Lyndee Lundstrom
Antioch,IL
Summary
Proactive, results-oriented Global Talent Acquisition Leader with experience across industries including Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, Manufacturing, Industrial Technology, and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG). Skilled in aligning recruitment initiatives with corporate objectives to attract top talent and drive business value. Known for fostering a positive team environment and ensuring talent management aligns with business goals. A collaborative, transformational leader who develops innovative talent solutions for attraction and retention. Strategic thinker with the adaptability to meet changing business needs. Proven record of building strong relationships with C-Suite executives, business leaders, and HR partners. Expertise spans from team leadership and development, executive and early talent recruitment, full-cycle recruiting, RPO, pipeline sourcing, high-volume hiring, candidate experience, social media strategy, compliance, assessments, workforce planning, diversity recruitment, talent development programs, analytics, and talent acquisition systems.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Director, Talent Acquisition
Crane Co / Crane NXT
11.2022 - Current
- Company Overview: Crane NXT is $1.3B global company with over 4,500 associates worldwide, that spun from Crane Co April 2023
- Crane NXT, Co
- (NYSE: CXT) is a premier industrial technology company headquartered in Waltham, MA
- Joined Crane Company as the Director of Talent Acquisition to head up the recruiting function for their spin off company Crane NXT
- Report to the Chief HR Officer
- Supported pre spin activities and April 4th, 2023, Crane NXT spun to be a publicly traded separate organization (CXT)
- Set up the TA department
- Identified the resources, strategy and implementation methodology
- HQ location pivoted from Mt Prospect, Illinois to Waltham, MA- hands on recruitment for C-suite leaders to build executive team in Greater Boston
- Executive recruitment
- Established the Executive experience
- Mapped a process through day one
- Lead Business unit recruiting with dotted line recruiting teams embedded in the business units
- Own Diversity Equity and Inclusion
- Responsible for building long term relationships with diverse associations
- Partnered with advertisement agency to build the new company website and designed and organized the career site with testimonials and quotes from leadership
- Worked with Oracle and built the Taleo ATS instance for Crane NXT
- Current System admin own all changes and updates to the ATS
- Developed University programs- Intern and Co-ops
- Created first ever companywide recruitment strategies and employment branding initiatives
- Created monthly dashboard to tell the recruitment story
- Manage pre hire assessments for all new hires in Corporate
- Paradigm Big 5 and Leadership Development Worldwide (LDW)
- SME for Chronological in Depth Structured CIDS interview style that focuses on 'top grading.' Developed by Brad Smart of TopGrading.com
- Crane NXT is $1.3B global company with over 4,500 associates worldwide, that spun from Crane Co April 2023
- Crane NXT, Co
- (NYSE: CXT) is a premier industrial technology company headquartered in Waltham, MA
Global Director, Talent Acquisition
Werner Co
07.2020 - 11.2022
- Company Overview: WernerCo is a privately owned, Manufacturer of Industrial Goods, Werner Ladders, Weather Guard, Knaack boxes
- A fully integrated, global manufacturer and distributor of access products, storage systems, fall protection and light duty construction equipment
- Reported into the SRVPHR-CHRO as the first Head of Talent Acquisition
- Centralized recruiting globally
- Recipient of top 100 TA professional award by ONCON two consecutive years
- Built the North America TA team inclusive of process, people, and systems
- Building out EMEA model to reduce agency spend
- Expanded the scope of the US Talent Acquisition team to include sourcing for UK, & Mexico
- Managed the day-to-day operations of the NA Talent Acquisition team including introducing technology solutions to enhance the candidate, recruiter and hiring manager experience
- Evolved current ATS Jobvite to automate onboarding tasks
- Integrated DocuSign electronic signature on offer letters through Jobvite standardized offer letter templates and reviewed language with legal
- Built automated solutions to recruiting process by building out integrations with HireRight, AppCast and Text Recruit, Textio to streamline the recruiting process and create a better candidate experience
- Executive Recruitment- personally managed the Executive Recruiting with a 'White Glove' approach
- Managed the search either through in house sourcing strategies or in partnership with retained search firms
