing market share, gross contribution of the Business Unit by effective resource planning and increasing customer satisfaction

• Working closely together with line manager and team leads to plan resources effectively
• Define and agree recruitment strategy for all Benelux vacancies across both IT and Engineering departments at medium and senior level
• As well as following internal policy to ensure all approvals were obtained throughout recruitment process
• Selecting, retaining, and actively offering qualified candidates to fill existing project orders successfully
• Actively sourcing candidates via LinkedIn, job boards and agencies
• Produce weekly recruitment progress reports for al Benelux roles
• Conducting phone screenings followed by face2face interviews and assessment centers
• Writing of personality report, based on previous assessment of candidate
• Professional use of testing tool to be able to give clear opinion after assessing candidate
• Account Management for customers in Belgium (e.g.Philips, Tyco Electronics, OIP semiconductors)
• Coaching and evaluating of consultants
• End of year evaluations, quarterly appraisals, and coaching
• Formulation of recruitment strategies including optimal media mix and job advertisement content to attract different candidate groups
• Launch of 'Engineer of the year award' which aimed to raise awareness for importance of career with engineering for innovation and ultimately society within target group of young graduates. 'award' element was added to cater to the need for recognition among Generation Y / target group of young graduates.
• Developed and maintained strong working relationships with executives, HR team and hiring managers to foster partnerships that produced consistent results.
• Acted as brand ambassador to educate candidates on culture, career growth, benefits and advantages of working for company.
• Created and drove talent acquisition and job placement strategies to attract diverse candidates.

• Ensuring recruitment and selection process of high-level profiles, both direct search and selection based on competence-based interviewing and assessment centers.
• In depth analysis of competences for national and international management positions
• Development and assessment centers
• Head hunting high potential profiles within several management areas and industries
• Maintained high customer satisfaction standards to meet or exceed targets.