PRE-CONFERENCE FOCUS DAY
Pre-Conference Focus Day
Tuesday, 18th February | 12.00 - 4.00
Talent Acquisition Strategy Day
Begin your LEAP HR: Life Science Europe experience by tackling strategic Talent Acquisition Challenges.
80% of pharma manufacturing facilities are struggling with skills mismatches, and half of all executives say that recruiting experienced staff is challenging. Within the clinical trial sphere, more than a third of drug developers warn that talent shortages are limiting progress. To solve these shortages, Life Science companies are having to think more strategically about how they recruit, attract, retain, and upskill both existing and new talent.
12:00 pm Light Lunch & Networking
1:00 pm Welcome from the Chair
Building Internal Talent Teams to Turbo-Charge Recruitment Whilst Cutting Costs
1:10 pm Discover: Building a Talent Team that Coordinates with HR
Synopsis
- How can we increase efficiencies, improve recruitment processes and add more value to the company?
- Create a separate Talent Team that works alongside HR successfully
- How Allucent have built a talent team to redistribute responsibilities of the HR team to enhance their recruitment and hire great talent
1:30 pm Discover: Transform Your Life Sciences TA Function into a Strategic Advisory Powerhouse
Synopsis
- Assess any gaps in your current talent acquisition capabilities and navigate how to bridge them
- Explore how to develop your TA team to become trusted strategic advisors, embedding them into decision-making and workforce planning
- Discover Jazz Pharmaceutical’s approach to strategic recruiting, which saw time-to-fill decrease by 15% in one year, and led to more than a 90% reduction in agency spend
1:50 pm Develop: What More Can We Learn from HR Leaders Building Internal Talent Teams?
Synopsis
Question & Answer Session Facilitated by the Chair
In an industry where innovation and science are paramount, the recruitment of the right people into an organisations is both critical and, at times, underappreciated.
2:10 pm Action: How Are You Going to Cut Recruiting Costs?
Synopsis
Output Focused Action Session Facilitated by the Chair
- How to calculate the associated costs/ROI of building an internal talent team?
- How to build an internal talent team?
- How can we identify the business need?
2:30 pm Networking Break
Aligning your Recruitment Strategy with Business Needs to Create Synergy
3:00 pm Discover: Adapting Your TA Strategy to Compliment Business Needs
Synopsis
- How can we build resilience to the volatility of the Life Science industry?
- Create a TA Strategy that is adaptable and precise to business needs
- How Evotec have adapted mapped out their recruitment business needs and closely aligned their recruitment strategy to create synergy
3:20 pm Discover: Entering a New Market: Bumps in the Road & Lessons Learned
Synopsis
- Using Talent Intelligence to create dynamic market assessments
- How Talent Acquisition can form cross-functional relationships with internal stakeholders to drive timelines
- Bumps in the road: building relationships with the first hires in a new location and keeping them engaged in your brand
3:40 pm Discover: Utilising AI/ML to Bolster Your Life Science Organisations Recruiting Efficiencies
Synopsis
- Understand the role of data and AI/ML in faster and smarter decision- making to keep pace with the evolving Life Science industry
- How can Life Science HR and TA functions innovate processes by embracing digital initiatives?
- Uncover the story behind GSK’s AI/ML based ‘Easy Does It’ project, which aims to use identify opportunities for simplification and automation of people, processes and systems to maximise impact
4:00 pm Develop: What More Can We Learn from TA Leaders in Life Science Adapting to Their Organisations Talent Needs?
Synopsis
Question & Answer Session Facilitated by the Chair
With incredibly specific and technical job positions, how can we increase hiring accuracy and weave through pools of candidates effectively?
4:20 pm Action: How Are You Going to Adapt Your Recruitment Strategy to Exist in Synergy with Your Organisation?
Synopsis
Output Focused Action Session Facilitated by the Chair
- How are we aligning our TA departments with HR if they are separated
- How are we ensuring that our company values are aligned with our recruiting strategy?
- How are we marketing our brand through our recruitment strategy?