Sebastian Pal

• Supporting clients in Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices with end to end recruitment for positions ranging from entry level to senior executives.
• Advising HR and Hiring Manager clients on suitable candidates, managing process successfully, offering an excellent candidate experience, etc. and sharing market insights and data to help facilitate decision making.
• Developing sourcing strategies to identify and attract talent.
• Creating a quality candidate and client experience and robust candidate and client relationships.
• Ensuring sales targets are met

Reason for wanting to leave:

- Approached for and joined an agency, but quickly realized my passion is still in internal recruitment.

• Acting as primary contact for HR and Hiring managers on all recruitment related matters across several departments.
• Running end-to-end recruitment for positions across EMEA and the US, from briefing and start-up all the way to offer negotiation and contract preparation.
• Serving as a strategic partner to hiring managers & interview teams, helping develop & improve job descriptions, advising on open vacancies and using market insights and data to support hiring decisions.
• Successfully managing a variety of international stakeholders, up to and including C-level executives.
• Together with Head of Talent Acquisition, developed and implemented recruitment process across the EMEA region to ensure consistency and a first-class candidate experience.
• Developing and implementing effective sourcing strategies to meet business needs.
• Actively Headhunting candidates, building and maintaining networks of active and passive talents.
• Taking part in employer branding team, helping define EVP and leading local employer branding initiatives together with communications team.
• Part of HRIS/ ATS team working on implementing further features in recruitment module of SAP Successfactors and assessing other potential tools (e.g Greenhouse, ADP).
• Developing and delivering trainings to hiring managers on recruitment process, best practices, DEI & selection bias, storytelling, etc
• Managing external recruitment partners, including negotiating terms and conditions and helping form PSL.

Reason for leaving:

- Position eliminated in global re-organization due to unsuccessful clinical trial.

• Contract position, responsible with interim management of all medical device recruitment in Switzerland, whilst company focused on transition to Poland and Germany as recruitment hubs for the CEEIS region.
• Responsible for end-to-end recruitment for positions in Switzerland, across 2 local offices and 1 manufacturing and R&D site, as well as field based teams.
• Managing wide range of stakeholders up to and including Divisional Vice President level.
• Developing and implementing strategies to source candidates and ensure a first-class candidate and hiring team experience.
• Maintaining HRIS systems like Phenom CRM, Workday and Taleo.
• Posting job adverts across various platforms as well as constantly identifying new platforms to advertise on.
• Supporting Executive Search team with resourcing and building pipelines.

Reason for leaving:

- Interim contract was coming to an end.

• First HR employee in Switzerland, tasked with supporting build-out of European function.
• Developing innovative strategies to actively source, screen, interview & select talent.
• Developing local recruitment process, with a focus on providing an excellent candidate experience.
• Managing all aspects of talent acquisition, including interviewing candidates, job description definition and posting, scheduling, thought exercise dissemination, etc.
• Negotiating agreements with and managing recruitment companies as needed.
• Designing a proposal together with the HR Lead, of a strategic plan for the European Analyst program & off-cycle recruitment, including hiring goals and objectives, sourcing strategies, timelines, etc.
• Responsible for Campus Recruitment initiatives.
• Acting as local HR specialist, developing and executing personnel procedures and policies, conducting employee reviews etc.
• HR Operations, including HRIS management and query (ADP, Workday).

• Secondment for 6 months to the New York office.
• Part of team responsible for establishment and initial set-up of new biotech companies (Vants).
• Recruitment lead, providing end-to-end recruitment for core Roivant functions and new "vants".
• Part of team reviewing and implementing various HRIS / ATS to fit the needs of different companies that were being set up. (evaluated and used: Workday, Bamboo, UltiPro, ADP).
• Responsible for set-up and initial running of end-to-end recruitment processes.
• Participated in several other projects in HR/TA

Reason for leaving:

- Company abandoned plans to build out European HQ, I didn't want to permanently re-locate to the US.

• Defining recruitment strategy together with the Country Director.
• Key Account Manager for Pharmaceuticals\Biotech & Medical Devices.
• Running entire recruitment cycle (selecting & interviewing candidates, scheduling interviews, negotiating terms & salaries, etc.).
• Advertising and pro-actively approaching candidates on professional networks (LinkedIN, XING, Github, etc.).
• Participating in industry specific events and conferences.
• ATS\Database Management.
• Working with Digital Marketing to identify new advertising platforms.
• Coordination of Junior Recruiters.

Reason for leaving:

- Approached by Roivant for an internal position.

• Progressive positions from trainee to consultant to team leader in Pharma/ Medical Devices Recruitment agencies, sourcing candidates and providing staffing solutions for companies across DACH region.

Reason for leaving:

- Wanting to experience a different environment as this was the first full time role held.