Ben Ashley Email & Phone Number

Long Bennington, Gb

London, London, Gb

As Talent Acquisition Lead at Bakkavor I am responsible for driving strategic recruitment initiatives to attract and retain top talent across all functions and sites. My role involves developing and implementing effective resourcing strategies that meet the company's evolving needs. I lead a talented team of recruitment professionals which includes the UK Talent Acquisition Managers & Talent Acquisition Coordinators, optimizing processes, leveraging recruitment technology, and building strong talent pipelines to ensure we consistently deliver high-quality hires.With a focus on efficiency, candidate experience, and employer branding, I’m committed to supporting Bakkavor’s growth by aligning our talent acquisition efforts with business objectives and helping shape a positive and dynamic work environment.

London, London, Gb

With the recent merger of the Desserts and Pizza & Bread sectors into the newly formed Bakery operation. I am now responsible for all Talent Acquisition activities within this space alongside continuing to occupy my previous responsibility for all central Group Services functions.Responsible for all Talent Acquisition activities for a £760 million T/O sector with a site footprint of 8 factories and 2 distribution centres and headcount of circa 6,500 including Group Services.Managing my team to deliver the Group Talent Acquisition Strategy across our Bakery sector and Group Services functions. Primary focus is to ensure the strategy is implemented in the most effective and efficient way through an outstanding business partnering service, ensuring current and future needs are met across our ‘’weekly’ (volume) and ‘’monthly’’ (salaried) work streams.

London, London, Gb

Managing my team to deliver the Group Talent Acquisition Strategy across our Desserts and Group Services sectors. Primary focus is to ensure the strategy is implemented in the most effective and efficient way through an outstanding business partnering service, ensuring current and future needs are met across our ‘’weekly’ (volume) and ‘’monthly’’ (salaried) work streams.

Birmingham, England, Gb

Based at the Head Office in Coleshill - Birmingham I am responsible for all recruitment and resourcing activity across the PerfectHome network of Stores, Operational Support, Customer Contact Centres, Distribution & Service Centres and Head Office. As Recruitment Manager I manage and am responsible for the recruitment strategy, resourcing strategy, recruitment team and the recruitment budget ensuring the department operates a 100% direct sourcing model across the estate. • Support the board, divisional directors and general managers in delivering their strategic objectives.• Lead and facilitate the attraction and selection of all roles across the estate, personally headhunting and engaging the passive audience.• Development and implementation of the recruitment strategy to deliver business objectives across the divisions including design and implementation of recruitment processes, implementation of an ATS, design and delivery of KPI’s and SLA’s, delivery and implementation of reporting and analytics.• Responsible for the end to end recruitment cycle – resource planning and forecasting, candidate attraction focused on direct sourcing strategy, development of assessment tools, assessment centre/interview delivery, offer & onboarding facilitation.• Management and development of a team of recruitment advisors.• Implementation of direct hire recruitment solution resulted in agency cost saving of £300k+ over 12 months and significant improvement in Time to Offer and Time to Hire.• Up skilling and training of team to operate as true resourcers meaning zero agency fees incurred post year 1 in role and a 100% direct resourcing model implemented.

Colchester, Gb

• Lead, direct, coach & motivate the resourcing team in the delivery of a 100% direct resourcing model to agreed budget and timescales.• Identify appropriate & best routes to market to attract the best talent.• Extensive headhunting, CV mining and networking to attract the passive audience.• Talent planning for future roles to ensure the business is fully resourced at all times.• Recruitment, resourcing & retention delivery with associated strategic plans and approaches.• Recruitment standardization & efficiency across the patch.• Act as a resourcing subject matter expert, implementing and maintaining best practice end to end recruitment processes, selection tools & direct sourcing practices.• Spearheading ‘alternative’ routes to market for entry level/greener roles with welfare to work providers, Colleges & Universities.

Costa Mesa, Ca, Us

• Offer seamless end to end recruitment provision to the business.• Develop relationships across the business & HR to improve understanding of business areas and identify and implement appropriate resourcing solutions.• Manage a team of 2 recruitment administrators.• Manage complex recruitment campaigns including search, retained assignments, advertising and assessment centres.• Assessment centre design, implementation & delivery.• Competency Based Interviewing and SHL test administration & psychometric testing.• Account Management for CSDD & Tech Services line managers, managing all recruitment activity in this area.• Dealing with specialist niche IT roles & high volume IT recruitment.• Redundancy & Outplacement set up and support.• Executive search recruitment, dealing with A-C grade recruitment for the executive board.• Campaign attraction methods and cost effective candidate sourcing, focus on headhunting & direct resourcing.• Manage and review supplier agreement contracts (in line with SLA’s).

Leicester, Leicestershire, Gb

• Running own personal permanent recruitment desk.• Account Management for several major accounts across the country.• Generate new business sales through cold calls and generating leads through candidates.• Working to and exceeding daily, weekly and monthly targets.• Hitting a personal '​ weekly average'​ of £2500 in invoiced business for the company.• Hitting £68k’s worth of invoiced business in Year 1 - Q4, putting me number 2 in the whole company.• Acting as a consultancy for client's recruitment needs, giving suited and tailored advice to help clients fill vacant positions.