Amdaris, an Insight Company delivers innovative Software Development, Product Design, Digital Transformation, Application Support and Consultancy Services from our UK headquarters, Eastern Europe delivery centres in Moldova, Romania, Ukraine and Bulgaria and Middle East centre in Dubai. We’re built for quality and scale, with hundreds of talented colleagues delivering outstanding, customised and secure software development services and seamless 24/7 support to our international customers.We’re proud to work with a wide variety of businesses across a diverse range of sectors, delivering a combination of exciting innovation and business-critical modernisation projects.Member of ELT, 6 direct reports, 22 direct/indirect reports.• Management of the Global Recruitment function, 20+ Recruiters, over 5 countries (leadership, monitoring and maximising performance)• Responsible for scaling headcount from 300 to 850 within 18 months (UK, Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria, Ukraine and Dubai).• Identifying the organisation’s needs and working to create and implement an efficient strategy to improve recruitment and business performance.• Ensuring a seamless and swift resourcing process with appropriate involvement from the Hiring Manager to support identification of appropriate routes to market, development of candidate attraction programmes and overall management of the recruitment process.• Anticipating the organisations future and working with senior executives to advise on recruiting tactics that will help to sustain the company’s success.• Communicating with external sources to acknowledge any trends in recruitment and markets which could impact upon the business.

Leading the EMEA Recruitment teams. Promoted to Group Director of Recruitment in March 2024.

Strategic Talent Acquisition Manager at DE&S/SDA - UK Ministry of DefenceThis evolving role, part of the Transformation Programme within the Workforce Planning & Recruitment Centre of Expertise, focuses on delivering a resourcing strategy to ensure that, long term, the MOD (DE&S) has the right number of people with the right skills, qualifications, and experience to meet DE&S' strategic goals and objectives.Key Responsibilities:• Delivering and implementing an organisation-wide resourcing and recruitment process.• Collaborating with key stakeholders to provide specialist advice, guidance, and support for effective demand management across functions.• Serving as the Functional Talent Lead for HR, Commercial, iLog, and Finance & Accountancy functions.• Line managing a team of 7, Talent Acquisition Specialists and Talent Acquisition Coordinators.• Member of the TA Senior Leadership Team.

Interim Specialist Advisor at Agilisys, the cloud, IT & digital transformation specialist to the public sector.

Our Cloud Division is the Global Leader in Azure recruitment. We are a part of Frank Recruitment Group, the fastest growing technology recruitment businesses in the last 10 years and backed by private equity firm TPG Growth.Nigel Frank International is the global leader in Microsoft Technology recruitment. We place more skilled Microsoft Technology professionals with Microsoft Partners and End-Users worldwide than any other recruitment business. From our Philadelphia office, I oversee our DMV and Pennsylvania Market for Nigel Frank International's Cloud Division. I am dedicated to placing top-tier Microsoft Azure professionals in the States of DC, Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania within the Partner and End User networks.Through our many global locations we are dedicated to helping our clients find the very best Azure professionals within the Partner and End User space. Our global locations include; New York, Dallas, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Singapore, Newcastle, London, Berlin and Melbourne. If you are a Cloud Professional looking for a new opportunity or just looking to get a better understanding of the Azure market, please reach out to me today. As a specialist recruiter I understand the need for complete discretion and as such confidentiality is guaranteed. I solely focus on the following skill sets: Cloud Director/CTO, Principal/Lead Azure Architect, Azure Solutions Architects, Azure Technical Architects, Azure DevOps Engineers, Azure Cloud Engineers, Azure Developers, Azure System Engineers, Azure Data Engineers, Azure Software Engineers and Azure System Administrators.

