New Talent Era is a curious and open-minded recruitment firm that is passionate about doing things right.With a combined total of over 40 years in-house Talent Acquisition experience, we are a team of experienced and dedicated recruiters who are committed to finding the best talent for our clients, as well as delivering a wealth of improvement projects, ranging from ATS implementations through to process improvements and DE&I campaigns.We are always asking the "why" and "how" to make things better, and we are always looking for new ways to improve the talent acquisition process.With our friendly and easy-going nature, we always put our clients and candidates first, and are proud to have always helped our clients towards a much improved Talent Acquisition function.

II work in-house as an extension of our clients’ HR function and provide the team, tech, marketing, and expertise that they need to hire the very best talent directly whilst focusing on improving anything from diversity to employer brand. Play a pivotal role in the success of the business. Ultimately responsible for the delivery of up to 5 in-house recruitment functions, leading teams of Talent Partners, across the UK, Europe, South Africa and APAC, and ensuring that each team executes and delivers on their objectives.Clients included; Zappi (MarTech SaaS business. Took over failing partnership to a successful two-team Rec function) Survitec (Managed a team of up to 6 Recruiters, delivering on over 40 live roles a month) Revantage (Part of Blackstone Group. One person delivery on all corporate roles) Montagu (One person team delivering all corporate roles) Bionic (First Source, screen and present on Field Sales roles) Responsible for supporting clients with strategic projects and help to build and run internal recruitment functions to meet each client's needs. Special Projects: Wrote a white paper on developing our own Sourcing Centre of Excellence, which was signed off by the Board, to develop a new agile function for the business to deliver a pure Source, Screen & present service for our clients. Ultimately responsible for go live, including setting objectives, deliverables and recruiting Sourcing Specialists for the team Instrumental in drawing up a project brief to develop our own Tech stack to better enable our Recruiters to do their job. Wrote and delivered various training modules for the company, including “Using Tech in Recruitment”, “Using ChatGPT & generative AI as a Recruiter” and “Sourcing for beginners”.

We’re leading the charge to professionalise talent acquisition. We’re determined to build a brilliant future for the talent industry, leading by example with unparalleled professional and personal standards.Embedded talent consultancy is a radically new operating model, built on the needs of 21st century organisations capable of faster growth than ever before.With an innate feeling for what makes people tick, and trained for industry and domain expertise, our people have a true consultancy mindset.Hiring predominantly Technical Recruiters, across DevOps, Software Engineering, Data Analytics, Digital and Product Management.

Reporting directly to the Global Head of Recruitment, I was brought on board to transform the new internal Recruitment Team from infancy to an established direct sourcing team. Built structure and process across all Head-Office and UK Retail Management hires and developed the team to become subject matter experts in their field. Delivering over 92% of hires through direct channels, I was instrumental in setting the team up for this success and for saving the company over £1.5m per year in agency spend. The main highlights of my role: • I managed the teams responsible for Recruiting across all Central Functions, Buying & Merchandising and Retail Management across the UK, Ireland and mainland Europe. Covering Executive Search, Experienced Hires, Contract and Volume hires. • I developed and implemented Talent Attraction strategies, from volume to unique one off positions, of all levels within the business. • I built strong, collaborative relationships with business Leadership Teams and the wider HR community to shape, plan and deliver against Primark’s Recruitment needs.• Seen as a subject matter expert on all corporate Recruiting matters and developed in-house training for Hiring Managers of all levels. • I am a passionate brand ambassador and recruiting role model, where I lead and coach teams of Recruiters in both Reading & Dublin to excel in their roles.• We have worked hard to improve our candidate experience, and customer service and integrity goes to the heart of what we do

A VC (Balderton & Goldman Sachs) backed Ecommerce business, which incorporates three brands, Worldstores.com (Mass choice Home & Garden Furniture), ACHICA (Premium Brand Homewares), and Kiddicare (Mother & Baby Products). Sales in excess of £140m pa & over 750 members of staff. • Talent Strategy – Responsible for shaping the talent attraction strategy across the business, taking this high growth start up from 90 people to close to 750. • Talent Acquisition – Reduced agency usage from 90% to 22% whilst hiring over 550 people over 4 years. Saved in excess of £1.4m through the adoption of a rigorous direct sourcing model.• Tripled the size of the technical team, hiring DevOps, Software Engineers and Data Analytics roles. • Stakeholder Management – Dealing with stakeholders of all shapes and sizes across all depts. including, but not limited to, Buying, Digital Analytics, Marketing, Ecommerce, Finance, Operations & IT. • Team-Management – Built a recruiting team of three to increase our ability to direct source. Two in Head office and one based on site in Dartford for blue collar Fleet staff. • Project Management – Recruitment Work Stream Lead for the Fleet Project; an initiative to switch from 3PL to In-house delivery model which saw an increase to our headcount by 300 people in the space of 4 months.• ATS Implementation – Researched best in class systems to suit our business. Project managed the rollout of “Workable” as the chosen platform. • Sourcing – In the absence of little budget, became adept at finding new ways to attract and find Talent, as well as engaging with potential hires. From utilising Social sites, to Chrome extensions and everything in between. • Governance – Responsible for installing controls across the recruitment process, including reducing agency dominance, improving time to hire and quality of hire. Implemented new recruiting metrics across the Co., which were instrumental in making hiring decisions.

