Lead for Financial Services portfolio in the North of England.Manage partnerships with key FTSE 100 clients including Lloyds Banking Group, Barclays, Bank of America, Vanguard, Experian and Capital One. Completed 'Future Leaders Programme' at FDM Group in August 2024 - focusing on leadership theory and methodology in a Sales environment.

FDM Group is a professional services provider with a focus on IT and has centres across mainland Europe, Asia and North America. The company provides high-value, cost-effective and low risk IT services to over 130 clients worldwide to help them achieve specific business objectives within various sectors, including financial services, media, retail and insurance. As a result, FDM has firmly established itself as the UK’s leading IT graduate employer and one of the top 25 fastest growing companies in Europe.My role as an Account Manager is to act as the lead point of contact for all matters across key accounts in the UK.To build and maintain strong long-lasting relationships.To ensure the timely and successful delivery of our solutions according to customer needs and objectives.To identify and grow opportunities with new and exciting companies and help them build their talent pipeline for the future. Understanding new clients' needs and supplementing their teams with trained and cost-effective talent. Continuously looking at ways to provide a better service to existing clients by updating our training to strategically meet clients' requirements.To provide consultant support to ensure continuous development.Communicating the progress of monthly/quarterly initiatives to senior management. To ensure that all consultants are developing key skills and attributes to provide clients with high quality resource that can quickly add value to the company.

In this position I worked alongside a small group of consultants to act as the link between the student and graduate employer community in Leeds and Yorkshire.Working with a range of large corporate, public, third sector and SME organisations, I managed relationships to ensure students at the university were connected to graduate jobs; placements; part-time opportunities and project work. This fulfilled the university's institutional objective to improve its Graduate Outcomes data for students while simultaneously assisting companies with their recruitment needs, as well ensuring graduate talent was retained locally in core economic sectors. My clients included Sky Betting and Gaming, FDM Group, Hermes, Teach First, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, Hays, Leeds City Council, Perform Group and Direct Line Group.Key responsibilities included devising and implementing a range of careers fairs, employer sessions and mock assessment activities to facilitate connections between students and graduate employers. I also worked closely with academic colleagues in our School of Computing and Creative Technologies, and School of Sport, to support the employability agenda for these students.Creator of DigitalLEAP: an extra-curricular, six-week course for non-tech students at Leeds Beckett University designed to inspire, educate and inform them about graduate job opportunities in the Leeds digital economy.Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.Member of the Institute of Student Employers.

My position at York sat within the two teams of Student Recruitment and Widening Participation, and was a newly created role which offered project support and relationship management for a number of schemes.The main project I was responsible for was a programme for Year 10-13 students in the Yorkshire area, which specifically encouraged aspiration and attainment in STEM-related subjects. The project was a collaboration between the Sutton Trust, Kusuma Trust and the Universities of York and Nottingham; and had a combined long-term budget of some £0.25m. I devised a challenging and multi-layered programme for students, which included academic interaction at the University (such as taster lectures, revision days etc.), online mentoring, the opportunity to participate in a weekly summer residential and some work exposure at a scientific company.By the time I had left the University Pathways to STEM was up and running, with eight schools in four geographical areas interested in being part of the programme. Some 100 students in Year 10 are expected to pursue the programme in academic year 2015/16.Another key responsibility I had in this position was co-managing the Next Step York programme: which encouraged post-16 students from across the UK to apply for university, and to York, through a range of activities and support programmes.I also reimagined the York teachers' and careers advisers' conference in May 2015, which had a variety of new sessions for guests, a new venue and a newly designed webpage.My role at York required excellent relationship management skills, which I furthered by liaising with stakeholders as varied as teachers, parents, students, academics, businesses and senior managers at the University.

As a Student Recruitment Officer I was involved in liaison activities with schools and colleges across the UK; delivering presentations, running practical workshops, attending higher education fairs, organising and managing onsite visits to The University of Nottingham and consulting with both careers advisers and teachers to share bespoke materials which met their requirements. I also helped to maintain a clear and up-to-date CRM system with colleagues to record my activities and analyse data from our feeder and partner schools.I jointly organised a major careers advisers’ and teachers’ conference at the University in April 2014, which received excellent feedback from delegates. I also engaged in work for other teams such as Marketing; in the summer of 2013 I completed a university-wide project which involved updating our entire course portfolio for the new UCAS website. I worked closely with academic departments and managed an ‘Academic Briefing’ scheme to share knowledge and best practice between subject schools and the Marketing, Communications and Recruitment team.I managed a review of the Schools Liaison team’s presentation portfolio and updated these to enhance their value as a recruitment and information tool. I also helped to maintain the team’s website to ensure our work was communicated effectively to stakeholders.

In this role I worked in the undergraduate admissions team from June 2010 to May 2011, looking after a portfolio of sports science courses and making decisions on a large volume of applications to the University. I dealt with enquiries from students, teachers and parents, and kept a regular track of departmental progress by meeting with managers and colleagues. After May, I was selected to work on the postgraduate team, this time looking after a portfolio of courses from the College of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment. I assessed complex international applications in this role and helped to process CAS statements for overseas students needing a student visa to enter the UK.