An energetic, versatile, strategic and operational recruiter, commercially focused with a strong finance, operational and leadership background who still enjoys personally recruiting at all levels. Major achievements include building and managing several functional recruitment businesses for US based global recruitment organisations, turning around a loss making mid-market financial recruiter to achieve record profits, honing revised internal processes and people, selling and contingent and executive search assignments as well as growing and leading temporary and permanent recruitment teams. A hands-on leader who has built small teams as well as managed up to 100 staff across multiple functions and geographies.Richard has amassed 30 years of expertise within the recruitment industry, with the majority of his time focusing on the finance function.A qualified Chartered Management Accountant, Richard began his career in finance for a manufacturing business before moving to Whitbread plc where his career progressed to a leadership role in mainland Europe within their German operations. He then decided on a career change and transitioned into the recruitment sector where he has led numerous teams across many geographies and areas of expertise creating high performing business units and also has himself completed a vast number of executive search campaigns at a senior level within the finance and other corporate functions.
Listed skills include Executive Search, Recruiting, Human Resources, Recruitment Advertising, and 10 others.