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Melissa Dias

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Senior Director, Global Talent Acquisition at Cactus Life Sciences
📍 Greater Coventry Area, United Kingdom

Melissa Dias is the Senior Director of Global Talent Acquisition at Cactus Life Sciences, where she builds and scales hiring strategies for the life sciences and medical communications industries. She leads hiring across the UK, US, Switzerland, India, and Japan. Colleagues describe her as hardworking, passionate, and innovative.

Melissa won the "Cactizen of the year 2016-2017" award at her previous company.

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Experience
14 Years
Current Role
Senior Director, Global Talent Acquisition
Job Level
Senior
Location
Greater Coventry Area, United Kingdom
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Global Talent Strategy
Leads global hiring across multiple regions, aligning talent acquisition with business growth and anticipating future workforce needs for long-term success.
Life Sciences Hiring
Specializes in talent acquisition for biotech, pharma, and clinical research, and actively seeks recruitment agency partners in this space.
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Career

Work history

1-2026
Senior Director, Global Talent Acquisition
Cactus Life Sciences
7-2022 - 12-2025
Director, Global Talent Acquisition
Cactus Communications
7-2018 - 7-2022
Associate Director, Global Talent Acquisition
Cactus Communications
6-2016 - 6-2018
Manager, Global Talent Acquisition
Cactus Communications
6-2014 - 5-2016
Assistant Manager, Global Talent Acquisition
Cactus Communications
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Melissa Dias—Queen Bee. Mother of Turtles. Stationary Hoarder Also Associate Director. Featured in Facebook (Cactus Communications)
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Education
4-2008 - 6-2010
Master of Business Administration - MBA
Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
6-2005 - 3-2008
Bachelor of Commerce - BCom
University of Mumbai
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