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Luton, Gb

Nairobi, Ke

Over the last 12+ months I have focused and delivered the following.⭐️ Architect of Talent Acquisition Strategy⭐️ Executing the entire TA strategy from headcount planning to 90-day onboarding⭐️ Designing and driving strategy and tools for a fully direct hiring model⭐️ Delivering high-performance recruitment services for a scaling fintech⭐️ Managing, fixing, and solving challenging recruitment problems⭐️ Leading, mentoring, and coaching a global team⭐️ Managing team training, development plans, and growth⭐️ Driving engagement within TA and fostering a learning & development culture (SocialTalent roll-out)⭐️ Building TA readiness and capability to meet the needs of a scaling FinTech⭐️ Hiring and building a TA team that delivers 700+ hires annually⭐️ Improving onboarding and EVP⭐️ Achieving a 70+% candidate NPS, against an industry norm of 35%⭐️ Achieved Senior Hiring Quality of Hire Score 4.3/5⭐️ Maintaining a Glassdoor rating above 4.2⭐️ Using a data-led approach to drive engagement and process improvement⭐️ Reduce cost per hire by 64% 2022/23 and by 11% 2023/2024⭐️ Current flexible costs for 2024 0% (contingency spend with agencies)

Nairobi, Ke

⭐️ Spearheaded Talent Acquisition Strategy, focusing on scalable and high-performance recruitment.⭐️ Led a global team of 10, managing training, development, and fostering a learning culture.⭐️ Supported business and team on expansion into South Africa our newest market⭐️ Improved hiring processes and tools, achieving significant cost reductions and efficiency gains.⭐️ Enhanced candidate and employee experience, achieved a 70+% candidate NPS and a Glassdoor rating above 4.3 in 2023.⭐️ Drove direct sourcing initiatives, reducing agency spend by 85% 2023 and optimizing ROI with new tools, HireEz, DataPeople. Reduced agency spend in 1 year from 2022 $500,000 to 2023 $80,000.⭐️ Led the tender and change from Lever ATS to Ashby inside 6 weeks.

Nairobi, Ke

I joined M-KOPA to oversee group-level hiring for senior roles in Tech, Finance, and HR, managing a team with one other recruiter.⭐️ Reduced agency utilization for tech roles⭐️ Managed end to end hiring for Tech and All group level senior hires⭐️ Established a new hiring center of excellence for the company⭐️ Developed and refined hiring processes with stakeholder engagement⭐️ Collaborated with and educated the business to improve hiring experience and outcomes⭐️Worked on special projects to drive direct sourcing within TA, including selecting new sourcing and advertising tools (HireEz & Ashby), achieving an overall ROI of $7K per hire.

Hamburg, De

I was part of the Beat Talent acquisition team owned by FREENOW - sadly Beat closed its doors in November 2022. ⭐️ Managed a team of 2 recruiters during a phase of growth in Engineering hiring⭐️ Delivered 45 offers in 8 months, 73% offer acceptance⭐️63% increase in tech hiring compared to previous 12 months over 30+ hires⭐️100% direct hiring, net agency saving of over €500K⭐️Decreased time to hire by 46% from 72 to 33 days⭐️Hired globally across Europe and LatAm

London, England, Gb

As the tech recruitment lead at Zone, the customer experience agency inside Cognizant UK.⭐️ Managed a team of 2 recruiters, managing end-to-end engineering recruitment, specializing in technical architects (Java, .Net) and frontend engineers (JavaScript, React)⭐️Saved £80K through the successful hiring of 7 permanent employees and 3 contractors.⭐️Re-engineered the recruitment process, resulting in a reduction of time to hire by 30 days, bringing it under 4 weeks⭐️Implemented a new tech freelancer preferred supplier list (PSL), enhancing the efficiency of freelance hiring⭐️Took ownership of TA metrics and dashboard creation, providing the SLT with a comprehensive view of TA activities, including performance, diversity metrics, and cost per hire

