Jo Willis Email & Phone Number

Bedford, England, United Kingdom

Six-month FTC Resource Partner role, sourcing candidates for management roles.

Bedford, England, United Kingdom

• Requested to join a project group of 350 across all business disciplines and act as Lead for all resourcing and recruitment requirements for the Better Workplace programme• Collaborated between the UK recruitment team and the business regarding forecasting and reporting• Worked with the procurement department with selection of three outsourcing partners, Hays, Page and AMS to support with the additional recruitment driven by the programme• Designed and delivered a 4-week online induction training programme • Organised an internal event for 250 employees involving the organisation of guest speakers, business unit directors and newly promoted employees. This event was held in the newly opened Snowhill Office in Birmingham to promote the amazing event space and encourage utilisation of the office• Managed and recruited all programme related roles across various specialisms, managing circa 10 requisitions concurrently• Managed a team of two to respond quickly to adhoc requests for bespoke recruitment across the business to provide an agile and timely service• Worked alongside the reporting team, programme leads and the business to create the first three-year talent and forecasting plan incorporating both programme and unit recruitment forecasts for the professional business

Bedford, England, United Kingdom

• Managed six Talent Acquisition professionals recruiting across Openreach of 37,000 employees • Aligned team to support specific business units to allow HR and hiring managers to have a single point of contact within the recruitment team• Consistently recruited 300 + internal/external hires each year across all specialisms• Acted as project lead to recruit 30 project managers and business improvement roles• process guidance for hiring managers and redefine interview questions and documentation• Recruited senior level roles across all specialisms and developed relationships with senior stakeholders• Appointed as recruitment lead for a project to increase the gender diversity for first-line managers within the field engineering teams• Supported on a project to simplify the recruitment

Bedford, England, United Kingdom

• Managed a team of 12 transition managers who in turn managed a transient and virtual team of 20 – 50 redeployees • Supported the transition managers and the business to achieve swift onward placements for all redeployees elsewhere in the business• Conducted second line reviews for long term population including cases for attendance and poor performance• Achieved a 32 % reduction year on year for time to resolve displaced individuals to 69 days • Influenced and developed relationships with hiring and stakeholder communities including Legal, ER, Senior HRBP’s and Trades Unions

Bedford, England, United Kingdom

• Managed an internal flexible workforce agency of 80 in Corporate Services• Reviewed the demand and availability, providing innovative solutions to maintain a 92% utilisation rate whilst recruiting other internal staff to fill shortfalls as necessary

Bedford, England, United Kingdom

• Managed a team of six Resource Specialists to redeploy internal candidates and consistently hit quarterly targets • Worked with senior managers to find solutions for long-term redeployees including senior staff

Bedford, England, United Kingdom

• Sourced and recruited external sales candidates

London, United Kingdom

• Set up a catering division for temporary staff from scratch to over £1 million turnover within 3-years• Opened and managed three branches, leading a team of 13 to service 100 clients• Maintained a high profit margin throughout the 6-years

United Kingdom

• Promoted to Divisional Manager after only a few months as a Regional Manager to manage thirteen branches nationwide across all key national catering accounts• Managed a team of 43 including 11 managers