Celebrating The 2025 Beamie Award Winners: Honoring Excellence In Talent Transformation
Each year, the Beamie Awards recognize the individuals and organizations using Beamery to transform talent strategies and create meaningful business impact. The 2025 winners stand out for their innovation, bold thinking, and relentless focus on solving real challenges – from embedding AI responsibly, to embracing skills-based hiring at scale.
TA Excellence: UBS 🏆
Excellence in Talent Acquisition means identifying, engaging, and hiring the right people with speed and precision. It means building a TA function that is not only operationally effective, but future-ready.
UBS embodies that standard. With a global footprint and a highly competitive hiring landscape, their team has built a scalable, high-performing TA function grounded in structure, rigor, and a commitment to smarter hiring. They’ve focused on data-driven sourcing, improving recruiter efficiency, and evolving their candidate experience – all while laying the foundation for long-term innovation.
This year, the team from UBS took a major step by preparing for the rollout of Beamery’s AI Talent Match, navigating a complex internal review process to ensure responsible, high-impact adoption. They’ve also continued to play an active role in Beamery’s roadmap – participating in product feedback sessions and serving as key members of our Customer Advisory Board.
Talent Champions Of The Year: Shilpa Shah & Matt Simmonds, Standard Chartered Bank 🏆
True Talent Champions don’t just adopt new technology – they use it to accelerate transformation, elevate the talent function, and inspire change across the organization.
Shilpa Shah, Managing Director, Global Resourcing & Talent Deployment, Matt Simmonds, HR Portfolio Manager, and Kelly Forde, Global Employer Brand Digital Platforms Lead, have done exactly that at Standard Chartered Bank. Together, they’ve led a global, multi-year transformation program that’s delivered tangible progress toward a more skills-based, data-informed approach to the company’s talent strategy. By sharpening hiring decisions, their leadership has helped the bank build a more agile, resilient workforce – ready for the future of financial services.
Operating in a complex, highly regulated environment, they have also championed thoughtful technology adoption. By aligning Beamery and SAP SuccessFactors as part of a connected talent ecosystem, they’ve ensured not just implementation, but lasting impact – with strong governance, clear strategy, and a focus on outcomes that matter.
HR Transformation Impact: Assurant 🏆
Assurant has made extraordinary progress in just 12 months – moving from implementation to impact with impressive speed.
To tackle the challenge of Day 1 no-shows in high-volume hiring, the team built a “keep warm” campaign using Beamery’s automation and engagement tools. With personalized messaging and smart workflows, they achieved a 100% show rate – and are now scaling the approach globally.
It’s a standout example of how Assurant is using Beamery to solve real business challenges, enhance the candidate experience, and drive better outcomes around the world.
HR Innovation: Mass General Brigham 🏆
At Mass General Brigham, innovation isn’t a one-off initiative: it’s embedded in how the TA team works every day.
In a competitive healthcare talent market, they’ve redefined candidate engagement at scale. By building a rich library of branded content and launching targeted campaigns reaching hundreds of thousands of potential hires, the team has enhanced outreach, improved personalization, and elevated the role of TA across the organization.
It’s a standout example of how forward-thinking teams are using Beamery to transform talent acquisition – not just in what they do, but in how they contribute to broader business strategy.
Power Users Of The Year: Taylor Schnettler & Jean Kelley, Sanford Health 🏆
Thousands of people use Beamery every day – but the Power Users of the Year stand out for their energy, initiative, and impact. This year, we're recognizing two standout users at Sanford Health, who bring Beamery to life in strategic, high-impact ways.
Taylor Schnettler, Senior Sourcing Specialist, is a master of the system: mining resumes, importing contacts, and running thoughtful nurture campaigns. Her work blends data-driven sourcing with personalized outreach, reflecting a genuine dedication to building meaningful talent relationships at scale.
Jean Kelley, Lead Sourcing Specialist, is Sanford Health’s internal Beamery champion; the go-to person for platform questions, new ideas, and smarter ways of working. Known for her curiosity and collaborative spirit, she constantly explores new features, shares best practices, and helps the entire team get more value from Beamery every day.
Together, Taylor and Jean show what it means to use technology with purpose – driving efficiency, innovation, and connection across the TA function.
Congratulations to all of our 2025 winners! 🎉
You are leading the way toward smarter, more connected, more human talent experiences – and we’re proud to be on the journey with you.