Lily Chen
Partner @ Become Consulting Company Limited
About
Strategic HR and Talent Acquisition Executive with over 25 years of experience in the life sciences and consulting sector. Proven track record of leading large-scale regional teams across 17 countries. Expert in driving organizational transformation, operational excellence, and cost optimization. Innovative leader with dual expertise as an HRBP and TA Head, adept at bridging business goals with people strategy to build high-performing cultures in complex and volatile markets.
China
Shanghai
Human Resources
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Experience

Practice Lead Recruiting, APAC
Roche Group
Shanghai, China
• Strategic Leadership: Co-led the global recruiting function, partnering with EMEA and AMER counterparts to design and implement a new operating model and establish a unified global recruiting team. • Regional Management: Managed a team of 50 professionals across 17 countries, overseeing global recruiting infrastructure, efficiency, and effectiveness. • Operational Excellence: Achieved remarkable operational excellence and substantial cost savings while elevating customer satisfaction through the implementation of new workforce strategies. • Transformation: Played a key role in driving the implementation of a new operating model and role-modeling agile collaboration during a period of significant transformation.

HRBP Head, Commercial & Enabling Functions
Roche Pharmaceutical
Shanghai, China
• Dual Leadership: Served as both Talent Acquisition (TA) & HRBP Head, leading a team of over 30 to support four Business Units, Market Access, SPACE, Finance, Communications, and Legal & Compliance totaling over 4,000 employees. • Business Impact: Supported business strategy that resulted in a 37% growth rate in 2019—the highest in five years—and doubled sales revenue with stable headcount. • Strategic Hiring: Oversaw 1,988 hires, including critical executive roles such as the Head of Market Access and Chief Transformation Officer, saving ~2 million RMB through direct sourcing. • Crisis Management: Successfully managed a 40% turnover rate environment while ensuring the business achieved 26% growth, fulfilling 1,712 openings through innovative approaches. • Organizational Development: Collaborated with the GM, CFO, and VPs to reshape organizational infrastructure to combat the "talent war" from biotech startups.

Talent Acquisition Director
Roche Pharmaceutical
Shanghai, China
• Team Transformation: Managed and developed a TA team of 20+ people, driving a change transformation that significantly lowered recruitment costs, improved quality, and turned around team morale. • Executive Search: Partnered with the GM and HRVP to hire best-in-class executives, including Vice Presidents for multiple Business Units and site heads. • Market Intelligence: Provided the Corporate Leadership Committee with critical competitive intelligence reports (e.g., Talent Market Newsletters, Competitor Mapping) to inform strategic people decisions. • Employer Branding: Led innovative initiatives like "R U Next" and "Decoding Roche," significantly improving Roche’s standing in the Top Employer Awards.

Staffing & Recruiting Director, TCM
Shanghai, China
Lead the recruiting team to develop in-depth and innovative talent acquisition strategies with business stakeholders and related HR leaders to support current and ongoing needs, as well as the future growth of the business. Develop customized recruiting strategies across all job families for China OPU including Operations, Bio Pharma, Animal Health, Enabling, Medical and PM&CHC to deliver quality talent in a timely manner. Taking three main responsibilities: a) Supervise Recruitment Solution (including sourcing and recruitment operations) b) Driver COE (Branding, digital marketing & Social Media, ATS, Sourcing Channel management, UR and etc.) c) Executive level recruitment

Principal
DCM Consultant
Shanghai
DCM Consultant was the subsidiary of Recruit Hong Kong back to 2005.

Principal
Recruit Hong Kong
Shanghai
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