Global TA Strategy Leader | Driving Transformation at HaleonAs the leader of the Global TA Strategy and Centre of Excellence team at Haleon, I am spearheading a transformative journey to elevate our talent acquisition capabilities. My mission is to empower our recruiters to hire more efficiently, effectively, and rapidly, driving impactful change across the entire TA function.Key initiatives include:TA Tech Stack Optimization: Overhauling our TA technology, including a comprehensive reimplementation of Workday, eliminating legacy configurations, and confusion, and selecting a new CRM for streamlined operations.Process Standardization & Optimization: Enhancing the new starter experience from offer letters to onboarding, optimizing job board spend with Appcast, and implementing a performance-based job distribution model.Assessment & Selection Improvement: Standardizing our assessment and selection processes to ensure fairness, equality, and support for all stakeholders—candidates, managers, and recruiters alike.Global Process Standardization: Establishing solid, stable foundations by creating and embedding global policies, written standards, and clear how-to guides.This is just the beginning—there’s much more to come as we continue to innovate and refine our talent acquisition strategy.

Working with innovators, disruptors and VC's to with new and existing business/product concepts and execution. Providing honest sometimes brutal feedback to enhance and further progress your concept. Coaching on next steps, market sentiment and helping you identify your USP and selling points.

I have been privileged enough to be asked to speak at a number of events on a variety of subjects but I have geeked out at all of them. Some of the topics include Real People, Real Results @ In-House Recruitment Expo 2018, Monster Customer Advisory Board, LinkedIn Central Government Event and Talent Management Conference Athens. The Human Side of Hiring @ Indeed Interactive Europe 2017.Attraction, what works and what should you be doing? @ InHouse Recruitment Network Events Employer Brand Event 2017Round table facilitator on Employer Branding @ TREC 2017Employer brand Blind Date with CandidateID @ RecFest 2017.Employer Brand Panel @UK Recruiter event 2016Video Interviewing Masterclass @ In-House Recruitment Expo 2015Candidate Experience, it's not rocket science @In-House Recruitment Expo 2015Hopefully with more to follow. I am always open to discussing speaking at events and will always be honest and say if I don't think I have anything relevant to discuss. There is no point in talking about something I don't know about or can't add value to anyone.

As a total geek of all things Employer Branding, Attraction and Recruitment Marketing I have worked with a huge number of individuals and organiations providing advice, guidance and even mentorship on all things within our space.

I have had the opportunity to take a hobby into more than that by owning a fishery and running a small syndicate on one of the UK’s most low key and unknown venues. Through this project I have promoted the venue through local and industry publications including a monthly regular column in one of the UK largest angling publications as well as gaining a six page feature in the UK largest angling publications 100th edition. The venue has gone from badly managed through to thriving and has sold out for the next few years with a waiting list of over 100 people wanting to join the venue. The future looks great for the venue and the club alike, through hard work and good management the venue is now pretty self sufficient and has been a great opportunity for me to develop even further.

Leading our strategy COE, domain strategy and geo delivery teams on a global scale. Driving significant change and accelerating our transformational journey to an employer of choice. Creation of high performing global talent marketing teams, including future facing team solving for demand 6+ months away. Creation of specialist teams focusing on key areas such as content, digital, jobs and data and a career/learning framework.Global implementation, roll-out and enablement of Talent Acquisition CRM, SmashFlyX.Implemented Design Thinking and Agile ways of working into team allowing for enhanced and accelerated change.Creation and execution of global and local talent marketing strategies delivering exceptional results over high volumes of hires.Creation of measurement framework showing value and impact of talent marketing work talking in the language of our business leaders. Co-creation of new brand positioning of IBM that's shown to have challenged and changed perceptions within the industry.Involved in multiple stretch assignments spanning TA, HR and culture transformation to name a few. Awards:Winner of 2 RAD awards, 2 RMA's, nominated for 5 further RAD awards and awarded ICIMS Innovator Award as well as TATech Top 100 most influential TA thought leaders.

