Meredith Luna

• Led redesign of enterprise global talent strategy, aligning HR with business growth and transformation goals.
• Delivered $1.7M YOY cost savings, reduced time-to-fill by 17 days, and cut turnover by 23% through innovative Talent Acquisition insourcing model.
• Directed global M&A integration, including First Alert acquisition, ensuring seamless cultural and operational alignment.
• Partnered with C-suite and Board to drive long-range workforce planning and enable business imperatives.
• Recipient of CEO key talent grant
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• Establish and Lead Global Talent Acquisition Strategy for Gilead’s Commercial function.
• Provide visionary leadership and long-range planning to enable commercial business imperatives.
• Integrated approach to elevating Diversity & Inclusion within talent strategy.
• Global stakeholder engagement (c-suite) inclusive of demand planning, talent management, workforce/succession planning.
• Strategic leadership for multiple high-volume hiring expansions.
• Recruitment EVP redesign & implementation.
• RPO model redesign, oversight, SLA adherence, overall service delivery and strategic business alignment.
• Yello CRM Implementation.
• 2021 Top Talent Award
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DIRECTOR TALENT ACQUISITION, COMMERCIAL DIVISION

• Development and oversight of Merck's global commercial talent strategy.
• Led Merck's largest field sales expansion (+250) including strategy, leadership, and execution within 7-month timeline.
• Implemented robust enterprise digital recruitment marketing campaign across the commercial organization.
• Developed multi-tiered sourcing strategy which was rolled out globally across divisions.
• Second line leadership for team of 12 + RPO partners.
• Liaise with RPO leadership to ensure continuity and seamless client support.
• Led change management efforts for Merck's Workday / PhenomPeople implementation.

DIRECTOR, GLOBAL TALENT ACQUISITION - ANIMAL HEALTH & GLOBAL SUPPORT FUNCTIONS | 01/2017 - 12/2018

• Developed and executed an innovative talent strategy across multiple divisions of Merck with a primary focus on Animal Health commercial (sales/marketing).
• Developed recruitment strategy and oversight for the stand-up of Merck's IT HUB in Austin TX.
• Hired, trained, and led a team of 10 Talent Advisors with cross divisional responsibility.
• Managed global and US recruiting metrics and drove key recruitment sourcing efficiencies.
• Ongoing leadership development for Merck's Talent Acquisition team including cross functional communication with HR in support of Talent Acquisition leadership initiatives.

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, ANIMAL HEALTH DIVISION | 01/2013 - 12/2016

• Strategic divisional lead for Merck's Animal Health division (enterprise wide).
• Elevated social engagement strategy.
• Circle of Excellence Award winner (2014) - Presidents club award trip winner.
• Developed and presented training to Merck's Summer Interns (DeSoto, KS 2016).
• Initiated diversity partnerships to various industry organizations (MANRRs, AH Corridor FFA, etc).
• National keynote speaker at Merck's Managers Meeting: Best in class talent attraction.

SENIOR MANAGER, TALENT LEAD | 01/2007 - 12/2012

• Full life cycle recruitment for various divisions of Merck to include Commercial (GHH), Manufacturing (MMD), Research & Development (MRL), and various support function roles.
• Coordination and oversight of weekly western region large scale hiring events.
• Member of Merck's RPO implementation (RTIinc.) team and RFP vendor selection process.
• Provide guidance to senior sales leaders on annual diversity and talent needs.
• Maintained OFCCP and compliance standards within applicant tracking system.
• Special Achievement award for lead role for Merck's ophthalmology expansion (2011).

SR. SALES RECRUITER | 01/2005 - 12/2007

• Responsible for Primary Care US Sales full life cycle recruitment for the western and central regions spanning various therapeutic areas.
• Supported staffing for various specialty sales teams nationally supporting multiple VPs, Senior Business Directors, and Business Managers nationally in matrix organizational structure.
• Oversight and partnership with onsite RPO (Adecco & IBM).

• Team lead responsible for full cycle recruitment of 400+ Pharmacists and Certified Technicians.
• Led staffing efforts for local PBM for a federal employee program contract.
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• Managed key accounts for Fortune 500 clients: IBM, Cisco, Motorola, Intel, Kyocera, CSC.
• Consistently exceeded quota for new account generation.
• Rookie of the year 2000 & “Top Tier” award 2001, 2002, MVP 2003.

• Selected as one of 100 national consultants supporting recruitment project for the TSA.
• Lead for candidate sourcing on the largest non-military hiring project in US history (post 9/11 effort to federalize airport security personnel).
• Team was responsible for recruiting over 1 million TSA professionals and Federal Air Marshals resulting in over 100,000 hires nationwide.
• Ensured compliance with all appropriate U.S. Government employment forms including the SF85P.
• Promoted to Senior Recruiter, managing a team of 6 recruiters and outsourced talent agency.
• Project required 100% travel nationwide to 25 states including Alaska, Hawaii and Guam.