Martin Thomas Email & Phone Number

London, GB

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL

Leading a Total Talent approach to Talent Acquisition across the organisation. Vision is for TA to help shape business strategy through provision of commercial fact-based insight and market intelligence across the range of resource types including permanent, contingent and statement of work. Role will contribute to TA strategy, deliver scenario modelling.

Eindhoven, Noord Brabant, NL

Global Head of TA for the new Lighting Solutions business created in Feb 2016 with 36,000+ employees in 60+ countries. Leading Talent Acquisition team of c90 comprising Recruitment Marketing, Sourcing, Operations and Delivery teams globally with core locations in Netherlands, USA, China, Singapore & India.

London, England, GB

• Assignment leading the transformation of Resourcing & Talent across the BBC.
• Led Resourcing, Career Support, Outplacement and Talent management through transition
• Accountable for Organisation Design, process re-engineering, ATS system selection
• Re-location of HR CoE’s (ER, Reward, Resourcing, Internal Comms, Diversity & Inclusion) and build of new HR Service Centre in Birmingham
• Rebuilt relationship and delivered service improvement programme with incumbent RPO
• Led Re-procurement of recruitment process outsourcing contract worth c£30m

New York, NY, US

• Reported to the Head of Recruitment in New York with dotted line to EMEA HRD in London.
• Created vision and implemented new TA Centre of Excellence for the region with a mix of dedicated recruiters and in-country HR teams.
• Built and led a team of 25 to acquire talent across 47 countries in the EMEA region.
• Implemented global initiatives for shared service centres in Ireland, Bulgaria and Lithuania, claims processing centres across EMEA and analytics CoE in India.
• Launched UK Apprentice programme and Actuarial Graduate Programme.
• Chaired team selecting and appointing new global Executive Search preferred supplier list.

London, GB

• Reported to the Group Talent Director and member of the HR Senior Management Team with a team of 35 and a budget of £3.5M. Directed all Group recruitment activity, set strategy to meet commercial targets and policies.
• Designed, built and led the Recruitment Centre of Expertise (CoE) delivering to all divisions globally including feasibility study, presenting investment case and roll-out across firm.
• Delivered external executive, experienced-hire recruitment and recruitment onto the talent programmes: Undergraduates, Graduates, FastTrack Leadership and MBA.
• Worked as part of the Group Talent team that managed the top 400 executive as a talent pool for the first time. Increased stretch appointments and cross-division talent moves by 149%
• Member of Group HR resourcing forum, providing workforce planning, 3-year resource and skills outlook and quarterly manpower forecasting.
• Led systems and change projects including a contract automation project, moving all contract changes for existing employees online, saving c£1M pa.

London, GB

Interim Head of Resourcing for Barclays to deliver market intelligence project then resourcing element of the change programme for 8500 IT & Ops shared service organisation of the bank.Delivered executive search and interim resourcing projects to clients in the UK and Europe

• Built technical search capability and team of six, delivered revenue of c£950,000 in the first 12 months from a zero start and grew revenues by 20% in the firms’ largest client.
• Completed the largest single search assignment for both the firm and the client, raising the profile to be the partner-level search firm of choice for strategic consultancy – Booz Allen

City Of London, England, GB

• Developed a thriving culture to turn around a failing contract business, increasing revenues from £2.7M to £12M and profit before tax from a £60k loss to a £600k profit per annum.Recruitment Consultant Jan 1994 - Jan.
• Worked as in-house recruiter for NatWest Life in Bristol and for M&G in Chelmsford. Recruiter for other major clients included NatWest Markets, JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs.

Andover, Hampshire, GB

After Sandhurst joined 16 Air Defence Regt in the UK then 40 Field Regt in Germany, served in UK, Germany, Canada. Australia, Northern Ireland and the Gulf.