Sam Burt

Senior Vice President, Global Talent Acquisition & HR Shared Services ICON

Sam Burt is Senior Vice President, Global Talent Acquisition & HR Shared Services at ICON, where she is responsible for shaping and delivering the organisation’s global talent strategy and scalable HR services. Having spent more than 13 years with ICON, she leads enterprise-wide hiring, workforce planning and HR operations, partnering closely with senior leaders to support business growth, transformation and capability building. Sam is passionate about building high-performing teams, driving operational excellence, and modernising talent and HR service delivery through data, technology and cross-functional collaboration.

Seminars

Tuesday 2nd February 2027
Discover: How ICON Is Reimagining Talent Acquisition With AI-Powered Automation While Preserving the Human Experience Across 14,000 Annual Hires
11:20 am
  • Uncover how ICON is deploying AI agents, automated screening summaries and intelligent workflow automation to eliminate administrative burden and accelerate hiring decisions without sacrificing recruiter or candidate experience
  • Hear where human judgement remains critical across the recruitment lifecycle and how ICON is defining the right balance between automation, fairness and personal connection
  • Delve into how AI-driven talent matching, contract automation and proactive SLA management are helping recruiters spend more time engaging talent and less time chasing process steps
Tuesday 2nd February 2027
Develop: As You Scale Recruitment Operations, What Has Been the Hardest Thing to Standardise Successfully?
11:40 am

Go beyond the case study: This is your chance to ask questions that uncover the decisions, challenges and lessons behind the results

Sam Burt ICON - for LEAP HR_ Life Sciences Europe 2027