Nikolaus Kleis

Nikolaus Kleis Guelph-Eramosa, ON, N0B2K0 -- Independent TA Consultant June 2023-Present  Providing recruitment, HR and strategic TA support for organisations within Canada and the US.  Developed Employee handbook for Regulatory consultancy.  Providing Recruitment Support for Manufacturing organisation in Quebec. Veristat, Canada January 2021 - May 2023 Associate Director, Talent Acquisition October 2021 -May 2023  Global TA strategy: Owned and developed the strategy for all regions (US, CAN, UK, EU, TAI), enhancing the candidate and hiring manager experience and created a TA function capable of adapting to fast changing business priorities.  Built a global TA team with recruiters in the US, Canada, UK and Spain, managing a team of 9 for 300+ hires per year. Identifying gaps within the team, developed training and created specialist roles to support the business with additional services.  Stakeholder management: Built and developed strong relationships with key internal stakeholders to better understand, anticipate and deliver on business needs.  TA program management: Developed and implemented process changes of the TA team, implemented SLA’s and KPI’s for the TA team and the Hiring Teams. Coordinated with cross-functional stakeholders to align on goals, expectations, and implementation of the SLA’s and KPI’s.  People management of the team: Responsible for team development and performance management, introducing key KPIs for the team.  Developed and executed the social media strategy of the TA function.  Reduced Agency spend by over 50% while delivering on all hiring goals.  Responsible for Executive hiring.  Managed workday ATS implementation: Managed all specs for the implementation, testing, and created job aides and trainings for hiring managers and recruiters. Manager, Talent Acquisition January 2021 - October 2021 Alfresco Software, Canada January 2018 – October 2020 Global Talent Acquisition Lead ● Executed on hiring 210+ people for Alfresco (65% managed by me, 5% from contract recruiters, 30% from agency). ● Full life-cycle recruitment for all roles within Alfresco across EMEA, US and APAC ● ● ● ● ● ● (Engineering , Sales, Support, Customer Success, Marketing and Consulting). Full responsibility for Alfresco’s Global TA strategy; how and where to attract the best candidates, creating a continuous candidate engagement, reduce reliance on agencies (reduced agency use from approx. 50% down to 30%). Line Manager for 2 contract recruiters; hiring, on-boarding, overall performance management. Establishing best practices: working with the different hiring manages to improve the candidate experience (time to hire, experience during interviews, on going communication), streamlining of the interview process by eliminating unnecessary/duplicate steps, creating a consistent hiring approach to select the best candidate. Developed and drive proper intake sessions with managers. Helped managers with interview techniques and create consistency during interviews. Employer Branding; mainly focused on engineering. Ensure there was consistent messaging across different job portals. Work with marketing on ‘Job spotlights’ to promote specific positions. I ran two hiring events in the UK for engineering (Silicon Milkroundabout) where I was driving the process of stand design, promotional material, attendance from engineering leadership, communication to potential candidates before, during and after the event. Lead the implementation of a new ATS (lever); I was responsible for the review of options, the final selection of the ATS, obtaining the necessary internal approvals, managed the implementation process and the hiring manager training on the new ATS. Agency management: Agency selection and on boarding, agreement negotiation. Pegasystems, Reading UK, August 2011 – December 2017 Recruitment Team Lead Managing a team of 8 business and technical recruitment sourcers across EMEA. ● People management for the team: hiring, on boarding, continuous development, goal and target setting and performance management. ● Development and execution of best practises and recruitment strategies: created a knowledge sharing program in the team focused on sourcing tips and tricks, messaging, candidate experience, interview techniques. ● Development and execution of enablement program for new team hires; the training focused on helping new hires develop a good understanding of the business and platform. Training and teaching on how to become a recruiter, sourcing strategies, interview techniques. ● Business stakeholder management: working with the business on recruitment priorities, pipeline updates, driving decision making for hires. ● Delivery of recruitment campaigns across EMEA: was responsible for creating of recruitment webinars; worked with the business on content and delivery, driving candidate participation, managing follow up with candidates. ● Full Life-Cycle recruitment for Director and Executive level roles (about 2-3 hires per month). Enterprise Software Senior Recruiter ● Achieving monthly hiring goal consistently, average of 5 hires per month. ● Engineering, Sales, Professional Services, and Single Incumbent Roles. ● Full life cycle recruitment across EMEA with focus on DACH, Russia, UK. Nordics, Poland and Turkey. ● Responsible for mentoring, development and on boarding of junior team members; I created the first recruitment training at Pega for new team members as well as training material for sourcers to start their development towards becoming a recruiter. Enterprise Software Recruiter ● Achieving monthly hiring goal consistentlyAverage of 3 hires per month. ● Full life cycle recruitment across EMEA with focus on DACH, Russia, UK. Nordics, Poland and Turkey. ● Engineering, Sales, Professional Services, and Single Incumbent Roles. Languages English German Dutch French Full Professional Native Native Conversational Education- University of Reading, UK MSc. Construction Management (Distinction) Dissertation: Biodiversity policies and the construction industry- Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (University of Technology), NL MSc. Construction Management and Engineering Dissertation: Communication and information for the development of brown fields- Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (University of Technology), NL BSc. Architecture, Building and Planning