Richard Baker Email & Phone Number

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

Placing Talent delivers recruitment and staffing solutions across a range of specialist disciplines. We started our journey in 2014, focused on the supply of Clinical Coding staff to support the NHS on a contract basis. Today Placing Talent delivers bespoke recruitment solutions across Non-Medical-Non-Clinical Healthcare, Accountancy & Finance and MedTech.I lead a dedicated team of experienced consultants who specialise in sourcing top Corporate Talent mainly within the Finance function.

Hatfield, England, United Kingdom

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Green Park is an award-winning consultancy that offers Executive Search, Interim Management, Board Advisory, Diversity & Inclusion and Managed Service People Solutions across the private, public and third sectors.Championing diversity and inclusion for over 15 years, Green Park is changing the face of leadership by helping organisations think differently about talent in the UK’s top boardrooms.Our aim is to help organisations attract, identify, develop and retain trusted, inclusive, authentic and highly effective leaders from different backgrounds to leverage the power of collective difference.With a successful track record of working with Boards across industry to identify and place their CFO's, we understand the modern finance leader is a commercially minded business partner instrumental in the growth, success and sustainability of a business. The pandemic has only made the need for a broader set of skills more essential encompassing strategic and operational functions whilst playing a key role in sustainability and transformation.To discuss please feel free to get in touch at Richard.Baker@green-park.co.uk

United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Hired by the business owner to support him in turnaround to a high performing mid level finance recruitment business.Turned the loss making business into profit in year 1 and in year 2 reached record profits in its near 20 year existence.Executed a number of CFO searches personally or by developing consultantsImplemented a KPI mentality for managers and staff and gained their buy in through explaining the benefits of measurement of activityImplemented improved sales trackingRevised terms of business to be more commercialSet manager objectives and trained and developed themReviewed all online cv sourcing snd implemented improved working practicesDeveloped and ran an accounting terminology training programme and trained all staffDeveloped an incentive model to encourage super performanceGrew overall team from circa 25 consultants to near 40.

London, United Kingdom

Badenoch & Clark is the global professional staffing arm of the Adecco Group and a multi-sector specialist recruiter into the Commerce & Industry, Financial Services and Public Sector markets.Key achievements:Grew bottom line profit by 60% 2015/2016Increased productivity by 80% year on yearHired and developed new consultants and managersGrew retained businessIntroduced a more focussed approach to work by consultantsSat on Operational Board and advised on many business issuesMy remit:Director level role delivering a suite of recruitment solutions within the professional staffing environment.Full strategic, operational and financial accountability for the Midlands Commerce & Industry Division encompassing Accounting & Finance, HR, IT, PPM, Practice, Procurement & Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing & Communications business streams across 4 locations and subsequently given responsibility for the North region also.Focused on driving growth through the development of temp, perm and executive opportunities at the part qualified, qualified and c-suite levels within each business.Accountable for developing and maintaining the Midland's and North Regions strategic sales strategies with an emphasis on new client acquisition and customer engagement (relationship management).

London, United Kingdom

Co owner of the business with hands on delivery of assignments ranging from CXX level & senior management appointments to experienced mid level Technical & Functional hires.

London, United Kingdom

RHI Executive Search (RHI ES) is a premier retained executive search firm. As part of the Robert Half International family, RHI ES has the resources and benefits of a large company (including a major international talent network), but the attention and focus of a boutique firm. We focussed on finding people solutions to business challenges in the areas of Finance, Human Resources, Sales & Marketing, Legal, and Information Technology across all industries.

London, United Kingdom

Travelling and working on a property project whilst looking for next role

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for creating a European wide functional matrix across geographical businesses to promote and encourage functional expertise.Owning a senior sales training initiative rolled out to all senior executives in late 2008Responsible for European Corporate MarketingManaging the UK commercial team

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for a number of functional business areas across the UK circa 80 consultants:Sales and MarketingSupply Chain and ProcurementInternational and Emerging MarketsBuilt a strong management team to support growth Developed a contract / interim presence as well as a retained search expertiseWas chosen out of 6000 employees globally to be one of 100 to attend a year long high performance development programme.Supported the UK CEO on operational issues such as the relocation of back office finance and the implementation of a new front office system

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for all Commerce and Industry finance recruitment across London both temporary and permanent through a team of 25 consultants and managers.

St Albans, United Kingdom

Responsible for all finance recruitment in the Northern Home Counties geographical region through a team of 6 consultantsConsistent top FT advertisement seller

Nottingham

Qualified recruiterSenior Qualified recruiter

Luton And Germany

Whitbread Trading Division - Operational ReviewWhitbread Pub Partnerships - Reporting Accountant Whitbread Restaurants (Germany) - Finance Director of 38 steak houses across Germany

Cima Qualified Accountant

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