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Epsom, Gb

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Long term secondment as Experienced Hires Product Owner, leading global design, build and rollout of the largest recruitment change transformation project across BCG, consolidating and integrating a variety of regional ATSs into a singular Global ATS and AI CRM solution. Working in agile and leading product teams to build a best in class cutting edge recruitment platform solution across the whole of BCG globallyBCG operates as a large number of regional units, each operating independently with their own technology stack for recruitment. This project brought together each process and set of tools, and built a singular global tool,aligning HRIS functions, internal mobility, agency management, referral management and HR, and getting alignment from hundreds of global stakeholders

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

BCG Digital Ventures is now part of BCG X, BCG's new technology consultancy division. BCGX works in both tech ventures building, and development of tech innovation for established businessesWithin BCG X I own all aspects of recruitment innovation, bringing together three historical divisions into one cohesive hiring process, and leveraging sourcing capability to identify the best technology candidates and consultants in the big tech or start up spaceWhile on secondment as Product Owner, leading the new global ATS rollout across all arms of the wider Boston Consulting Group, my 'home' role within BCG X now has responsibility for globally improving and driving innovation both recruitment and sourcing, working closely with recruitment leaders across all continents and lines of business.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

As EMESA Talent Director for Boston Consulting Group’s Digital Ventures arm (prior to becoming BCG X), I was responsible for leading three functions across Europe, Middle East, South America and Africa: - Staffing - ensuring each venture is correctly staffed to client budgets with a multidisciplinary team including Venture Architects, Designers, Engineering, Product, Growth and Talent Architecture. - Learning and Development - owning the strategic direction of all training across EMESA, including onboarding and skillset specific training- Recruitment - strategic overview over all aspects of hiring and onboarding, including redefining the hiring process, adding analytics and focusing on DEI initiatives

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

BCG Digital Ventures is BCG’s original tech venture building arm, working to develop and launch new tech businessesMy roles owned Recruitment, Staffing and Learning & Development multidisciplinary teams for Boston Consulting Group's Digital Ventures (prior to becoming BCG X) across EMESA - Europe, Middle East, South America and Africa, with offices across London, Paris, Berlin, Riyadh, Dubai and Casablanca and a multimillion P&LBoston Consulting Group's Digital Ventures arm, recently rebranded as X Ventures under BCGX, works with tech startups and digital natives to ideate, build and take to market innovative new tech products and solutions

Bournemouth, Dorset, Gb

Involved in a number of ongoing programmes, including the Student Talent Employability Engagement Programme (STEEP), aiming to inspire, challenge, build confidence and bring closer to industry final year students. As part of my volunteering work, I have lead workshops, appeared on panels and given lectures on various topics relating to careers and employability. In 2020 I was proud to be awarded Bournemouth University's BU Alumni Volunteer of the Year Award.https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/about/our-faculties/bournemouth-university-business-school/steep

