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Transformational leader responsible for Capita’s niche technology, executive talent acquisition and people insight businesses. Incubated the Novus graduate IT academy hire>train>deploy proposition. Grew business from 15 headcount and break-even to 200+ heads & multi-million EBIT in <5 years. Capita is the UK’s leading provider of business process management and integrated professional support service solutions, comprised of 75,000 dedicated staff across the UK, Europe, South Africa and India.Using technology, insight and analytics to underpin everything we do, we work across the private and public sectors playing a vital role in helping our clients deliver modern services efficiently, effectively and to a high standard. We use innovative, often unique, IT and software platforms, together with a wide and deep understanding of excellent, accessible customer services to help our clients grow, become more profitable and deliver the best experience possible for their customers.

Leading a privately-owned, multi-brand Australian specialist recruitment business, accelerating their growth strategy and entering new markets. Core Australian business focused into fast growth niche markets within Enterprise Apps, Digital & Development, alongside establishing new ventures in Asia and a new ServiceNow consulting practice, EnablePS.

Responsible for the initial creation, development and ongoing delivery of Reed’s international (non-UK) strategy, reporting to the CEO and Chairman. From selling the raw concept through to execution, created start-ups in 13 new markets across Asia, Australia, Middle East and Central Europe focused on mid-senior professional and technical sectors. Primarily built with an organic strategy, but also encompassing team acquisitions and forming Joint Ventures with strategic partners in key markets. This included creating a JV with a senior member of the Qatari royal family, and securing a rare WFOE recruitment business structure in China. Reed is a $1bn+ recruitment and HR services organisation, with more than 4,000 specialist staff across 400 offices, delivering the entire service spectrum - from contingency recruitment, through MSP/RPO, full service HR consultancy and online recruitment market-leadership. As a progressively niche recruitment business, Reed has 30 different divisions each delivering bespoke services to their particular talent market.

Strategic support to reed.co.uk leadership group on the wider recruitment marketplace, product innovation & evolution, marketing and growth strategy. Member of the 'monetisation' programme team guiding the shift to a commercial direct-to-market product, working with McKinsey.

Multi-division leadership role in a leading UK recruitment company. Full operational responsibility for the successful operation and ongoing development of Reed Technology, the Reed group’s 3rd largest recruitment brand. Delivered record income growth within a mature business, with profits up by almost 400% as revenue was doubled. Grew new Professional Services business, delivering work package structured consultancy projects for blue-chip clients Also responsible for the design, positioning, launch and ongoing development of start-ups in the group. This included Reed Scientific, rapidly scaled to 50+ heads in 2 years, a Marketing recruitment division, and a number of tech-led ‘disruptive’ products and services. Retained wider group Marketing Director role alongside these responsibilities.

Marketing Director for leading specialist recruitment business, with multi-million £ budget responsibility across all media channels. Innovative use of online/viral/guerilla/one-to-one activity, to maximise ROI whilst re-orientating the business away from large investment in old media. Re-positioned the business with a stronger focus on specialisation in mid-senior segments. Developed several new niche brand propositions. Sales Director responsible for creating and leading a national sales team of 35 senior sales professionals, operating at board-level within a blue-chip client base. Designing and delivering large-scale, national business process solutions for key clients (with multi-million value). Reed’s first Managed Service agreement was executed and company’s No.1 client relationship was developed during this time. Also established and developed the specialist RPO/Managed Service delivery function.

Taking Reed's learning & development business to market leadership in under 2 years, through a combination of effective, innovative direct marketing, strong customer relationship management and the introduction of new products/services (in-client training, managed services, e-learning). Working directly with the Founder, Alec Reed, the best lesson in “intrapreneurship” anyone could ever get. Made it up as we went along, learned that was the best way to build most great organisations and tried to stay true to that ever since. Revenue almost tripled, taking the business to significant profitability. Designed, pitched and won the first L&D outsourced Managed Service contract in the UK, for a leading Bank. Much more importantly, built the leadership team who then tripled it all again after I left. Even prouder of what they did without me, than what we did together.

Joined 2nd intake of Reed's 3-year grad programme, run by the founder Alec Reed himself. Three roles:1. Implementation team for Reed's first database. Yes, I'm that old. Ridiculously, Sir Alec created a team of 25 fresh grads to scope, manage the build, and roll-out the tech nationally in 9 months. Madness, but it worked, best job of all time.2. Contract recruiter in Bristol. Accidentally quite good at it. Too much time in the Slug & Lettuce on Wine Street but we were the #2 office nationally by the end so it worked, what a team.3. Business Dev Manager for Reed's training business, a role I created when I said it was a bit weird they didn't have one. My boss quit after 2 months to launch one of Reed's many job board .coms back then (they were the future apparently), so Sir Alec gave me his job and I left the scheme a year early readily accepting the extra money on offer. Again, no idea what he was thinking to be honest but it all worked out!