Sarah Biggs

Assistant Vice President, Talent Acquisition St. Luke’s University Health Network

Sarah Biggs is an accomplished human resources executive serving as Assistant Vice President of Talent Acquisition at St. Luke’s University Health Network, where she provides enterprise leadership for recruitment strategy across a multi-campus, integrated healthcare system.

With deep expertise in talent acquisition, employee benefits, and health plan strategy, Sarah is known for building and scaling high-performing teams that support large, complex organizations. She partners closely with executive leadership to align workforce planning and recruitment strategy with long-term organizational priorities, including clinical expansion, operational growth, and workforce sustainability.

Throughout her tenure, Sarah has led the modernization of recruitment infrastructure, governance, and candidate experience, driving more efficient and scalable hiring operations across the system. She serves as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, providing strategic guidance on workforce planning, talent pipelines, and organizational design.

Prior to her current role, Sarah held several senior leadership positions within St. Luke’s, including Senior Network Director of HR Initiatives and Executive Director of the organization’s Third-Party Administrator (TPA). In these roles, she oversaw enterprise health plan operations and strategy, including a large self-funded employee health plan, major vendor transitions, and initiatives focused on cost containment and operational efficiency.

Sarah began her career in sales and client leadership roles, where she developed a strong foundation in relationship management, performance delivery, and market growth—capabilities that continue to inform her leadership approach today.

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh and maintains a Group Benefits Disability Specialist (GBDS) designation.

Seminars

Wednesday 28th October 2026
Discover: Eliminating Internal Competition & Accelerating Nurse Hiring at Scale Through Centralizing Recruitment & Building a Network-Wide Sourcing Model
1:50 pm
  • Learn how shifting from a decentralized recruiter structure to a centralized sourcing “concierge” model reduced duplicate applications and removed internal competition across 16 hospitals and 400+ sites
  • Understand how a dedicated intake team using cultural, competency, and demand-based screening dramatically improved time to contact and matched candidates to roles aligned with both system need and candidate preference
  • Explore how data dashboards and transparent reporting in Workday helped rebuild stakeholder trust after removing local requisition ownership and enabled smarter, network-wide workforce decisions
Wednesday 28th October 2026
Develop: How Should Healthcare TA Teams Structure Themselves to Meet the Very Different Needs of High-Volume & High-Touch Hiring?
2:30 pm

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