Sourced all new employees for our exciting new brand, Casafina.com, from BAA to Head of Marketing. Managing the end to end recruitment process through a predominantly direct sourcing strategy. On going support for the development of team members as well as helping to implement the required structure to deliver against business objectives.

Resources Global is a Professional Services firm that provides clients with experienced professionals on a project basis. Our consultants provide clients with expertise in Finance & Accounting; Governance, Risk & Compliance; Human Capital; Information Management; Supply Chain Management as well as Change & Transformation Projects.My responsibilities: Working with Client Service Directors on resource planning, to maximise utilisation time for consultants, by understanding all functional areas of the business, and building up a sound knowledge of consultant skills and experience. Working in a cross-border capacity across Europe and Africa, to maximise the demand for UK consultants across the group.Provide Client Service Directors advice on market conditions, skills shortages, rate analysis, and provide the right solution based on this research and collaborative process.Improved management information concerning consultants to significantly improve the awareness of bench, absence and leave time, so there was minimal disruption on projects and impact on client delivery.Active in weekly meetings with CSDs to discuss project pipeline, consultant availability/suitability, and support them in project delivery, which also included the ongoing coaching & influencing of CSDs as to the resource best fit. Developing and maintaining talent pools of suitable candidates across each functional area.Managing the full recruitment lifecycle for all new consultants, from sourcing to interview to on-boarding. Responsible for benchmarking rates internally, as well as against external markets, whilst always ensuring healthy margins on billable rates. Developing a social networking strategy to increase our employer brand and use as part of our consultant attraction plan. Delivered LinkedIn Training to Resourcing teams across Europe and increased the UK’s use of the site.

Direct Recruiter for Barclays Wealth in all major global locations.Brought in to assist with a major Change Programme for the Technology arm of Wealth.Recovered a failing project back on track by repositioning job ads, screening processes and selection methods.Developed significantly improved Management information and attended daily "prayers" with senior management to assess progress on key positions. Responsible for candidate attraction and selection. Working in a very demanding environment with tight deadlines and constraints, delivering up to VP level candidates.

Project managed the full recruitment lifecycle of Head Office vacancies across all directorates as required, including, HR, Sales, Marketing, IT and Networks. Ensured the sourcing, selection and joining experience for each hiring manager / candidate is of the highest quality and has the brand at its heart.Proactively supported the hiring managers on assessment needs to deliver assessment that is fit for purpose ensuring the explicit evaluation of our values and competencies. Carried out full assessments, including role plays, competency based interviewing, and utilising the online psychometric test "Wave", by Saville Consulting. Formerly part of SHL. Contributed to a direct deliver model of 94% across the team and all directorates. Utilising both traditional and innovative solutions to explore all routes to market. Assisting in the transformation of the T-Mobile direct sourcing model in to T-Mobile’s sister company, T-Systems

Responsible for managing the end to end recruitment process for IT contractors in the Investment Banking DivisionSupported the hiring community with job descriptions, supplier briefings, workflow and risk management and feedback, through to offer and resolution. Managed suppliers and developed a strong PSL that helped to deliver over 200 positions within 8 months. Proven ability to deliver to tight budget and time constraints by eg. using multiple routes to market such as job Boards, recruitment fairs, advertising, direct head hunting and networking.Working on-site via AMS

Providing the end to end delivery of all IT permanent recruitment for the Outsourcing division of Capgemini. Dealing with predominantly Infrastructure positions but often asked to provide recruitment across all functions and levels of seniority, for example, Sales, HR and MarketingOn-site via AMS

Managing the end–to-end recruitment process including quality assuring technical job specification with the line manager. Advising line managers on the appropriate channels for recruitment within their specific fields, this often resulted in a more targeted CV. Utilising various recruitment channels including national press advertising, Internet, and social events to generate candidates. Developed talent pools, across several key technical disciplines and skill sets.

Worked as a consultant in the Commerce & Industry Division, specialising in IT permanent and contract recruitment to the Media Industry.Headed up the delivery of IT recruitment to BSkyB, one of Hudson’s key clients. Worked on over 70 positions at any one time. Team leading a team of 3 responsible for the delivery of accurate and screened CV’s.

Responsible for generating new business relations for all areas of the company and act as the central focus point for all external and internal relationships.Specialisation in Financial and Media industries.