Berlin, De

As a Talent Acquisition Manager I led recruitment of the Prague engineering team and then the whole of product & design for Omio globally. I transitioned from a freelancer to a permanent member of the team in March 2020.⭐️Managed end-to-end recruitment processes for Product and Design teams (2+ years) and Tech teams in Prague (6 months), responsible for managing a team of 2 recruiters via RPO solution for tech hiring in Prague.⭐️ Covered also Marketing, Finance, and the People Team⭐️ Delivered across all levels predominantly from Senior to Director level positions ⭐️ Directly hired over 40 individuals annually⭐️100% direct hiring and saving over €1.2M across my tenure⭐️Maintained a candidate Net Promoter Score (NPS) that exceeded industry standards by 14%⭐️Led the development of manager screening and interview styles within Tech, Product, and Design. Through coaching, playbooks, and interactive training workshops, I enhanced the effectiveness of the hiring process.⭐️Streamlined the recruitment process, reducing the number of interviews from 7+ to under 4.⭐️Initiated and launched a successful referral campaign, resulting in a 25% increase in referral hires.

London, London, Gb

Managed the end to end recruitment process for tech requirements in the; CRM, Architecture (BlockChain & Big Data) and Technical Services (backend engineering) teams. ⭐️Led recruitment in above departments during a large Resource Transformation Program that has been initiated across the whole of Santander Technology. ⭐️Adding value to the business across the whole recruitment spectrum from recruitment process engineering, EVP (improving the job advertising)⭐️ Helped the business hire 60+ engineers, architects, plus some other business roles, 90% direct hiring⭐️Cost saving £500K plus, previously there had been a heavy usage of external providers to deliver on their resource needs

Hannover, Lower Saxony, De

Managed end to end recruitment within following functions; Tech, Marketing, Product and Business Improvement. This was a role that taught me how to scale hiring at a fast paced global organisation and work with senior stakeholders. ⭐️Led a project for TUI’s interim/contract recruitment process which saved over £700K in 1st year.⭐️Successfully delivered 85% direct hiring, saving £360K against the recruitment budget of £400K.⭐️Delivered hires against 160+ roles in my tenure. ⭐️Completed Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt accreditation - drove efficiencies across multiple recruitment processes, contractors, interviews and candidate assessment.⭐️Delivered exceptional quality of service and built strong working stakeholder relationships (was a lot of fun to work with such awesome colleagues).

St Albans, Gb

Promoted into a senior role looking at broader account development strategies and how we can deliver better recruitment services across the account portfolio.

St Albans, Gb

Supporting end to end recruitment for Retail, eCommerce, Publishing and Travel clients. Supporting new and existing clients across their entire technology project portfolio. Clients engage with me to underpin projects across BAU, Implementation, Change, Transformation and Greenfield Projects/Programmes.

London, England, Gb

Recruiting Developers and Functional specialists into Media and Digital Consultancy businesses. Worked with Channel 4, Red Bee Media, Nokia and Havas Worldwide.Blended consulting and sourcing role, worked on end to end recruiting for my own clients and also managed candidate pipelines for some of the agencies bigger clients too, the role was split 50/50.

Farringdon, England, Gb

Recruiting developers, testers, BA's and PM's for some the UK's biggest travel brands; easyJet, TUI, Trainline to name a few. My first role in recruitment was mainly focused on sourcing and qualifying candidates through interviewing to build shortlist for client vacancies.

London, Greater London, Gb

Recruited through the Randstad Pareto Law Sales Graduate Program.Established in 1994, Tikit is one of the largest independent suppliers of technology solutions and services to legal and accountancy firms.My role was to discuss products and services on tech side with senior IT professionals in the UK Top 250 law firms. Managed services contracts which I propositioned to law firms, for 1st through to 3rd line support, virtual help desks etc.. I learned many new skills including tying a Windsor knot.

Bachelor’S Degree, Sports Coaching Science

Lean Six Sigma - Greenbelt, Process Improvment

Professional Selling Skills

Fundamentals Of Selling

A Levels, Biology, Pe & History