- Created a seamless interview process from Initial screen to onboarding
- Supported the Talent Management Review (TMR) process
- Implemented workforce planning with key Business Leaders
- Negotiated and managed LinkedIn enterprise account, managed vendor relationship, and recruiter training
- Moved hourly recruiting from third party vendor to an in-house direct hire model
- Created a Global TA dashboard- analytics that is shared with ELT monthly and quarterly QBR with CEO and Board of Directors
- Lead our diversity recruiting strategy driving best practices around attraction, selection, strategic partnerships, and diverse talent pipeline development
- Founding member of the first Employee Network- Werner Co Women’s Inclusion Network
- Introduced online employee referral program and process and built out text recruiting strategy for campus and hourly recruiting
- Managed and negotiated all recruitment contracts to support hiring initiatives
- Rolled out behavioral interviewing process
- Documented the policy, created process map, and built supplemental interview guides and an in-house interview best practices training to be rolled out in phases
- Designed scorecard to measure and implement a preferred vendor list and introduced an agency portal in the ATS to track agency spend and ownership
- Managed RFP process in 2022 to move to new applicant tracking system ICIMS in December 2022
- WernerCo is a privately owned, Manufacturer of Industrial Goods, Werner Ladders, Weather Guard, Knaack boxes
- A fully integrated, global manufacturer and distributor of access products, storage systems, fall protection and light duty construction equipment
Talent Acquisition Manager
Mondelez International / Kelly Services
11.2017 - 06.2020
- Company Overview: Mondelez International, Inc., is an American multinational confectionery, food, holding, beverage and snack food manufacturing company based in Chicago
- Mondelez has an annual revenue of about $26 billion and operates in approximately 160 countries and 91,000 employee base and publicly traded
- Consulting for Mondelez International Global Headquarters
- Owned recruiting and strategy for the IT global transformation/reorganization
- Headed up searches globally
- Supported corporate functions recruiting for finance, human resources, legal, government affairs and corporate development
- Part of the Electronic I9- verification launch team and training
- Managed a small team of recruiters and sourcers with dotted line Coordinators out of Costa Rica
- Mondelez International, Inc., is an American multinational confectionery, food, holding, beverage and snack food manufacturing company based in Chicago
- Mondelez has an annual revenue of about $26 billion and operates in approximately 160 countries and 91,000 employee base and publicly traded
Sr. Manager, Talent Acquisition
Baxter Healthcare
02.2013 - 08.2017
- Company Overview: Baxter International Inc
- Is a multinational publicly traded healthcare company headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois
- The company primarily focuses on products to treat kidney disease, and other chronic and acute medical conditions
- Approximately 60K employees globally
- Member of the Global Talent Acquisition Leadership Team
- Responsible for leading and managing end to end talent acquisition solutions across North America supporting R&D, Global Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Pharmacovigilance and Manufacturing Operations
- Set clear performance expectations to the talent acquisition team of 15 and coached to meet and exceed goals
- Set vision and strategy for niche recruiting and managed to a tight budget
- Created pilot Engineering Sourcer program to reduce agency spend
- First year realization of $900K
- Recruited for all executive level openings in my business unit
- Partnered with Inclusion and Diversity department to structure new role 'Business Resource Group Liaison' to better leverage our employees for recruiting
- Designed and executed strategies to identify and attract executive talent to the organization, inclusive of both organic attraction techniques and partnership development with preferred retained search partners
- Monthly presentations to the Chief Scientific Officer and his leadership team on recruiting analytics
- Interim Program Lead for Technical Development Program in R&D 2015-2016 season (was added on to current role)
- Structured framework for program and standardized recruitment process
- Identified core Universities and built partnerships
- Designed standard work for assignments and core curriculum to fulfill the program requirements
- Created a mentoring program where all new members are assigned a mentor to work with for the full two-year program
- Baxter International Inc
- Is a multinational publicly traded healthcare company headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois
