James Lafferty Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Tx, Us

As the VP of Global Talent Acquisition & Global Mobility, I am responsible for the strategy and operations of Epicor’s talent acquisition team responsible for 1,200+ hires per year. My position oversees our global Talent Acquisition team covering functional recruiting, executive recruiting, and university recruiting around the world with core hubs in the US, India, Mexico, EMEA, and APAC. The teams support the 5,000-person ERP SaaS business across over 30 countries.Epicor is a $1B ARR SaaS business, focused on providing customers with an exceptional cloud ERP softwareResponsibilities • Lead Global Talent Acquisition strategy and operations supporting over 30 countries• Develop a strategy and plan for an organized and coordinated global approach to Talent Acquisition.• Develop robust metrics to measure talent acquisition's effectiveness. Focusing on continuous improvement, reshaping, and rebuilding standards of the talent acquisition organization. • Evangelize Epicor's recruiting technology by leading the charge in automation in the Recruiting industry. Utilizing ethical AI standards to improve efficiency and candidate/hiring manager experience• In-house executive search team with 98% of positions hired directly by the TA team• Lead employer branding efforts to attract candidates globallyAchievements• Personally selected by the CEO for the 'Circle of Excellence', 1 of 3 people chosen from 4,600 employees• Reduced Time to Fill globally from 72 to 48 days in 2022 & 40 days in 2024• 98% retention <6 months• Certified as a GPtW - Great Place to Work• Increased internal mobility to 25% in 2024 (from 16% in 2021)• Strategic oversite of our University Recruiting Programs • EVP Strategy Leader & global execution • Program Leader for Diversity (DEIB) sourcing efforts• Implemented Talent Analytics methodologies to structure OKRs and optimize recruiter spend

Uk, Europe, Usa, Gb

My role was to shape the strategic vision for the US business, providing guidance and support to the senior leadership team and to continue to grow Austin Fraser's presence and employer brand. As well as this I was also learning and understanding our customers' business, sharing my expertise & guidance and challenging them with new & innovative ideas, and bringing solutions that make a real impact to their bottom line. I set the recruiting teams performance goals, metrics and timelines and implemented formal tracking processes to ensure we could manage team and individual progress.Lead and participate in cross business/cross company recruiting projects and initiatives. I established our employer brand in the US and have full P&L responsibility for sales, recruiting and operations teams. I set the sales strategy and targets for our teams and ensure everything we do is tied back to our purpose of “building incredible futures”.

Uk, Europe, Usa, Gb

Launched Austin Fraser's US operations. I set the recruitment teams performance goals, metrics, timelines and implemented formal tracking processes to ensure we could manage the team and individual progress.I partnered with key stakeholders across the business from HR, Learning & Development, People & Culture, Finance and Talent Acquisition to achieve business goals and build diverse talent pools.As well as this, I was winning new clients in Austin and establishing our brand within the city.After the success of our Austin office, I also helped open new locations in Denver, Colorado, and Dallas Texas. I hired and trained new team members and established a local presence for Austin Fraser

Uk, Europe, Usa, Gb

In the time I worked in the UK I grew the team's annual revenue from £300k to £3million per year. I had full responsibility for our overall team strategy, candidate acquisition and overall satisfaction for our key accounts. I also worked with other teams to launch tech focused communities in London (UK). We saw this as a way to become more connected to top engineers and become embedded in the communities we operated in. Key achievements:● Top Individual Sales Performance (Global) - 2011 & 2012● Global MVP 2012● #1 team in new client acquisition 2013 & 2014● Recruited and trained top sales performers and also created a leadership infrastructure to enable future growth within the UK.

Uk, Europe, Usa, Gb

Team Leader of the IT Permanent team

Uk, Europe, Usa, Gb

I was headhunted to join Austin Fraser to inherit their UK Permanent (direct hire team) and provide strategic guidance and coaching to the sales and recruiting teams.I was the top permanent biller in the company during my first two years and top new business consultant

Reading, Berkshire, Gb

At Impact I continued to develop new clients for the business and also maintain our existing client base. I was responsible for a team which varied from 7-10 resourcers and consultants specialising within permanent and contract IT vacancies. The team was very successful and billed £1.8 million in 2010 and I contributed £425k personally whilst managing the team.

Reading, Berkshire, Gb

Starting at Impact IT in October 2007 as junior consultant learning from peers and through reading many recruitment books (IT Recruitment Guide - Ayub Shaikh & Essential Guide - Margaret Dale). With a keen passion for web technology the role naturally moved towards specialising in the web domain (ASP.NET, C#, HTML and CSS). With the recruitment industry being saturated with recruitment consultants I wanted to differentiate and offer an honest, professional recruitment service measured on results. This work ethic and dedication saw the role progress from Junior Consultant to Senior Consultant. During this time i finished top salesperson for 2008 and 2009 as well as MVP

Bradfield, Berkshire, Gb

Each summer during my education I set up and organised a Summer Sports Academy where I coordinated the coaching of 200+ 8-15 year olds in sports including *Football*Golf*Athletics*Cricket*Outdoor PursuitsI had to co-ordinate and manage 8 coaches and staff as well as oversee the logistics and contingency plans within the academy

International Business

Bsc (Hons), Management

A/As Level, Psychology, Physical Education, Sociology, Ict, Business Studies