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Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

As Head of Search South Island, I oversee the research team who specialise in talent identification and sourcing of applicants for Sheffield South Island, responsible for managing workflow and allocation, as well as assisting our sister company Farrow Jamieson.Sheffield is a well-known and long established nationwide Executive Search firm, specialising in targeted Search assignments for Chief Executives, Independent Board Directors and senior management level appointments, sourcing, identifying, and approaching high calibre candidates, both locally and internationally, whose experience, knowledge and skill set meet our clients' requirements.This also includes attending comprehensive client Briefings, identifying our client’s needs, helping to prepare Proposal documents, writing advertising text, and writing and producing Candidate Briefing documents.Identifying and approaching search candidates not only enhances the applicant pool for our clients but also provides valuable market feedback as well.

Christchurch

I am an Executive Search Consultant specialising in Talent Identification, Sourcing & Acquisition for Sheffield, a well known and long established nationwide Executive Search firm, working for clients in both the private and public sectors. I specialise in targeted Search assignments for Chief Executives, Independent Board Directors and senior management level appointments, sourcing, identifying and approaching high calibre candidates, both locally and internationally, whose experience, knowledge and skill set meet our clients' requirements.This also includes attending comprehensive client Briefings, identifying their needs, preparing Proposal documents, writing advertising text, and writing and producing Candidate Briefing documents.Identifying and approaching researched candidates not only enhances the applicant pool but also provides valuable market feedback to our clients.I also oversee and write the marketing content for our South Island office.This includes writing Blogs for online platforms (LinkedIn / company website), collecting client and candidate testimonials for marketing and proposals, creating placement announcements, producing quarterly newsletters to be distributed online and to our client/candidate base, writing marketing reports for Board meetings, and monitoring market response to online content.

London, United Kingdom

I project managed the design, testing and roll out of a real time intranet database, calculating Equity Derivative exposure. Prior to roll-out, traders were working off close-of business exposure, thus limiting next day trading from a risk perspective.My role was to liaise throughout the project between the equity derivative traders, credit risk & IT developers. The outcome resulted in a vast improvement in credit efficiency & credit line availability to the traders, enabling them to have real time calculations on their risk exposure throughout trading hours.I also generated and distributed daily and weekly reports monitoring the equity derivative credit risk exposures.

London, United Kingdom

I was solely responsible for Counterparty Credit Risk reporting, within the Group Credit Risk Control team, and produced reports for Head Office in Germany on the Risk-Adjusted Return on Capital (RAROC). I also project managed the integration of the Counterparty Credit Risk Reporting systems in preparation for Deutsche Bank's take over of Bankers Trust.

New Zealand

Spent a year living in New Zealand with my long term NZ partner due to personal circumstances.Contract roles during that period included banking sector roles, with BNZ, and radio advertising sales for MediaWorks.We returned to London 12 months later as originally planned.

London, United Kingdom

I was a Bond Sales Trader on the Capital Markets trading floor dealing on the GBP, A$, NZ$, C$, EUR & ZAR debt markets, managing and growing my own client base.I also advised and actively marketed investment strategies relative to the global economic & political climate, as well as comparative market value, advising clients on both New Issues and switch trades.Maximising market penetration and profitability was key to my role, and I built excellent strong working relationships with my existing and new clients, both face to face and over the phone.Responsible for business development for my sales region of UK & Guernsey.

London, United Kingdom

I was on the Sales team of this Senior Executive Search & Selection IT recruitment consultancy, and was responsible for generating new business opportunities for our consultants.My role was to build firm relationships with clients at Director level in order to define future recruitment needs. I was also responsible for arranging, preparing and attending proposal meetings to define candidate/business requirements, securing new business with both existing and new clients and for general business development.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Political Science And Government

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