Amber Peacock Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Gemba Advantage, a software engineering scale-up, improves the working lives for the people that make a difference. We design and build user centric, cloud native and secure products and services, predominantly in the public sector and for social good. Our expertise in product thinking, combined with data, platform and application engineering excellence enable us to succeed across a range of exacting environments. I joined Gemba at the end of 2022 to develop the Talent Acquisition function from the ground up and enhance our hiring capabilities as an organisation operating in a exceptionally competitive and complex part of the labour market. I hold overall responsibility for ensuring Gemba has a talent acquisition function that is high performing, innovative, and drives achievement of our growth aspirations. I ensure that we have highly effective methods for pipelining talent, as well as designing and delivering assessment and selection processes that targets high calibre talent. I also have responsibility for our Talent Development function where I lead the strategies, tactics and processes for building and retaining strategically important skills at Gemba, which includes the facilitation of career progression. I am the programme lead of our CyberFirst internship, an annual programme supporting emerging talent in the Cyber industry.

United Kingdom

Arden is not your traditional university; they are more akin to a commercial scale-up and are growing exponentially year on year. As Global Talent Acquisition Manager at Arden University I led a team of talent acquisition experts to deliver global growth across a multitude of business units, including but not limited to: academia, student recruitment, product development, data engineering, project management, infrastructure, finance, product marketing, business marketing, HR and People, amongst other core business functions.In my time at Arden I commenced the build and transformation of an expert talent acquisition function that drove talent acquisition excellence across the business. This transformation ensured Arden's Talent Acquisition Partners provided genuine recruitment expertise whilst providing a high-class business partnering service to our hiring communities. I established a team that have deep domain expertise and excellent insight into the competitive markets we recruit in, who could effectively utilise data to craft engaging and compelling hiring strategies for recruiting complex roles worldwide. As part of my transformation I:• Began embedding a meaningful and effective Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion strategy across Global Talent Acquisition.• Harnessed data and insights more effectively to drive and secure our Talent Acquisition strategy.• Created a culture of support, opportunity, and professional autonomy within Talent Acquisition.• Embed high standards that resulted in candidate and hiring communities encountering exceptional Talent Acquisition experiences, enhanced by the prudent use of technologies and tools.• As part of the People Leadership Team, worked on strategic initiatives to secure Arden’s People ambitions.

United Kingdom

Tribal are a global EdTech business that provide SaaS solutions to the Education Sector, primarily across higher and further education.As Global Recruitment Manager, I ensured that Tribal is well placed to reliably, securely, and efficiently hire talent that supports Tribal’s business success as well as facilitating internal career progression opportunities. I held overall responsibility for the provision of a high-quality, data led recruitment service for Tribal’s global business, taking full accountability for ensuring that the Recruitment team deliver high quality recruitment and effective promotion of the Tribal employer brand across all geographic regions. I made certain that the Recruitment team provided genuine recruitment expertise and deep understanding of the internal and external labour market that allowed us to design and develop strategies for recruiting complex roles worldwide. The recruitment team are responsible for the provision of talent for product development, product management, cloud, infrastructure, professional services, finance, marketing, HR, amongst other business areas.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Technical Recruiter at Affecto, my area of specialism was within Software Architecture and Development and I am experienced in supporting growth of teams and businesses with the following roles:Software Development Managers, Software Engineers (C#, .Net Core, ASP.Net, PHP, Java, C++, Python, Ruby, Perl, Scala, Angular, React, etc.), Software Architects, Platform Engineers, Test Analysts, QA Analysts, Web Developers, DevOps Engineers, and other professionals in the development life-cycle.

Technical Recruiter at Franklin Bates Agile IT recruitment business with a proven track record of successfully delivering contract and permanent services across a broad range of clients, brands and business verticals within the Agile community.

London, England, United Kingdom

Cipd Associate Diploma Level 5, Human Resources Management And Services, Level 5

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