- The company primarily focuses on products to treat kidney disease, and other chronic and acute medical conditions
- Approximately 60K employees globally
TA Lead (Medical Device & Pharmaceutical Sector)
Pinstripe Talent (Now CIELO)
02.2012 - 02.2013
- Joined the RPO to manage the Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceutical North America recruiting account
- Developed, planned, and executed talent acquisition strategies inclusive of diversity recruitment, talent forecasting, program design, resource management and coordination of client facing support
- Lead a team of 50 recruiters and TA Coordinators
Talent Acquisition Manager
Abbott Laboratories
12.2006 - 02.2012
- Company Overview: Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life
- Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional and branded generic medicines
- 114,000 colleagues in more than 160 countries
- Strategic recruitment partner held various leadership roles within Corporate TA
- Managed a team of 10 Recruiters and TA Coordinators
- Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life
- Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional and branded generic medicines
- 114,000 colleagues in more than 160 countries
Senior Staffing Specialist
Abbott Laboratories
07.2004 - 12.2006
- Company Overview: Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life
- Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional and branded generic medicines
- 114,000 colleagues in more than 160 countries
- Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life
- Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional and branded generic medicines
- 114,000 colleagues in more than 160 countries
Education
Master of Arts - Integrated Marketing Communications
Roosevelt University
Chicago, IllinoisBachelor of Arts - English
Carthage College
Kenosha, WIHR Certification - Human Resources
Northwestern University
Evanston, ILSkills
- Recruitment strategy
- Labor law compliance
- Candidate pipeline management
- Talent management
- Recruitment life cycle
- Talent Acquisition
- Global recruitment
- Data-driven decision-making
Accomplishments
- ONCON Top 100 TA Professional 3 consecutive years (2021, 2022 & 2023).
- Harmonized a decentralized recruiting function globally.
- Created in house sourcing function reducing agency spend by 90%.
- Rolled out Executive recruitment process- inclusive of strategy, process guides, documents.
- Vendor Management Lead North America implementation of a global RPO.
- Leveraged technology and innovative recruitment tools to streamline processes and enhance the candidate journey, resulting in higher retention rates of top talent.
- Established Employee Referral Program inclusive of technology and program structure.
- Diversity Recruitment strategy inclusive of military and disability hiring.
- University Relations- Early Talent recruitment strategy, design, and execution.
- Built and led high-performing teams of recruiters and talent acquisition professionals, providing mentorship, coaching, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Established and executed talent acquisition strategies that met and exceeded hiring targets, reducing overall recruitment costs while maintaining quality.
- Collaborated with senior leadership to align talent acquisition initiatives with business objectives, ensuring recruitment efforts were in sync with company goals and values.
- Launched virtual on-boarding and 'Day One' new hire orientation.
- Professional Development program management & redesign.
- Managed Global career site build and launch.
- DDI Targeted Selection (certified).
- Paradigm Big 5 Personality Assessments (certified).
- Managed submissions for Diversity 'Best of Company' lists for Working Mother Magazine (now Seramount), DiversityInc (now Fair360), and Hispanic Business & Corporate Equality Index.
Technology
Workday, Taleo, Kenexa BrassRing, Jobvite, iCIMS, Text Recruit, Textio, LinkedIn Recruiter, Indeed, Glassdoor, Appcast, Avature, PaperFly, Zip Recruiter, FairyGodBoss, Sterling, HireRight, First Advantage, Orange Tree
Timeline
Director, Talent Acquisition
Crane Co / Crane NXT
11.2022 - Current
Global Director, Talent Acquisition
Werner Co
07.2020 - 11.2022
Talent Acquisition Manager
Mondelez International / Kelly Services
11.2017 - 06.2020
Sr. Manager, Talent Acquisition
Baxter Healthcare
02.2013 - 08.2017
TA Lead (Medical Device & Pharmaceutical Sector)
Pinstripe Talent (Now CIELO)
02.2012 - 02.2013
Talent Acquisition Manager
Abbott Laboratories
12.2006 - 02.2012
Senior Staffing Specialist
Abbott Laboratories
07.2004 - 12.2006
Bachelor of Arts - English
Carthage College
HR Certification - Human Resources
Northwestern University
Master of Arts - Integrated Marketing Communications
Roosevelt University
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