Sapna Luthra

• Delivering 1:1 coaching sessions to students, graduates, postgraduates, and career changers, building confidence, clarity and employability.
• Employing structured coaching frameworks (GROW, Skilled Helper, Narrative) with a person-centred approach, ensuring empathy, ethics and inclusivity.
• Facilitating workshops on CVs, applications, LinkedIn, interviews, job search strategies and role mapping.
• Providing tailored support for international students, returners, and those facing barriers such as visas, confidence or transitions.
• Developed tailored career plans to assist clients in achieving professional goals.
• Facilitated workshops focused on job search techniques and interview preparation.
• Provided one-on-one coaching sessions to enhance clients' confidence and skills.
• Researched local job market trends to inform clients of potential opportunities.

• Coached internal mobility candidates (graduates, interns, managers across R&D, finance, HR, manufacturing) on CVs and interviews, enabling career progression in Europe.
• Partnered and collaborated with Global stakeholders (UK, Europe, Asia, Canada and US) including VPs, HR, and hiring managers to design and deliver recruitment strategies, including establishing new hubs in Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Sciences, and HR (50+ hires in 6 months). Problem solving and solution focused when dealing with roadblocks.
• Produced and presented LinkedIn market insight reports, analysing sourcing channels, time-to-hire, and candidate experience KPIs to inform diverse strategy hiring and inform and improve bottlenecks. Third Party vendor usage less than 5%.
• Led projects (improved candidate recruitment forms and recruitment strategy call forms, referral scheme, pitch decks, adverts, campaign content) to improve attraction and diversity and improve stakeholder experience.
• Promoted inclusive recruitment practices, sharing best practice and supporting continuous improvement improving stakeholder experience.
• Mentored junior recruiters by providing guidance on best practices in talent acquisition and candidate engagement.
• Enhanced candidate experience through proactive coaching, sharing CV/interview resources, and acting as trusted advisor.

• Coached hiring managers on effective recruitment processes, compliance, best practice and achieved filled all positions in a timely manner
• Worked with third party vendors to help deliver roles.

• Managed STEM year-in-industry programme, doubling placement outcomes through tailored employer engagement and coaching.
• Designed and delivered placement employability workshops and supported careers consultant on presentations on CVs, interviews and applications.
• Organised the first Virtual Technology Careers Fair, liaising with employers, running CV clinics and securing 15+ placements.

• Supported life science and sports science students through CV workshop, mock interviews, and employability workshops which led to placement offer.
• Provided tailored advice to improve outcomes at the Bioscience Careers Fair.

• Provided part-time sales and administrative support for a family business

• Managed Northern Europe/UK recruitment, reduced agency costs via direct sourcing and set up PSL reducing cost and time to hire.

• Established new science division, placing candidates into life sciences and engineering.

• Supportedrecruitment using Tomass International assessment tool.

• Successfully managed recruitment, graduate and intern schemes for Novartis, GSK, Syngenta, and Eli Lilly.
• Supported assessment centres, TUPE and compliance.
• Consistent high performer generated more than £100, 000 - £200 000, awarded Emerald.
• Launched science, search and selection and Clinical division of Kelly to the UK