Irina Bouras

Identified potential active and passive candidates by reviewing their portfolios, education, experience,and skills as well as translated the company culture.

• Scheduled interviews and prepared candidates for reviews

• Tracked candidates' activities using applicant tracking system

• Prepared candidate screening lists and oversaw the recruiting process

• Utilized online recruitment services for fast and easy talent scouting

• Led the entire recruitment process for selected positions from Kick-Off Calls, Video, Face2Face interviews through to offer and onboarding in collaboration with the extended HR International team

• Engaged and collaborated with external recruitment agencies for selected positions (permanent roles, temporary workers and consultants)

• Created recruitment and administrative performance metrics and data to analyze trends, drive change, and assess progress in agreement with the extended Global TA leadership team as well as the regional HR International team

• Managed the Referral program at International level in partnership with the US

• Negotiated contracts and managed budget for recruiting expenses in collaboration with International Finance

• Successfully completed talent acquisition for 30+ internal and external placements between 2022 - mid-2023.

Highlights: Actively managed the recruitment process during a high growth period in close collaboration with the International as well as the Global HR and Talent Acquisition teams (having managed approximately 30hiring projects during a fast growth period). Gained the opportunity of contributing to recruiting the first hires in a new established affiliate on behalf of Blueprint Medicines. On a personal note, I've gained a heightened adaptability to multiple changes in a relatively short period of time during the temporary worker assignment period.

• Life sciences recruiting company operating globally
• Progressed through the following roles: Account Manager (2015-2017), Senior Account Manager(07/2017-on) and Business Leader, Life Sciences (01/2018- 12/2020), Associate Director, Life Sciences(01/2021 - 10/2021)
• STEM Sourcing: Source and secure top global talent for roles up to Director-level in the DACH region(executive search, retained, contingent, mapping) in the life science industry, managing the end-to-end process, consulting clients closely on topics including budget oversight, contract negotiation,culture, market mapping and retention
• Business Partnering: Act as a partner and primary point of contact to external stakeholders throughout the recruitment process; search and select new employees to meet current and future business needs; translated business needs into external job advertisements; handle all account engagement activities and provide support for projects until completion
• Candidate Management: Handle candidate workflow in compliance with our ATS system; improved candidate experience through continuous feedback and relationship building
• Innovation: Successfully implemented an Agile methodology of search by organizing sprints prioritizing the most likely routes to successful delivery, reducing time to hire.

Highlights: Built relationships on an exclusive basis in the life sciences sector. Track record of bringing new repeat business through constant collaboration with HR and line management in multiple organizations internationally (2015-2021).Able to initiate, prioritize, and complete multiple projects and follow through to achieve project goals. Achieved target revenue in the first half of 2020 (120% of target), filling high-level vacancies within on avg.33 days. Actively led internal projects related to Agile methodology implementation, AI tools integration, Mapping together with members of the team that supported ideation as well as implementation. Sourcing and selection tools: LinkedIn Recruiter & Groups and Xing Premium

• Focused on candidate delivery for IT specialists in the life sciences industry in Switzerland (Drupal, eZPublish, Java/J2EE, Jaxa, PHP, Symfony 2, TYPO3, Uniface, Zend)
• Employed as Consultant/Headhunter in Prague, Czech Rep (01/2014-05/2015) and then in Zug,Switzerland (05/2015-10/2015
• Partnered with Line Managers, HR Professionals and key stakeholders on best recruitment process practices and international workforce availability (360 recruitment process), represented the recruitment community by constantly promoting new opportunities and building a large network,attending meetup events for IT Professionals in Zurich

Highlights: Completed company training in 3 months and gained the title of Market Builder among the first in my group of 20. Trained in and experienced in needs and/or solution-based selling. Built a market from scratch and contributed to a newly developing division of the company