James Collins Email & Phone Number

Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom

Chelmsford, United Kingdom

I have held multiple interim positions as a Regional Interim Recruitment Manager within large RPO’s, including Pontoon, Randstad Sourceright & Hays. I have been responsible for RPO teams of up to 30 people spanning Europe, based on site in Bucharest, Stockholm & Krakow. Clients included Ericsson, Honeywell & Unisys. - Significant Emerging Market experience - hands on, working directly in-country - Multiple country responsibility - including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Sweden… Show more I have held multiple interim positions as a Regional Interim Recruitment Manager within large RPO’s, including Pontoon, Randstad Sourceright & Hays. I have been responsible for RPO teams of up to 30 people spanning Europe, based on site in Bucharest, Stockholm & Krakow. Clients included Ericsson, Honeywell & Unisys. - Significant Emerging Market experience - hands on, working directly in-country - Multiple country responsibility - including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Sweden, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Benelux, North Africa, Russia - Significant Shared Services experience - including Krakow, Budapest, Manila and Bangalore - Senior stakeholder engagement - Volume recruiting environment - >1,400 offers per region, per year - RPO Service Improvement - Management Information and Reporting improvement - Account stabilisation - Improving use of Shared Services - Improved interaction between virtual teams - Improving skill level and capability of teams - Face to face and virtual recruitment of new RPO/Shared Services team members - Focus on diversity in very culturally different countries - Directly Leading major Recruitment Projects - Global Hiring ProjectsABOUT COLLINS TALENT LIMITEDI set up Collins Talent Limited to use my expertise to support some of the largest RPO companies and their clients improve their recruitment functions.This often includes interim positions and will typically cover Recruitment Operations, Resourcing, Strategic Workforce Planning, Entry Level Programmes and Emerging Market Strategies. Show less

London, United Kingdom

• Rescued a failing business area • Managed 30 people managers• Responsible for 340+ People – UK wide• Hired circa. 400 graduates in 2 year period• Supplied other practices with experienced and trained graduates on ongoing basis• Recruited up to 30 hires monthly, throughout the year• Maintained < 5% attrition of graduate hires over their first 2 years of employment• Achieved a monthly average of 6% unassigned graduates over a 2 year period• Designed a 2 year… Show more • Rescued a failing business area • Managed 30 people managers• Responsible for 340+ People – UK wide• Hired circa. 400 graduates in 2 year period• Supplied other practices with experienced and trained graduates on ongoing basis• Recruited up to 30 hires monthly, throughout the year• Maintained < 5% attrition of graduate hires over their first 2 years of employment• Achieved a monthly average of 6% unassigned graduates over a 2 year period• Designed a 2 year flexible graduate development programme• Developed bespoke business training courses in conjunction with the Open University• Placed many graduates in to productive work after a 1 week inductionI was appointed to rescue a failing fledgling graduate practice. The practice had 2 previous leaders leave at short notice within 6 months. Business confidence and graduate morale were initially low. Within a year, I transformed the practice and developed a full graduate programme. This allowed the flexibility to supply graduates tactically early on then focus on their development to strategically supply the receiving practices. The plan encompassed all areas of the business from bidding and project management through to core technologies such as Oracle, Java and Microsoft.I grew the practice from 135 Employees to over 340 within a 2 year period whilst ensuring that other business areas were supplied with trained, experienced graduates. I was fully responsible for the employees in the practice until transition. My responsibilities included graduate assessment & selection, talent management, resourcing, utilisation, P&L, strategy and transition of graduates. I raised the starting salary of graduates so that it was more competitive at the same time as increasing the quality of applicants. I introduced IT apprentices into the company, further lowering the average cost of labour, and I gained huge knowledge regarding early year’s development & value within large organisations. Show less

• Responsible for 1200+ commercial resources• Responsible for Strategic Workforce Planning & Reporting• Sectors included finance, energy, utilities, telecoms, SAP & technology• Managed a team of 6 experienced resource managers• Significantly reduced average no. of long term unassigned employees • Implemented & managed an unassigned time policy to maximise utilisationI was appointed as one of two new lead resource manager positions within a newly formed division prior… Show more • Responsible for 1200+ commercial resources• Responsible for Strategic Workforce Planning & Reporting• Sectors included finance, energy, utilities, telecoms, SAP & technology• Managed a team of 6 experienced resource managers• Significantly reduced average no. of long term unassigned employees • Implemented & managed an unassigned time policy to maximise utilisationI was appointed as one of two new lead resource manager positions within a newly formed division prior to go live. I managed a team of resourcing professionals who were aligned in a matrix fashion with business areas and practices (collections of similar skilled employees). I was responsible for delivering a first rate service to clients with a reduced budget (and headcount). The primary focus was on strategic resourcing, changes in the client base (public / private sector shifts), high turnover of resources and maximising utilisation. Show less

London, United Kingdom

• Implemented a blended model with RPO partner and offshore admin • Managed scalable team of circa12 people including RPO Team• Managed high profile external events • Significantly reduced average agency fee and revised preferred supplier listI was appointed as UK Recruitment Manager just prior to a major organisational transformation. I was instrumental in improving the morale, performance and function of the team. I significantly reduced overall recruitment costs by… Show more • Implemented a blended model with RPO partner and offshore admin • Managed scalable team of circa12 people including RPO Team• Managed high profile external events • Significantly reduced average agency fee and revised preferred supplier listI was appointed as UK Recruitment Manager just prior to a major organisational transformation. I was instrumental in improving the morale, performance and function of the team. I significantly reduced overall recruitment costs by negotiating down the average standard agency fees and revising and reducing the preferred supplier list. I introduced an RPO managed service which blended with permanent employees and an offshore administration team. I was a key planner and facilitator of high profile recruitment events and managed some of CGI's most senior hires personally. In addition to managing the team I also performed hands on recruitment and candidate management during critical periods. Show less

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for 4 major IT systems inc. asset management, possession planning and fault management• Managed multiple resources including 3rd party suppliers and sub-contractors• Provided a 24/7 support service • Full Financial and reporting responsibility for all projectsI managed a team of IT industry specialists and external contractors supporting some of Network Rail’s most business critical applications including Ellipse a major asset management… Show more • Responsible for 4 major IT systems inc. asset management, possession planning and fault management• Managed multiple resources including 3rd party suppliers and sub-contractors• Provided a 24/7 support service • Full Financial and reporting responsibility for all projectsI managed a team of IT industry specialists and external contractors supporting some of Network Rail’s most business critical applications including Ellipse a major asset management system with up to 600 concurrent users and a user base of thousands. As part of innovation on the account I focussed the team on producing monitoring scripts so that issues could be flagged out of hours. I also introduced a visual system of displaying call status and SLA's to the extended team whilst fairly allocating support calls and fixes. Show less

London, United Kingdom

This included managing the technical, development & test teams as well as full liaison with the business and external suppliers. I had full financial and reporting responsibility the project. I was responsible for the on-going support of this major system after the successful go-live.

London, United Kingdom

As part of my initial software development assignments within Logica, I produced a software module to generate pricing information from National Rail charging data.

United Kingdom

Worked as a software developer and was actually the sole developer on the early Portable Data Capture Software on the Psion 3 hand held devices. This software was used by community nurses and health visitors to schedule visits and record patient data. I wrote all aspects of the software included the data encryption algorithms used to encrypt data held on external flash storage. The solution was used by several major healthcare trusts.

Bsc (Hons) 2:1, Software Engineering

During my gap year I took a placement with McKesson UK which complimented my course really well. I designed and developed software.

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