Lisa Marie Anthony-Righton

Strategic scale-up growth consulting business. Partnering with senior leaders in Lifesciences to accelerate performance, facilitate change and enhance leadership success.

• Stand-alone role working closely with LT with and COE, leading recruitment activities across the organisation (headcount 50).

• Devised and implemented recruitment and talent strategy, process and ways of working incorporating D&I.

• Developed and drove the resourcing process, from creation of role descriptions, collaborator identification and attraction strategies, to identifying and selecting a diverse mix of candidates, and engaging current and potential collaborators for future work.

• Leadership and delivery of high touch end-to-end global recruitment (contract and perm, largely mid – senior exec roles across UK, US, Europe).

• Achieved zero agency usage resulting in significant cost avoidance.

• Implementation and upkeep of talent attraction tools and related comms - LinkedIn Talent Community, talent pooling, website, LinkedIn page.

• Activation of EVP across social, branding, talent attraction.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion.

Throughout my tenure, I led a dynamic team of high-performing talent acquisition partners, strategically supporting multiple sites and divisions across the organization. With a focus on instilling best practices and delivering excellence in recruitment, I also specialized in Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) recruitment initiatives, crafting talent pipelining strategies, and developing strategic recruitment plans. By leveraging these diverse skills and experiences, we were able to consistently deliver exceptional results in talent acquisition and retention while fostering an inclusive and forward-thinking workplace culture.

Core responsibilities included:

• Leadership – Leader for South delivery team (x 9 Recruiters) supporting 6 multisite divisions with end to end TA service (6000+ headcount). Ensuring targets are met/exceeded i.e time to hire, quality, diversity, cost reductions, event planning.

• Relationship management – Regional business partner for Microbiology, Pharma Services Group, Clinical Trials and Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry Divisions. Embedding regional strategy, trainings and ensuring full TA support to a high spec. Management of suppliers, advertising agencies.

• Projects/achievements – Developed and implemented single standard process, delivery model, SLA and cost model for UK divisions/sites. Exceeded targets with exceptional candidate and client experience scores, employer brand localisation, career site re-brand, roll out of Leader Standard Work programme UK wide to over 70 stakeholders.

Key Achievements:

- Winner - Recruiter Awards for Excellence 2016 'Best International Recruitment Team'

- Awarded 'Global Brand Ambassador'

- Led high performing team achieving 90% direct hires

- Launched and delivered 'Licence to Hire' training to over 120 cross function individuals

• Provided professional level support and service in the global activation of the employer brand,

including the design, management and implementation of the regional media buy, the management

of external vendor relationships and the creation and development of recruitment marketing,

branding and advertising programs.

• Accountability for leveraging Thermo Fisher Scientific’s newly launched global employer brand

architecture and strategy across all EMEA regions, segmenting by audience category and region.

• Go – to resource for the EMEA Talent Acquisition team on best practices in the recruitment

marketing world driving awareness of and shaping the company’s reputation—from messaging

strategies to collateral development and everything in between

• Owning the EMEA media budget, content creation, brand creative and the corresponding metrics to

determine when and how to advertise jobs.

• Additional key Accomplishments - Organisation of the 2015 Global TA summit based in Carlsbad

(120 attendees, 4 day event, including evening award ceremonies and sponsored entertainment).

• Creation of a Global directory profiling 120 + TA colleagues for internal distribution

• Creation of a Global Talent acquisition portal - an online platform accessible to the global HR

community and managers providing access to the TA tools and resources needed to help recruit

candidates more effectively and efficiently.