Remote , Oo

Leading a Global multi country team comprising Talent Partners, Executive Search, Sourcing, Scheduling and Talent Programme Management as Global Head of Talent, and owning all aspects of Talent Strategy and Acquisition for MoonPay, a triple unicorn series A cryptocurrency startup valued at 3.4b USD.- Defining the end to end hiring process, including implementation of company wide interviewer training and 'Moonwalk' interviews; an additional stage of the process focused on assessing candidates' against MoonPay's core values. Built out standardised question pools and rubrics for strong candidate answers in order to reduce bias and raise the bar for candidates.- Worked closely with Head of HR and Head of Compensation and Benefits to define compensation philosophy and benefits philosophy and job levelling frameworks and architecture - Implementing hiring metrics, measuring time to hire, candidate diversity, offer acceptance rate, interviewer cancellation etc- Implemented focus on Diversity and Inclusion, both in terms of hiring standards, acquisition strategy and starting to build DEI focused ERGs within the business- Creating Exec Search function, to build out a new executive team and develop a scaleable process.- Working with IT and HR teams to onboarding Workday and integrate fully with our ATS. Implemented approvals processes around compensation, new role creation and onboarding.- Talent Architecture and Headcount planning with C suite.- Reduced agency spend to under 10% of hiring. Initial creation of agency PSL.- Created Talent presence at industry events; set process and targets for candidate attraction at those events.- Redefined internal referral process- Created project team aimed at innovation within Web3 Engineer acquisition- Employer branding initiatives across Linkedin/Glassdoor/Twitter- Set expectations within team to elevate team to true partners - OKRs set around owning client stakeholder relationships and headcount planning, with QBRs.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Having built out the whole EMEA team, I pivoted into a Deal Negotiation role, working closely with Cloud Sales teams to offer contractual and commercial negotiation and support for large scale (5-250m EUR value) and complex deals with large scale customers looking to go through digital transformation with Google CloudIn this role I also founded a global Culture Club, including innovations across three areas: team based competitions, External Speaker series and sharing improvements via a newsletter, with the aim of reducing team attrition and bringing the team together. This innovation was highly lauded, and unified the geographically disparate and diverse global team.Ran workshops around performance improvements and understanding the Google Performance cycle

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Having successfully built out the DACH Cloud sales team, I pivoted to build out two EMEA teams - our EMEA Partner Sales org and our EMEA Deal Pursuit org, working with both to create Org plans and hiring stretagy, with a focus on DEI and embedding long term hiring practices that could be utilised moving forward. Indirectly lead a team of other recruiters working on roles within each of these orgs.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

I lead a team of up to 15 Recruiters and Sourcers, hiring a variety of senior sales folks selling Google Cloud for our fast growing DACH region. Over the two years the team grew by 600%During 2020 I lead a DEI project looking at generating higher numbers of candidates from diverse background. This involved running a number of events in the DACH region. working with the referrals team on pipelining and building a strategy for long term DEI focused hiring.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

During the height of Covid, I pitched and then took on another 20% project with Google, aimed at developing initiatives to attract more female candidates to the DACH sales team. During this time I was able to increase female hiring by 40%.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Recruiter, working with various senior teams across a variety of EMEA regions, working in partnership with senior businesses leaders to recruit primarily senior and executive Marketing focused talent into the growing Google Cloud business unit.

A famed Google 20% project, I was secconded from the Talent team into the Marketing team, working with the Events group to organise Next 18', the largest Google event ever outside of the US. - Built and worked with project team responsible for the construction, collection and delivery from 4 countries across the globe and rollout of 2300 pieces of hardware for the event.- POC for multiple internal teams across Chrome, Apigee, Hardware, Waymo, Recruitment and others, organising their event needs with the core team.

Addlestone, Weybridge, Gb

Managing several teams recruiting a variety of Digital Marketing, Ecommerce, Digital Product and Project roles, Design and UX. I was also a member of the board of directors for Michael Page Digital nationally.

Addlestone, Weybridge, Gb

Managing two Digital teams, based out of Weybridge and London.The Weybridge team recruits a variety of Digital Marketing and Ecommerce roles in the South of England and outside of London.The London team specialises in creative and technical design roles (including UX/UI) and mobile and Web Development positions within the city.I was also selected to join the Michael Page Digital Board of Directors

Addlestone, Weybridge, Gb

Lead digital teams across the south of England on various projects:- Working closely with RSA to rebuild their digital performance marketing team after the team lead was seconded abroad- Working closely with William Russell to design an organogram and recruit a new digital function to rival pureplay online competitors.- Working closely with a number of agencies on the South Coast including Koozai and Really B2B to recruit members of growing account teams- Working closely with Travelport to recruit a number of new global digital positions within a new global digital centre of excellence- Recruiting a number of digital roles for Officeteam after they acquired a new partner business- Recruiting a number of digital roles for Enterprise Rent A Car after a relocation from the South Coast- Working with Affinion to build their digital team for their first direct to consumer financial product- Working with SDL to build a new digital team based in the UK- Hiring a number of new senior digital posts for Xerox as they looked at new online revenue streams- Hiring the first Digital specialist for a variety of brands, including 4D, Belmont Green, Smiths, Rock Insurance and many moreA high percentage of my team's work involves placing the first digital role in a business, and as such we often provide consultancy for clients looking to understand what works in terms of organograms, team structure, role titles and responsibilities and salary levels.

