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Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Gb

Leading our relationship with outsource providers focused on delivering global order management to our customers

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Gb

It’s our goal to provide a world-standard in protein research tools, technical support and delivery. When you join Abcam, you’ll join a global business with the passion and the vision to become the most influential company and best-loved brand in life sciences.Our culture is our key differentiator. We believe in empowering individuals, with responsibility given at an early stage. The working environment is fun and fast-paced, collaborative and outcome focused, with a strong customer focus. In addition to competitive salaries, we can offer an attractive flexible benefits package which includes share options, a culture focused on well-being and opportunities for growth and development.

Leeds, West Yorkshire, Gb

Short term contract to help with the Universities Digital Transformation and IT modernasation programmes

London, England, Gb

High Wycombe, England, Gb

Now part of The Coca-Cola Company, Costa Coffee trades in 31 countries with a turnover of £1.4B, with stores, franchises, vending and FMCG offerings.Leading a team of 8 covering all salaried roles across Costa and Costa Express, responsible for circa 900 hires per year and providing system’s, tools and guidance for 7900 hourly paid hires per year in UK stores.Key Achievements:• Recruited and developed direct sourcing resourcing team, last engagement survey at 100%• Restructured the team to align with the changing needs of the business.• Directly sourced multiple senior hires at Director and Head of level• Restored the reputation of the internal resourcing team capability• Reduced store manager time to hire from 44 days to 29 days• Reduced head office time to hire from 72 days to 43 days• Reduced agency costs by 50% in first year• Implemented an MSP model for contingent workforce management reducing overall costs by £650,000 in year one• Lead design and implementation of new ATS• Member of senior HR leadership team, reporting directly to the Global Chief People Officer.

Responsible for all store recruitment in the joint venture between Sprint and Connected World Services (part of the Dixons Carphone Group) with a target of 500 stores in under 3 years, based in Kansas City, USA.Key Achievements:• Implementation and management of RPO covering the whole of the US across 5 main markets.• Initial setup of new ATS and onboarding system, including background check process, from scratch.• Devised and implemented a full recruitment plan for 150 stores in the first year, including interview tools and marketing plans, assessment centre processes and compliance procedures.• Grew headcount from 150 to over 1000 in 7 months.• Devised and executed a recruitment plan for an acquisition in 6 weeks while maintaining all other store recruitment and onboarding.• Various projects to improve RPO delivery and candidate engagement.

Following the merger of Dixons Retail and Carphone Warehouse, lead a team of 7 Resourcing Business Partners supporting resourcing across 1500 stores with over 20,000 colleagues covering PC World, Currys, Carphone Warehouse and Carphone Warehouse Store in Store outlets.My focus was on creating the best candidate journey possible, delivering a consistent process across all brands to get the right colleagues in front of our customers.Key Achievements:• Restructured the team to align with merged business• Reduced agency spend to zero for retail recruitment saving over £1M in one year• Revised assessment process for Store and Regional management roles involving multiple senior stakeholders• Consolidated the use of 2 ATS’s into one, aligning to both businesses

Managing a team of Talent Acquisition Consultants, direct sourcing candidates from networking, social media and head hunting. SpecialtiesDirect sourcing and Executive Search for senior roles across the business spanning Director and Senior Team level. Head Office roles across trading, buying, catagory management and all commercial positions including marketing and finance. Looking for talented and passionate people who can share our vision of making more lives better through the connected world.Working closely with the business to provide an all round sourcing solution for all roles using a variety of sourcing techniques including social media, referrals, headhunting and building third party relationships to supplement certain searches.

Complete recruitment cycle. Sourcing candidates from head hunting, networking, database management, referrals and advertising.Have spent most of the last 3 years doing all recruitment for one of Home Retail Group's other brands including colleagues at all levels, store management, sales consultants. Sourced candidates, devised and ran assessments centres and then managed offer process.

Start-up recruitment agency specialising in retail positions in stores and Head Offices.Worked with a select number of clients on both retained and contingency search projects including a managed service for a telecoms company.

Branch Manager of an industrial temps agency dealing mainly with warehousing but also drivers up to Class 1 HGV. Only manager to produce a profit from this branch in 5 years!

Recruitment consultant in Retail management. Built a new desk from scratch to £100k in 9 months.

Recruitment Consultant in Finance and accountancy, dealing with permanent, contract and temp placements.

Store Manager, £10M turnover, 110 colleagues.

Full 360 recruitment process for retail

Full P&L accountability for a £6.5M Turnover stroe