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Leading a team of geographically dispersed, full lifecycle recruiters to deliver recruitment demand to multiple business units. • Establish strong relationships across the business, providing strategic guidance and making recommendations to leaders to enhance the acquisition of talent through data driven insights and market research• Set high expectations for team performance and ensure exceptional candidate and customer experience• Serve as an escalation point to proactively meet demand and ensure the right approaches are utilised based on skills requirements.• Partner with the Recruitment Marketing, Channels Management and Sourcing teams to ensure we are using innovative and effective candidate attraction methods, as well as utilising preferred suppliers to meet demand. • Ensuring candidates have a positive experience and promoting BAE as an employer of choice at internal and external events.• Ensuring accuracy to recruitment processes and striving to meet agreed SLAs.• Produce Recruitment MI such as candidate pipelines and offer data, and utilising this information for data driven decision making.

Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Ownership of the complete end to end delivery of Talent Acquisition services across multiple business units for Primark.• Full responsibility for the end to end recruitment lifecycle. Including advertising, pre-selection, managing interviews & assessment centres through to offer negotiation. • Partner with key stakeholders including HRBP's, Directors, Heads Of & Managers to build and deliver a proactive talent sourcing strategy.• Partner with educational institutions to attract new talent to the business. • Manage & review the PSL• 93% Direct Hiring within the last 12 months

Reading, United Kingdom

Reporting to the Head of HR, I set & define recruitment strategy for the UK business. Managing the full end to end recruitment process for all business units within the organisation. • Implemented a new resourcing strategy for the business & set up a true In-House recruitment business unit.• Implemented brand new ATS system (ICIM’s)• Researched and recommended new forms of sourcing channels including headhunting, digital, social media, LinkedIn Recruiter, relevant job boards etc.• Reduced the use of agencies from over 80% to 30% within my first 6 months.• Direct Line management of 2 recruitment administrators (including performance management, 1:1’s & setting objectives)• Creation of assessment/interview material based on newly created “Ultima values”. This was rolled out across all business units. This ensured Ultima hired against correct competencies and business values, as well as technical skills.• Set up and management of a Preferred Supplier List & created agency terms & conditions. Ensuring solid performance from the PSL by monitoring quality, CV:Interview ratio’s, number of placements etc.• Partner directly with HRBP’s, Senior Management and the Ultima Leadership Team (up to CEO level) to deliver tailored recruitment solutions. • Developed and maintained significant candidate talent pipelines for key areas of the business, significantly improving time to hire and reducing agency cost• Responsible for managing the recruitment budget (Including job boards, LinkedIn Recruiter licenses, Application tracking system etc)• I implemented a Refer a Friend scheme across the business resulting in a 25% increase in hires from this source.• Responsible for the presenting the monthly & quarterly recruitment metrics to the executive board.• Developed a recruitment tracker to give business leaders visibility of all company vacancies and progress against them.• Provide training and consultation to hiring managers on recruitment best practice.

Windsor

• Managing End to End recruitment process for multiple business units across British Gas. Areas included Senior Appointments, IT, Finance & Engineering. Typical roles vary from UI/UX designers, Software Engineers, Sales & Marketing professionals.• Direct sourcing model using multiple channels including LinkedIn Recruiter, job boards, social media, recruitment events, and networking/referrals. • Developed and built on assessment materials in the Professional Hire and Engineering space. • Reduced PSL list & negotiated new T&C’s• Provided strategic advice to the business including sourcing strategy, market conditions, and competitor analysis.• Managed and credibly influenced senior stakeholder relationships (Manager to Director Level).• Built strategic market maps to identify potential talent pools for niche roles/future positions.• Regular 1-2-1 with HR Business Partners to understand and help with business plans.• Developed and maintained current talent pipelines for key functions of the business.• Responsible for weekly dashboards to give stakeholders an overview of recruitment activity against business objectives whilst identifying challenging positions, stress points in the process etc. • Employer Branding – Increased online footprint with a better content strategy & attracted & engaged new audiences whilst increasing company followers.• Lead LinkedIn development & ensuring sufficient ROI by ensuring all recruiters are trained & aware of KPI’s such as response rates.• Delivered training workshops to develop & up-skill hiring managers across the business• Rolled out new Employee referral scheme which included all new starters being aware of the scheme resulting in a 25% increase in hires from this source.• Designed & delivered a new candidate pipeline tracking system to ensure accurate pipeline forecast figures to management. This was then rolled out across the volume resourcing team.

Reading

Responsible for developing and managing IC-Software's diverse client portfolio within the Semiconductor and Software space covering UK and European markets• Heading up the permanent Software development for the group across the UK and Europe.• Account management for global key accounts (ARM, Samsung, CSR, Mediatek etc) including organization mapping/penetration selling to open up new areas of the business.• Developing talent strategy for exclusive key accounts • Effectively headhunted for senior appointment roles.• Multiple direct sourcing channels - Strong user of LinkedIn Recruiter, Job boards (inc European job boards), Xing, Industry specific magazines, Industry events/awards.- Recruited Software Engineers, Software Test Engineers, Compiler Toolchain Engineers, Software Managers.Key Achievements• Successfully targeted and acquired multiple large multinational accounts • Most deals written up in a period 2013• Achievers weekend away to Portugal/multiple club lunches.

Reading, United Kingdom

• I head up the IT Development team (contract) for Progressive for the Thames Valley.• Responsible for developing new name business, account management, penetrating existing client base and cross selling into permanent and other market sectors and leveraging Progressives USP/value proposition.• Managed and developed 3 junior consultants and setting team KPI’s and metrics• Market mapping to identify new clients and also to identify and engage candidate talent pools.Key Achievements• Highest number of contract runners across TV • Highest Weekly GP deal in the TV area for 2011• PSL gained with multiple large multinational organisations• Number MVP awards • Attended numerous Club Lunches (Michelin Star Restaurants) for outstanding performance• Achieved a weekend away in Barcelona for most deals written up in a period.

Optima are a UK reseller of PTC (Parametric Technology Corporation). I am responsible for the Account Management of existing customers and also generating new business sales of PTC's CAD/CAM/PLM software to companies in the West Midlands region.

University Placement year.