Addlestone, Weybridge, Gb

Launched a new Digital division in the Southern Home Counties.Achievements:• 2nd highest revenue generation within Marketing/Digital Divisions nationally by end of H1.• Team exceeded monthly revenue targets by 18% and PYTD revenue by 28% by end of H1, and exceeded annual targets by over 15%.• Built a team ahead of schedule in Q4, growing from 1 to 5 members in 6 months.

Addlestone, Weybridge, Gb

Recruited temporary Marketing positions in the Southern Home CountiesSuccessfully beat monthly targets despite a difficult market, and received a number of sales commendations, including attending 'Breakfast Club' a reward for high achievers, on 7 months out of 12.Achieved 'High Flyers', a sales reward for top consultants across the UK, within my fourth Quarter in the business.Part of a three man team, who began to consistently beat revenue targets, and ended the year 28% up on annual revenue target and 33% up on PYTD revenue.I also gravitated towards Digital, becoming a specialist in recruiting online positions. This resulted in my being chosen to launch the new Digital division of Michael Page in the South.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Responsible for the day to day running of a busy rental outlet. Daily activities included:• Managing sales team; building a sales environment inside the branch to achieve KPIs.• Managing the logistical operation of a fleet of vehicles, from routine services through to full product recalls.• Development and implementation of customer service strategy across branch.• Account management and new business development of local accounts. • Branch was recognised as one of the top three branches in the UK twice consecutively.• Achieved regular commendation for sales efforts – within top ten salesman in South England eight times over two years.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Area leading sales and upgrade figures led to being nominated and winning the prestigious Enterprise 'Best Person Scheme', and being relocated to the high volume and sales targetted Gatwick Airport.• Top of branch leaderboard on a variety of sales, for various insurance products, vehicle upgrades, Sat Nav and Mobile Phone rental and prepurchased fuel.• Worked on systems that improved sales reporting within the branch, evaluating each employee based on his or her sales merit.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Hired on the graduate trainee scheme, I was involved in the lower levels of branch management; organising vehicles for rental customers, managing the fleet logistics and getting sales.• Responsible for bringing a sales culture to the poorly performing branch, leading to the branch breaking even for the first time in several years, and continuing to do so.• Top branch salesman across a variety of sales KPIs, including Collision Damage Waiver, Car Size Upgrade and Insurance Non Fault sales.• Responsible for the opening of a number of new corporate accounts, leading to an sizable increase in corporate spend in the branches business mix.

Bracknell, Berkshire, Gb

Worked during college and University, moved around through various branches.2007 Waitrose East Grinstead, West Sussex• Training other staff across all disciplines2005-2007 Waitrose Parkstone, Dorset• Customer Service Desk Supervisor, managing queries, complaints, implementing new Quickscan service]• Responsible for managing a checkout team of up to 13 individuals• Responsible for Waitrose Home Delivery Service• Responsible for stock ordering• Member of Waitrose internal council, acted as a point of contact for other partners to relay branch/wider management issues• Managing partner training for checkouts.• Top Salesman – Waitrose Credit Card 20062004-2005 Waitrose Westbourne, Dorset• Checkout Supervisor, managing staff rotas and leading a team of up to 10.2002-2004 Waitrose Andover, Hampshire• Administrator, performing stock checks,• Office management, answering phone calls, tannoy announcements.• Cash Office management, including cashing up and preparing floats.

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Media Studies, English Language, It, History