Dixons Carphone (Now Currys plc) is Europe’s number one electrical and telecommunications retailer and Services Company, with more than 40,000 colleagues across nine countries, including the UK and Ireland. Every day, we use our people’s expertise to reach out and help new customers. What’s more - we’re exploring extraordinary new markets, from wellness to security, so that in an ever more connected and constantly changing world, we can offer our customers the most comprehensive service.Key responsibilities:• Facilitate the delivery of a self-service model of recruitment for the Customer Service Centres (CSCs)• Support candidate sourcing activities through flexible attraction strategies that assist in creating high quality and relevant pipelines of internal and external candidates for selection against current and future roles within CSCs for Dixons Carphone.• Build functionally specific talent networks; improve the volume and quality of talent pools available for selection across defined business functions within the CSCs. • Responsible for supporting stakeholders and the Head of Resourcing with meaningful MI and ad hoc projects as necessary and delivery of senior hire across the network.• Work with the CSCs to qualify and deliver candidates for assessment and selection against a specific functional brief, within agreed timelines; support Managers to determine and deliver the most relevant and effective direct sourcing strategy to attract candidates across a broad range of complex specialist roles and higher volume mandates.• Undertake research to build and maintain market maps, segmenting companies and functions to build an overview of potential talent; engage with passive candidates as necessary to augment talent pools; build active networks, referrals and speculative applications from key talent groups providing market insight and intelligence to evolve and shape the resourcing plan. • Manage third party supplierswilliam.thornton@dixonscarphone.com

Onsite Recruitment Business Partner at Aviva via Resource Management (Sanderson PLC) , previously Principal Delivery Consultant via Pontoon Solutions (Adecco Group). Aviva is the only true composite insurer of scale in the UK and one of only a handful in the world. This means we can provide customers with life, general, and health insurance, and asset management in one place. We help 33 million customers in 16 markets across the world to save for the future and manage the risks of everyday life. In the UK we are the leading insurer serving one in every four households and have strong businesses in selected markets in Europe, Asia and Canada. We have offices across the UK and Ireland, including Bristol, London, Dublin, Glasgow Perth, York, Norwich, Sheffield, Eastleigh, Dorking, Cork and Galway.william.thornton@aviva.com / 07800 692 193

REED Specialist Recruitment is a specialist provider of permanent, contract, temporary and outsourced recruitment solutions. At REED we have an international network of specialist consultants covering over 30 sectors.I specialised in the Recruitment of Accountancy/Finance, Project Management and Procurement vacancies within Financial Services & Public Sector, from volume junior recruitment campaigns to c-level placements. Key responsibilities:• Developing business with new clients over the phone• Attending business meetings with new and existing clients• Maintaining working relationships with existing clients and spotting opportunities for further business• Sourcing candidates to match client’s recruitment needs• Advertising vacancies in a professional and attractive manner in order to attract the best candidates• Interviewing candidates and preparing them for interviews• Negotiating offers between clients and candidates• Account managing key public sector client accounts in the South WestNo.1 Interims Consultant​ - UK Wide - Procurement & Supply Chain Division (2014/2015) Best Client Win Award - RSR West Region (2013/2014)Early Star Award - RSR (2014)Star of the Month Award - RSR Bristol (October 2015)william.thornton@reedglobal.com

On-site Recruiter/Contracts Administrator at GKN Aerospace via Morson Group.Established over 40 years ago, Morson International has developed an enviable track record for the provision of staffing solutions to many of the world's leading companies. We are preferred, sole or managed service supplier to many of these organisations and focus on the supply of both temporary, interim and permanent staff at any level of experience from grass roots to board level and strategic positions within our client organisations. Key responsibilities:• Ensure that business is conducted in accordance with company policies and procedures, maintaining the essential records and database. Creating the necessary paperwork in order for placements to be made, and managed, legally, smoothly, effectively and professionally• Ensure that queries and problems are owned, managed and resolved to satisfactory resolution and/or escalated to the appropriate person• Database entries and maintenance of ID records, eligibility to work, contracts and any other relevant documentation• Correspondence, including all amendments, extensions, rate increases, terminations and corresponding database record entries and maintenance• Resolving contractor queries in a quick and efficient manner whilst satisfying internal processes within the business and reporting on the database• Recruitment activities in line with EAA regulations and client KPIs, including advertising using online job-boards, matching candidates to specification, and liaising with client points of contact in order to arrange interviews.william.thornton@morson.com

Travelling Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Dubai for a period of 6 months.

UK Cash processing company created as a Joint Venture by HSBC and Barclays to provide cash management products and services for their retail outlets and their corporate and financial institution customers. Now UK's leading cash processor, handling circa £160 billion p.a. of UK cash market volume, 1200 employees, 17 sites.Various roles (Promotions) based between Bristol and Head Offices in Cheshire and London including;- Team Lead/Supervisor, Operations - Cash Management - Project Management Officer, Change Management - UK- IT Systems Administrator / Learning & Development Training Officer - Regionalwill.thornton@vaultexuk.com