Leading a team to deliver the best in Talent Marketing/Attraction globally. My team drives a whole heap of areas including but not limited to: Careers website, CRM platform, Social Media, Digital media, Referrals, Advocacy, Content creation, Job board strategy,Review sites to name a few.

Leading all things channels and a whole lot more on a global scale. I get to totally geek out with some of the world’s best tech but more importantly with hands own the worlds best people. Driving a change agenda within our Global COE as well as supporting our local branding leads in Geographies land strategies, plans and deliver results.

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Meet & Engage is an award-winning social-style chat platform that enables organisations to chat with candidates and employees at any stage of the candidate/employee/alumni lifecycle. From candidate attraction and keep warm, to onboarding and internal comms, the platform gives employers the opportunity to launch group, one-to-one and private group chats with their audience. The Meet & Engage platform uses technology to re-humanise the relationships between the organisation and candidate/employee. Clients include organisations such as Deloitte, TeachFirst, Npower, BDO, Virgin Media and Deutsche Bank.

Using my phones processing power whilst I sleep I am helping find a cure for cancer.

The RAD Awards champions the very best of employer branding, talent attraction and recruitment advertising - we celebrate talented people, innovative ideas and brave clients.

This is a community like no other for Employer Brand, Talent Marketing, Talent Brand and Candidate Experience professionals (or whatever other name you go by!). We have extended the TBA safe place where you are not being sold to with every session and speaker. Think of it as a counseling session where nothing is off limits.

It’s the job of my team and I to let people know what’s it’s like to work for Vodafone UK and why you should consider your next move here. We then make sure our attraction inventory is in the right place at the right time for you, be that job boards, social media or Digital media. In addition to this I lead our Resourcing Operations team which includes 4 direct reports and a further 13 people under these 4 direct reports. Within the team we cover everything to do with Attraction, Employer branding, Talent branding, Systems, Partner management, MI & Reporting, Interview coordination, Offer coordination and Non FTE coordination. A lot of the role was coaching and people development which I love and really enjoy seeing people learn, grow and progress. I get to work with some amazing people on a daily basis and for me its these people along with the environment that make the difference and allow me to be my best. Owning all attraction and branding into Vodafone UK was a great privilege and a pretty big job. With so many target audiences solutions needed to be tailored as well as varied. These would range from Talent brand strategy through to localised and targeted campaigns. With a geeky interest in utilising new technologies we did some really cool things in the events and event planning space as well social marketing, Recruitment marketing as well as ad placement/ad servicing. Everything was backed up and measured through data analytics and all decisions were made as data drivers decisions.

It’s my job to let people know what’s it’s like to work for Vodafone UK and why you should consider your next move here and then make sure our adverts are in the right place at the right time for you, be that job boards or social media. The good news is it’s not a difficult job to be an ambassador of life at Vodafone, there are so many great things it’s actually pretty easy really. At Vodafone, we firmly believe that we’re at our best when you’re at yours, and that’s why our careers offer exceptional work with exceptional people. Our teams are at the forefront of the technology that’s bringing smart metering into homes, enabling UK businesses to provide essential services, streaming music into cars, delighting phone users with fantastic call quality - but also enabling all sorts of fundraising with JustTextGiving – the UK’s first free text donation service.I get to work with some amazing people on a daily basis and for me its these people along with the environment that make the difference and allow me to be my best. If you looking for your next challenge then take a look at the vacancies we have available at http://careers.vodafone.co.uk/

Responsible for developing and implementing the resourcing strategy for Technology across Vodafone UK. Areas of focus include but not limited to Mobile Networks, Fixed Networks, Service Operations, Enterprise Technology/IT, Internal IT, Security and Governance.Working with leaders within the business and service delivery partners to deliver exceptional people for an exciting organisation. I have very quickly realised that the breadth and scale of Technology operations within Vodafone far exceeds most people’s thoughts and preconceptions.If you looking for your next challenge then take a look at the vacancies we have available at http://careers.vodafone.co.uk/homeAt Vodafone, we firmly believe that we’re at our best when you’re at yours, and that’s why our careers offer exceptional work with exceptional people. Our teams are at the forefront of the technology that’s bringing smart metering into homes, enabling UK businesses to provide essential services, streaming music into cars, delighting phone users with fantastic call quality - but also enabling all sorts of fundraising with JustTextGiving – the UK’s first free text donation service.We partner with businesses of all sizes - from start-ups and small businesses to the largest corporate and the public sector. We have worked with UK businesses for over 30 years, starting out as a mobile provider and becoming one of the UK’s leading total communications partners. We provide a range of voice and data services, secure communications infrastructure, fixed and call centre capability, unified communications and was the first mobile phone operator to offer a truly converged service for fixed and mobile.

