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Fareham, Gb

Segensworth, England, United Kingdom

I partner with the CooperVision hiring community on a global scale, supporting and delivering recruitment planning, strategy and execution to identify, attract and engage with the very best talent across the market. I focus on multiple business areas, that all play a crucial part in the success of CooperVision, including manufacturing, engineering operations and commercial. My goals are to ensure an effective time to hire, a seamless process for candidates and to specifically improve direct hiring capability vs agency costs. CooperVision is a global leader in the contact lens industry, dedicated to helping improve the way people see every day. Achieving that goal takes the collaboration of team members with wide-ranging skills; from scientists and researchers, to manufacturing and operations experts, to sales and marketing professionals.We’re an ambitious company. And to help us achieve our goals, we’ll give you all you need to achieve yours. For more information on our careers, please visit coopervision.co.uk/about-us/careers

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

In this role, I held responsibility for the recruitment of retail managers across B&Q stores, with the added accountability of line managing a team of diverse and experienced recruiters.My team and I were responsible for fulfilling all retail vacancies across the business - ranging from Customer Advisor and Store Team Leaders, through to Department Managers and Store Managers. In addition to recruitment, my priorities were to ensure a great candidate and customer experience, project manage ways to continuously improve the recruitment process and work operationally by spending time out in stores to build relationships with the teams we support.I also project led on lots of different priorities within the team, with the goal of improving processes. I was an advocate for D&I and was the HR representative for the B&Q Armed Forces Colleague Network.

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

In this role, I managed the complete process of recruitment and talent acquisition, specifically for retail management vacancies across the B&Q estate. I partnered with key internal stakeholders that included Regional Managers and Unit Managers, supporting the growth of our senior leadership store teams. The regions I covered included Scotland, Yorkshire, the Midlands, North London, and the South Coast - fulfilling vacancies for over 140 stores in 7 divisional regions across the UK.As a Recruitment Partner, I was also heavily involved in project based work, which allowed me to work collaboratively with other members of the HR function.

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

In this role, I recruited top talent into the business by managing and coordinating the full 360 recruitment process for head office based roles, primarily within our Customer & Digital function.I identified the most effective candidate sourcing methods, ensuring a consistent approach to recruitment across the business, project managing volume recruitment campaigns and helping to ensure that the recruitment strategy was aligned with the HR and Business Strategy.My priorities included improving the quality of hire and candidate experience as well as creating and engaging talent pools for current and future resource requirements.Responsibilities also included –• Managing the full recruitment lifecycle, from vacancy approval though to post-hire.• Build expert knowledge on functions I partner.• Build strong relationships with stakeholders.• Manage and support external and internal candidates throughout the entire process, providing an excellent candidate experience.• Develop pro-active recruitment strategies, including building talent pools for future vacancies and anticipated gaps.• Support my team members with vacancies, sourcing, and general support.• Working to SLAs to improve the quality of service I provide.

Whiteley, Hampshire, United Kingdom

In my role at NATS, I was part of the HR People Services team, working as a Talent Acquisition Specialist. I was responsible for the complete end to end process of recruitment, for all NATS locations, internationally. I worked closely with key stakeholders and HR Business Partners – managing recruitment campaigns and projects, allowing us to attract and retain the best talent in the world, enabling us to achieve strategic goals.I was heavily involved in managing the ongoing recruitment strategy with the focus of long-term human resource planning. The areas of the business I supported were –• Operations• Commercial• Corporate Services• Communications • SafetyEveryday responsibilities include, but are not limited to –• Coordinate with hiring manager to identify staffing requirements.• Support and advise on selection criteria based on market knowledge.• Source potential candidates through numerous platforms including social and professional networks.• Plan interview and selection procedures, including screening calls.• Design job descriptions and adverts, devise projects on social platforms to specifically headhunt potential candidates.• Negotiate offers and all involved measures to secure successful candidates.• Play a part in the on-boarding process to ensure a satisfactory service to hiring manager and inbound hire.

Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

In this role, I headed up the Occupational Health division at ARM. My focus was helping clients secure the best talent available for their vacancies.This was a brand-new area for ARM, part of the Life Sciences team. Due to my experience in this market at my last company, I joined ARM with the task of establishing Occupational Health as a new part of the business. A completely cold desk, I was able to develop it from the ground up and turn it into its own offering within the company.Managing this area of the business autonomously, my responsibilities and key skills include –• Business development• Advising my clients on their problems and obstacles with recruiting• Headhunting and sourcing candidates• Managing candidates throughout the entire recruitment process. • Meeting financial targets and weekly KPI’s• Working closely with external stakeholders and hiring managers• Building relationships, both internally and externally• Advertising jobs through multiple platforms• Utilising various sourcing techniques (active and passive candidates)• Efficient use of computer systems including Microsoft Office and internal CRM • Great knowledge and understanding of GDPR and other policies of relevance including IR35

Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

My position at the STR Group was as a 360 Consultant, in which I matched high calibre healthcare candidates into permanent, contract and ad-hoc requirements for my clients within the healthcare industry. My main areas of expertise were Primary Care, Maritime (Ship Medics) and Occupational Health.In this role, I managed several large accounts where I was responsible for sourcing and booking candidate contractors into numerous positions and shifts. I was also a primary recruitment partner to one of the UK's largest cruise ship companies, where I managed and placed Ships Nurses onto their fleet of ships, predominantly on a repeat contract basis.I also specialised in Occupational Health recruitment, building relationships with UK leading providers and multiple organisations that required OH disciplines. I had a considerable amount of success within OH, which included building a contract run rate more than £2,500 per week within my first month.Everyday duties –• Building relationships with clients to obtain new business.• Advertising vacancies using various media.• Headhunting, sourcing, and screening candidates• Organising interviews and preparing candidates for interviews• Negotiating contracts and preparing offers• Administration of desk regarding all recruitment matters.

London, England, United Kingdom

I served over 6 years as a member of the Royal Navy. During this time, I was based all around the world in places such as London, Djibouti (Africa), Plymouth and Scotland. I served on 3 different ships; HMS Chatham, HMS Kent, and HMS Iron Duke, and deployed on each of them for national and international tasking. As a Communications Engineer, my job was vital to the ship’s intelligence gathering operation. Using satellite services, encrypted radio devices and specialist message handling systems, I ensured that connections from ship to shore were always established. Key responsibilities included –• Effective maintenance and operation of HF, UHF, VHF, Voice, and data communications circuits• Administered and maintained a wide variety of IT networks and systems• Responsible for the administration of classified computer systems• Testing and commissioning the ships satellite system• Accounting for confidential and secret publications, media, and cryptographic material• In the absence of senior rate, acted as Rating in Charge, running the Communications Office• Responsible as Duty Watch which would involve being a member of emergencies party. (Emergencies on board ship could range from fires, floods, man overboard and intruder on the ship).Other key parts of my naval service included – • Performing as a member of the Royal Guard at the Royal Wedding in 2011• Deployed for 9 months in the Gulf for anti-piracy operations• Assignment to Northwood HQ and a 4-month deployment in Djibouti, Africa to support the European Union Naval Force mission of anti-piracy off the coast of Somalia