Peter Lowman Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

CandidateX creates equal access to opportunities for underestimated talent, by reducing hiring bias in the job application process, through a combination of AI and e-Learning methods. Having been awarded innovation funding from the UK government in 2022, CandidateX was recently named Sifted’s 2022 ‘Early-Stage Start-ups to watch’ HR Tech Industry list.For.

Haworth, Yorkshire

• Working with the Directors to
• Developing financial and business plans
• Advising on management accounting processes and implementation of Xero
• Advising on employee contracts and related items

Twickenham, UK

• Working with Owner Managers, CEOs, MDs and Company Boards delivering the following
• Improving business performance and increasing bottom line profit and shareholder value
• Developing effective strategic plans to build a business
• Realising the strategy through a detailed implementation plan that brings about the changes needed
• Supporting owners to develop and achieve their exit
• Mentoring to improve personal performance and career development

Great Tower Street, London

Contract and permanent recruitment business specialising in Change & Projects, Finance & Banking, IT and RPO solutions. As COO day-to-day responsibility for HR & Recruitment, Compliance, IT and Finance and ensuring that LoveWorkLife is a great place to work and my colleagues are really successful.

London, United Kingdom

A Management Consultancy working with CEOs, Boards and Business Owners to deliver increased profits and higher value on exit. Advised business owners in a number of sectors which resulted in significantly improved performance and value. Facilitating business transformation with the Boards of a number of mid-size businesses and successfully delivering major.

• Full P&L responsibility across Finance, Banking, HR and IT recruitment business with a particular focus on permanent and contract recruitment from mid-level to Board appointments. Main achievements
• Worked with Management Team to establish a clear vision and objectives for the business having inherited a highly dysfunctional and unstructured business. Developed an implementation plan that addressed the key issues.
• Introduced “Best Practice” and minimum activity standards, which led to a 25% increase in activity and a 33% increase in productivity.
• Worked closely with the Group CEO on acquisition strategy and supported him with the review of and approach to target businesses.
• Developed a detailed business plan to establish an FSS office in Tokyo with $1m investment approved by main Board in Japan.

• Full P&L responsibility for seven operating divisions – Rail, Science, Engineering, Construction, Oil & Gas, Logistics and IT delivering temp, contract and permanent staffing solutions primarily to blue chip clients.
• Successfully re-established the business after Administration. Worked with new owners and maintained the continuity of business operations. Returned the business to profit
• Won major contracts with GSK, NG Bailey, IPS, Pfizer, GPS, AMEC and Vetco Abel.

London, United Kingdom

Supported start-ups in the Incubator Unit and in particular evaluating an Internet based business proposition with an application in the temporary work market.

• SRG operated from bench to boardroom providing an integrated staffing and recruitment service to clients in the Science sector offering temporary, contract, permanent and search and selection services. Took over the.
• Halted the decline in revenue and returned the business to growth - 19% year on year sales growth.
• Created and implemented a new vision, values and strategy that focused the whole company on a clear objective. Reorganised and restructured to create a customer and sales focused business that led to significant new.
• Worked with the Group Board on a plan to delist the business from NASDAQ. With the support of VC’s we successfully raised $80m for the “buy-back” which was ultimately blocked by one shareholder.

• Management consultancy providing strategy and change management, performance improvement, team development, mentoring and career development to blue chip companies. Delivering strategy and culture change assignments.
• From a £5,000 investment grew businesses to net fee income of £1.2m pa
• Clients included Coopers & Lybrand, National Car Rental, Bovis Construction, Bank of England, BT, Abbey National, W S Atkins, Hyder Consulting, Symonds, NYK, Euler and Lloyds of London.
• Recruited and developed a strong team responsible for winning and delivering consultancy assignments to a high standard. Significant repeat business.

• Responsible for 143 branches throughout the UK employing 780 Operations staff, 120 staff at Corporate HQ and 7,000 temporaries. Accountable for strategy and policy development, formulation and achievement of corporate.
• Achieved £112m revenues and an operating profit of £4.25m in a declining market. Result significantly ahead of major competitors. Increased average gross margin by 9.7%
• Developed the Board of Directors who quickly became a cohesive team committed to agreed actions, the achievement of corporate objectives and maximising opportunities. Worked with them to develop a strategy which.
• Initiated a major client retention programme that protected the top 20% of clients and targeted key prospects winning business from competition in a very competitive market

Career Coaching

Diploma in Career Coaching

Science "A" Levels