Olga Lascano Choperena

• Devise recruitment strategies to attract the best talent, mapping out candidates, managing key accounts for clients, creating compelling proposals, writing job descriptions, overseeing candidate management, and delivering high-quality data reports.
• Life Science Medics is a boutique executive search firm dedicated to niche areas for industry physicians across all R&D functions.

• Acted as trusted talent acquisition partner across all functions within the organisation. This was a consultative role, both candidate- and stakeholder-focused in order to fill open requisitions with speed and efficiencies at global level.
• Facilitated communication and collaboration between hiring managers across different business units, fostering alignment for seamless recruitment processes.
• Successfully managed high-volume recruiting, with an average of 20 requisitions open per month. Worked closely with HR teams across the EMEA region, ensuring a positive onboarding experience to all new employees.

• Responsible for leading the talent acquisition function for the entire organization and designing a recruitment strategy for attracting ideal new hires.
• Streamlined the preferred suppliers list (PSL) and cut costs of agency fees by 40%, while ensuring continuation and enhancement of ONI’s recruitment practices.
• Provided training to hiring managers recruitment techniques, selection, and interviews, meeting them regularly identifying needs for new job openings.
• Utilised recruitment marketing tools to optimise process.

• Managed the search team by overseeing hiring, training and professional growth of employees.
• HR responsibilities within the business, including conducting team performance reviews, ensuring alignment with vision and objectives of the organisation.
• Generated Key Performance Indicator reporting to drive better performance; including search strategies, establishing continuous communication with clients and other consultants within the business.
• Achieved reducing the time of searches from initial 6 weeks to 3 weeks through training of the team and increased direct contact with client relevant stakeholders (TA Internal teams, HR functions and hiring managers).

Managed key accounts of client portfolio, managed stakeholders and responsible for end-to-end delivery of searches. Brought increase by +18% yearly revenue through own retained search.

Performed identifying executive leaders for the client portfolio across Europe, U.S, LATAM, and MENA regions. Contributed to increasing revenue yearly by +15% through retained search and repeated business.

Delivered evening support groups (CBT) to adults suffering from anxiety and depression.

Project management lead for the German and Norwegian Project Teams: Coordinating orders, deliveries and sales between the UK manufacturing site and its European subsidiaries. Reduced the lead times of orders from 5 days to 3 days.

• Managed applications within electronic admissions systems through offer and registration.
• Researched international qualifications to determine fair decisions across all applications. Checked student applications against admissions criteria to determine academic potential.
• Communicated updates promptly and professionally with staff, agencies and stakeholders.
• Assisted in presenting at all cultural events hosted by the international office (booking venues, RSVPs, and liaising with all catering companies and vendors).