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United Kingdom

•Managed a confidential Senior level VP International Resourcing Project•Drive a standardised process improvement methodology to prevent shortfalls in the recruitment targets.•Drive a standardisation on the recruitment spends across regions.•Influence decision making with the business to follow the principles for LEAN to deliver the vision of an Ideal State for their site. •Give direction on how significant changes should be applied and to convince and “sell” which are the correct options•Problem resolution. Resolve issues through problem resolution and validation of root cause;

London

•Resourcing Relationship Manager to HR and Senior Leadership, supporting the senior resourcing function for the Technology, Compliance, Legal, Operations and Office of the COO.•High touch engagement and oversight of the Resourcing service.•Managing the end to end operational vacancy fulfilment across all senior hiring grades. This covers the resourcing communications advertising strategy, effective management of the RPO provider, and working with any external executive search firms and agencies.•Contribute to the designing and planning of transformational initiatives, projects and continuous improvement to ensure resourcing delivery is market leading.•MI and data reporting and presenting the data in the monthly Executive meetings•Partnering in overall recruitment activity within the function adding valued services.

Canary Wharf, London

•Responsible for strategic and operational recruitment activities of the Banking, Engineering and technology business requirements units across EMEA.•Collaborating with EMEA HRBP’s to advise on talent strategy for delivery in (UK, France, Netherlands, Benelux, Spain, Italy, Russia, Germany and Nordics).•Collaborating with senior level delivery managers to ensure project utilisation metrics are met. Ensuring resources are being placed on the correct Banking and Engineering client projects.•Leading EVP branding projects aimed at internal employees and external talent communities.•Developed direct sourcing strategy aimed at targeting senior level hires from competitor organisations.•Establishment of talent pipelining initiatives identify and engage with potential employees (mapping, talent community groups dialogue/engagement)•Multi-vendor management and contract negotiation.•Organising competency based interviewing training sessions and support for the business stakeholders.Achievements•Board level acceptance of compensation structure redesign proposal for Murex Consultants in EMEA. •Reduce time to hire and cost of hire metrics for the Banking Units by 50%.

London, United Kingdom

•Managed the operational and strategic hiring for Dow Jones across 16 countries in EMEA.•Reporting directly to the Vice President of Human Resources EMEA..•Collaborated with HRBP/ Finance/ Senior Managers in strategic talent planning.•Working closely with business unit leaders on expansion plans in Nordic Region/ Middle-East and Northern Europe. Recent example is the Japanese Language Newswires expansion.•Lead the redesign of global recruitment policy and accompanying processes•Evaluation of systems, processes, operational execution with subsequent changes, enhancement recommendation/implementation.•Designed the direct sourcing strategies for various geographies, customising the strategies to execute local hiring objectives. •Evaluation and establishment of Global Agency Preferred Supplier List with accompanying roll out of Service Level Agreement.•Managing team of 3 resourcers/coordinators.Achievements•Achieved annualized savings of $1.2 million dollars through direct recruitment strategies strategically managed across various business units.•In 2008 received service excellence award for efficiency in Resourcing.•Managed the EMEA recruitment software migration from Peopleclick to Taleo.

London, United Kingdom

•Responsible for the recruitment for brands such as Haagen-Dazs, Betty Crocker and Green Giant.•Manage the entire end to end recruitment process for General Mills UK.•Responsible for all the SAP and Technology positions for General Mills.•Managed the entire Marketing and IT recruitment for General Mills UK.•Recruited Senior to Mid-Level Marketers’, Finance, and IS Staff.•Managed an extensive PSL list of suppliers.•E-Recruitment and Print Advertising campaign management.•Negotiated terms of engagement with suppliers.•Project work related to branding and attraction strategies.•Managed the assessment centre recruitment process days and internal promotion interviews.•Supported and delivered an effective recruitment strategy, using best practice methodologies.

Uxbridge

•Responsible for managing high volume pharmaceutical and IT recruitment across EMEA.•Reporting to the Global Head of Recruitment •Responsible for the entire end to end recruitment process for the technical departments in Germany, France,Belgium and UK. •Responsible for the recruitment for the following departments within Parexel: IT, Biostatistics & Programming, Data Management, Peri- Approval.•Responsible for managing and selecting PSL of 15 agencies.•Worked closely with a team of 2 UK based recruiters and 3 European based recruiters.•Liaised with the heads of the departments in the business in order to establish their business needs and advise them on appropriate recruitment methods and processes.•Organised graduate and science recruitment fairs.