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Within my role I am responsible for all areas of recruitment, company-wide, ranging from high volume Customer Service recruitment on a temporary or permanent basis through to highly specialised and competative complex recruitment for niche roles. With the daily focus on meeting the business needs this could be identifying the best routes to market for a difficult to fill role and writing adverts, through to designing assessment methods for selection, through to working closly with the RPO to make sure the roles are filled or just offering training and advice to recruiting managers. Sometimes this just means rolling up my sleeves and getting stuck in with some recruitment. Candidate attraction is a huge part of my role and I am responsible for identifying, developing and making sure we are getting the very best from our routes to market, resulting in a reduction in cost per hire. Management of the Resourcing team responsbile for all areas including contract generation, pre employment screening and creating payroll records for new employees also keeps me busy, along with always striving to improve the experience we offer to the candidates and the managers during this process. As well as the day to day duties I am responsible for a number of projects including improving our SAP ATS, developing an eLearning package for recruiting managers, development and maintenance of an Onboarding program in addition to developing our social media strategy, apprentice & graduate recruitment programmes and employer brand development. Not only are no two days the same but what we do as a company makes a real difference to peoples lives. It’s that importance and pride that keeps me striving for more everyday.Due to the ever changing nature of the water industry we are constantly recruiting and have a large number of roles from all disciplines. Please check out the Thames Water website for the latest roles.

Helping business recruit better through 3 key areas: Attraction strategy - what does your say about you? Most companies really don't have a strategy they just go about attraction. Candidate experience - how do your customers feel when they go through the recruitment process with you? Ever stopped to find out?Enabling technology - want to change or do something different but find yourself saying we don't have the time or use cost as a blocker. Not all technology needs to be expensive. Done right technology will save you money and time. The business was built up and has been successfully sold.

As a consultant to RCS I have helped the guys out a few times when two heads are better than one. Pooling our ideas and knowledge it allows RCS & Concept82 to produce both simple and innovative solutions that always work for our clients. Find out more on the company pages.

I was based onsite at Thames Water head office in Reading, responsible for the delivery of recruitment services for permanent, temporary and interim positions. With experience in attraction, assessment centres, new system implementation and training as well as delivery of high and low volume technical and non technical positions.

Heading up the Temporary Team at Reading covering the Reading, Newbury, Henley and surrounding area.Responsible for all levels of candidates ranging from Accounts Administrators through to Finance Directors.

I initially started as a lead generator and then quickly progressed through to a Resourcer and then consultant. I worked a number of markets but my main area was within the Engineering sector specialising on the following areas:Controls Engineering (PLC, SCADA & DCS Systems)Electronic Engineering (Digital and Analogue)Software Engineering (Embedded RTOS software).I built up some niche areas and focused heavily on the mobile telecoms industry and the automotive industry (Drive train, ECU & infotainment)During my time at GCS I found that I worked the engineering market very well due to picking up the technical knowledge that was required to successfully screen candidates and communicate with clients.

This started as a weekend job and then I progressed through to managing 2 stores in Reading and Guildford. My duties included the following:Responsible for hitting individual and shops targets set from Head Office,Loss prevention,Buying of stock,Staff management (including recruitment, training, reviews and wages),Key holder duties,Cashing up the daily floats,Attending industry shows.Key Achievements:Made the largest sale to one person (Still stands),Responsible for buying a new brand which later resulted in the highest profit range,Won monthly award 11 times in 1 year for the best “Up Sale” figures.